UNIVERSITY LEARNING OBJECTIVES WORKSHEET

LA400 Senior Integrative Seminar

I. Communication and Problem Solving

Skill Example of specific assignment or activity

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Use the X I was able to meet this particular skill through the
expressive arts as performing art courses offered at Seton Hill University.
a mode of inquiry Courses such a jazz, modern, ballet, and dance
or expression kinesiology taught me how to express myself through
movement. An assignment from dance kinesiology, that
helped me develop this specific skill was a somatic
practice project. Through this project I was able to study
the Feldenkrais Method that was used to bring about
self-awareness. The purpose of this method is to practice
gentle movements in order to enhance different aspects.
While teaching my classmates, I was able to achieve the
skill of using the expressive arts as a mode of inquiry.

Demonstrate X Seton Hill has given me many opportunities to better my

leadership, leadership, negotiation, relational, and consensus skills. I
negotiation, was able to practice the role of leadership through group
relational, and projects I completed in my major. A particular project
consensus skills that I feel encompass these four skills was from a group
project I completed on genetic modification. Through
this project practiced leadership by planning all of my
group study meetings. I also was able to voice my
opinions and negotiate with my group about our
thoughts on genetic modification. The relational aspect
was gained by working together with my group to make
sure everyone felt comfortable with the section they had
to present. My group and I was able to come to the
consensus that consumers should be notified when they
are purchasing food that has been genetically modified.
Therefore, through this project I was able to practice the
skills motioned.

Use technological X My technological abilities have definitely expanded

skills to access throughout my education. I have had the opportunity to
information, learn new ways to access information, communicate,
organize and organize knowledge through assignments such as
knowledge, and my project pertaining to fracking. I utilized I-Movie
communicate software to organize information I had gathered on the
issues pertaining to fracking in the Marcellus Shale. I
then communicated that knowledge through a video
that I created and edited using advanced cameras on
campus. Therefore, practicing new technological skills.

Propose new X I feel that I was able to gain this skill through Seton Hill
solutions to by presenting an oral presentation of rainforest
current issues deforestation. My biosphere project showed the current
issues happening to the environment due to
deforestation. I developed clear arguments that
acknowledged how deforestation is causing an extreme
increase in habitat loss for so many animals and species.
I proposed ways in which we can find solutions to help
protect our rainforests. Some of these solutions included
planting new trees and a major cut back on paper. The
world we live in today is more than capable of operating
online, so it would not be a difficult task to accomplish. I
believe this assignment taught me valuable skills on how
to think of solutions when faced with difficult
circumstances.

Express X An assignment that first comes to mind when reading

arguments or these particular skills is, a project that I completed from
main points and introductory course in philosophy. The purpose of
clearly, in written this project was to make an argument about whether
and oral humans have free will or not. This class always
communication challenged me to think in ways I had never before
experienced. During this project, I had to develop and
write my main points on a PowerPoint and the present it
orally to my class. I had to think outside the box and
make clear arguments that I could back up with well
thought-out responses. By completing this project, I felt
more confident in my oral communication skills and the
way I express clear arguments in front of my peers.

Transfer X Decision-making was a skill I struggled most with before

knowledge and coming to Seton Hill. I had always considered myself
values into sound extremely indecisive. However, after learning more
decision-making about the aspects that go into decision-making during
my psychology course, I was able to apply what I had
learned to my own personal life. As an assignment, we
were asked to analyze a movie of our choice and explain
what psychological trends we saw. I was able to transfer
the knowledge and values I had learned in psychology
thus far, and apply it to the movie. I was able to decide
which characters suffered from physiological disorders
 based on the knowledge I have acquired. Therefore, I
feel I was able to meet the criteria of this objective.

II. Historical, Cultural, and Global Awareness

Skill Example of specific assignment or activity

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Communicate in X I was able to meet this skill by taking an introductory

a second course in French. During my two semesters of taking a
language at the second language, I was able to develop the ability to
introductory communicate in simple phrases. I am now capable of
college level understanding the basics of the French language and have
a deeper appreciation for the culture of France. In this
course, we were assigned to keep a weekly journal to
which we were expected to write in French what we did
that week. We were then asked to read our journals aloud
to practice our pronunciation. This assignment helped me
strengthen my skills in the language and the way I speak it.

