UNIVERSITY LEARNING OBJECTIVES GRID

LA400 Senior Integrative Seminar 

I. Communication and Problem Solving 

Skill MET Partial Not Example of specific assignment or activity

Met

Use the expressive X I was involved in the campus choir and

arts as a mode of performed in Little Shop of Horrors during my
inquiry or expression time at Penn State University. I’ve included
pictures on the home page.

Demonstrate X Group and partnership assignments have been

leadership, a great tool to learn how valuable teamwork
negotiation, can be when approaching a large, complex
relational, and project. In SBU 220, a classmate and I worked
consensus skills together throughout the course in a marketing
simulation. The resulting presentation is
included under a different skill in the “Multiple
Modes of Inquiry” domain.
Use technological X Research requires working knowledge of
skills to access technology and electronic databases. I had to
information, organize utilize the various options available through
knowledge, and Seton Hill’s library to gather sources for many
communicate research projects throughout my studies.
EBSCO is my go-to for finding business and
health care scholarly articles.
Propose new solutions X My major is Healthcare Administration, and in
to current issues an industry subject to constant change there are
always problems to address. I have completed
different assignments that require
understanding of the issue and proposing a
solution. One in particular addressed the issue
of staffing shortages, and my solutions were
focused on human resource management and
employee retention.
Express arguments or X I have strong written and oral communication
main points clearly, in skills and am easily able to present my
written and oral thoughts professionally and articulately. I have
communication proven this in all of my academic writing
assignments and in the presentation of this
ePortfolio.
Transfer knowledge X While I have no academic evidence readily
and values into sound available to support this, I can confidently
 decision making claim that I will be able to take the knowledge
I have gained from my coursework and apply it
when making decisions, especially in the
context of my healthcare career.

II. Historical, Cultural, and Global Awareness 

Skill Met Partially Not Example of specific assignment or activity

Met Met

Communicate in a X I did not need to take any language

second language at the courses at SHU because of my Penn
introductory college State credits that transferred over, but I
level have completed coursework in Spanish
at the 12th credit level. I also completed
classes in ASL at the Western
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf at the
third level.
Analyze the impact of X I learned through the International
history, geography, Business course how important cultural
and socio-cultural literacy is, not only in business dealings
dynamics on global but in general communication as well.
interactions from a In that course I researched different
variety of disciplinary countries and their customs and
perspectives compared them to ours in the US.

Analyze current and X I have marked this as ‘partially met’

historical events because I do not use the lens of faith as
through the lens of a default when considering current
spirituality and faith events. However, I did complete
coursework studying the history of
western civilization and examined the
role religion has played historically.
Assess privilege and X My course in Race, Class, and Gender
oppression from the was very educational and opened my
perspective of culture, eyes to the true definition of privilege
race, class, and gender that I had never previously understood.
Much of the coursework required
personal reflection and I used those
opportunities to examine internal biases
I held and work on removing them. I
also wrote about my own cooccurring
 privilege and oppression as a white
woman.

I. Multiple Modes of Inquiry 

Skill Met partial Not Example of specific assignment or activity

Met

Generate and X The business and accounting courses I

analyze numerical
and scientific data
Locate and analyze
expressive media to
gain information or
comprehend the
significance of an
issue or an event
Organize and X I created many powerpoint and voicethread
manage resources in
a creative way to
achieve impact
Find, evaluate, and X This skill is the basis of problem solving or
apply information
Interpret quantitative X In my marketing presentation, I had to take
and qualitative
completed were some of my favorite due to
the straightforward nature of numbers and
data. I enjoyed creating budget
spreadsheets and conducting financial
analyses from corporations’ reporting
sheets.
X I am not much of a visual learner in that I
prefer reading to watching. I do however
understand the value of expressive media,
especially for its ability to convey emotion
that the written word cannot always
articulate. In an assignment on quality
control, I was tasked with addressing the
Challenger disaster, and viewing the
footage of the explosion and the reactions
from the crowd gave me a deeper
understanding of the shock and devastation
felt that day.
presentations in different courses. I enjoy
presenting information in ways that are
engaging and direct. I did many of these in
SRT 280 on the different gospels.
research projects. I used this often when
answering writing prompts that required
searching for additional sources to answer
a question or propose solutions to a
hypothetical issue. The majority of
discussion questions required this kind of
approach.
raw data and organize it to show market
information to trends. I used a similar process in
present a logical accounting and finance courses to present
argument based on financial transactions as organized balance
supporting data sheets and income statements.

I. Self Reflection and Assessment 

Skill Met Partial Not Example of specific assignment or activity

Met

Demonstrate ethical X I wrote a paper on the issue of ethics in

decision-making
grounded in
philosophical inquiry
Apply Catholic social X My work in SLA 400 required me to
teaching to the
analysis of
contemporary social
issues
Recognize the value of X I completed the course Faith, Religion,
diverse spiritual and
religious perspectives
Integrate the practice
of charity with the skill
of justice
public health, which is included as an
example in my portfolio. I was intrigued
by this topic as it does force one to
question who deserves to benefit from
resources.
examine the ethical and social issues in
vocation. I prepared a presentation on
disability justice and an essay on the
same topics through the lens of the
Catholic social teaching themes
and Society and learned much about
Judaism and Islam that I had not known
before. I thought it was very interesting to
see where other religions were similar to
or even overlapped Catholicism and
where they differed.
X My presentation on Disability Justice
examined the relation of moral rightness
with social rightness.

Exercise responsible X The research I did into public health

freedom and civic ethics applies to this skill. Civic duty and
engagement based on society go hand in hand, and if social
an informed value decisions are made in absence of values
system then the basis is more than likely
financial, which is the opposite of the
way it should be.