ELL 053 - ELL Summer Institute Writing Level 5

Credits: 5
High-intermediate ELL students who want to focus on their fluency and accuracy in writing through project-based learning. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 040 , 041  or 048 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Write with increased fluency.
2. Use feedback to rewrite.
3. Edit your own writing.
4. Use correct spelling and punctuation.
5. Control verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, word order, pronouns.
6. Use details.
7. Understand the function of an introduction, a conclusion, and an organizing principle in your writing of a narrative essay.
8. Have a positive attitude toward writing and increased confidence in your writing.
9. Be a self-motivated, independent learner.
10. Use writing as a tool for critical thinking.
11. Use written English to explore what you have to say.

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ELL 054 - ELL Conversation Support Level 5

Credits: 1-5
Provides additional conversation support for current students in ELL 050  who need to improve their conversational skills. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 040 , 041  or 048 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Speak more fluently with increased vocabulary and improved pronunciation, intonation and word stress.
2. Know the differences between formal and informal speech.
3. Use your conversational skills to actively participate in class, other classes and outside of class at work, home, and within the community.
4. Enhance your active listening skills.
5. Improve your ability to manage conversations, recognize when listeners don’t understand and be able to provide clarification, have a positive attitude toward speaking and an increased confidence in speaking, as well as be self-motivated, independent learners.

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ELL 055 - ELL Pronunciation Support Level 5

Credits: 1-5
Provides additional support for current students in ELL 050  who need to improve their pronunciation skills. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 040 , 041  or 048 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Recognize and improve articulation of English segmentals (vowels and consonants).

2. Recognize and improve production of English suprasegmentals (stress, rhythm, intonation, reductions) at the word, phrase and sentence level.

3. Identify and self-monitor key points of interference between students’ first language and American English.

4. Effectively use online resources and phonemic alphabets to verify correct pronunciation.

5. Become aware of differences between spelling and pronunciation in American English.

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ELL 056 - ELL Writing Support Level 5

Credits: 1-5
For current students in ELL 050  who want to improve their writing skills, and especially for students who have stronger speaking/listening skills than reading/writing skills for their level. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 040 , 041  or 048 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Write with increased fluency.
2. Use feedback to rewrite.
3. Edit their own writing.
4. Use correct spelling and punctuation.
5. Control verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, word order, pronouns.
6. Use details.
7. Understand the function of an introduction, a conclusion, an organizing principle in their writing of a narrative essay.
8. Have a positive attitude toward writing and increased confidence in their writing.
9. Be self-motivated, independent learners.
10. Use writing as a tool for critical thinking.

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ELL 057 - ELL Technology Support Level 5

Credits: 1-5
Provides ELL 050  students with opportunities to learn, improve, and use English through technology. Students will discover new ways to enhance their language-learning skills, which will add to their overall success in other ELL classes and beyond.  This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 040 , 041  or 048 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Independently accomplish and/or collaborate to complete English language-learning activities and project-based assignments through technology.
2. Know the major parts of a computer and express an understanding of their basic functions.
3. Use technology vocabulary appropriately and effectively.
4. Use keys and functions common to most programs, such as save, open, delete, and close.
5. Gain access and learn how to use resources, such as spell check, thesaurus, and dictionaries. Increase ability in using a variety of other forms of technology, such as a digital camera, scanner, etc.
6. Use the Internet, Canvas, online databases, email, and programs such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.  

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ELL 059 - ELL Summer Institute Cmty Exploration Level 5

Credits: 2
This is a multi-level class offered every summer quarter. Students will explore and become familiar with their community through field trips, volunteer experiences, and other hands-on project based learning. Students will use and strengthen their communicative language skills through authentic English immersion. Students will have the opportunity to explore the campus at large and off-campus sites. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 040 , 041  or 048 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
2. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ELL 060 - English Language Learning Level 6

Credits: 1-15
Advanced level of ELL. Students prepare for academic or work readiness with contextualized study of content. Students work on all language skills plus information literacy, tech skills, and project based learning. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

In Reading

1. Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
2. Summarize
3. Use context to determine meaning
4. Analyze how texts are organized
5. Determine points of view
6. Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
7. Delineate and evaluate arguments
8. Compare and contrast texts
9. Be familiar with affixes and roots
10. Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing

1. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
2. Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
3. Write arguments with reasons and evidence
4. Write narratives
5. Introduce and develop a topic
6. Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
7. Revise, edit, rewrite
8. Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening

1. Actively participate in conversations
2. Analyze arguments
3. Build on the ideas of others
4. Express opinions clearly and persuasively
5. Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
6. Contribute relevant comments and observations
7. Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
8. Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
9. Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

Grammar:

1. Punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
2. Compound and complex sentences

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program in level 6, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice, compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ELL 062 - ELL Summer Institute Conversation Level 6

Credits: 5
Provides advanced ELL students with conversation and pronunciation language practice. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Speak more fluently with increased vocabulary and improved pronunciation, intonation and word stress.
2. Know the differences between formal and informal speech. Use your conversational skills to actively participate in class, other classes and outside of class at work, home, and within the community.
3. Enhance your active listening skills. Improve your ability to manage conversations, recognize when listeners don’t understand and be able to provide clarification, have a positive attitude toward speaking and an increased confidence in speaking, as well as be self-motivated, independent learners.

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ELL 063 - ELL Summer Institute Writing Level 6

Credits: 5
Advanced ELL students who want to focus on their fluency and accuracy in writing through project-based learning. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Write with increased fluency.
2. Use feedback to rewrite.
3. Edit your own writing.
4. Use correct spelling and punctuation.
5. Control verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, word order, pronouns.
6. Use details.
7. Understand the function of an introduction, a conclusion, and an organizing principle in your writing of a narrative essay.
8. Have a positive attitude toward writing and increased confidence in your writing.
9. Be a self-motivated, independent learner.
10. Use writing as a tool for critical thinking.
11. Use written English to explore what you have to say.