Analyze the X The course that I took to complete my global perspective

impact of history, requirement was, World Music. In this class I studied
geography, and various types of music that has impacted cultures, history,
socio-cultural traditions, etc. I was able to complete an assignment that
dynamics on provided me with a deeper understanding of how
global important music is in the world. For this assignment, I was
interactions from given the chance to research Indonesian and African music
a variety of and compare how the two correlates. This class allowed
disciplinary me to gain a more knowledge on how music has
perspectives developed due to global interactions. I believe I partially
met these skills because I feel there is more disciplinary
perspectives that I have yet to learn about.

Analyze current Seton Hill has made it a top priority to incorporate

and historical spirituality and faith into all of the courses I have taken.
events through X Each course has offered a unique way of integrating faith
the lens of into the study topic. A past assignment from
spirituality and Contemporary Catholicism, strengthened my views on
faith faith by relating certain events to the Encyclical by Pope
Francis. I was able to look at past and current events such
 as social, technological, and environmental concerns with
a new perspective. This assignment made me realize how
science and religion can co-exist. Analyzing that concept
was very important to me, because I am majoring in
biology. I found that both religious and scientific
perspectives both aim towards the common goal of
protecting our environment. Thus, by completing this
project I was able to gain the skills of looking at events,
such as global warming through the lens of spirituality.

Assess privilege X I was able to acknowledge the importance of assessing

and oppression culture, race, class and gender through the perspective of
from the privilege and oppression in my Senior Seminar course. The
perspective of recent social action project I completed for this class
culture, race, opened my eyes to the differences between the privileged
class, and gender and oppressed in regard to the pandemic. As I donated
masks to a local homeless shelter, I was shocked to see the
conditions people are living in. This project inspired me to
do more to help others, especially in these hard times. This
course has allowed me to be vulnerable while completing
the assignments. The discussion questions have allowed
me to share my true emotions and thoughts on the various
topics mentioned. Therefore, I feel that I have met these
skills through the assignments in Senior Seminar.

III. Multiple Modes of Inquiry

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Generate and X Seton Hill has taught me the valuable skills of generating
analyze numerical and analyzing scientific data through the many science
and scientific data based labs I have taken. Throughout my organic chemistry
laboratory courses, I wrote many lab reports. Before
completing the lab reports I was expected to perform an
 experiment and then examine the numerical/scientific
data. The purpose of most experiments was to identify
unknown substances in the solutions we were given. In
order to do this, we had to interpret the numerical data
that came from our NMR data sheet. This was a difficult
task to accomplish. It took a lot of time and practice to be
able to correctly generate and examine the scientific data
that resulted from our experiments. Thus, representing the
skills met under this objective.

Locate and X My experience from analyzing expressive media was

analyze gained through my senior seminar course. During this
expressive media course, I was able to listen and watch various videos
to gain pertaining to important information about significant
information or events that have occurred this past year. This class
comprehend the motivated me to access multiple TED talks and informative
significance of an videos about major events that have happened in the past
issue or an event two years. Some of these videos included topics such as,
vandalization of religious beliefs, mass shootings, scandals,
etc. By watching and reading this media, it brought me
awareness to what has changed in the past two years.
Therefore, by taking this course and completing discussion
posts I feel I have reached these skills.

Organize and X A creative way I chose to impact others was by filming and
manage editing a video on Down Syndrome. I organized medical
resources in a information, videos, pictures, and inspiring stories into a
creative way to short film that I later presented to my classmates. This
achieve impact project was very personal and important to me. Therefore,
I was overjoyed when I saw my classmate’s positive
reactions to my video. Since then, I posted the video to
YouTube and was able continue to impact others views
and knowledge on Down Syndrome. Therefore, I feel that I
was definitely able to develop the skills presented in this
objective.

Find, evaluate, X While studying medical microbiology I was assigned a

and apply project where I was required to find information, evaluate
information it, and apply the knowledge I learned. The project was a
presentation on human papillomavirus (HPV). I first began
by researching information to learn more about this
infection. I was then asked to analyze whether I felt it was
beneficial to receive the vaccination for this virus. After
gathering factual information, I then applied this
information to my conclusion as to whether or not I
thought the vaccination was necessary. The skills I
developed from this assignment were to find, evaluate,
 and apply the knowledge.

