Departmental Assessment Update - Hawaiinuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge Report
Department: Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
Program: BA
Level: Undergraduate
1. Has your program developed learning outcomes? If
yes, please list.
Yes. GOALS. Students are expected to demonstrate knowledge, understanding, critical analysis and synthesis of the following areas: 1. Know our genealogical ties to Papahänaumoku, our earth mother, and ko Hawai'i pae'äina as our ancestral home land. 2. Kanaka Maoli are one Lähui connected by our one ancestor Häloa across nä kai 'ewalu. 3. History, culture and politics in academic and non-academic settings. 4. The interconnectedness of all knowledge contemporary and ancestral from a KM perspective. 5. Kanaka Maoli applications, protocols and disciplines. 6. Kanaka Maoli experiences in the context of world indigenous peoples. OBJECTIVES 1. Organize, analyze and compose at least one major project in an area of concentration that integrates a Kanaka Maoli worldview that highlights, celebrates and critically examines indigenous identity. 2. Recognize and express historical and contemporary Kanaka Maoli issues of languages (as methods of expression including oral, aural, visual, tech, non-verbal), law, sea, ocean, mo'olelo, mo'okü'auhau, politics, origins, migration and religion. 3. Recognize the commonality and differences between Kanaka Maoli and other indigenous peoples' world views and experiences. 4. Know the origins and ancestral interpretations for the meaning of the past and how they are applied to life. 5. Discuss who you are, where you come from and your inherent kuleana including proper conduct in an academic environment.
2. If your program has learning outcomes, where are
they published (e.g., department web page)?
The outcomes have not yet been published because we are just completing the process of developing our assessment strategy. The outcomes will be published in our revised department brochure and our website, and they will be incorporated in other material describing our undergraduate program.
3. Do your faculty list course learning outcomes on
their syllabi?
No.
4. Does your program have a curriculum map that
links course outcomes to program outcomes? If
so, please include.
Yes. (sent as PDF to the Assessment Office)
5. Does your program benchmark or have goals for
student performance? (e.g. 70% students will
graduate within 5 years)
No.
6. Other than GPA, what data/evidence is used to
determine that graduates have achieved stated
outcomes for the degree? (i.e. capstone project,
class assignment)
Capstone project. Collection of one senior writing sample or project from any Hawaiian Studies class demonstrating that the student has met the objectives outlined above in “Objectives”.
7. Who interprets the evidence of student learning?
Faculty committee.
8. How are the assessment data/results used to
inform decisions concerning the curriculum and
administration of the program?
Faculty makes recommendations in its report to the Director and the Director reports to the Dean of Hawaiinuiakea regarding review program and advocates for faculty development, academic program management including GTA instruction and development as appropriate.