Student Learning Objectives of Courses in the UNM Undergraduate General Education Core Curriculum

“The basic Core Curriculum requires approximately 37 hours of courses in seven areas of study” (UNM Catalog 2007-2008).

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Letter of Qualification

Certified Nursing Assistant

1. To perform clinical supportive treatments, therapeutic nursing interventions, care and improve health practices

2. Demonstrates competence with information technology to support, improve and refine nursing practice

3. To model professional behavior, ethics and appearance

4. Uses the nursing process to promote, maintain and restore health awareness for individuals, families, and communities.

5. To practice skills and again knowledge necessary to pass State certification exam.

EMT Basic & Intermediate Levels (2 Courses)

1. To perform clinical supportive treatments

2. To lift, move, position and otherwise handle patients appropriately

3. To assist in managing medical emergencies

4. Explain the complexity of emergency medical service.

5. To practice skills and gain knowledge necessary to pass State exam.

Certificate

Administrative Assistant

1. Perform administrative office functions in a professional office environment, using technology tools and accepted office procedures. 2. Organize and manage daily business functions of an organization. 3. Use software, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and web/internet resources to meet organizational and business needs.

4. Apply critical thinking skills to business environment problems and requirements.

5. Communicate professionally and effectively through written, verbal, and presentation methods.

6. Understand and apply business principles to every day business, including legal and ethical categories. Perform in advanced office management positions after additional office experience.

Applied Arts and Crafts

1. Graduates will successfully complete two and three dimensional art pieces using the elements and principals of visual design. (Goal # 2)

2. Graduates will demonstrate competency in a variety of materials and technical processes. (Goal #3 &4)

3. Graduates will see and record representational information.(Goal #4)

4. Graduates will apply a fundamental understanding of art history, contemporary art and art theory to their art form. (Goal #1)

5. Graduates will have the ability to address artistic questions and visual problems using scholarly and /or creative research. (Goal # 4 & 5)

6. Graduates will be aware of the professional practices maintained in their respective areas of study. (Goal # 4)

Business Computer Program

1. Mastery of use and integration of office software tools including word processing, spreadsheets, data bases, presentation tools, and the internet.

2. Ability to design and process accounting functions with QuickBooks accounting software.

3. Conceptual understanding of the principles used in a business environment: legal procedures, front office medical and dental procedures, records management, and accounting.

4. Ability to apply principles to real office environments and departments, such as accounting, payroll, finance, personnel, sales and doctor and dentist offices.

5. Mastery of use of office automation tools and ability to perform efficiently and accurately: Machine transcription equipment, keyboarding skills, business calculators.

6. Ability to perform and analyze business financial tasks/problems using business math concepts (percents, statistics, trends, monthly financial reports, balance sheets).

Construction Tech - Carpentry

Construction Technology

1. Describe and apply appropriate safety practices when operation construction tools and equipment.

2. Describe and apply common carpentry practices and materials for wood framed structures to class projects.

3. Read and interpret scale drawing (blueprints), create accurate material lists and calculate material cost before construction.

4. Identify and summarize energy use,  mechanical systems, waste and conservation for a variety of large and small structures.

Criminal Justice

1. Articulate and compose verbal and nonverbal communication with victims, suspects, and other essential elements of the criminal justice system and the community

2. Locate and utilize information and resources related to the Criminal Justice system and Law Enforcement fields

3. Acquire an understanding of arrest procedures, the court system and the consequences of the correctional system

4. Display an understanding of the uses of the documentation used within the Criminal Justice system

5. Demonstrate an ability to multitask and use critical thinking skills as they relate to the Criminal Justice system

Culinary Arts

1. Describe and apply professional kitchen sanitation, safety and personal hygiene practices.

2. Understand and use proper kitchen terminology, teamwork and procedures. 3. Explain and demonstrate effective knife sharpening and use.

4. Demonstrate basic hot and cold cooking methods.

5. Master skills necessary for entry-level prep. cook position.

Dental Assisting Science Program

1. To perform clinical supportive treatments

2. To collect and record diagnostic and treatment data

3. To manage infection and hazard control

4. To assist in managing medical emergencies

5. To model professional behavior, ethics and appearance

Digital Graphic Design

1. Mastery of technical Content (Capstone class) Skills: The student will be able to demonstrate skills, by accomplishing Skill Sets classes that are the prerequisites classes to the capstone.