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ELL 064 - ELL Conversation Support Level 6

Credits: 1-5
Provides additional conversation support for current students in ELL 060  who need to improve their conversational skills. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Speak more fluently with increased vocabulary and improved pronunciation, intonation and word stress.
2. Know the differences between formal and informal speech.
3. Use your conversational skills to actively participate in class, other classes and outside of class at work, home, and within the community.
4. Enhance your active listening skills.
5. Improve your ability to manage conversations, recognize when listeners don’t understand and be able to provide clarification, have a positive attitude toward speaking and an increased confidence in speaking, as well as be self-motivated, independent learners.

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ELL 065 - ELL Pronunciation Support Level 6

Credits: 1-5
Provides additional support for current students in ELL 060  who need to improve their pronunciation skills. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Recognize and improve articulation of English segmentals (vowels and consonants).
2. Recognize and improve production of English suprasegmentals (stress, rhythm, intonation, reductions) at the word, phrase and sentence level.
3. Identify and self-monitor key points of interference between students’ first language and American English.
4. Effectively use online resources and phonemic alphabets to verify correct pronunciation.
5. Become aware of differences between spelling and pronunciation in American English.

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

 
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ELL 066 - ELL Writing Support Level 6

Credits: 1-5
For current students in ELL 060  who want to improve their writing skills, and especially for students who have stronger speaking/listening skills than reading/writing skills for their level. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Write with increased fluency.
2. Use feedback to rewrite.
3. Edit their own writing.
4. Use correct spelling and punctuation.
5. Control verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, word order, pronouns.
6. Use details.
7. Understand the function of an introduction, a conclusion, an organizing principle in their writing of a narrative essay.
8. Have a positive attitude toward writing and increased confidence in their writing.
9. Be self-motivated, independent learners.
10. Use writing as a tool for critical thinking.

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ELL 067 - ELL Technology Support Level 6

Credits: 1-5
Provides ELL 060  students with opportunities to learn, improve, and use English through technology. Students will discover new ways to enhance their language-learning skills, which will add to their overall success in other ELL classes and beyond. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Independently accomplish and/or collaborate to complete English language-learning activities and project-based assignments through technology. In order to do so successfully, students need to know the major parts of a computer and express an understanding of their basic functions.
2. Use technology vocabulary appropriately and effectively.
3. Use keys and functions common to most programs, such as save, open, delete, and close.
4. Gain access and learn how to use resources, such as spell check, thesaurus, and dictionaries. Increase ability in using a variety of other forms of technology, such as a digital camera, scanner, etc.
5. Use the Internet, Canvas, online databases, email, and programs such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.  

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

 
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ELL 069 - ELL Summer Institute Cmty Exploration Level 6

Credits: 2
This is a multi-level class offered every summer quarter. Students will explore and become familiar with their community through field trips, volunteer experiences, and other hands-on project based learning. Students will use and strengthen their communicative language skills through authentic English immersion. Students will have the opportunity to explore the campus at large and off-campus sites. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

In Speaking & Listening

• Actively participate in conversations
• Analyze arguments
• Build on the ideas of others
• Express opinions clearly and persuasively
• Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
• Contribute relevant comments and observations
• Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
• Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
• Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

In grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice, compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ELL 071 - Reading Support for Level 1

Credits: 1-5
Reading class for beginning ELL students. Students will improve their basic reading skills including letter sound recognition, basic vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.  This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: Placement test; and instructor’s permission 

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Improve phonemic awareness and decoding skills.
2. Build basic vocabulary.
3. Read and comprehend learned words in a few simple phrases and basic personal information slowly and with some effort but with few errors, to independently accomplish simple, well defined, and structured reading activities in a few comfortable and familiar settings. 
4. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
5. Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text. Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.   

The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in reading. 
Program Outcomes

We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program in level 6, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ELL 072 - Reading Support for Level 2

1. Improve phonemic awareness and decoding skills.
2. Build vocabulary.
3. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
4. Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text. Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.   

The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in reading.
Program Outcomes

We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program in level 6, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ENV S 194 - Special Topics-Environmental Science

1. Identify and evaluate important environmental issues that face us today.
2. Recognize how we directly and indirectly affect the environment.
3. Develops concepts describing a sustainable society.
4. Interpret statements made about the environment in the media.
5. Work effectively with peers in finding solutions to environmental problems.

1. Recognize how scientists use the Scientific Method to guide their inquiry, generate hypotheses, experimental design, reasoning, and draw conclusions based on empirical data.
2. Students will learn the steps of the scientific Method and be able to use the steps to design an experiment, collect data, and analyze the data.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

ENV S 204 - Natural Science and the Environment

1. Identify and evaluate important environmental issues that face us today.
2. Recognize how we directly and indirectly affect the environment.
3. Develop concepts describing a sustainable society.
4. Interpret statements made about the environment in the media.
5. Work effectively with peers in finding solutions to environmental problems.