Interpret X Through the science courses I have taken at Seton Hill, the
quantitative and following skills of interpreting quantitative and qualitative
qualitative data have been met. During the course of Cell Biology, I
information to was required to complete a semester long project that
present a logical pertained to the study of cigarette chemicals on lungs. I
argument based spent the semester growing and experimenting with
on supporting different doses of hydroquinone and lung fibroblast cells.
data In order to present our findings based on the logic, we first
had to collect qualitative and quantitative data. The
qualitative data consisted of the examination of images
that showed living and dead cells. We then had to find
quantitative data by determining the rate of cell survival.
Therefore, I feel this research project represents the
previous skills mentioned.

IV. Self-Reflection and Assessment

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Demonstrate X The time I have spent at Seton Hill has definitely taught me
ethical decision- the importance of self-reflection and assessment. I feel
making that certain classes have allowed me to grow as a student
grounded in and also a person. Philosophy in particular, was a class in
philosophical which I developed the skills of ethical decision-making. The
inquiry assignment that stood out the most for me, was when we
were asked to complete an online test that proposed
different circumstances in which we were expected to
make the moral and ethical decision. I had to take all
aspects of the situation into consideration while making
each choice. This was more challenging than I expected.
Another assignment that pertained to these particular
skills was examining the well-known, “Trolley Problem.”
While a train is in motion to hit five workers on the train
track, you are put into a position to where you can change
to course of the train. However, if you change the trains
 direction it will head down a track that will hit one worker.
When put in this situation I was asked to make a decision
that I felt was most ethical. Therefore, I feel that I have
developed the previously mentioned skills due to
practicing this type of decision-making.

Apply Catholic X There have been impressive advancements made in this

social teaching world due to the achievements made in scientific
to the analysis of discoveries. However, some scientific experiments are
contemporary harming the environment. By performing a green
social issues chemistry experiment in organic chemistry, I was able to
see how Catholic Social Teaching has impacted the science
field. The experiment I conducted integrated Catholic
Social Teaching by following the principle of caring for
God’s creation. During the experiment, I replaced a
harmful chemical with oxoammonium salt. By performing
an oxidative procedure, was able to prevent harmful waste
products from entering the environment. This oxidation
procedure allowed me to practice the skills of applying
Catholic Social Teachings to current issues such as global
warming.

Recognize the X While taking the Faith Religion and Society course offered
value of diverse at Seton Hill, I learned multiple different religious views
spiritual and and how the all correlate to one another. The religions I
religious was able to study included, Buddhism, Judaism,
perspectives Christianity, and Hinduism. For our assignments in the
class we were asked to research each religion and be able
to discuss how the views varied for each. I was really
surprised with how similar the religions were. Each religion
practices unique traditions, but still stem from a common
thought. By taking this class I gained a deeper respect for
new religious traditions and even was able to learn
interesting knowledge about my own religion. After
finishing this class I feel I have developed the skills to
recognize the various spiritual perspectives.

Integrate the X The activity I feel helped me to obtain the following skills
practice of was a charity event at Seton Hill. The event I volunteered
charity with the at was an event called, “Walk for Peace.” Participants were
skill of justice asked to bring their pets and walk around a guided trial to
raise awareness of peace. I was in charge of directing
people in the right direction on the trials. This event was
aimed towards bringing peace and justice to our conflicting
world. Before the Peace Walk began, those who brought
their pets had the opportunity to have them receive a
special blessing. The proceeds from the walk went
towards, Seton Center Adult Day Care and Child Care and
 Greater Greensburg Faith in Action. By participating in this
charity event, I was able to gain the skills mentioned in this
objective.

Exercise X When I first arrived at Seton Hill, I knew I had to step up to

responsible the plate and exercise responsibility. This year has been
freedom and the true test to challenging my level of responsibility
civic towards freedom and engagement. Due to the pandemic,
engagement precautions such as wearing a mask, social distancing, and
based on an monitoring my health has been necessary. It is my
informed value responsibility to use my freedom wisely and refrain from
system engaging in groups with more than 10 people. I think I
partially met this skill. However, there is still more to be
learned in regard to exercising responsible civic
engagement based off of informed value systems.