2. Conceptual understanding of the principles

3. Attitudes/ affective: UNM- Taos Internet Technology certificate would like to have our student gain personal enrichment that leads toward positive attitude toward higher education.

4. Abilities to manage projects from conceptual visualizing to the finish product.

5. An ability to create a Digital Graphic Design project that communicates effectively, attracts, informs and creates action to solve problems for the client

Early Childhood Multicultural Education

1) Students will incorporate knowledge of developmental stages, processes and theories of growth development and learning into developmentally appropriate practice.

2) Students will demonstrate knowledge of the interaction between maturation and environmental factors that influence physical, emotional, social, cognitive and cultural domains in the healthy development of each child.

3) Students will demonstrate knowledge of the significance of individual differences in development and learning.

4) Students will provide a variety of activities that facilitate the development of the whole child in the following areas: physical/motor, social/emotional, language/cognitive, and adaptive/living skills.

5) Students will use appropriate guidance to support the development of self-regulatory capacities in young children.

Holistic Health and Healing Arts

1. learn various models/paradigms of health and healing practices that have their origin in the East as well as West. The paradigms include: allopathic models, holistic models, folk and emerging models of integrative medicine.

2. learn about consciousness and the development of it in relationship to health and well-being.

3. demonstrate understanding and appreciation of different belief systems and their impact on health.

4. develop leadership skills in the emerging field of holistic health and integrative medicine.

5. demonstrate their ability to apply information learned in classes to their own lives as well as to those with whom they work.

6. demonstrate sensitivity and respect for different ways of knowing and their role in health maintenance.

7. learn various techniques to promote life and longevity and demonstrate their use.

8. cultivate Self-knowledge and develop a path of learning and higher living based on this knowledge.

9. learn about ecological systems theory and its application to new paradigms of consciousness.

10. learn about non-conventional approaches used to define and treat illness or other imbalances in health.

11. learn research strategies to evaluate interventions used in healing practices.

12 develop an appreciation of Self-knowledge and its role in maintaining health.

Human Services

1. Students will be able to demonstrate mastery level understanding of the core content areas of psychology or sociology.

2. Students will be able to analyze behavior within a theoretical framework, supported by appropriate empirical evidence.

3. Students concentrating in psychology will be able to demonstrate use of creative and critical thinking to solve problems related to behavior and mental processes of self and other. Students concentrating in sociology will be able to demonstrate an ability to think critically and assess information about society using sociological concepts and a social science mode of argument.

4. Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of investigative methods used in the behavioral sciences and value an empirical approach to the study of human behavior and societal interactions.

5. Students will be able to explain and communicate their knowledge and understanding representing appropriate breadth and depth in selected content areas of psychology or sociology.

6. Students will be able to utilize their educational opportunity at UNM-Taos to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in psychology or sociology.

Internet Technology

1. Mastery of technical Content (Capstone class / advanced required classes) Skills: The student will be able to demonstrate skills, by accomplishing Skill Sets classes that are the prerequisites classes to the capstone.

2. Conceptual understanding of the principles

3. Attitudes/ affective: UNM- Taos Internet Technology certificate would like to have our student gain personal enrichment that leads toward positive attitude toward higher education.

4. Abilities to manage projects from conceptual visualizing to the finish product.

5. An ability to create a Digital Graphic Design project that communicates effectively, attracts, informs and creates action to solve problems for the client.

Massage

1. Student is able to explain East/West models in healing practices. 2. Student will demonstrates confidence and trust in their ability to create and maintain healthy practices of daily living.

3. Ability to apply knowledge to those with whom they work.

4. Ability to demonstrate application of healing technologies.

5. Student is able to continue course work in chosen profession

Multimedia Technology

1. Mastery of technical Content (Capstone class / advanced required classes) skills: The student will be able to demonstrate skills, by accomplishing Skill Sets classes that are the prerequisites classes to the capstone.

2. Conceptual understanding of the principles

3. Attitudes/ affective: UNM- Taos Multimedia technologies certificate would like to have our student gain personal enrichment that leads toward positive attitude toward higher education.

4. Abilities to manage projects from conceptual origination to final production.

5. An ability to create a multimedia projects that communicates effectively, attracts, informs and creates action to solve problems for the client.

