Becky Johns
The goal of this project is to develop and pilot-test a program which will serve to assess Weber State University’s College of Arts and Humanities General Education Breadth area courses as a unit. This assessment program targets two subjects already identified by Arts and Humanities faculty as learning outcomes which should be evidenced by students who take the minimum number of Arts and Humanities courses to complete their general education requirements at WSU. The areas are: "The understanding of terminology used in humanities and arts or a discipline within humanities and arts," and "Identifying the broad themes, and issues inherent in the arts and humanities that cut across human history and experience." This assessment project entails the collection of early-semester student artifacts and late-semester student artifacts from the most popular A&H gen ed courses, the development of a set of rubrics to judge the amount and/or quality of the learning students demonstrate in the two sets of artifacts, and the creation of a report of these findings to be presented and discussed among and with A&H faculty to determine adequacy of curriculum, pedagogy, assessment techniques, and/or other pertinent issues.