How much of a course needs to be devoted to an outcome to be considered as sufficient for achieving that outcome?
For Student Learning Outcomes 1-3, which focus on developing intellectual and practical skills, the Guidelines ask if the main purpose of the course is to teach the skill. In other words, if a faculty member proposes a course for SLO 1, teaching writing must be the main purpose of the course. If that is not the case, the course in question might be better suited to achieving a different outcome. For Student Learning Outcomes 4-10, the Interim ACE committee will verify that students have an opportunity to work toward achieving the outcome, as indicated by the questions on the Guidelines for those specific SLOs. As courses vary so widely across the campus, stipulating that a certain percentage of the course be devoted to the outcome would be difficult to prescribe and impossible to measure.
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