CSUSB Institutional Learning Outcomes
- ILO1 - Breadth of Knowledge: Students identify, explain, and apply multiple approaches to problem solving and knowledge production from within and across disciplines and fields to intellectual, ethical, social, and practical issues.
- ILO2 - Depth of Knowledge: Students demonstrate a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline or field and apply the values and ways of knowing and doing specific to that discipline or field to intellectual, ethical, social, and practical issues.
- ILO3 - Critical Literacies: Students analyze the ways artistic, oral, quantitative, technological and written expression and information both shape and are shaped by underlying values, assumptions and contexts so that they can critically contribute to local and global communities.
- ILO4 - Ways of Reasoning and Inquiry: Students engage in diverse methods of reasoning and inquiry to define problems, identify and evaluate potential solutions, and determine a course of action.
- ILO5 - Creativity and Innovation: Students develop and use new approaches to thinking, problem-solving and expression.
- ILO6 - Integrative Learning: Students connect disciplines and learning experiences to frame and solve unscripted problems using lenses from multiple fields, contexts, cultures, and identities.
- ILO7 - Engagement in the Campus, Local and Global Communities: Students develop dispositions and apply intellect and behaviors to respect and promote social justice and equity on campus and across local and global communities.
- ILO8 - Diversity and Inclusion: Students understand how dynamics within global communities influence the ways in which people see the world. They develop dispositions to respectfully interact and collaborate with diverse individuals and groups and acknowledge their own perspectives and biases.
Program Learning Outcomes
- PLO 1 - Content Expertise: Meet the most current professional standards for clinical certification and licensure.
- PLO 2 - Diversity and Bilingualism: Develop expertise in the cognitive, linguistic and cultural aspects of bilingualism in diverse children and adults with language disorders.
- PLO 3 - Research Competence: Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation for research and evidence-based practice in the discipline.
- PLO 4 - Clinical Competence: Meet the workforce needs of the community, state, and nation in a variety of settings, including medical facilities, private practice, and schools.
Student Learning Outcomes / American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Standards
- SLO1/Standard IV-A: Demonstrate knowledge of statistics as well as the biological, physical, and social/behavioral sciences.
- SLO2/Standard IV-B: Demonstrate knowledge of basic human communication and swallowing processes, including the appropriate biological, neurological, acoustic, psychological, developmental, and linguistic and cultural bases. The applicant must have demonstrated the ability to integrate information pertaining to normal and abnormal human development across the lifespan.
- SLO3/Standard IV-C: Demonstrate knowledge of communication and swallowing disorders and differences, including the appropriate etiologies, characteristics, and anatomical/physiological, acoustic, psychological, developmental, and linguistic and cultural correlates across focused areas in the field.
- SLO4/Standard IV-D: Demonstrate current knowledge of the principles and methods of prevention, assessment, and intervention for persons with communication and swallowing disorders, including consideration of anatomical/physiological, psychological, developmental, and linguistic and cultural correlates.
- SLO5/Standard IV-E: Demonstrate knowledge of standards of ethical conduct.
- SLO6/Standard IV-F: Demonstrate knowledge of processes used in research and of the integration of research principles into evidence-based clinical practice.
- SLO7/Standard IV-G: Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary professional issues.
- SLO8/Standard V-A: Demonstrate skills in oral and written or other forms of communication sufficient for entry into professional practice.
- SLO9/Standard V-B: Develop experiences sufficient in breadth and depth to achieve skills in evaluation, intervention, and interaction & personal qualities.
- SLO10/Standard V-C: Complete a minimum of 400 clock hours of supervised clinical experience in the practice of speech-language pathology.