Painting and Drawing

• 1. Graduates will successfully complete two and three dimensional art pieces using the elements and principals of visual design.(Goal # 2)

2. Graduates will demonstrate competency with a variety of materials and technical processes used in their chosen field of study. (Goals # 3 & 4)

3. Graduates will see and record representational information in various drawing and painting styles. (Goal # 4)

4. Graduates will apply a fundamental understanding of art history, contemporary art and art theory to their art form. (Goal # 1)

5. Graduates will have the ability to address artistic questions and visual problems using scholarly and /or creative research. (Goal # 4 & 5)

6. Graduates will be aware of the professional practices maintained in their respective areas of study. (Goal # 4)

Paralegal Studies

Acquire substantive knowledge of criminal law, civil law, court processes and procedures, and the attorney client relationship.

2. Analyze and synthesize information through critical thinking according to accepted legal principles

3. Organize and present ideas and information orally and in writing according to standard legal usage

4. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to work with others in the legal field in a professional and constructive manner

Peace Studies

Students will be exposed to the benefits of non-violent problem solving in a wide variety of activities and environments.

2. Students will gain an appreciation of the cultural, religious and political aspects of conflict, violence and non-violence.

3. Students will be expected to use learned skills in their work, school and home environments.

Southwest Arts

Theatre

Woodworking

Identify and compare the basic hand and machine tools utilized in woodworking. Describe and apply appropriate safety practices.

Describe the physical properties of wood. Identify and compare the major types of wood.

Draw scale and perspective drawing,, create cut list, and calculate board footage.

Identify and compare the basic woodworking joints and the construction techniques

Select and prepare stock by flattening, squaring and truing too accurate finish dimension.

Prepare joinery, assemble and finish wood parts in an accurate finish dimension.

Prepare joinery, assemble and finish wood parts in a accurate efficient and professional manner.

Writing for Publications

1 Students completing the Certificate program in Writing & Publications will be fluent in the various types of writing styles (expository, technical, creative, journalistic).

2. Students completing the Certificate program in Writing & Publications will be able to apply basic computer skills to publications.

3. Students completing the Certificate program in Writing & Publications will be able to transfer into programs at UNM or comparable four-year institutions and complete A.A. or B. A. programs with a with a major or minor in the fields of Communication, Journalism, or English.

4. Students completing the Certificate program in Writing & Publications will develop skills, both intellectual and applied, for teamwork, problem-solving, and civic knowledge and engagement

5. Students completing the Certificate program in Writing & Publications will develop career-related presentations that will prepare them to interview for entry-level positions in any career that requires advanced writing skills.

Associates

Pre-Science (AS)

1. To demonstrate ability to think critically and pursue analytical inquiry.

2. To demonstrate the ability of use mathematics and science as needed for successful study.

3. To formulate and conduct research

4. To use the library and Internet to gather, organize and understand scientific information.

5. To communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

6. To pursue a Bachelors degree in agriculture, sciences, environmental studies, mathematics, engineering, pre-med and pre-dental and nursing programs—an avenue to a total of 32 different degree programs.

Administrative Assistant (AAS)

1. In the AAS program, the student will have to take required general education courses which focuses on communications, analytical reasoning/ problem solving.

2. In addition to the internship, the student will perform administrative office functions in a professional office environment, using technology tools and accepted office procedures.

3. Organize and manage daily business functions of an organization.

4. Use software, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and web/internet resources to meet organizational and business needs.

5. Apply critical thinking skills to business environment problems and requirements.

6. Communicate professionally and effectively through written, verbal, and presentation methods.

7. Understand and apply business principles to every day business, including legal and ethical categories. Perform in advanced office management positions after additional office experience.

Behavioral Sciences (AA)

1. Students will be able to demonstrate mastery level understanding of the core content areas of psychology or sociology.

2. Students will be able to analyze behavior within a theoretical framework, supported by appropriate empirical evidence.

3. Students concentrating in psychology will be able to demonstrate use of creative and critical thinking to solve problems related to behavior and mental processes of self and other. Students concentrating in sociology will be able to demonstrate an ability to think critically and assess information about society using sociological concepts and a social science mode of argument.

4. Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of investigative methods used in the behavioral sciences and value an empirical approach to the study of human behavior and societal interactions.

