Define course outcomes

What are the learning and performance expectations for students in your course?

When they complete the course:

• • What should they know?

  • What should they be able to do?

Case study from a Technical Communication course

What are the learning outcomes?

Students will—

Apply their understanding of the rhetorical context (audience, situation, and purpose) as they prepare writing assignments.

By course completion, students should know—

How different aspects of the rhetorical context (audiences/users, purposes, topics, constraints, etc.) shape the communication deliverables.

By course completion, students should know how to—

Prepare deliverables that appropriately address different rhetorical contexts.