For programs with emphases: emphasis-specific outcomes

If a degree program has emphases, the outcomes capture the learning associated with both the common and unique curricular requirements of the degree.

NAU programs have developed two approaches to address emphasis outcomes. The more common approach is to identify a set of “core” outcomes that all majors complete. These outcomes are aligned with the common course requirements of the program.

For example in Creative Media & Film, all student complete the following outcomes:

Students will apply critical and professional standards to the creation and critique of creative media and film through:

1. Applying professional standards to the creation of stories through basic techniques of screenwriting and filmmaking;
2. Analyzing, writing, critiquing, and discussing the cultural, historical, and theoretical forces shaping regional, national, and international media, including works of creative media, client work, documentaries, and film; and
3. Developing and revising their work based on faculty and peer critiques and audience responses, culminating in final projects that may include fiction, documentary, or client-based films.

Then, each emphasis area has a set of learning outcomes specific to the emphasis. Learning outcomes for two emphases follow:

Documentary Emphasis:

Students ­­will apply critical and professional standards to the creation and critique of the documentary by:

• Refine their skills in shooting, sound recording, editing, and sound design in a variety of projects;
• Research, plan, produce, budget, finance, shoot, edit, and promote documentary projects;
• Apply skills of reporting—interviewing, gathering information, researching people and ideas for potential documentary stories;
• Read, write, and discuss the traditions and history of a variety of documentary stories; and
• Integrate other areas of knowledge, such as from anthropology, women and gender studies, history, and humanities, in order to research potential documentary story topics.

Media Studies

Students ­­will apply critical and professional standards to the analysis of film and media by:

• Surveying a variety of regional, national, and international media forms;
• Acquiring and applying media literacy skills while analyzing a variety of film and other media projects;
• Examining the various forms of media creation, circulation, and consumption both locally and global;
• Investigating media consumption through an increased understanding of regional, national, and global media practice;
• Interpreting their own production, circulation and consumption of media both as a reflection of their own culture and in conversation with media users in other cultures; and
• Engaging in meaningful and productive discussion, debate, and open intellectual exchange with others about regional, national, and global media practice.

The second approach is used by Global Languages & Cultures, wherein the learning outcomes for language remain same across languages, what changes is the language that is learned:

German emphasis

French emphasis

Create with language to express meanings orally on concrete topics relating to work, school, home, and leisure activities using all major time frames (present, past, and future). They can interact with native speakers unaccustomed to dealing with non-natives, and handle complicated or unexpected communicative tasks. (Speaking skills) Identify and use main ideas and details from connected aural discourse involving description and narration in different timeframes or aspects, and about a variety of topics beyond immediacy of the situation for communicative purposes. (Listening skills) Identify and use main ideas and details from authentic, connected, longer, written texts involving description and narration in different formats about a variety of topics for communicative purposes. (Reading skills) Create with language to express meanings in written form about familiar topics using the major timeframes with some control of aspect. (Writing skills) Think critically and analytically in response to socio-cultural, historical, and linguistic issues and/or classic and contemporary literary texts related to the culture of the target language. (Critical thinking and analytical skills) Understand the cultural, political and artistic diversity of perspectives, practices and products of the target language populations including how racial and ethnic diversity relates to those perspectives, practices and products. (Globalization - Diversity) Recognize, investigate, and produce written and oral discourse in the target language communicating findings about historical and contemporary issues important to life in countries of the target language. Explore how historical, political, religious and economic forces have shaped the current world system with its power inequalities and efforts to address them with a focus on the culture of the target language. (Globalization – Global Engagement) Analyze the structure and use of the language at the sound, word, and sentence level. Summarize different linguistic features observed in different dialects in terms of historical change, geographical location and social variables. Explore and analyze the role of human interactions with the environment and its relation to the root causes of many global problems focusing on those occurring in the culture of the target language. (Globalization - Environmental Sustainability)

Create with language to express meanings orally on concrete topics relating to work, school, home, and leisure activities using all major time frames (present, past, and future). They can interact with native speakers unaccustomed to dealing with non-natives, and handle complicated or unexpected communicative tasks. (Speaking skills) Identify and use main ideas and details from connected aural discourse involving description and narration in different timeframes or aspects, and about a variety of topics beyond immediacy of the situation for communicative purposes. (Listening skills) Identify and use main ideas and details from authentic, connected, longer, written texts involving description and narration in different formats about a variety of topics for communicative purposes. (Reading skills) Create with language to express meanings in written form about familiar topics using the major timeframes with some control of aspect. (Writing skills) Think critically and analytically in response to socio-cultural, historical, and linguistic issues and/or classic and contemporary literary texts related to the culture of the target language. (Critical thinking and analytical skills) Understand the cultural, political and artistic diversity of perspectives, practices and products of the target language populations including how racial and ethnic diversity relates to those perspectives, practices and products. (Globalization - Diversity) Recognize, investigate, and produce written and oral discourse in the target language communicating findings about historical and contemporary issues important to life in countries of the target language. Explore how historical, political, religious and economic forces have shaped the current world system with its power inequalities and efforts to address them with a focus on the culture of the target language. (Globalization – Global Engagement) Analyze the structure and use of the language at the sound, word, and sentence level. Summarize different linguistic features observed in different dialects in terms of historical change, geographical location and social variables. Explore and analyze the role of human interactions with the environment and its relation to the root causes of many global problems focusing on those occurring in the culture of the target language. (Globalization - Environmental Sustainability)