The Mānoa Advising Center (MAC) began teaching their first major exploration course, UNIV 340, in Spring 2014. Since then, three additional courses (UNIV 240, UNIV 140, and UNIV 440) have been added to the Exploratory student curriculum. Although general Student Learning Outcomes were created for each class, overarching Program Learning Outcomes had not been created for all the courses.
Based on what we learned at the Assessment Leadership Institute, we created a curriculum map to align the outcomes of all the courses in order to ascertain that courses are being scaffolded in the way we had originally intended.
The next steps for the assessment include: having the instructors review the course materials to discuss current practice and negotiate which courses should address which PLOs and to what extent to ensure clear alignment and a more seamless experience for students who elect to take more than one of the Exploratory courses. By Matt Eng & Megumi Makino-Kanehiro.
Recommended Citation:
Eng, M. & Makino-Kanehiro, M. (2023, March). Mapping Program Learning Outcomes for UNIV Exploratory Courses [Poster Presentation]. Assessment and Curriculum Support Center at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.