By Subject Area

The following list offers examples of measurable outcomes for select disciplines that are appropriate for the undergraduate level:

  • Articulate how culture, biology and the environment interact in shaping human behavior.
  • Explain how culture constructs the ideas and behaviors that make up everyday life.
  • Summarize the ethical guidelines provided by the major professional Anthropological organizations
  • Recognize and use appropriate terminology to explain evolutionary relationships
  • Describe information storage and transfer at the molecular and cellular level
  • Explain how organ systems maintain homeostasis and apply feedback principles to physiological regulation.
  • Apply an ethical framework for their managerial behavior and decisions.
  • Explain the influence of the globalization of business on institutions and society.
  • Evaluate the financial position of an organization.
  • Explain why chemistry is an integral activity for addressing social, economic, and environmental problems.
  • Design and conduct scientific experiments, as well as accurately record and analyze the results of such experiments.
  • Articulate the importance of communication expertise in career development and civic engagement.
  • Identify and critically reflect on meanings embedded in messages.
  • Differentiate between various approaches to the study of communication
  • Design algorithms to solve moderate to complex problems.
  • Create websites using best practices in design, accessibility and flexibility.
  • Explain the need for security mechanisms in major spheres of computing, including databases, networks and web applications.
  • Apply economic tools to formulate positions on social problems and engage in policy debates.
  • Identify the relevant benefits and costs to consider when comparing policy options.
  • Explain major types of market failures.
  • Relate key historical people and artifacts to contemporary works.
  • Identify relationships between artistic forms and their creators and the cultures in which they are created
  • Express relationships between and among diverse artistic forms.
  • Distinguish between primary and secondary sources and critically evaluate source material
  • Explain and incorporate key concepts in the study of history such as chronology, periodization, historical causality and distinction between fact and interpretation.
  • Analyze and critically compare interpretations about the impact of past events on contemporary life.
  • Analyze texts in relation to their historical and social contexts.
  • Identify how formal elements of language and genre shape meaning.
  • Identify the major traditions of literature and analyze texts using critical and theoretical models appropriate to those traditions.
  • Use models to make predictions, draw conclusions, and find optimal results, using technology when necessary and appropriate.
  • Develop mathematical models of real-world situations and explain the assumptions and limitations of those models.
  • Recognize historical approaches to traditional philosophical problems.
  • Analyze and evaluate logical arguments.
  • Connect modern ideas and arguments to the historical heritage of these ideas.
  • Identify the institutions and processes of the government of the United States.
  • Discuss the structure of the discipline of political science, including basic issues treated in the subfields of comparative politics and public policy.
  • Evaluate the strengths and limitations of a variety of significant analytical approaches used in political science.
  • Describe ethical issues in conducting psychological research.
  • Explain how different empirical and theoretical strategies in psychology are employed to study human behavior within varied cultures.
  • Describe key concepts, principles and overarching themes in the discipline.
  • Apply sociological theory to a social reality within the global context.
  • Apply concepts such as culture, social change, and institutions to analyze social trends and conflicts.
  • Analyze and evaluate data to inform the explanation of the phenomenon being studied.