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• Process
• IR meeting with Chair
• Drafted questions and outcomes used as discussion starter at FLS committee meeting
• 5-college and interdisciplinary nature of major poses unique challenges

• Learning Goals initial thoughts
  • Institution-Level Outcomes (related to essential capacities)
    • Research competently, think critically, and write clearly about the moving image.  Show the ability to sustain an argument and conduct appropriate in-depth research (scholarship, criticism, and other work). 
• Some Proposed Discipline Specific Outcomes (in part linked to 2 core courses Intro to Film Studies and Film Theory):
  • Have an analytical relationship with media; know what to do with it and how to use it.
  • Have the capacity to act as a critical user of media production, not just a consumer (know how to use it, don’t just let it use you).
  • Be able to write about the moving image from historical, creative and analytical perspectives.
  • Understand spectatorship.
  • Understand cinematic and other media specificity
• Learning Outcomes Questions – How coherent is the curriculum for Smith students given the nature of an interdisciplinary department with affiliated faculty who are not Film Studies scholars?  What is the effect of 5-college component of the major?

• Potential Assessment Design

• Examine existing artifacts for outcomes
  • theses
  • seminar papers
  • special studies projects
  • capstone courses

 

Institutional Assessment

Writing

Quantitative Reasoning

Critical Thinking

Selected Departmental Learning Goals

Chemistry

Economics

Film Studies

French

Psychology Methods