Student Learning Outcomes

UCORE is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum supporting the advancement of the WSU Undergraduate Learning Goals. Each UCORE course designator includes a set of student learning outcomes, that are aligned with the WSU Undergraduate Learning Goals, that articulate what students are expected to achieve as they complete a course in that designator. All UCORE course designators require students to demonstrate learning outcomes aligned with Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, and Written Communication, while other learning goals are advanced in UCORE courses as appropriate to the course designator (see the UCORE Curriculum Map (PDF) and UCORE Curriculum webpages for more information) and course/discipline. (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.)

Note: The WSU Undergraduate Learning Goals are faculty developed and expressed broadly so as to frame study in UCORE (general education) as well as the major. Through the achievement of program-level student learning outcomes for the major or degree program, students generally demonstrate specialized knowledge and skills in the discipline, as well as disciplinary achievement of some WSU Undergraduate Learning Goals (as appropriate to the disciplinary focus), through depth of study within the chosen academic field.

Visualization of Undergraduate Education: Supporting Student Achievement of WSU Undergraduate Learning Goals