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Integrated Learning Outcomes
A promise to students: Explicitly connecting a Beloit education to successful careers and lives.
Adopted in 2019 as part of Beloit’s Strategic Plan, the College’s Integrated Learning Outcomes are embedded into every curricular and co-curricular activity. The outcomes below are ordered intentionally, with the first three in service of the fourth. Taken together, they fulfill the promise we make to our students: Preparing them to succeed in the world.
Be an Effective Communicator
Effective communication requires that you understand who you are communicating with or who your audience is and that you practice good listening skills. An effective communicator is confident and presents their ideas in a clear and concise manner.
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Writing and reading skills
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Being able to communicate and listen across differences of ideas, opinions, beliefs, and backgrounds
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Intercultural communication (including contexts, role, and impact of culture and others’ worldviews)
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Being able to construct a logical argument
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Understanding and incorporating the standards and style of a particular medium of communication
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Being able to incorporate evidence and data when appropriate
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Using appropriate language in both verbal and non-verbal communication
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Being able to incorporate feedback
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Proficiency in one or more foreign language
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Competency in public speaking
- Class debates or mediated discussions, for example asking students to choose a particular view and argue for or against it.
- Taking time to address useful presentation tips in classroom.
- Offering feedback on both verbal and non verbal communication in a classroom or athletic setting.
- Writing assignments
- Class presentations and symposia
- Studying abroad
- Internships and community engagement
- Logic courses
Other possibilities
- On sports teams
- In student clubs
- Internships
- Student reflections
Be a Productive Collaborator
Productive Collaboration is a set of behaviors that helps a group work together harmoniously and that is under the control of individual team members. These behaviors include the effort they put into team tasks, their manner of interacting with others on the team, and the quantity and quality of contributions they make to team discussions.
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Practicing active listening
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Cross-cultural competencies
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Placing equity and inclusion at the center of work
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Understanding how everyone’s strengths and limitations complement each other
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Constructive engagement of conflict
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Group facilitation and leadership
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Respectful disagreement, constructive criticism
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Time management
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Being able to consider a topic from multiple perspectives
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Fostering authentic relationships with collaborators
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Teamwork
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Mentoring
- Group work in/for classes
- Clubs and organizations
- Athletics
- Student leadership positions
- RAing, OLing
- Work study and other employment
- Residential halls/living experiences
Other possibilities
- Community engagement
- Internships
Be a Creative Problem-Solver
Problem-solving is the process of designing, evaluating, and implementing a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.
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Experimentation
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Creativity
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Critical inquiry
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Entrepreneurial thinking
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Researching skills
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Curiosity
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Constructive conflict engagement
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Perspective taking
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Self-awareness
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Emotional intelligence
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Making informed decisions
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Ethical reasoning
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Social and global responsibility
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Academic coursework across the curriculum
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Participation in your residential community
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Studying abroad
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Community engagement activities
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Internships
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Spiritual life
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Athletics
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Clubs and activities
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Health and Wellness programs
Be Professionally and Intellectually Agile
You will be able to draw on a broad set of concepts and habits of mind to adapt to changing contexts, navigate complex situations, learn from accomplishments and mistakes, and forge your own path.
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Resilience and persistence
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Exploration of a broad set of knowledge bases
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Seeing the commonalities and differences between classes, disciplines, and ways of knowing
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Transferring modes of communication, bodies of knowledge, and skills across contexts
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Balancing multiple priorities, inside and outside of the classroom
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Developing confidence in your abilities and independence through the process of trying, failing, and trying again
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Embracing ambiguity and challenge
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Knowing that your experiences in the classroom and beyond the classroom are relevant to your future lives.
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Growing an awareness of your purpose in life and confidence in your abilities
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Building diverse networks of collaborators for resources, support, and new learning.
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Strengthening practices of self-care and wellness
- Developing professional skills through work study, internships, study abroad, and team projects in the classrooms.
- Starting your own club, organization, or business.
- Athletics
- CELEB
- SEAL
- Internships
- Study Abroad
- Breadth of coursework (including domain requirements)
- Engaging with the wider Beloit community, on and off campus
- Living in residence halls
- Learning from professors, staff, and peers who hold different perspectives and backgrounds
- Sustained Dialogue
Other possibilities
- Increasing internship and volunteer opportunities
- Increasing participation in study abroad
- Elevating the roles of coaches, staff, work study supervisors, and other on-campus mentors
- Giving students more opportunities to reflect upon their past experiences with accomplishment and failure
- Helping students narrate the connections between their experiences inside and outside of the classroom.
- Modeling (and naming) professional behaviors in and out of the classroom.
- Reinforcing professional, academic, and community standards
- Illustrating when contexts change and how to adapt to that change quickly.