5. Students will be able to explain and communicate their knowledge and understanding representing appropriate breadth and depth in selected content areas of psychology or sociology.

6. Students will be able to utilize their educational opportunity at UNM-Taos to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in psychology or sociology.

Communication & Journalism (AA)

Students completing the A.A. degree program in Communications & Journalism will have satisfied general-education requirements of UNM and comparable four-year institutions.

. Students completing the A.A. degree program in Communications & Journalism will be able to transfer into programs at UNM or comparable four-year institutions and complete their B. A. program with a with a major or minor in the fields of Communications or Journalism.

Students completing the A.A. degree program in Communications & Journalism will be able to express thoughts and ideas in written and spoken forms.

Students completing the A.A. degree program in Communications & Journalism will develop career-related presentations that will prepare them to interview for entry-level positions in communications and the media and with knowledge to foster lifelong learning about the media and related fields.

Students will demonstrate the following skills of professional journalism: a) Good judgment about what makes a news story and learn how to go about gathering and evaluating information; b) Competency with interviewing techniques and analytical thinking in a variety of interview settings, resulting in original articles that will include quotes from their subjects and attribution of sources their subjects cite; ac) Technical ability with the tools required to operate in today’s media environment, including but not limited to word processing programs, e-mail, scholarly search engines, blogs, and open documents / shared servers; d) Familiarity with the great diversity of New Mexico’s many cultures and analytical perspective how they affect media.

Construction Technology (AAS)

1. Students demonstrate safe, appropriate use of construction tools and equipment (direct).

2. Students demonstrate appropriate use of materials and construction practices (direct).

3. Reading and interpreting blueprints that demonstrate student knowledge (direct).

4. Written exams and projects demonstrate student knowledge (direct).

5. Written exams and projects demonstrate student knowledge (direct).

6. Students demonstrate appropriate use of sustainable building materials and practices (direct).

Criminal Justice (AA)

1. Articulate and compose verbal and nonverbal communication with victims, suspects, and other essential elements of the criminal justice system and the community

2. Locate and utilize information and resources related to the Criminal Justice system and Law Enforcement fields

3. Acquire an understanding of arrest procedures, the court system and the consequences of the correctional system

4. Display an understanding of the uses of the documentation used within the Criminal Justice system

5. Demonstrate an ability to multitask and use critical thinking skills as they relate to the Criminal Justice system

Early Childhood Multicultural Education (AA)

1. Students will incorporate knowledge of developmental stages, processes and theories of growth development and learning into developmentally appropriate practice.

2) Students will demonstrate knowledge of the interaction between maturation and environmental factors that influence physical, emotional, social, cognitive and cultural domains in the healthy development of each child.

3) Students will demonstrate knowledge of the significance of individual differences in development and learning.

4) Students will provide a variety of activities that facilitate the development of the whole child in the following areas: physical/motor, social/emotional, language/cognitive, and adaptive/living skills.

5) Students will use appropriate guidance to support the development of self-regulatory capacities in young children

Education (AA)

1 Graduates will have completed of all General Education and pre-professional requirements for transfer to a New Mexico College of Education for a bachelor’s-level degree and New Mexico State K-12 Teacher Licensure.

2 Graduates will demonstrate excellence in the critical thinking skills applicable to the AA degree-level curricula in elementary and secondary teacher education.

Fine Arts (AFA)

1. Graduates will have the ability to communicate their own artistic concepts and goals in the context of art history, contemporary art issues and the terminology of their respective areas of study.(Goals #1, 2 3 & 5) •

2. Graduates will have the ability to analyze art in terms of form and content. (Goals #1, 2, 3 & 5)) •

3. Graduates will have the ability to demonstrate competency with a variety of materials and technical processes. (Goals #3 & 4) •

4. Graduates will have the ability to apply an understanding of formal elements in the making of two and three dimensional art. (Goals #1 & 3) •

5. Graduates will have the ability to see and record representational information in a variety of techniques. (Goal #3) •

6. Graduates will understand the professional practices maintained in their respective areas of study. (Goals #3 & 4) •

7. Graduates will have the ability to address artistic questions and visual problems using scholarly and /or creative research. (Goal # 5 & 6) •

8. Graduates will have the ability to advance to more complex visual projects and further education. (Goal # 5 & 6)

General Studies (AAS)

1. Students completing the A.A.S. Degree in General Studies will have satisfied general-education requirements of UNM and comparable four-year institutions.

