
HSSE Department Assessment Process
The Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) structure (goal areas, distribution requirements, learner outcomes) is the framework for U of M Crookston’s liberal education foundation.
- Establish schedule for department review and confirmation during department meetings.
- Goal Area 1 Written and Oral Communication
- Goal Area 5 History and the Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Goal Area 6 The Humanities (the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy)
- Goal Area 7 Human Diversity
- Goal Area 8 Global Perspectives
- Goal Area 9 Ethical and Civic Responsibility
- Faculty preparation for department review and confirmation:
- Course description: use approved course description that is shown on UMN Crookston catalog. Curriculum form will be needed if course description needs to be changed or updated.
- Course learning outcomes: if course learning outcomes are to meet MnTC, include MnTC goal area and learning outcomes at the end of each course learning outcome statement.
Examples:- COMP 1011 Composition I
- Course Learning Outcome: Compose a working thesis statement that clearly states a position and serves to focus the paper (Goal 1.5).
- Course Learning Outcome: Choose sources that explore a balance of views and provide fair representation of opposing views to accomplish the writer’s plan (Goal 1.3).
- SOC 1001 Intro to Sociology
- Course Learning Outcome: Develop and employ an understanding of sociological inquiry including the use of theory, methods, and data to describe and interpret social phenomena (Goal 5.1, 5.3)
- Course Learning Outcome: Describe the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States’ history and culture (Goal 7.1).
- COMP 1011 Composition I
- To be considered a UMN Crookston Liberal Education course, a course must deliver more than 51% of the MnTC learner outcomes for particular goal area.
- Conduct peer review within the discipline, program, peers from another discipline, or external review (if a faculty is the only faculty teaching in the discipline or program).
- Department Review and Confirmation
- Submit syllabus for department review and confirmation
- Once confirmed by the department:
- Faculty will update Liberal Education Course Review spreadsheet (i.e. update course learning outcomes)
- Department Administrative Specialist will upload liberal education course syllabi to the Liberal Education Course Review Canvas site.
- Department Chair would be responsible for ensuring revisions, if needed, are made by the end of spring semester.