Seattle University undergraduate students should be able to:

1. Pursue and evaluate knowledge through the skills of inquiry, research, critical thinking and problem solving.

2. Communicate effectively in both speech and writing.

3. Understand the varying perspectives of the liberal arts and sciences and apply them to personal, civic or professional issues.

4. Understand and appreciate diversity and develop a worldview informed by multicultural and global perspectives.

5. Understand and appreciate the Jesuit/Catholic linking of faith and justice.

6. Assess their own levels of commitment to community service and to a just world.

7. Demonstrate proficiency in the content and methodology of their discipline or profession.

8. Think systematically about moral, ethical and spiritual questions and assess and articulate their own values.

9. Demonstrate team and leadership skills needed to convert goals to action.

Undergraduate Students
Department/Program Sociology Student Learning Outcomes**	Seattle University’s Student Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Understand the “sociological perspective” which is defined as the intersection of biography and circumstances.	x		x				x
Working knowledge of social demographics for major factors including economics, gender and race.	x			x			x
Ability to apply the sociological perspective to assessments of their own life choices/chances and those of others.	x			x	x	x		x
Ability to perform sociological analyses on selected contemporary social issues (e.g., education, poverty, leadership, aging, globalization)	x	x		x	x	x		x	x
Working knowledge of central sociological methods and ability to interpret sociological research reports.	x		x				x