Eberly Edge Program Learning Outcomes
Program Learning Outcomes (PLO) and Recommended Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) for the six areas of the Eberly Edge Program:
Edge 1: Data in Society
PLO: Evaluate reliability, validity, and scope, including assessing the role of technology in creation, analysis, representation, and accessibility of information.
Recommended CLOs:
- Identify the purpose, audience, and context of a data set through data representations such as graphs, charts, and tables.
- Explain how data collection, analysis methods, and representations are selected to address specific questions, and how such selections are limited in the information they can provide.
- Apply Data and Information Literacy by collecting, analyzing, representing, and /or interpreting data from reliable sources to inform your understanding of an interdisciplinary topic or social issue.
Edge 2: Effective and civil communication
PLO: Demonstrate effective and civil communication in spoken and written forms that respond appropriately to audience, purpose, and context.
Recommended CLOs:
- Demonstrate ability to relate to others across personal and professional relationships, including the capacity for respectful discussion and disagreement.
- Formulate effective and ethical arguments about current topics in both written and spoken contexts.
- Develop strategies for engaging with diverse audiences in social, professional, and civic settings, including construction of engaging texts.
- Locate, evaluate, and appropriately contextualize primary and secondary research materials from a variety of sources.
Edge 3: Ethics and civic responsibility
PLO: Compare and contrast the outcomes of applying different ethical principles and frameworks to everyday life, learning, and workplace scenarios.
Recommended CLOs:
- Identify fundamental ethical principles like integrity, confidentiality, respect and frameworks like deontology and utilitarianism.
- Discuss the sources of conflict and disagreement in contemporary ethical issues.
- Articulate decisions and resolve conflicts through the use of reason.
Edge 4: Global and regional perspectives
PLO: Develop awareness of the impact cultural, economic, and social structures have on communities near home or around the world.
Recommended CLOs:
- Describe issues relevant to both global and local cultures, including ...
- Demonstrate awareness of the impact that cultural, economic, and social structures have on communities across the world
- Explain and examine at least one specific culture (e.g., Appalachian) and how that culture shapes material conditions for people in that culture
- Identify the relationship between local, regional, and global contexts
- Develop deeper cultural awareness in applied settings through opportunities including study abroad.
Edge 5: Integration of arts and sciences
PLO: Integrate diverse disciplinary knowledge bases to effectively understand and address complex and boundary spanning topics.
Recommended CLOs:
- Identify and explain key concepts and methodologies from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, recognizing how they intersect and inform each other.
Edge 6: High-Impact Learning Experience
PLO: Integrate outside-the-classroom experiences and observations with academic studies to apply knowledge in complex situations.
Recommended CLOs:
- Learn by engaging in concrete outside-the-classroom experiences and activities.
- Implement academic knowledge and skills in contexts outside the classroom.
- Reflect on the development of one’s own professional knowledge and skills in response to the learning experience.
(Kolb’s experiential learning cycle)