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 FINANCE Student Learning Outcomes	Seattle University’s Student Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
· Describe to lay individuals the process corporations undergo to raise capital, invest capital in value creating activities, and return the value to the suppliers of capital		√		√			√	√
· Explain to the lay individual how to value and manage the risk of assets individually or in a portfolio		√					√
· Identify and describe significant national and international financial institutions as well as their functions and interactions in world financial markets		√		√			√
· Articulate important insights about relationships between financial concepts such as risk and return, and discount rates and valuation	√	√					√
· Apply tools such as spreadsheet, mathematical or statistical modeling to analyses of problems and issues in finance	√						√
· Demonstrate strong critical thinking and problem solving skills within an ethical framework	√	√						√
· Employ discipline knowledge and skills orally and in written form in a professional manner in service to the community		√				√	√		√
· Recognize social justice issues inherent in financial decision-making	√		√			√		√