UNIVERSITY LEARNING OBJECTIVES GRID

LA400 Senior Integrative Seminar

I. Communication and Problem Solving

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Use the At the beginning of my Seton Hill Journey, I took many

expressive arts as music courses. Music has always been my way of
a mode of inquiry ✓ expression. My courses in Rhythmics, Guitar, Piano,
or expression Diction, Harmony, Opera, and Voice Performance have
let me continue to use the expressive arts as a mode of
expression and inquiry. My Opera Workshop course
provided me the opportunity for both expression and
inquiry from asking questions and learning about my
character, to expressing this character by performing
their piece on stage. During my voice performance
course, I had a private lesson where I prepared pieces
to perform in front of the music professors. I was able
to use expression through the pieces I was performing
by telling the story of the song.

Demonstrate Social work relies on leadership, negotiation,

leadership, relational, and consensus skills. To be a good social
negotiation, ✓ worker, you must demonstrate and continue to
relational, and develop these skills. I have been able to demonstrate
consensus skills these skills through my Generalist Practice courses
working with individuals, groups and families, and
communities. I was able to showcase negotiation,
relational, and consensus skills when working with
individuals through my video interviews using solution
focused therapy. In my groups course, I was able to
show leadership by leading a group therapy session, as
well as show relational and consensus skills during the
session. In my communities course, I showed
leadership by taking the lead on parts of our class
project, I also showed negotiation skills with my peers
during the project, as well as before when deciding on
the community and what to help them with. Another
area where I was able to demonstrate these skills, was
during my time as the secretary for Project HOPE and
Phi Alpha Honor Society.
Use technological While at Seton Hill, I have got to expand my
skills to access technological skills through many different courses.
information, During my Individuals course, I used different media
organize sources to create two video interviews. I was able to
knowledge, and ✓ create two websites, in my communities course and in
communicate my senior seminar course, to access and organize
information and communicate to others. I was also
able to expand my technology skills by creating a voice
thread to organize knowledge, communicate an
important topic - discrimination, as well as access
information.

Propose new Proposing new solutions is nothing new to a social

solutions to worker, this is part of our job. I have been able to do
current issues ✓ this through multiple different courses at Seton Hill.
These courses include Generalist Practice with
Individuals and Groups, Corrections, Field Practicum,
Social Policy, Organizations and Senior Seminar. I was
able to propose new solutions through a solution
focused therapy session, as well as in a group therapy
session. During my Field Practicum, I proposed a new
solution for helping residents resolve conflicts on the
program by using restorative mediation. I was also able
to propose new solutions in my policy course by
creating a policy for Westmoreland County Juvenile
Probation on a mailing issue they were having.

Express Being able to express arguments or main points when

arguments or you are out in the field is an important skill set to
main points ✓ maintain. As a social worker, you are never working by
clearly, in written yourself. Instead, you will always be working alongside
and oral other agencies and organizations to help ensure that
communication your client is getting all possible services they need. I
have been able to use this skill while working at my
field practicum. During my time here, there were
multiple different occurrences where I needed to
express my point of an argument when I saw a gap in
services and resources, as well as when I saw there
was change needed. I was also able to do this through
other courses, like my Human Biology and Medicine
course, where I was able to express my argument on
different medical approaches through a letter and
paper.

Transfer During my Introduction to Ethics course, we looked

knowledge and into moral quandaries that we face in the world
values into sound ✓ around us. We took the knowledge we learned
decision making throughout the course on the philosophical views of
 Kant and Beauvoir, as well as our values to write a
paper on a specific moral quandary. We discussed each
side of the quadry and added the information we
learned throughout the class to complete this paper.
Through the knowledge I learned from philosophers
Kant and Beauvoir, as well as looking at my own
values, I was able to transfer this into making a sound
decision for my paper.

II. Historical, Cultural, and Global Awareness

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Communicate in Before coming to Seton Hill, I had very little experience

a second with languages other than English. During my collegiate
language at the ✓ career, I was able to take two courses in spanish that
introductory helped me partially meet this skill set. In these courses, I
college level was tested on my remembrance of spanish words through
exams, as well as tested on my oral skills through quizzes
and exams. I completed assignments that showed my
ability to retain information of the spanish language, as
well as write out sentences in spanish.

Analyze the I was able to analyze history, geography, and socio-cultural

impact of history, dynamics during three different courses including Western
geography, and Cultural Traditions II, Race and Diversity, and lastly
socio-cultural Genocide in Comparative Perspective. During these course
dynamics on ✓ I was able to look into the the interactions of Muslim
global Americands, Salvery in Libya, and the interactions of the
interactions from Unites States globally during the 1900s.
a variety of
disciplinary
perspectives

Analyze current This past semester, my senior seminar has opened up a

and historical whole new outlook on our current and historical events. I
events through ✓ have grown in knowledge within the realm of spirituality
the lens of and faith during this course, which has provided me a
spirituality and whole new lens to look through when analyzing current
faith and historical events. During this course, I was able to
apply this skill set to multiple different assignments
including my Letter to the President, my voicethread on
Racial Discrimination, and through multiple different
discussions.

Assess privilege This year, especially, has shown how privilege and
and oppression oppression affects our world and the individuals living in it.
from the ✓ I have been able to assess privilege and oppression,
perspective of though, throughout my whole collegiate career. I was able
culture, race, to assess my privileges and oppressions in my Human
class, and gender Behavior In the Social Environment course through a paper
where I talk about how my gender and class can be seen as
an oppression, but how my race is a privilege. During my
race and diversity course, I was also able to assess privilege
and oppression on a Movie I watched called Blinded by the
Light.

