Submitting Ways of Thinking Courses
Course submissions for the four areas within the Core's Ways of Thinking distribution: Aesthetics, History and Culture; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Quantitative Reasoning; and Natural and Applied Sciences are reviewed and recommended for UUCC approval by the Ways of Thinking Subcommittee, which comprises faculty from the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Math / Statistics, and Natural and Applied Sciences--from a range of colleges and schools at Saint Louis University. To ensure that your responses on WoT worksheets are clear to faculty outside your discipline, it will be useful to provide:
1)Detailed responses to each prompt that describe in explicit terms how your course is designed to facilitate student achievement of each Core component learning outcome (CLO) or essential criterion (EC) on the worksheet.
2) Concrete examples that describe what you do to ensure that "Students will do X (CLO). Useful examples are prompts from assignments that show the subcommittee specific discussion prompts, classroom and out-of-class activities and/or papers and exams you use to translate the objectives of your course into student assignments. (Such illustrations are extremely useful for clarifying to faculty outside your discipline how your course meets learning outcomes. See link below for sample worksheets.)
3) The exact mandatory syllabus statement for the attribute your course is intended to satisfy should appear on the syllabus. These boilerplate statements can be found on the bottom of each worksheet and here.
4) The most common revision requested by the Ways of Thinking subcommittee is for more concrete examples of the kinds of assignments listed above. For assessment purposes, faculty must provide the UUCC concrete examples of how their course is designed to facilitate students meeting the Core component/course-level student learning outcomes (CLOs).