Diversity

UCORE courses require students to demonstrate designator learning outcomes that advance WSU’s Diversity 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 Diversity (see the UCORE Curriculum Map (PDF) and UCORE Curriculum webpages). At the first-year level, the first-year experience course [ROOT] advances Diversity. At the senior-level, Diversity may be required in the senior capstone experience course [CAPS] as appropriate to the course and discipline. Students also complete at least one Inquiry into Global Cultural Diversity course [DIVR] or Inquiry into Equity and Justice course [EQJS], which advances Diversity, 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 Diversity

Click on the headings for current evidence of student learning from key assessments associated with Diversity in the context of the UCORE curriculum:

  • Student Learning at the Senior-level: AY 2021-22 [CAPS] Assessment Results As reported in the AY 2021-22 [CAPS] Assessment Reporting Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF), assessment results indicated that 85% of students met or exceeded expectations at the graduating undergraduate level for Critical & Creative Thinking. Additionally, 83% of students met or exceeded expectations for Written Communication. In courses where faculty members found enough elements to evaluate student learning on […]