1. Students will learn the scientific method to recognize how scientists use this method to guide their inquiry, generate hypotheses, experimental design, reasoning, and draw conclusions based on empirical data.
2. Students will learn the steps of the scientific Method and be able to use the steps to design an experiment, collect data, and analyze the data.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

FILM 101 - Introduction to Film Studies

1. Explain important critical tools currently in use in film studies.
2. Break down what film can be in a broader sense beyond its entertainment factor.
3. Evaluate film in a critical fashion to better understand how film influences our understanding of diverse populations (ethnic, religious, sexual, gender, class, etc.)
4. Explain their comprehension of the social, political, and/or economic contexts of film.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FILM 120 - The Art of the Film

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the techniques in film-making–such as mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound, sources for films, and types of films.
2. Examine diversity in our culture, as expressed in current films.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of creativity in cinematic production, with respect to style, cinematic technique, genre, and theme.
4. Demonstrate proficiency in the ability to respond to and evaluate film production using reasoned judgment.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FILM 121 - Contemporary American Film

1. Gain an enhanced awareness of, and appreciation for, the cinematic qualities of contemporary American movies.
2. Examine diversity in our culture, as expressed in current films.
3. Identify and examine prevailing themes and images in contemporary American films.
4. Engage interactively with contemporary cultural issues through discussions and analysis of course concepts.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FILM 122 - Introduction to Film: Genres

1. Identify and describe the characteristics and qualities of various film genres.
2. Apply and analyze the theoretical elements of film genre to specific films.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FILM 191 - Latin America in Film

1. Interpret and discuss art movies that deal with cultural and historical issues relating to multiple identities, histories cultures, perspectives, contributions, knowledge, struggles and strategies of historically excluded groups in Latin America.
2. Acquire a general knowledge of Latin American history and culture.
3. Identify the stereotypes with which Latin America has been portrayed in main stream US movies and will be able to discuss their own preconceptions and/or experiences.
4. Use movies as a tool for understanding complex social realities.
5. Connect theoretical reading with movies.

FRCH& 121 - French I

1. Distinguish between formal (F) and informal (I) greetings and introductions.
2. Practice using questions (F and I) to inquire personal information.
3. Use major verbs to communicate preference, origin, nationality, adjective description.
4. Distinguish present tense regular -ER and irregular verbs in writing and oral.
5. Practice vocabulary to speak about personal belongings, family, work, climate and vacation in written and oral.
6. Differentiate between present and immediate future tenses in written and oral.
7. Discuss their daily routine using prepositions with geographical nouns, pronominal constructions.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of various francophone voices and locations.
9. Use French in the classroom with peers.
10. Practice speaking French in real-life situations.
11. Practice interactions in a professional context.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FRCH& 122 - French II

1. Discuss one’s major using expressions and adverbs.
2. Describe personal qualities through comparison and superlative in written and oral.
3. Use both forms of past tense, passé composé and imparfait to write and speak about the past.
4. Practice expressions, verbs and nouns to learn how to study abroad in written and oral.
5. Distinguish between three verb groups ER/ IR / RE in their regular and irregular forms.
6. Identify diverse francophone backgrounds.
7. Use future tense to report vacation activities in written and oral.
8. Practice expressions of quantity to order food in written and oral. 
9. Use French in the classroom with peers.
10. Practice speaking French in real-life situations.
11. Describe a business, and its sectors of activity.
12. Fill out administrative paperwork.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FRCH& 123 - French III

1. Describe clothes, fashion, home and neighborhoods in written and oral.
2. Discuss film and music and their characteristics.
3. Practice the present subjunctive of regular and irregular verbs.
4. Use direct, indirect, Y and EN pronouns for concise sentence structure.
5. Express opinions about illnesses and medical remedies in written and oral.
6. Use conditional tense in hypothetical situations in written and oral.
7. Discuss consumption, recycling and ecological activities. 
8. Prepare a presentation on reducing one’s environmental impact.
9. Use French in the classroom with peers.
10. Practice speaking French in real-life situations.
11. Organize a professional meeting.
12. Use French social media to promote a service or a product.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FRCH& 221 - French IV

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the Francophone world including issues related to colonization, independence and post-colonization both within France and the French-speaking world.
2. Communicate in French both orally and in writing using the present and the past tenses at a level allowing complex interactions.
3. Read and understand excerpts of Francophone literature.
4. Practice language skills in real life situations with French speakers.
5. Present a project in French.
6. Generate an assessment in a professional context, including suggestions for a successful integration.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FRCH& 222 - French V

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the Francophone world including issues related to colonization, independence and post-colonization both within France and the French-speaking world.
2. Communicate in French both orally and in writing using present, past tenses, and future at a level allowing complex interactions.
3. Generate sophisticated sentences using present and past subjunctive.
4. Read and understand excerpts of Francophone literature.
5. Practice language skills in real life situations with French speakers.
6. Present a project in French.
7. Create a market study, including a survey, a plan, teamwork and organization.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

FRCH& 223 - French VI

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the Francophone world including issues related to colonization, independence and post-colonization both within France and the French-speaking world.
2. Communicate in French both orally and in writing using present, past tenses, future and conditional at a level allowing complex interactions.
3. Generate sophisticated sentences using present and past subjunctive as well as hypothetical situations.
4. Read and understand excerpts of Francophone literature.
5. Practice language skills in real life situations with French speakers.
6. Present a project in French.
7. Discuss a work contract.
8. Participate in a hiring assessment.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

GEOG& 100 - Introduction to Geography

1. Use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information.
2. Use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context.
3. Analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth’s surface.

