1. To provide UW-Parkside students with a rigorous health sciences degree that will allow them to gain admission into professional/ graduate health programs.
2. To provide UW-Parkside students with a rigorous health sciences degree that will allow them to be competitive and successful in entry level health science careers.

1. Creativity: Using various art-making techniques, students create works that reveal and communicate their personal style and conceptual ideas. (Communication and Personal/Social Responsibility.)
2. Visual Analysis: Students analyze and evaluate the historical, formal, and conceptual components of artwork, including their own. (Reasoned Judgment)
3. Communication: Students communicate competently in formats expected in the profession. (Communication)
4. Personal and Social Responsibility: Students are responsible and thoughtful as contributors to visual culture, and as members of UW-P studio/lab/lecture areas. (Personal and Social Responsibility.)

1. Biological complexity and evolution
2. Inquiry and research methods
3. Scholarship and communication

1. Students can recognize the ethical implications in a business situation and choose and defend an appropriate resolution.
2. Students can write effectively about a business problem or issue.
3. Students can make an effective oral presentation on a business problem or issue.
4. Students are knowledgeable in project management principles and are able to apply these principles to a practical situation.
5. Students will be able to articulate important diversity issues – including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, culture, gender, age, socio-economic status and political/religious/sexual orientation – in business management.
6. Students will be able to effectively use computer technology to support a business decision.

1. Communicate results from scientific studies in the field of chemistry in formats suitable to the profession ( knowledge-based, performance skill)
2. Perform and evaluate scientific experiments and studies in the field of chemistry (knowledge-based, performance skill)
3. Act as a socially responsible member of the profession (affective behavior).

1. Identity: Analyzing and critiquing how human identity is constructed, reinforced, and transformed through the ways we communicate.
2. Social justice: Promoting social justice in ways that acknowledge and celebrate a diverse global culture.
3. Knowledge: Understanding how knowledge is constructed within systemic and historically situated processes.

The learning goals of the Computer Information Systems Masters Program are aligned with the university's Shared Learning Goals, as listed below:

UW-Parkside Shared Learning Goal: Reasoned Judgment

1. Develop Business-Oriented Software: Students can develop software for business enterprises.
2. Evaluate Technology: Students can read and assess professional and research papers on Information technology, information systems, and/or computer science subjects.

UW-Parkside Shared Learning Goal: Social & Personal Responsibility

1. Integrate IT and Business: Students can understand and integrate IT solutions into a business, including planning, communicating, working with business professionals, related to IT. Students also understand the ethical implications of their decisions.

UW-Parkside Shared Learning Goal: Communication

1. Communicate Information Systems effectively and professionally within the Enterprise: Students can prepare business-oriented plans and reports, such as project plans, security plans, etc.

The learning goals of the Computer Science major are aligned with ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) and the university’s Shared Learning Goals. ABET student outcomes are defined preceded by a letter: e.g., a). ABET goals are grouped according to the university’s Shared Learning Goals.

The Computer Science program enables students to attain, by the time of graduation:

UW-Parkside Shared Learning Goal: Reasoned Judgment

1. An ability to apply knowledge of computing and mathematics appropriate to the discipline
2. An ability to analyze a problem, and identify and define the computing requirements appropriate to its solution
3. An ability to design, implement, and evaluate a computer-based system, process, component, or program to meet desired needs

UW-Parkside Shared Learning Goal: Social and Personal Responsibility

1. An ability to function effectively on teams to accomplish a common goal
2. An understanding of professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and responsibilities
3. An ability to analyze the local and global impact of computing on individuals, organizations, and society
4. Recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in continuing professional development

UW-Parkside Shared Learning Goal: Communication

1. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
2. An ability to use current techniques, skills, and tools necessary for computing practice.

Our students can use their knowledge and comprehensive in Criminal Justice to:

1. Improve the Justice System - by communicating the results of Criminal Justice concepts and criminological theories to articulate methods and strategies to improve our Justice System.
2. Advance the Scientific Basis - exercise reasoned judgment to advance the scientific basis of criminal justice practices, policies and procedures by identifying and evaluating research needs and priorities of our Justice Agencies.
3. Promote Ethical Principles and Practices – Demonstrate social and personal responsibility by evaluating evidence, acting ethically, and reflecting the values that are the underpinnings of Criminal Justice as an academic discipline.