III. Multiple Modes of Inquiry

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Generate and During my sophomore year, I completed a statistics

analyze numerical course that taught me how to generate and analyze
and scientific data ✓ numerical data. We did this through multiple different
assignments using t tests, as well as exams and projects.
This statistics course was specifically meant for the
social sciences. Though during my time I got to generate
and analyze numerical data, I did not get to work with
 scientific data specifically.

Locate and During the course Senior Seminar, I had the opportunity
analyze to create a voice thread on the ethical issues in my
expressive media vocation, looking specifically into racial discrimination. I
to gain was able to find many different kinds of expressive
information or ✓ media for my presentation that could help portray the
comprehend the information of this event to others in a significant way.
significance of an This research also helped me gain information to back
issue or an event up my implications, as well as helped me comprehend
more on this very important topic. I was able to locate
and analyze a very specific article that incorporated a
timeline of the many different events of racial
discrimination that happened during 2020. This timeline
included expressive media using powerful and impactful
pictures of these events.

Organize and Creative thinking is a skill set of mine that I am very

manage proud of. During my social work courses, my professors
resources in a ✓ have always encouraged us to think creatively when
creative way to working with our clients, because no two are the same. I
achieve impact have been able to take this creative skill set of mine and
use it effectively to organize and manage resources in a
way that achieves impact. During my Western Cultures I
course, I was able to creatively find a way to portray
information on an interactive map that was eye catching
and impactful. I did this by making the map look like the
Earth, and using the layers of the Earth to represent a
circle of Hell for my project on Dante’s Inferno.

Find, evaluate, At Seton Hill, I have had multiple courses that have
and apply helped me in meeting the skill set of finding, evaluating,
information ✓ and applying information. I was able to do this in my
Organizations course while writing a program proposal. I
found information on the topic I was looking into -
reintegration for at risk youth. Then I evaluated it by
seeing what works and what does not. After that, I
applied the information by taking the evaluated
information that worked and adding it to my proposal
with other knowledge I had to create a program that
would be fully effective in helping youth properly
reintegrate back into communities. I was also able to do
this in my Senior Synthesis course of a powerpoint on
Trauma-Informed Care. I found information on the
Trauma Informed Care approach, evaluated the
information found, then applied it by creating a case
example of what trauma informed care approach would
 look like in use.

Interpret While in my field practicum, I completed my research

quantitative and study using both quantitative and qualitative
qualitative ✓ information. I did this by creating a survey for my mixed
information to methods study, then using frequencies to find the data
present a logical and present the information. I was able to use this
argument based information to present my findings with supporting
on supporting data.
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IV. Self Reflection and Assessment

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Demonstrate During my sophomore year, I took an Introduction to

ethical decision- Ethics course. While in this course, I was able to learn
making ✓ about different philosophers and ethics. During this course
grounded in I was able to demonstrate ethical decision making
philosophical grounded by philosophical inquiry in two assignments, my
inquiry moral conflicts paper and moral quandaries paper. In my
moral quandaries paper, I picked a sensitive topic,
abortion, to write about. I compared it to two
philosophers' work, Kant and Beauvoir, and then later
made a decision based on their work and ethical standard.

Apply Catholic This year has shed light on many contemporary social
social teaching issues. During my time at Seton Hill, I have been able to
to the analysis of ✓ expand my knowledge in Catholic Social Teaching. This has
contemporary strengthened my ability to apply CST to contemporary
social issues social issues. I was able to excel in this skill set during my
Senior Seminar course where I wrote a letter to the
President talking about the social issue of substance use
and prisons, relating it to CST, specifically on human
dignity. I was also able to apply CST to the social issue of
Racial discrimination through a voicethread.

Recognize the Coming to Seton Hill has expanded my knowledge in many

value of diverse realms, including different spiritual and religious
spiritual and ✓ perspectives. Specifically, in Faith, Religion, and Society I
religious was able to recognize the value of diverse spiritual and
perspectives religious perspectives. This course taught me about
multiple different religions including Islam and Judaism.
We read different books on both of these perspectives,
Does my Head Look Big in this? and Night, that shed light
to the value of these spiritual and religious works. We got
to see the true value of diverse spiritual and religious
perspectives through these books, and were able to dive
deep into discussions on this topic.

Integrate the In my Communities course, we completed a class project

practice of that integrated the practice of charity with the skill of
charity with the ✓ justice. During our course, we went into a community in
skill of justice need and talked with the members and asked them what
they would like to see change. We were able to integrate
the practice of charity with the skill of justice by engaging
and working with a community in need, as well as
providing social change for them. Our service project
included creating a website that linked community
members to resources and services in their area. This
population was lacking in knowledge on the resources in
their area, so we provided them with something that could
create social change in their area.

Exercise During my time here at Seton Hill, I have had the

responsible opportunity to do multiple different types of volunteering
freedom and and service learning. These opportunities have helped me
civic achieve the skill set on exercising civic engagement. For my
engagement ✓ connections course, I participated in labor of love where I
based on an went to St. Vincent De Paul and helped the staff move and
informed value organize the items. They explained how much help this
system was considering that most of the workers there are older
and cannot move the heavy boxes up and down the steps.
As a member of Phi Alpha and Project H.O.P.E, I was able
to complete multiple different acts of service. Some of my
favorite service projects were making cards for the Sisters
of Charity, making candy grams for our hard working
maintenance staff during a pandemic to show our
appreciation, as well as making and delivering card to
frontline social workers to show that we see them and
appreciate them.