Learning Outcomes and Measurable Objectives
To fulfill the department mission, faculty engage in university and professional activities to develop and provide undergraduate and graduate programs for the preparation of students to:
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Develop and apply expertise in their fields of study.
Locate, critically evaluate and describe applications of research and other literature relevant to their field of study.
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Think critically and engage in reflective, ethical, and legal practice throughout their education and professional lives.
Demonstrate critical thinking and appropriately legal and ethical responses when presented with case studies involving legal and ethical dilemmas in their field of study.
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Develop empathic, respectful, and congruent interpersonal skills and abilities to work successfully with groups and individuals from diverse backgrounds in educational, community, and mental health settings.
Demonstrate empathic, respectful, and congruent interpersonal skills under observation during clinical practice and/or field work with groups and individuals from diverse backgrounds.
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Communicate effectively using oral, written, listening, and non-verbal attending and observational skills.
Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills, listening, and non-verbal attending and observational skills within their field of study.
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Become information competent scholars and researchers through engaging in and disseminating creative, empirical, and applied studies and program evaluations.
Complete culminating experiences demonstrating competent scholarship and research skills.
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Collaborate skillfully and respectfully as leaders, consultants, and team members in a variety of settings.
Demonstrate skillful and respectful collaboration within their field of Study
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Develop skills necessary to assess and evaluate individuals and groups, and to utilize current technology in work environments.
Demonstrate facility with current technology relevant to field of study.
Demonstrate ability to apply individual and group evaluation tools relevant to their field of study.
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Maintain an inclusive, multicultural, and global perspective, emphasizing social justice and educational equity, access, and support.
Demonstrate dispositions consistent with an inclusive, multicultural and global perspective, emphasizing social justice and educational equity,access, and support.
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View their roles as preventative, educative, and therapeutic in promoting well-being, healthy relationships, academic success, and career mastery.
Demonstrate dispositions consistent with preventative, educative, and therapeutic roles in promoting well-being, healthy relationships, academic success, and career mastery.
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Provide service through a wide variety of field-based partnerships informed by theory and practice.
Demonstrate knowledge of how theory and practice inform diverse field-based partnerships related to their field of study.
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Act as advocates with initiative, perception, and vision to lead and transform the practices and policies of those who provide services to individuals, families, schools, organizations, community, and policy makers.
Demonstrate dispositions consistent with advocacy with initiative, perception, and vision to lead and transform the practices and policies of those who provide services to individuals, families, schools, organizations, community, and policymakers.
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Pursue lifelong professional and personal development through such mediums as continuing education, information access via technology, psychological counseling, active participation and leadership in professional organizations, and doctoral study.
Demonstrate dispositions consistent with pursuing lifelong professional and personal development through such mediums as continuing education, information technology, psychological counseling, participation and leadership in professional organizations, and doctoral study.