ILO
 

ILO - 2024 Cycle

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Institutional Learning Goals, Objectives, Outcomes and Measures

California State University, Los Angeles students expand and deepen their interdisciplinary and general understanding of the world, enhance their critical skills, and take responsibility for a lifetime of learning, and as graduates become individuals who engage, enhance, and contribute to democratic society.

1. Knowledge: Mastery of content and processes of inquiry

CSULA graduates have a strong knowledge base in their academic major and can use powerful processes of inquiry in a range of disciplines. They engage contemporary and enduring questions with an understanding of the complexities of human cultures and the physical and natural world and are ready to put their knowledge into action to address contemporary issues.

2. Proficiency: Intellectual skills

CSULA graduates are equipped to actively participate in democratic society. They are critical thinkers who make use of quantitative and qualitative reasoning. They have the ability to find, use, evaluate and process information in order to engage in complex decision-making. They read critically, speak and write clearly and thoughtfully and communicate effectively.

3. Place and Community: Urban and global mission

CSULA graduates are engaged individuals who have contributed to the multi-lingual and multiethnic communities that constitute Los Angeles and the world of the future. They are aware of how their actions impact society and the environment, and they strive to make socially responsible decisions. They are community builders sensitive to the needs of diverse individuals and groups and committed to renewing the communities in which they live.

4. Transformation: Integrative learning

CSULA graduates integrate academic learning with life. They engage in community, professional, creative, research and scholarly projects that lead to changes in their sense of self and understanding of their worlds. Graduates integrate their knowledge, skills and experience to address complex and contemporary issues and act ethically as leaders for the 21st century.

PLO

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PLO - 2024 Cycle

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• Analytical Reading & Critical Thinking: Students will be able to read closely and analytically within their respective specializations. Students will demonstrate critical thinking as a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of ideas and artifacts, examination of assumptions, and logical formulation of a position.   

• Engagement & Praxis: Students will learn how to apply their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills to engaged, experiential learning contexts and to collaborate with their peers and community partners to compose public-facing multimodal artifacts that circulate within and/or beyond the graduate classroom.  

• Research: Students will be able to conduct ethically grounded research that is observant of disciplinary conventions, analytical in its handling of evidence, critical in its source selection and evaluation, and valuable in varied applications.  

• Theory & Culture: Students will demonstrate an understanding/appreciation of the explanatory power of theory as a tool for intersectional analysis, institutional critique, and social change. Students will be able to evaluate, adapt, and apply relevant theories to build their own interpretations and analyses. Students will develop a cross-cultural understanding of their own and other cultures, past and present, through the historically contextualized study of language and literature.  

• Writing & Language: Students will be able to reflect upon, contextualize, revise, and adapt their writing processes, languages, literacies, and discourses. Students will demonstrate proficiency with conventions of scholarly and/or creative discourse in professional fields relating to literature and language.