1. Economics graduates will be able to evaluate the implications of economic scarcity in the context of resource allocation, production, and consumption and various economic institutions (aligns with Reasoned Judgment).
   -Outcomes/Objectives:
   • Students can compare and evaluate the consequences of and the tradeoffs resulting from economic scarcity in the context of different market structures.
   • Students can compare and evaluate the consequences of and the tradeoffs resulting from economic scarcity in the context of macroeconomic variables.
2. Economics graduates will be able to apply tools of economic decision-making to make optimal (efficient) economic decisions (aligns with Reasoned Judgment).
   -Outcomes/Objectives:
   
   • Students can construct and apply economic models and analytical tools to explain economic relationships and evaluate solutions to economic problems.
   • Students can create economic databases, work effectively with data, and perform quantitative analysis.
3. Economics graduates will be able to evaluate the desirability of economic decisions and policies in terms of their effects on individual and social welfare (aligns with Social and Personal Responsibility).
   -Outcomes/Objectives:
   • Students can compare and evaluate changes in the economic welfare of individuals, households, firms, government, and society resulting from domestic economic policies and global external economic shocks.
   • Students can compare and evaluate changes in the economic welfare of individuals and households in the context of diversity, equity, and other social goals.
     
4. Economics graduates will be able to communicate economic concepts, data, models, theories, and analyze effectively using various forms of media and communication technologies (aligns with Communication).
   -Outcomes/Objectives:
   • Students can communicate in writing and by using tables, graphs, or mathematical representations (models) effectively to demonstrate comprehension of the underlying economic concepts and relationships.
   • Students can communicate verbally by using the spoken word or multimedia technologies effectively.

1. Writing Goal: Students will become writers who know how to employ a wide range of strategies as they write and to use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
2. Critical Reading and Analysis Goal: Students will become accomplished, active readers who value ambiguity and complexity, and who can demonstrate a wide range of strategies for understanding texts, including interpretations with an awareness of, attentiveness to, and curiosity toward other perspectives.
3. History and Theory Goal: Students will develop a comprehensive knowledge of the variety of texts in diverse time periods and in diverse locations, as well as know the critical and historical principles behind the construction of literary, linguistic, and cultural histories, in order to demonstrate an active participation in scholarship.
4. Research Goal: Students will be able to follow a research process from proposal, research, drafts, to final projects.
5. Collaborative Learning Goal: Students will learn that the ability to communicate their ideas to a larger audience is as important as having the ideas themselves, and that sharing and coordinating ideas sustains and develops the larger intellectual sphere, of which they are a part. Students will understand the connection between collaborative learning and their intended professional field(s), including but not limited to their future professional roles and responsibilities.

Upon successful completion of the Environmental Studies major, students will be able to:

1. Identify, research, evaluate, and resolve local, national, and international environmental problems through a combination of content knowledge, and scientific and critical reasoning.
2. Apply scientific methods and critical reasoning to effectively communicate environmental problems and solutions to both professional and non-professional audiences.
3. Analyze the role of economics, politics, and society in evaluating and resolving environmental issues and have a thorough understand local, national, and international environmental laws and regulations.
4. Analyze and evaluate ecosystem services and the benefits of biodiversity to human economies.
5. Work collaboratively as part of an interdisciplinary team to analyze and solve environmental problems.
6. Understand the physical and chemical laws that govern the development of biological, geological and/or human technological systems and demonstrate expertise in how these systems can be sustainably managed.

