| DISCIPLINE/PROGRAM LEVEL(SOME EXAMPLES) |
| ACTIVITY | COMMENTS |
| Teacher Education | - Division of Education writing proficiency
test
- Minnesota Board of Teaching Preprofessional Skills Test
- Faculty interviews and recommendations
|
| Studio Art | - Participation in Senior Exhibit is required for
graduation
- Participation in Junior Review and Senior Review
JUNIOR REVIEW: Review by the studio art and art history faculty of the
student's work to date.
SENIOR REVIEW: Review by the studio art and art history faculty of the
student's work, concentrating on the major media and including any work
designated at the Junior Review.
|
| Biology | Senior seminar. Required for graduation |
| Chemistry | Senior seminar. Required for graduation |
| English | Placement examination |
| Foreign Languages | Proficiency/Placement examination |
| Geology | Geology Senior Seminar. Required for graduation |
| History | The students must submit a file of materials to present
evidence of meeting four learning objectives and expected outcomes stated
by the discipline. The file need not be limited to materials produced in
history courses. In the year before graduation, the student and the
adviser assess progress toward the major and, consulting with the
remainder of the history faculty, determine what work remains to be
completed for the major. |
| Honors Program | The senior honors project. Each project is
presented to the UMM community of scholars in a fashion appropriate to
its nature (e.g., public presentation, archived paper, performance, or
exhibit) |
| Mathematics | Placement examination. Assessment of the Calculus
sequence. Alumni survey. Self-study report prepared for external reviewers.
Senior Project: Each student prepares a project under the direction of a
faculty member and presents a written and oral report. |
| Music | Senior Project: A culminating activity that allows a
graduating student to demonstrate competence as a musician. |
| Philosophy | Senior Philosophical Thesis: Development of a significant
paper on an approved topic under the direction of one or more members of
the philosophy staff. |
| Psychology | Students should complete an approved research project for
graduation. |
| Social Science | Competencies: The faculty of each field of study
in the social sciences has established a set of minimum competencies that
ask a student to understand the ways in which the discipline structures
and advances knowledge, raises and answers analytic questions, and deals
with competing theories and changing nature of the field. |
| Spanish | Proficiency/Placement examination |
| Speech Communication | Students complete a significant paper or
project on an approved topic. |
| Theatre Arts | At least one para-programmatic theatre experience
that is
arranged through a theatre arts faculty member which may take any number
of forms, e.g., an internship with a theatre company, study abroad, or
theatre tour to New York or London is required for graduation.
Senior Project: Culminating activity to demonstrate the student's
competence in some areas of theatre arts. Projects may be completed
independently (e.g., a research paper, a solo acting performance) or as
part of a group effort. |
| Women's Studies | Students must submit a file of materials to
demonstrate the following: (1) familiarity with different theoretical
approaches to the study of women; (2) ability to analyze, interpret, and
synthesize women's studies materials; (3) awareness of how a knowledge of
women's studies relates to the individual's personal life and
intellectual growth. |
