• Global and Cultural Perspectives
• Communication Skills
• Technological Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Ethics
• Quantitative Reasoning

Goals are clear, meaningful statements of purpose or aspirations for the program. Each program must have four student learning goals specific to the program and two ULOs.

All programs report yearly on two specific program goals (#1, 2, 3, or 4) and one ULO goal (#1 or 2) listed in the program's CALO plan. The Five-Year Reporting Chart indicates the year that specific goals are to be included in a report. Year 1 is the 2008-09 academic year. You determine the order of your goals and ULOs, but note the year in which the goals are reported.

This Web page contains descriptions of the six ULOs.

Global and Cultural Perspectives

• Goal: Students will reflect upon cultural differences and their implications for interacting with people from cultures other than their own.

• Objectives:
  1. Students will demonstrate the understanding or application of their discipline in a global environment.
  2. Students will demonstrate how their discipline impacts or is impacted by those of different cultures.

Communication Skills

• Goal: Students will communicate effectively with a variety of audiences in any setting.

• Objectives:
  1. Students will compose coherent documents appropriate to the intended audience.
  2. Students will effectively communicate orally in a public setting.

Technological Skills

• Goal: Students will use computerized tools to efficiently access, communicate, analyze, and evaluate electronic information.

• Objectives:
  1. Students will use technology to access information.
  2. Students will use technology to effectively communicate.
  3. Students will use appropriate technology to analyze and evaluate data.

Analytical Skills

• Goal: Students will use analytical/critical thinking skills to draw conclusions and/or solve problems.

• Objectives:
  1. Students will access and evaluate appropriate information through written and electronic means.
  2. Students will think critically to reach viable solutions to a problem and to justify those solutions.

Ethics

• Goal: Students will recognize and analyze ethical dilemmas.

• Objectives:
  1. Students will understand the UA Fort Smith Standards of Conduct and Academic Honesty policies and apply these standards to particular fact situations.
  2. Students will apply ethical concepts and rules to determine viable alternatives in any given situation.

Quantitative Reasoning

• Goal: Students will assign and use numbers, read and analyze data, create models, draw inferences, and support conclusions based on sound mathematical reasoning.

• Objectives:
  1. Students will apply appropriate mathematical models to solve problems.
  2. Students will represent mathematical information symbolically, visually, numerically and verbally and interpret models and data in order to draw inferences.
  3. Students will recognize the limitations of quantitative analysis.

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