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Exhibit E:  Inventory of Educational Effectiveness Indicators

This required WASC inventory is designed to indicate the extent to which the campus is already engaging in the kinds of activities that will be reviewed by the team and Commission as evidence of its systems of educational effectiveness.  The table includes a description of each undergraduate degree-granting program's senior exit requirement as an example of an indicator used to determine that graduates have achieved the appropriate outcomes for the degree.  The contribution of the senior comprehensive requirement to program educational effectiveness has been reviewed by the Academic Senate Committee on Educational Policy (and that report is included as an exhibit to the campus's WASC educational effectiveness review).

 

Undergraduate General Education requirements (Please see Exhibit M, Objectives and Requirements for the Bachelor Degree at UC Santa Cruz.)

 

Objectives for each degree program (Full inventory of educational effectiveness indicators in Table 7.1 format.) For each program/degree, WASC requires: Have formal learning outcomes been developed?  (If blank, then no formal learning outcomes have been developed.) Where are these learning outcomes published? Other than GPA, what measures/indicators are used to determine that graduates have achieved the stated outcomes for the degree (e.g., capstone course, portfolio review, licensure examination)? Date of last program review for this degree program Identified learning outcomes

Program name

Degree

(a) Outcomes developed?

(b) Where learning outcomes are published

(c) Non-GPA outcome indicators

(d) Program review date

(e) Identified Outcomes

American Studies

BA

Senior Seminar

1/8/98

Anthropology

BA

Senior Seminar, Senior Thesis/Essay or pass Graduate Course

5/1/02

Anthropology

PHD

5/1/02

Applied Economics & Finance

MS

2/10/04

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

new

Applied Physics

BS

(not listed)

5/13/99

Art

BA

Senior Seminar, Senior Portfolio or Exhibit of Work

2/8/01

Astronomy & Astrophysics

PHD

6/4/01

Astrophysics

BS

Senior Thesis/Essay

5/13/99

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

BS

Senior Thesis/Essay or National Exam

1/21/04

Bioinformatics

BS

Senior Seminar or Senior Thesis/Essay

7/2/04

Bioinformatics

MS

new

Bioinformatics

PHD

new

Biology

BA

Senior Thesis/Essay or National Exam

6/25/96

Biology

BS

Senior Thesis/Essay, National Exam or Pass Department Exam

6/25/96

Business Management Economics

BA

Senior Thesis/Essay or Pass Department Exam

2/10/04

Chemistry & Biochemistry

BA

Senior Thesis/Essay

1/21/04

Chemistry & Biochemistry

BS

Senior Thesis/Essay

1/21/04

Chemistry & Biochemistry

MS

1/21/04

Chemistry & Biochemistry

PHD

1/21/04

Classical Studies

BA

Pass Department Exam

6/15/04

Community Studies

BA

Senior Thesis/Essay, Senior Dir. Seminar, or Senior Project

1/4/01

Computer Engineering

BS

yes

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Pass Dept. Exam and Senior Portfolio

8/27/02

Computer Engineering

MS

8/27/02

Computer Engineering

PHD

8/27/02

Computer Science

BA

Senior Thesis/Essay, National Exam, or pass Department Exam

3/17/03

Computer Science

BS

Senior Thesis/Essay, National Exam, or pass Department Exam

3/17/03

Computer Science

MS