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 Economics and Finance/Economics Student Learning Outcomes	Seattle University’s Student Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
· identify, and describe to the lay person, the important institutions and determinants of economic activity at the local, regional, national, and international levels, including the basics of fiscal and monetary policy and how each affects the economy.		X		X			X
· explain to the non-economist the fundamental economic problem of scarcity (and tradeoffs); the meaning of a market economy and how markets allocate society's scarce resources; what it means for markets to fail and the role of government in finding solutions for market failure.		X					X
· analyze the ethical and social justice dimensions of market and policy outcomes.			X			X	X	X
· identify key relationships between important variables understand the difference between correlation and cause-and-effect apply algebraic, graphical, and statistical tools to analyses of problems and issues in business and public policy identify the relationship between assumption and interpretation.	X						X
· think critically, for example, be able to: summarize low-level articles from professional journals. articulate the connections between the different sub-disciplines of economics. automatically compare and contrast different economic theories.	X						X
· employ their discipline knowledge and skills in service to the community, for example, present themselves and interact with others in a professional manner. communicate economic concepts orally .convey economic ideas in a variety of written forms.		X	X			X			X