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG 120 - Introduction to Physical Geography

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG 123 - Globalization

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG 190 - Geographic Exploration

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG& 200 - Human Geography

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG 201 - World Regional Geography

1. Use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information.
2. Use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments.
3. Analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth’s surface.
4. Analyze the physical and human characteristics of places.
5. Analyze how people create regions to interpret Earth’s complexity.
6. Analyze how culture and experience influence people’s perception of places and regions. 
7. Analyze the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth’s surface.
8. Analyze the patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth’s surface.
9. Analyze how forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth’s surface.
10. Analyze how human actions modify the physical environment.
11. Analyze the changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
12. Apply geography to interpret the past.
13. Apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG 205 - Environmental Geography

1. Analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth’s surface. 
2. Analyze the physical and human characteristics of places.
3. Analyze the physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth’s surface.
4. Analyze the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on Earth’s surface. 
5. Analyze the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth’s surface.
6. Analyze the patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth’s surface.
7. Analyze the process, patterns, and functions of human settlement.
8. Analyze how human actions modify the physical environment.
9. Analyze how physical systems affect human systems.
10. Analyze the changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources. 
11. Apply geography to interpret the past.
12. Apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG 210 - Mountain Geography

1. Acknowledge the importance of mountain environments to human society.
2. Analyze the role of plate tectonics in mountain building.
3. Describe the weather and climate unique to mountain ranges.
4. Outline impacts on mountain environments due to climate change.
5. Identify land-forms resulting from glaciation.
6. Explain how glaciers form and create land-forms.
7. Discuss safe travel in snow avalanche terrain.
8. Paraphrase all of the various ways rocks are weathered.
9. Demonstrate how water, ice, and mass wasting shape mountains.
10. Assess what factors vegetation and wildlife must possess to thrive in the mountain environment.
11. Evaluate the use of resources by human societies in mountain regions.

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG 298 - Independent Study-Geography 1

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOG 299 - Independent Study-Geography 2

1. Identify and describe a current geographic problem or inequity at a global or regional scale.
2. Identify and describe an individual action one can undertake to solve a current geographic problem or inequity.

GEOL& 101 - Introduction to Physical Geology

1. Apply information presented during the lectures to the solutions of open-ended questions.
2. Identify common rocks and the processes which form them along with relative age history principles to discuss the history of a geological map.
3. Make observations (in class and on field trips) and correctly link those observations to information from the course.
4. Use a computer to analyze or obtain geological data.
5. Work effectively with peers in finding solutions to geological problems.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

GEOL 106 - Dinosaurs

1. Describe and explain the Scientific Method and the basic terminology, principles, concepts, and theories of geology, biology, and paleontology as they apply to the study of dinosaurs.
2. Apply critical thinking, observations, and problem solving skills (in class) to accurately describe fossil samples, and use these observations to make and support interpretations linked to information presented in the class.
3. Illustrate a scientific understanding of the methods used to find and reconstruct dinosaur fossils and their environments, and of basic related scientific theories such as evolution.
4. Examine the history of paleontology in order to explain how and why theories about dinosaurs have changed through time as well as how scientific information is presented in popular culture.
5. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with peers in making and supporting scientific interpretations.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

GEOL 107 - Fossils and Ancient Earth

1. Describe and explain the Scientific Method and the basic terminology, principles, concepts, and theories of geology and biology, as they apply to the study of paleontology and ancient Earth environments.
2. Apply critical thinking, observations, and problem solving skills (in class) to accurately describe samples of fossil and modern organisms, and to use these observations to make and support interpretations linked to the information presented in the class.
3. Illustrate a scientific understanding of the methods used to find and reconstruct fossils and their environments and of basic related scientific theories, such as evolution.
4. Examine the ways in which geologic processes affected the history of life and the ways in which the evolution of life affected geologic processes.
5. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with peers in scientifically describing samples and supporting interpretations.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

GEOL 117 - Natural Disasters with Lab

1. Describe and explain the Scientific Method and the basic terminology, principles, concepts, and theories of geology as they apply to natural disasters.
2. Apply critical thinking, observations, and problem solving skills (in class and/or on field trips) to describe and assess potential risks of natural disasters, analyze the costs and benefits of potential solutions, and link such interpretations to information presented in class.
3. Illustrate a scientific understanding of the causes, processes, and effects of geologic hazards, including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, flooding, mass wasting, climate change, and meteorite impacts.
4. Analyze how natural hazards impact human societies and examine how human actives can increase the risks natural hazards.
5. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with peers in scientifically describing samples or images, supporting interpretations, and finding solutions to problems related to natural disasters.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

GEOL 150 - Field Trips in Geology 1

1. Record important geological information from various locations along the field trip.
2. Develop skills to work effectively with peers in finding solutions to geological problems posed on field trips.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

GEOL 151 - Dinosaurs: Museum Field Trips in Geology

1. Describe fossil samples, and use these observations to make and support interpretations linked to information presented in the class.
2. Illustrate a scientific understanding of the methods used to reconstruct fossils animals and their environments.
3. Develop skills to work effectively with peers in finding solutions to paleontological problems posed on field trips.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials. 
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

GEOL 152 - Field Trips in Geology 2

1. Record important geological information from various locations along the field trip.
2. Develop skills to work effectively with peers in finding solutions to geological problems posed on field trips.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

GEOL 153 - Field Trips in Geology 3

1. Record important geological information from various locations along the field trip.
2. Develop skills to work effectively with peers in finding solutions to geological problems posed on field trips.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

GEOL 200 - Geological Investigations of the National Parks

1. Identify significant geological processes in the history of the National Parks discussed during class.
2. Solve geological questions posed during class and on assignments.
3. List the Geological Time Scale.
4. Locate the National Parks discussed during class on a map of North America.
5. Practice appropriate geological research skills and use standard geological writing format.
6. Work effectively with peers in problems finding solutions to geological problems.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