1. Knowledge: the goal is to educate students with fundamental geographic knowledge and concepts in the major areas of physical geography and human geography, while comprehending the interrelationships between the environment/nature and human activities. [global perspective and individual accountability]
2. Analytical and Technical Skills: the goal is to train students to utilize several geographic tools—maps, statistics, field methods, geographic information systems, remote sensing and global positioning systems. [analytical skills; information technology competence]
3. Synthesize and Communicate: the goal is for students to develop critical thinking skills to conduct research and solve problems—review literature, collect data, apply a methodology, and present the results. [critical thinking; literacy and oral communication]

1. To prepare students for professional certification and employment in areas of environmental and earth sciences. The program satisfies requirements for Wisconsin Professional Geologist and Professional Hydrogeologist.
2. To assist with the preparation of K-12 teachers in the areas of earth and environmental sciences and broad field science.
3. To promote scientific literacy on the campus and in the community, particularly with respect to principles and issues involving environmental awareness, quality, and protection.
4. To contribute fundamental scientific research that enhances environmental quality and quality-of-life for members of the regional, state, local and campus communities.
5. Contribute to the diversity of the university community by working toward the goals of Plan 2012.

1. Apply the knowledge of exercise science principles.
   • Analyze and assess human movement in a variety of levels and contexts
   • Develop and execute appropriate fitness assessments and programs for flexibility, strength, endurance, body composition, plyometrics, speed development and conditioning.
   • Create scientifically based periodized programs for anaerobic and aerobic exercise
   • Plan, implement and evaluate effective exercise or health-related programs
2. Demonstrate effective professional communication skills through a variety of mediums.
   • Use professional oral and visual communication skills effectively when giving a presentation on a topic in the field of exercise science
   • Demonstrate effective writing skills regarding a fitness management problem or issue
   • Demonstrate competence with interpersonal communication in a situation related to fitness management/exercise science
   • Demonstrate effective individual and group exercise leadership skills
3. Demonstrate effective critical thinking skills in the area of exercise science.
   • Appropriately apply scientific methods to the field of exercise science
   • Apply evidenced-based decision making in planning safe and effective exercise programming for any population
   • Evaluate information and evidence related to fitness and health practices
4. Act as a socially responsible member of the exercise science/fitness management profession.
   • Develop personal and professional philosophies necessary to excel professionally
   • Use the various dimensions of diversity, ethics, and law for professional decision-making in relation to fitness management.
   • Appreciate the need and have the desire to seek the most current knowledge in the field

1. Master a rich body of historical knowledge They will learn to recognize, understand, discuss, and debate key historical events, issues, and ideas.
2. Become skilled researchers. They will learn to locate and work with a wide variety of historical sources and source-formats, including online resource databases and digital media, and to analyze them in support of their own claims about the past.
3. Become critical, analytical readers. They will learn to read historical sources and digest their meanings, themes, arguments, and conclusions, and to recognize subjective challenges present in those sources, such as bias and ambiguity.
4. Become skilled writers and communicators.
5. They will learn to write about and discuss their findings and claims clearly, concisely, and effectively, and to document their claims and sources accurately with correct scholarly apparatus.
6. Become critical, global thinkers. They will learn to understand and to articulate the value of ethnic and cultural diversity to the study of History and the important perspectives that they provide.

1. International studies students will be prepared to live in increasingly global societies by having considerable knowledge about the world beyond their borders.
2. They will be able navigate cultural and national differences in diverse ways and understand that the world is interconnected.
3. They will develop the tools to live a meaningful and ethical life and understand their worldview in relation to the worldview of others.

1. Communicate effectively
2. Become knowledgeable, engaged citizens of local and global communities
3. Think critically and creatively
4. Assume leadership roles and apply knowledge in all areas of professional and personal lives
5. Make connections across disciplines

1. Document requirements of an information system using state-of-the-art modeling techniques.
2. Develop a data model that satisfies the third normal form (3NF).
3. Understand and apply the concepts of object-oriented systems.
4. Understand the design principles of computer network architectures and apply them to a business problem.
5. Understand project management principles and apply these principles to a practical situation.

1. Formulate and prove mathematical results in the language of mathematics.
2. Perform technical mathematical computations in mathematics and related fields.
3. Translate ideas and meanings from the language of everyday life (English) into mathematical language (formulas and symbols).
4. Communicate in the language of mathematics.
5. Search for knowledge in independent and responsible ways.

