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Learning outcomes

Seattle Central students will achieve personal and professional goals in diverse and multicultural settings because they are able to:

Think

Analyze, create, and reflect to address and appreciate challenges and opportunities.

Students build this skill when they:

  • Gather, interpret, and evaluate information
  • Identify problems and issues
  • Formulate hypothesis
  • Generate and implement creative strategies
  • Create and appreciate aesthetic work
  • Evaluate their thinking process

Collaborate

Work effectively with others to learn, complete tasks, and pursue common goals.

Students build this skill when they:

  • Identify problems and create action plans
  • Apply understanding and knowledge of group process
  • Pursue and critically evaluate different social and cultural perspectives
  • Manage conflict productively
  • Engage in community and civic life

Communicate

Exchange ideas and information through intentional listening, speaking, signing, reading, writing, or presenting.

Students build this skill when they:

  • Determine the purpose and context for communicating
  • Organize and present information purposefully
  • Seek feedback and revise to enhance effectiveness
  • Attend to conventions of communication to minimize barriers
  • Consider perspectives, experiences, and cultural differences to develop understanding

Connect

Apply knowledge and skills to solve problems.

Students build this skill when they:

  • Select and use theoretical models, quantitative and qualitative techniques, information sources, and technology tools
  • Identify and solve problems using logical strategies and evaluate results
  • Gather data from various reliable sources and assess the validity and relevancy
  • Critically evaluate solutions using research–based evidence
  • Use technology and apply to a wide range of practices, fields, and industries

Continue Learning

Self–evaluate and act to improve knowledge and skills.

Students build this skill when they:

  • Analyze own performance and revise to improve
  • Transfer learning by applying it in other contexts
  • Increase knowledge by identifying gaps and acting to fill them
  • Seek mentors and share knowledge with others
  • Provide and receive feedback

Learning Outcome Toolkits

The Learning Outcome Toolkits are now housed in our Ensure Learning SharePoint site, where faculty can always access the most current versions.

To access the toolkits (login required): Learning Outcome Toolkits