1.3 Core Requirements - New Core

This course is part of the Saint Louis University Core, an integrated intellectual experience completed by all baccalaureate students, regardless of major, program, college, school or campus. The Core offers all SLU students the same unified approach to Jesuit education guided by SLU’s institutional mission and identity and our nine undergraduate Core Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs).

1.3.1 Identities in Context

Identities in Context is one of 19 Core Components. The University Core SLO(s) that this component is designed to intentionally advance are listed below.

1.3.1.1 University Core Student Learning Outcomes

The Core SLO(s) that this component is intentionally designed to advance are:

• SLO 5: Analyze how diverse identities influence their lives and the lives of others

1.3.1.2 Component-level Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

• Examine interdependent / interrelational qualities of identity categories such as nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, race, class, ability, and sexual orientation
• Analyze how interdependent / interrelational identities are constructed through and shaped by relations of power
• Assess how other people’s social identities and biases shape and are shaped by their interactions within a social context
• Articulate how one’s own notions of identity and otherness are contingent on the social contexts in which they develop and which they in turn shape

1.3.2 Ways of Thinking: Social and Behavioral Sciences

Ways of Thinking: Social and Behavioral Sciences is one of 19 Core Components. The University Core SLO(s) that this component is designed to intentionally advance are listed below.

1.3.2.1 University Core Student Learning Outcomes

The Core SLO(s) that this component is intentionally designed to advance are:

• SLO 2: Integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines to address complex questions
• SLO 3: Assess evidence and draw reasoned conclusions

1.3.2.2 Component-level Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

• Understand a range of social or behavioral theories and principles
• Use these theories and principles to acquire knowledge about individual, cultural, political, economic, or social events/processes
• Describe competing paradigms of knowledge (from the dominant discipline or field)
• Draw reasoned conclusions through the use of evidence and theories
• Apply social and behavioral knowledge to better understand contemporary issues and challenges