1. Knowledge of the Natural World: Breadth of scientific knowledge, specifically, the ability to think beyond one's area of concentration.
2. Critical and Creative Thinking Skills: Experiential and problem solving skills as well as higher order qualitative and quantitative reasoning.
3. Effective Communication Skills: Competence in speaking, reading, and writing abilities.
4. Individual, Social and Environmental Responsibility: Civic knowledge and engagement (both local and global), ethical reasoning, and action; ability to interact and work with people under standard civility and professional norm.

1. Communicate an understanding of the academic and musical skills necessary for success in the profession (knowledge-based, performance skill)
2. Perform and evaluate music using aesthetic skills as a soloist and ensemble member. (knowledge-based, performance skill
3. Act as a socially responsible member of the profession through working effectively with others toward a common goal in university ensembles (affective behavior).

1. Knowledge and Understanding: Majors will gain a familiarity with several important philosophical ideas and philosophers.
2. Skills Majors will learn to think logically and creatively, to critically analyze key texts and arguments and to effectively communicate their ideas.
3. Values Majors will engage in fair and reasoned discourse.

1. Student should be scientifically literate in the foundations of physics, both theoretical and practical
2. Students should be able to take data in a lab environment or computer simulation, analyze it, present it coherently in a written format and draw from the analysis a convincing conclusion based upon the principles of the scientific method.
3. Students will master the tools of modern physics; mathematical, computational, and experimental.
4. The student should be able to orally present in a professional, lucid manner, the results and analysis of an experiment or research and effectively answer questions on the topic of their work in a scientific seminar format.
5. The student is expected to have mastered the methods of modern scientific exploration at an appropriate level, and engage in a continual self-examination for any deficiencies, and take advantage of opportunities to rectify them. The goal is to be fully prepared for the Physics GRE exam.

1. We seek to help our students attain a practical and theoretical knowledge of politics and the law, assisting them to become conversant in a broad-range of concepts in the areas of political theory, international politics, comparative politics, American government, and the law.
2. We seek to help our students to become critical thinkers; thinkers that are able to question the assumptions that underwrite claims or positions and make reasoned determinations about the truth and strength of various arguments.
3. We seek to help our students to become independent researchers, capable of identifying and articulating hypotheses, seeking information and inputs relevant to the topic, evaluating the credibility of sources and information, applying the appropriate methods and tools for testing or exploring a hypothesis, and drawing proper conclusions based on their findings.
4. We seek to help our students become global citizens in the sense that they have civically-oriented consciousness, a respect for diversity, pluralism and inclusiveness, and a moral and ethical sense of responsibility and moral disposition regarding their place in local, state, national, and international communities.

1. Communication: Students successfully communicate psychology-related material.
2. Critical thinking: Students apply critical thinking skills to reading scholarly material and writing a scholarly paper.
3. Social and personal responsibility: Students understand how psychological principles permeate our everyday lives in a multitude of ways.
4. Content knowledge: Students understand the major theories and research findings of the major areas of psychology.

1. To offer a high quality Sociology/Anthropology program which promotes conceptual, pragmatic, methodological, and civic competencies. The accomplishment of our departmental mission is reflected in the competencies students demonstrate before graduation
• Conceptual Competencies
  1. Discerning and identifying different theoretical perspectives.
  2. Assessing and applying theoretical frameworks to social realities.
  3. Understanding societies and cultures in their own terms, fostering a global perspective
  4. Linking the discipline(s) to others.
• Pragmatic Competencies
  1. Identifying social problems and framing them conceptually.
  2. Analyzing the impact of macro-structural factors on personal experience.
  3. Identifying and breaming down ethnocentrism in research and practice.
  4. Establishing links between analysis and public policy on both local and global levels.
  5. Reading and writing at college graduate level.
• Methodological Competencies
  1. Generating, manipulating and analyzing social science data.
  2. Recording and interpreting qualitative evidence of socio-cultural life.
  3. Critically evaluating research findings.
  4. Independently framing and executing research projects.
• Civic Competencies
  1. Promoting civility and civil discourse
  2. Imparting a sense of agency to communities, locally and beyond, by
  3. Becoming skilled in applying research to community and organizational problems.
  4. Becoming skilled in applying sociological and anthropological perspectives to communitiy and organization problems.
  5. Understanding group and organizational process in order to enable active citizenship and effective teamwork.
2. To promote an understanding of diverse cultures from a variety of anthropological and sociological perspectives in order to connect local, national, and global communities.
3. To demonstrate the importance of integrating teaching, research and service both inside and outside the classroom by creating a teaching/learning environment that provides hands-on research and other experiential opportunities for collaborative faculty, student, and staff interaction in support of excellence. This objective is designed to promote the methodological competencies primarily.
4. To prepare students to be successful in their professional, civic, and personal lives, and to empower students by promoting an awareness that they can make a difference.

