{"id":1936,"date":"2017-09-27T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/?page_id=1936"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:38:12","slug":"critical-and-creative-thinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/assessments-by-learning-goal\/critical-and-creative-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical and Creative Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Critical and Creative Thinking<\/h1>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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All UCORE courses require students to demonstrate designator learning outcomes that advance <\/b>WSU’s Critical & Creative Thinking Learning Goal<\/a>, <\/b><\/span>totaling a minimum of 34 credit hours in UCORE-designated courses that include instruction and\/or engagement with Critical Thinking<\/span> and a minimum of three credit hours in UCORE-designated courses that include instruction and\/or engagement with Creative Thinking<\/span> (see the UCORE Curriculum Map (PDF)<\/a> and UCORE Curriculum webpages<\/a>).<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em> At the first-year level, the first-year experience course [ROOT] and foundational requirements advance Critical Thinking<\/span>. At the senior-level, the senior capstone experience course [CAPS] advances Critical & Creative Thinking<\/span>. Students also complete ways of knowing requirements, which advance Critical Thinking<\/span>, during the UCORE curriculum (note: [ARTS] courses require students to demonstrate Critical Thinking and may require students to demonstrate Creative Thinking as appropriate to the course and discipline).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Announced in May 2022, revised designator learning outcomes<\/a> 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<\/a> to the \u201cWays of Knowing\u201d component of the curriculum, with the requirement that students complete courses in at least six of the seven Ways of Knowing designators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Evidence of Student Learning Related to Critical and Creative Thinking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Click on the headings for current evidence of student learning from key assessments associated with Critical and Creative Thinking in the context of the UCORE curriculum:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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