Student Learning Outcomes
The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) general education curriculum strives to help you develop the following skills you need to navigate the demands of the 21st century environment successfully and responsibly:
- The ability to think clearly about complex problems;
- The ability to analyze a problem to develop workable and creative solutions;
- An understanding of the global context in which work is done;
- The ability to apply knowledge and skills in new settings; and
- A strong sense of ethics and equality.
The University General Education requirements encompass Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) in the following areas:
English & Writing
Quantitative Literacy
Public Speaking
Humanities & Fine Arts
Social Sciences
Natural & Physical Sciences
U.S. Diversity
Global Diversity
English & Writing - Student Learning Outcomes
After completing Composition I, successful students shall be able to do the following:
- closely read, critically interpret, evaluate, and respond to other writers' texts;
- write papers with a clear thesis, logical structure, and cohesive, well-developed paragraphs;
- write papers with clear, varied, well-constructed sentences, with usage and mechanics conforming to standard edited English; and
- demonstrate an understanding of writing as a complex, recursive process whereby ideas are explored, developed, and communicated to a particular audience for a particular purpose.
After completing Composition II, successful students shall be able to do the following:
- demonstrate further development of the writing skills learned in Composition I;
- locate and evaluate information in print and electronic sources and integrate the information into their own texts, citing the sources appropriately;
- analyze arguments in other writers' texts;
- craft well-informed, carefully-reasoned arguments of their own, using the genre appropriate for the rhetorical context (e.g. position paper, proposal, and evaluation).
After completing the writing in the discipline (WID) course(s), students shall be able to do the following:
- demonstrate further development of the writing skills learned in foundational composition courses;
- engage in the major discipline's research practices, using the databases, bibliographies, and documentation conventions appropriate to the discipline;
- use the writing strategies and genres expected in the relevant academic and professional communities; and
- demonstrate command of the major discipline's discourse practices, vocabulary, and style.
Quantitative Literacy - Student Learning Outcomes
Successful students shall be able to do the following:
- Solve real-world problems;
- Draw inferences based on a set of data or quantitative information; and
- Justify conclusions derived from quantitative information
Public Speaking - Student Learning Outcomes
Successful students shall be able to do the following:
- create and develop messages demonstrating effective audience analysis and adaptation;
- create and develop messages demonstrating effective information gathering, analysis, and evaluation;
- create and deliver messages demonstrating effective organizational development and use of supporting materials from credible sources; and
- present appropriate messages, including effective use of language, nonverbal delivery, and visual information/technology.
Humanities & Fine Arts - Students Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrating knowledge of the human conditionusing discipline appropriate criteria;
- Respond to the human condition using discipline specific criteria;
- Explaining how context (historical, cultural, etc.) influences the creation or interpretation of the topic of study.
Social Sciences - Student Learning Outcomes
- Describing signature ideas, concepts, theories, or perspectives using the language of the discipline;
- Analyzing Implications, conclusions, or consequences of a particular issue relevant to the discipline
- Evaluating evidence of truth-claims;
Natural & Physical Sciences - Student Learning Outcomes
- Identifies key elements of scientific inquiry relative to problem;
- Solves problems based on data, information, or models
- Evaluate conclusions, limitations, and/or implications
U.S. Diversity - Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrating specific knowledge of the cultural, historical, social, economic, and/or political aspects of one or more diverse/underrepresented groups in the United States;
- Explaining/describing the implications or consequencesof these characteristics upon the development of the United States
Global Diversity - Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrating specific knowledge of the cultural, historical, social, economic, and/or political aspects of one or more countries or nations other than the United States;
- Explaining/describing the implications or consequences of these characteristics to human endeavors