Graduates with a degree in Spanish will:

1. Communicate effectively in spoken form in the target language.
2. Communicate effectively in written form in the target language.
3. Present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics in the target language.
4. Analyze artifacts from the target culture and compare and contrast the target culture with their own culture.

1. Demonstrate effective communication skills through a variety of mediums
   • Students are able to use oral or visual communication for business purposes using professional communication styles.
   • Students are able to use written communication for business purposes using professional communication styles.
   • Students demonstrate an ability to use interpersonal and mass communication styles in sport business.
2. Collect and analyze information connected to the sports management discipline
   • Demonstrate an ability to use the fundamental principles of the sport management field, which include marketing, finance and law.
   • Effectively apply technology to analyze and interpret data.
3. Demonstrate a proficiency in identifying and resolving problems
   • Students can identify and evaluate sport business concerns.
   • Students can communicate how learned concepts affect business situations while providing a potential solution to any problem.
   • Students can identify potential ethical dilemmas and be proactive in resolving them.
4. Function effectively in a manner similar to industry personnel
   • Students demonstrate the ability to make economic decisions to improve the business.
   • Students use the various dimensions of diversity, ethics, and law for professional decision-making in relation to sport management.
5. Develop critical thinking skills through disciplined intellectual inquiry
   • Students are able to utilize strong logic in developing potential solutions to problems within professional and ethical standards.
   • Students can recognize and analyze sport business issues through relevant literature.

1. Offer students a comprehensive liberal arts baccalaureate degree (BA) in theatre arts, in addition to providing professional theatre training concentrations in the areas of performance, design and technology, management and direction, theatre education , and arts administration.
2. Serve as an artistic, educational, and cultural forum which engages and increases campus and community engagement by offering diverse, relevant academic and artistic programs, courses, and theatrical presentations that educate, entertain, and inspire.
3. Promote the importance of a solid liberal arts education for all students while instilling in them a strong respect for the collaborative theatrical art form, critical thinking skills, creative problem solving, personal responsibility, the value of service and leadership, and a commitment to life-long learning.
4. Utilize various proactive and multifaceted recruitment, assessment, and peer mentor models and procedures which allow us to further develop and strengthen a collaborative "company-based" training system which provides a reasonable number of exceptional theatre students the best possible training for life and careers after graduation.
5. Build upon our program's outstanding local, state, and regional recognition as a program of academic and artistic excellence and distinction as we continue to raise our standards and program quality through active engagement with recognized education and theatre education associations and accreditation agencies.
6. Continue to utilize and integrate new technology, methodologies, and techniques creatively and effectively into theatre courses and productions as we continue to plan, design, construct, and transition into state-of-the-art theatre production and performance facilities and labs.
7. Actively utilize professionally trained faculty and staff members, guest artists, and active partnerships with regional professional theatres and artists to further expand and enhance our educational programming and production opportunities, encouraging students to engage in supervised professional theatre internships and apprenticeships prior to graduation.
8. Embrace and achieve our diversity initiative (below) by attracting and retaining a diverse population of students, staff, faculty, and audiences as we present academic and artistic programming and performances that reflect the true diversity of our community, state, country, and world.
9. Continue to develop and promote our theatre education program, recruiting and supporting the training of highly skilled and employable future theatre educator/artists who will communicate the value and importance of the arts to future generations.
10. Remain viable, productive, and healthy through the effective and reasonable management of our human and financial resources and facilities, striving to balance production budgets while increasing ticket sales and monies received through other funding sources including grants and donations.