Speech 200—Cultural Communication
Student Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing this course, student will be able to:
Identify, explain, and apply knowledge of the nature of culture;
Identify, explain, and apply concepts central to intercultural communication;
Understand and apply a dialectical perspective to intercultural relations;
Distinguish between and practice open-minded description, interpretation, and Evaluation components of personal responses to diverse cultural practices; and
Display motivation and ability to interact competently with culturally diverse others
Measures
The outcomes for this course are measured by mid-term exams, final exams,
papers, and presentations. Using Bloom's Taxonomy, the instructor has
identified the level of learning represented by the assessment tools.
The goal for this course has been to take one outcome per year and thoroughly
assess it. The strategy and results for outcome #1 are provided below.
(note: the one outcome focus is a campus wide program for all courses.)
Results
Speech 200 - Course Adoption Form Outcome #1 |
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Identify, Explain, and Apply Knowledge of the Nature of Culture (Fall 2004-05) |
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Outcome |
Component Content: |
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Level of Competence Measures (Bloom) |
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Knowledge |
Comprehension |
Application |
Analysis |
Synthesis |
Evaluation |
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Culture consists of patterns of behaviors and attitudes shared by groups of people |
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write definition |
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Defend status of self-generated example as meeting the definition of a culture
83% (Final-Fall-04) |
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Culture is primarily learned (not innate). |
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explain how a
specific culture is learned |
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Explain whether self-generated example is a learned culture
85% (Final - Fall-04) |
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Gender, social class, sexual orientation, ethnicity/race, nationality, religion, age. |
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identify all seven groups |
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Identify self-generated example as one (or none) of the “Big 7” cultures
88% (Final -Fall-04) |
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Fighting the human tendency
to see a person or culture as embodying only one stereotypical cultural
dimension, rather than embodying many unique and cultural dimensions
simultaneously. |
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Recognize
definition of essentializing
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Show how dialectical perspective reduces essentializing
xx% (midterm-Fall-04) |
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Assess personal experience as essentializing (or not)
78% (Final -Fall-04) |
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What is the quality of human
nature? What is the appropriate relationship between humans and nature?
What is the appropriate form of relationships between humans? Should time be
spent doing or being? Do we focus on past, now, or future? |
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identify all five areas |
identify and explain personal values/beliefs in terms of
one of these areas |
compare two cultures in terms of one of these areas ____%(F) |
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