GEOL 206 - Earth History

1. Identify significant geological events and processes occurring throughout the history of the Earth, and will be able to discuss their impact on the life forms at the time.
2. Discuss the geological/paleontological evidence for evolution.
3. Identify the major invertebrate fossil groups and know the geological time periods during which they were a major component. 
4. Solve geological questions posed during class and on assignments.
5. List the Geological Time Scale.
6. Practice appropriate geological research skills and use standard geological writing format.
7. Work effectively with peers in problems finding solutions to geological problems.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

GEOL& 208 - Geology of the Pacific Northwest

1. Records data and interprets field data about the geologic history of the Pacific Northwest.
2. Identify important geological events in the following regions of the Pacific Northwest: Northern Rockies, Okanogan Mountains and northeastern Washington, Columbia Basin, eastern Oregon, North Cascades, southern Washington Cascades, Oregon and northern California Cascades, Puget lowlands, San Juan Islands, and The Olympic Mountains and the Coast Range.
3. Correlates past geological events from one part of the Pacific Northwest to another.
4. Investigate a region or geologic process in the Pacific Northwest through library research or collection of data in the field.
5. Identifies common rocks of the Pacific Northwest.
6. Use the Geological Time Scale.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

GEOL 299 - Independent Study-Geology

1. Complete goals the instructor determined for the specific student and for that quarter.

1. Produce written interpretations of earth science materials.
2. Make geological inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

GERM& 121 - German I

1. Demonstrate basic proficiency four basic skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
2. Interpret and illustrate cultural concepts and historical background materials as occasion arises.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

GERM& 122 - German II

1. Demonstrate basic proficiency four basic skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
2. Interpret and illustrate cultural concepts and historical background materials as occasion arises.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

GERM& 123 - German III

1. Demonstrate basic proficiency four basic skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
2. Interpret and illustrate cultural concepts and historical background materials as occasion arises.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

GERM 194 - Special Studies-German

1. Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student.

• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HL ED 150 - Total Wellness

1. Demonstrate an enhanced awareness of the relationship between lifestyle behaviors and disease.
2. Define the various components of wellness.
3. Recognize and define the impacts of stress, nutrition and exercise on overall health and wellness.
4. Develop strategies to manage their stress, improve nutrition, and incorporate exercise into their daily lives.
5. Recognize and define the impact of behavior and lifestyle habits on cardiovascular health, cancer, and sexually transmitted diseases.
6. Develop strategies to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and sexually transmitted diseases.
7. Demonstrate an enhanced understanding of death and dying including personal wishes/values, expenses, preparation, media influence, and perspective.
8. Evaluate their personal health and wellness.

1. Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020.  Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer. 
2. Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes. 
3. Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill. 

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

HL ED 180 - Food and Health

1. Demonstrate an enhanced awareness of the relationship between food and health.
2. Understand the recommended intake and function of specific nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water.
3. Define how nutrition impacts weight status, eating disorders, body image, and lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer.
4. Identify lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease such as osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
5. Develop strategies to reduce their risk of chronic disease such as osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
6. Track and analyze their dietary intake.
7. Evaluate their personal health.

1. Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020.  Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer. 
2. Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes. 
3. Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

HL ED 190 - Standard First Aid/CPR

1. Apply American Red Cross First Aid and personal safety procedures for infants, children and adults.
2. Recognize emergencies and prevent accidents.
3. Deal more efficiently with emergency situations.
4. Practice and develop skill in checking a victim.
5. Practice and develop skill in rescue breathing.
6. Practice and develop skill in aiding a choking victim.
7. Practice and develop skill in CPR.
8. Practice and develop skill in splinting and bandaging a victim.
9. Practice and develop skill in moving/transporting victims.

1. Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020.  Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer. 
2. Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes. 
3. Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

HL ED 198 - Independent Study-Health

1. Demonstrate an enhanced awareness of various components of health/wellness. 
2. Increase knowledge in and understanding of various components of health/wellness. 
3. Develop strategies to reduce their risk of chronic disease such as osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease, stroke or cancer.

1. Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020.  Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer. 
2. Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes. 
3. Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill. 

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

H SCI 110 - Exploring Healthcare Careers

1. Describe the personal characteristics necessary to be an effective health care worker.
2. Describe the responsibilities of the different health care careers.
3. Compare and contrast the following factors among professions: educational requirements, employment trends, opportunities for advancement, salary potential, career ladders.
4. Identify the professionals who do similar tasks or have similar responsibilities.
5. Discuss the impact of culture on health care. 6. Describe the life-span perspective as it relates to health care.
6. Identify the steps necessary to prepare for a career in health care.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

H SCI 112 - Introduction to Healthcare Skills and Functions

1. Demonstrate basic professional communication skills needed to work effectively with supervisors, fellow staff members and patients/ clients.
2. Identify responsibilities relative to legal issues, which include patient client confidentiality and HIPAA compliance.
3. Demonstrate an awareness of different cultural health practice and the importance of respecting a variety of cultural beliefs in the work place.
4. Demonstrate good hand washing skills and donning and doffing gloves for knowledge of universal precautions and blood borne pathogens.
5. Demonstrate basic ability to accurately measure and record vital signs, which include pulse, blood pressure, body temperature and respiration.
6. Describe and demonstrate the principles of correct body mechanics.
7. Demonstrate the ability to perform and assist with turning and repositioning of patients.
8. Demonstrate the ability to perform and assist with transfers.
9. Earn mandatory 7 hour HIVAids certification.
10. Earn certified CPR/First aid for Healthcare Professionals card/certificate.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

H SCI 113 - Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

1. Understand the organization of the human body, role of genetics, lifestyle and aging in health.
2. Understand the growth and development across the lifespan.
3. Understand the large organ system and the basic anatomy and physiology and diseases.
4. Understand common physical and mental disabilities.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HSC 025 - Civics and Government

Credits: 3-5
Introduces students to the American political system; its core values and principles as set forth in foundational documents, as well as its origins, institutions and operations. Includes brief treatments of political parties, historic development of American politics, civil liberties, plus taxes and budgets. Introduces students to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and of democratic civic involvement.

Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in READ 084 ; or eligible for ENGL 081  and READ 094;  or eligible for ENGL 097 .

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Understand and be able to explain the core values and principles of U.S. democracy as set forth in foundational documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; analyze the purposes and organization of governments and laws; understand the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the principles of democratic civic involvement, and; understand basic economic concepts and analyze the effect of economic systems on individuals, groups, and society.
2. Civics and Government addresses the examining diversity outcome, which encompasses the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for students to understand power; to function responsibly in a diverse, global society; and to gain a critical awareness of the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, disability, culture, religion, and age ’ in local, national and global contexts.  
3. Recognize one’s social position and geopolitical location, along with the consequences of both; 
4. Examine economic, political, and social inequalities and their effects on communities;
5. Analyze the multiple histories, cultures, perspectives, contributions and/or struggles of various peoples, and;
6. Collaborate and interact effectively, equitably and respectfully in diverse groups within the classroom or campus-related workplaces and practice areas.

 
Program Outcomes

1. Demonstrate college-ready level reading, writing, digital literacy, and communication skills.
2. Demonstrate the skills necessary for successful transition to college credit courses and/or living wage employment.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

HIST 021 - U.S. History 1

1. Gain considerable knowledge of issues, groups and personalities in U.S. history through (a) reading good historical literature, (b) researching topics of current and historical interest, (c) observing the national experience through films, video and other media, (d) discussing reading and findings, and (e) writing papers to refine readings, research, and discussions.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 022 - U.S. History 2

1. Gain considerable knowledge of issues, groups and personalities in U.S. history through (a) reading good historical literature, (b) researching topics of current and historical interest, (c) observing the national experience through films, video and other media, (d) discussing reading and findings, and (e) writing papers to refine readings, research, and discussions.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 024 - Pacific Northwest and Washington State History

1. Develop an understanding of the environmental, political, social, and economic issues that have led to the creation of the modern Pacific Northwest.
2. Read important historical literature and documents to enhance their understanding of the region.
3. Explore topics of current and historical interest in the region.
4. Observe regional and local conditions in the historic and modern PNW through personal observation.
5. Write short papers and essay exams to refine their understanding of readings, observations, and field experiences.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 101 - The Ancient World

1. Identify, describe and compare human settlement and the emergence of civilizations.
2. Analyze and compare ancient urban development, including architecture and public works.
3. Analyze and compare the various forms of ancient socio-political groupings.
4. Describe, analyze and compare the major ancient world religious expressions/philosophies.
5. Describe and evaluate basic patterns of war, conquest, and empire.

1. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 102 - Early Modern World

1. Analyze and synthesize traditional and early modern folk practices, religious beliefs and challenges of the period 1350-1800.
2. Describe scientific innovation and economic expansion 1350-1800.
3. Describe, compare and contrast distinctive global regional cultures.
4. Describe, analyze and evaluate contact between regional powers.

1. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 103 - The Modern World

1. Describe, analyze, and compare revolutions of modernization, basic political ideologies of liberalism, socialism, communism, conservatism, and fascism.
2. Describe and evaluate social change in relation to industry and technology.
3. Compare and contrast patterns of imperialism, decolonization, and nationalism.
4. Describe, analyze, and interpret the causes and consequences of World Wars.
5. Describe, analyze, and assess global politics and economics of development; multi-culturalism vs mass culture; and global urbanization and environmental concerns. 

1. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 120 - History of the Movies

1. Identify and describe basic film terminology.
2. Identify and describe basic film techniques and styles.
3. Identify and describe key attributes of American film movements by thematic, visual, and aural traits.
4. Describe and analyze the economic, social, and political factors that shape major film/film movements.
5. Analyze significant films within their historical and cultural contexts through technological advances of motion pictures throughout history.

1. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 122 - History of Australian Movies

1. Discuss the historical development of the film industry in Australia.
2. Identify and provide examples of a uniquely Australian cinema.
3. Critically and aesthetically evaluate Australian cinema within the context of Australian film, Hollywood films, and World Cinema.
4. Place specific Australian films within the historical context of the development of a unique Australian cinema.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 135 - The United States Since 1940

1. Explain and analyze the U.S. role in World War II and the significant attitudes about U.S. power that emerged from the victory.
2. Understand and compare major interpretations of the Cold War including its origins, key events, and demise.
3. Understand the principal social, economic, cultural, political, and intellectual changes that define the period under study.
4. Identify and describe the major political events and leading personalities that helped to shape the contemporary United States.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST& 136 - U.S. History I

1. Understand the major ideas, values, beliefs, and experiences that shaped colonial and 19th century American history and society. 
2. Understand the relationship between the individual and the politics, economics, society, and culture of America. 
3. Understand the methods by which historians study individuals, cultures, and society. 
4. Better understand the basis for political, racial, societal, and economic issues in contemporary America.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST& 137 - U.S. History II

1. Understand the major ideas, values, beliefs, and experiences that shaped 19th-century American history and society to the present. 
2. Understand the relationship between the individual and the politics, economics, society, and culture of America. 
3. Understand the methods by which historians study individuals, cultures, and society. 
4. Understand the basis for political, racial, societal, and economic issues in contemporary America. 

