GENERAL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE
OCTOBER 2016
Social Sciences
Social Sciences General Education Assessment Rubric
Courses to Assess:
SOCS 101 Introduction to Leadership – Assess through written reflection in final presentation assignment
PSYC 112 General Psychology – Assess through final exam question
HIST 121 World History to 1500 – Assess through final exam question
POLS 101 Introduction to Political Science – Assess through final exam question
*PHIL 221 History of Philosophy – Assess through three final exam questions (This course is currently under Humanities.)
*REL 225 Comparative Religion – Assess through final exam question (This course is currently under Other Cultures.)
Disciplinary Perspective Per SC Catalog: …provide students with means to understand ourselves, others, and the forces that shape society.
Common Rubric for General Education Assessment of Social Sciences Disciplinary Perspective
Above Average (4) / Sufficient (3) / Developing (2) / Needs Improvement (1)Self / Articulates a self that is fully aware that it is at the same time a particular and a social self. / Articulates a self in relation to other particular individuals and groups. / Articulates strengths and weaknesses of particular self. / Describes particular self.
Others in Society / Provides evidence of adjustment in own thoughts and beliefs about societal issues through learning from actual or idealized interlocutors. / Exhibits reflection about what can be learned from others about societal issues. / Shows awareness that one’s own thoughts and beliefs about societal issues differ from those of others. / Expresses thoughts and beliefs on social issues from a one-sided view.
Social Forces / Explains how forces that shape society relate to self and others through reflective engagement in the (real and ideal) world. / Analyzes knowledge about forces that shape society in relation to self and others. / Begins to connect knowledge about forces that shape society to self and others. / Identifies forces that shape society.
Critical Thinking / Acknowledges different sides of an issue, and places own view and other views, actual or ideal, within a broad issue context. / Acknowledges different sides of an issue, and places perspectives in a broader issue context. / Acknowledges that there are other sides of an issue beyond one’s own perspective. / A specific perspective is presented.