2. Students completing the A.A.S. Degree in General Studies will be able to transfer into undergraduate programs at UNM or comparable four-year institutions and complete their B. A. program with a with a major or minor in the fields of Communications or Journalism.

3. Students completing the A.A.S. Degree in General Studies will be able to demonstrate knowledge of human cultures and the natural world gained through study in the sciences, mathematics, social sciences, history, languages and the arts

4. Students completing the A.A.S. Degree in General Studies will develop skills, both intellectual and applied, for teamwork, problem-solving, and civic knowledge and engagement

5. Students completing the A.A.S Degree in General Studies will be prepared to pursue entry-level positions in any career that requires general, community-collegiate educational background

Human Services (AA)

1. Become familiar with policies, procedures and programs.

2. Good Skills in observing and describing behaviors of individuals and groups.

3. Good communications skills in hearing and responding appropriately to overt and underlying messages and feeling.

4. Basic skills in practical problem solving assessment and interventions.

5. Students will be able to demonstrate familiarity with major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in psychology or sociology. 6. Students will be adequately prepared to pursue their undergraduate degree in Human services or social work.

Liberal Arts (AA)

Pre-Business (AAS)

Pre-Business Administration (AA)

1. Students completing the Pre Business program will have skills essential to meet employment standards in a variety of business settings in our community.

2.The student will gain knowledge of human cultures and the natural world, gained through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages and the arts.

3. The student will use methods and demonstrate in written and oral communication, analytical reasoning, critical and creative thinking, information literacy, teamwork and problem solving. Students will read, write listen, and use verbal skills to organize and communicate ideas and information in personal group settings.

4. The student will recognize and support responsibility, both personal and social, that will be manifested in civic knowledge and engagement, multicultural knowledge.

5. Given the student has completed the general education core requirements with a grade greater than a –C then the student has the pre general education core to be able to transfer successfully to a BBA program.

6. The student will demonstrate the ability to engage in the defining tasks and evaluation problems through the examination of information, application of computation skills and reflection on idea for the purpose of reaching decisions.

7. Students will work and interact with others at a personal, professional and global level demonstrating respect for individual and cultural differences while practicing civility, honesty, and personal responsibility.

Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)

Southwest Studies (AA)

1. Students completing the A.A. degree program in Southwest Studies will have satisfied general-education requirements of UNM and comparable four-year institutions.

2. Students completing the A.A. degree program in Southwest Studies will be able to transfer into four-year programs at UNM or comparable institutions and complete their B. A. program with a major or minor in the field of Southwest Studies, Native American Studies, Chicano Studies, American Studies, American History, American Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography and Early Childhood Multicultural Education.

3. Students completing the A.A. degree program in Southwest Studies will develop career-related presentations that will prepare them to interview for entry-level positions in Contract Anthropology, Art History and Museum Preparation, and Interpretation or Docent work for galleries, museums, historical landmarks and monuments, tour providers, State and National Parks, and BLM lands.

4. Students completing the A.A. degree program in Southwest Studies may use this regional perspective for a broad spectrum of professions in human- and cultural-resource management.

5. Students completing the AA degree program in Southwest Studies will demonstrate basic knowledge of a) Geographical and cultural extent of the various definitions of what constitutes "The Southwest" and how these U.S. definitions relate to "El Norte" from the Mexican perspective; b) Profiles of bio regions including Chihuahuan Desert, Sonoran Desert, Basin and Range, Canyon Lands, Mountain "Sky Islands," and major river systems; c) The history of the Southwest as Frontier/Frontera, with crossroads of trade, conquest, assimilation, and mestizaje; d) New Mexico as Pueblo, Athabascan, and Hispano homelands, with 19th-20th-Century immigration of "Anglo," African-American, Asian, military, and mainstream American culture, and more recent overlays of subcultures based in Federal Public Lands Management, nuclear, arts, tourist, and outdoor recreation businesses; e) Awareness of the dynamic roles of cultural conservation, innovation, and revival to the region's ongoing sense of multiple identities; f) The recent increase along the U.S.-Mexico Border of drug-cartel-related violence, U.S. political reaction to immigration, and the U.S. militarization of the Borderlands.

Visual Arts (AAS)