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 194 - Special Studies-History

HIST& 214 - Pacific Northwest History

1. Describe and compare how different nations colonized the Pacific Northwest and the relationships that formed between Native Peoples and those nations.
2. Explain how, when, and why the Pacific Northwest developed from a resource-based economy, to an industrial, to a post-industrial economy.
3. Describe and explain the historical factors that created the social, political, and economic variation that exists within the contemporary Northwest.
4. Describe and explain how and why the relationship between people and the natural environment of the Pacific Northwest has changed over time.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST& 215 - Women in U.S. History

1. Identify and describe gender as an analytic category in the study of US History to the present, including historical phenomena such as the construction of gender roles (feminine and masculine), religious beliefs and practices, race, social class, and sexual identities.
2. Identify and describe economic, political, and social inequalities and systems based on intersectional identities.
3. Identify and explain the major contours of women’s history in the US up to the present in regard to matters such as: family life, reproduction and health, sex and sexuality, race and ethnicity, education, labor, politics, and religion.
4. Analyze the impact of major historical episodes in US History on women’s lives based on a multiplicity of intersectional identities; including, but not limited to gendered and racialized violence, struggles over women’s bodily autonomy, and demands for access to labor and education.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of how women helped shape and were shaped by major historical episodes in US History such as the American Revolution, Civil War, Reconstruction, Progressive Age, economic depressions and world wars, cultural and racial upheavals of the 50s and 60s to present.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST& 220 - African-American History

1. Understand the main themes and events in African American history.  
2. Understand that African American history is central to the American experience and the development of U.S. history.
3. Examine how ideas and definitions of race originated and have developed throughout U.S. history.
4. Understand how and why interpretations of African American culture have changed over time.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 228 - Latinos in the United States

1. Assess the historical construction of race and ethnicity, gender and changing forms of identity among Latinos/as/x in the United States.
2. Explore the history of Latinos/as/x immigration within the context of U. S. relations with the countries of origin.
3. Examine the process of Latino/a/x immigrants becoming Americans.
4. Explore the diversity of Latino/a/x communities in the United States.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 230 - 20th Century Europe

1. Explain how any why various groups, including communists and fascists, undermined parliamentary democracy through the establishment of regimes that maintained dictatorial control while manipulating democratic processes.
2. Explain how new ideas of political authority and the failure of diplomacy led to world wars, political revolutions, and the establishment of totalitarian regimes.
3. Assess the role of European colonization and de-colonization in non-European societies from both European and non-European perspectives.
4. Evaluate the role of nationalism in altering the European balance of power, and explain attempts made to limit nationalism as a means to ensure continental stability.
5. Analyze the origins, characteristics, and effects of the post-WWII economic, political and judicial integration of Europe. 
6. Trace the changing relationship between states and ecclesiastical authority and the emergence of the principle and practice of religious toleration.
7. Analyze how various movements for political and social equality - such as feminism, anticolonialism, and campaigns for immigrants’ rights - pressured governments and redefined national citizenship.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 231 - Modern Asia

1. Learn objective locations and important current facts.
2. Learn important historical events of each country and area during this modern period.
3. Understand important historical concepts, issues, and unresolved conflicts for areas going from traditional to modern societies.  
4. Understand changing international relationships.
5. Learn about important historical leaders and their contributions to their nations.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

HIST 232 - Renaissance and Reformation

1. Describe, analyze, and assess the intellectual, cultural, and political developments of the Renaissance.
2. Identify and describe movements in Renaissance art, architecture, music, as they relate to historical context, and as they represent cultural artifacts.
3. Describe, analyze, and assess the religious, intellectual, cultural, and political developments of the Reformation throughout Europe.
4. Compare and contrast sixteenth-century religious civil wars throughout Europe.
5. Describe, analyze, and assess the intellectual and cultural developments during the Scientific Revolution.
6. Compare and contrast competing cosmologies of the early modern period.

1. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 233 - History of Latin America

1. Examine indigenous, Iberian and African societies and cultures before the age of conquest.  
2. Assess the social, political, cultural and economic consequences of the European conquest.  
3. Examine the construction of racial, class, and gender inequalities that emerged from pre-colonial and colonial times and their impact on the lives of Latin Americans.  
4. Examine the struggle to create nations in the nineteenth century and the pervasiveness of social inequality.  
5. Explore popular mobilization and social revolution against neocolonial social hierarchies.  
6. Assess the impact of neoliberalism on contemporary Latin America.  

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 237 - History of Australia and New Zealand

1. Understand the historical development of Australia and New Zealand as island nations.
2. Identify and recognize events that are uniquely Australian and New Zealand.
3. Place Australian and New Zealand history within the larger context of World and Regional history.
4. Critically and aesthetically evaluate the development of uniquely Australian and New Zealand culture.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

HIST 240 - The Civil War

1. Understand the major causes of the Civil War.
2. Understand the history of slavery in the United States.
3. Understand the key phases of the conflict and their significance.
4. Understand the main constitutional questions raised by the war and its aftermath.
5. Understand the era of Reconstruction.
6. Understand various historical interpretations of the Civil War and its legacy.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 245 - The Second World War

1. Describe the conditions and events in Europe and Asia that led to the Second World War.
2. Analyze the comparative advantages of the Grand Alliance and the Axis Powers.
3. Analyze the influence of World War II on decolonization in the 20th Century.
4. Explain the effects of “total war” on civil society.
5. Evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and trends in the historiography of World War II.

1. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 250 - The Vietnam War

1. Understand the geographical and cultural complexity within the region.
2. Learn both short and long range cause and effect of the historical forces at work upon the Vietnamese in particular.
3. Learn the cause and effect of the first and second Vietnam War.
4. Learn the sequence of major historical events during the wars.
5. Study various historical interpretations of the war and the debate over legacies of the wars.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HIST 299 - Independent Study-History

HUMAN 110 - Background for the Humanities

1. Know the sources to find material for understanding artistic works and other areas of the humanities.
2. Acquire factual background information through a study of critical terms.
3. Understand relationship within the arts and other humanities.
4. Apply above knowledge to specific works.

1. Demonstrate intellectual humility in forming and defending their own beliefs while being respectful of the views of others.
2. Systematically formulate, develop, and defend non-trivial answers to philosophical questions by applying rational standards.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

HUMAN 133 - People, Language and Culture

1. Discuss the global relationship between people, language and culture.  
2. Identify the cross-linguistic connection of the world’s languages.  
3. Examine some of the differences among the world’s peoples, languages and cultures. 
4. Relate oneself to languages and cultures of the world in a multicultural context.  
5. Discuss global writing systems and the process they have undergone to produce modern systems.  
6. Express viewpoints that demonstrate growth in intercultural competence.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

HUMAN 142 - Introduction to Japanese Life and Culture

1. Demonstrate understanding of elements of traditional Japanese culture such as history, art, and religion.
2. Demonstrate understanding of elements of Japanese society such as family, education, and modesty in communication.
3. Demonstrate understanding of elements of popular Japanese culture such as manga, anime, film, and television.
4. Demonstrate intercultural competence for understanding of a different culture.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HUMAN 146 - Introduction to Chinese Culture and Life

1. Demonstrate an understanding of aspects of Chinese culture such as history, geography, traditional philosophies, ancient literature, traditional technologies, and arts.
2. Analyze aspects of Chinese society such as family planning policy, the education system, and folk customs.
3. Analyze aspects of Chinese daily life such as tourism sites, cuisine, medicine, pastimes, and real estate.
4. Demonstrate intercultural competence for understanding of a different culture.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

HUMAN 160 - Introduction to Gender Studies

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments related to sex, gender, and sexuality.
2. Identify the influence of sex, gender, and sexuality on identity, language, communication (both verbal and nonverbal), values, media, power, and violence.
3. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments related to sex, gender, and sexuality.
4. Recognize the dominance of Essentialist/Biological philosophical perspectives. 
5. Evaluate the suppression or denigration of  identities which are intersectional, multiple, and fluid.

1. Demonstrate intellectual humility in forming and defending their own beliefs while being respectful of the views of others.
2. Systematically formulate, develop, and defend non-trivial answers to philosophical questions by applying rational standards.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HUMAN 186 - Peoples of the World

1. Understand differences between themselves and other peoples of the world and help them understand why some of these differences exist.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HUMAN 190 - Latin American Culture Through Literature

1. Comprehend the usefulness of literary works to understand Latin American societies, histories and their complex social mixture of African, European and indigenous American constructions. 
2. Understand the main periods of the evolution of Latin American literature and their social and political contexts throughout the history of the region. 
3. Connect the socio­-political changes within different Latin American societies with the evolution of its literature.
4. Develop critical thinking tools to analyze the multiple identities, histories, cultures, perspectives, contributions, knowledge and/or strategies of historically excluded groups in Latin America in some of the literature they produced; 
5. Develop skills to travel, work, understand, and be sensitive to our Latin American neighbors.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

HUMAN 191 - Latin America in Film

1. Develop the ability to interpret and discuss “art movies” that deal with cultural, political and historical issues.
2. Examine questions related to the impact of colonization and imperial relations in Latin America. 
3. Develop a general knowledge of Latin American history and culture.
4. Identify the stereotypes with which Latin America has been portrayed in mainstream U.S. movies.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

HUMAN 192 - Introduction to Spanish Life and Culture

1. Gain an understanding of the diverse influences that have converged to create Spanish culture.
2. Critically analyze various aspects of Spanish culture in relation to that of their own.
3. Gain an awareness, understanding and appreciation of a culture different from their own. 

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

HUMAN 193 - Introduction to Francophone Life and Culture

1. Identify the term francophone by understanding the diversity within its unifying thread.
2. Demonstrate the ability to differentiate various levels of francophone visibility globally.
3. Analyze various literary and cinematic genres presented within the historical framework of French colonialism and its aftermath.
4. Recognize intersectionality as a tool to understand linguistic oppression through the study of past and current events.
5. Compare and contrast francophone communities inside and outside of the Hexagon (France).
6. Demonstrate the cultural sensitivity to travel, study and work in francophone regions and/or countries around the world.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

HUMAN 194 - Special Studies-Humanities

1. Develop a keener perception of another culture, different from their own to gain some historical background of the areas under study.
2. Develop or refine skills in reading a work of fiction.
3. Develop or refine the student’s expository skills.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.
2. Demonstrate the ability to accomplish communicative goals.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

HUMAN 200 - Latin American Women: Struggles and Literature

1. Discuss the intersections of gender, race, politics, power, social structures and history in Latin America.
2. Discuss the relation of Latin American women issues to the conquest and subsequent imperial domination’s in the region. 
3. Understand the impacts of patriarchy/machismo, marianismo/malinchismo in gender relations in Latin America.
4. Assess how literature and art produced by Latin American women reflects, question and advance the causes of women. 
5. Appraise the emergence of feminist ideas and organizations in Latin America, their conflicts with “First World Feminism,” and their relations with non-feminist women organizations.
6. Recognize and apply the basic principles and conventions of effective written communication about the subject.
7. Use their critical thinking abilities by examining the following elements of thought not only in the reading materials but also in the answers provided by other classmates: points of view, purpose, question at issue, implications and consequences, assumptions, concepts, conclusion and solutions.

1. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.