Depth, Breadth, & Integration of Learning

UCORE courses require students to demonstrate designator learning outcomes that advance WSU’s Depth, Breadth, & Integration of Learning Goal as appropriate to the designator, with a minimum of six credit hours in UCORE-designated courses that include instruction and/or engagement with Integrative Learning and a minimum of 19 credit hours in UCORE-designated courses that include instruction and/or engagement with Breadth of Learning (see the UCORE Curriculum Map (PDF) and UCORE Curriculum webpages). At the first-year level, the first-year experience course [ROOT] advances Integrative Learning. At the senior-level, the senior capstone experience course [CAPS] advances Integrative Learning. Students also complete ways of knowing requirements, which advance Breadth of Learning, during the UCORE curriculum.

Note: Announced in May 2022, revised designator learning outcomes were approved by the UCORE Committee to help clarify what students, regardless of major, should be able to know and do upon the successful completion of a course in that designator. Additionally, effective Fall 2023, UCORE added the [EQJS] designator to the “Ways of Knowing” component of the curriculum, with the requirement that students complete courses in at least six of the seven Ways of Knowing designators.

Current Evidence of Student Learning Related to Depth, Breadth, and Integration of Learning

Click on the headings for current evidence of student learning from key assessments associated with Depth, Breadth, and Integration of Learning in the context of the UCORE curriculum:

  • Student Achievement of [CAPS] Designator Learning Outcomes: AY 2024-25 [CAPS] Assessment Results As reported in the AY 2024-25 [CAPS] Assessment Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF), assessment results indicated that 87% of students met or exceeded expectations at the graduating undergraduate level on the designator learning outcome associated with Integrative Learning. Additionally, 84% of students met or exceeded expectations for Information Literacy. In courses where instructors evaluated student learning on additional applicable learning […]

  • Assessing Student Learning in Scientific Inquiry Courses: AY 2023-24 [BSCI]/[PSCI] Assessment Results As reported in the AY 2023-24 [BSCI]/[PSCI] Assessment Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF), assessment results indicated that that 72% of students met or exceeded expectations on the designator learning outcomes associated with Scientific Literacy. Additionally, 66% of students met or exceeded expectations for Quantitative Reasoning, 69% for Critical Thinking, 67% for Information Literacy, 69% for Written Communication, and 71% for Breadth of Learning. Inquiry in the Biological Sciences [BSCI] and Inquiry in […]