Outcomes Requirements


Students who entered Drake in the Fall of 2001 or earlier have the option of completing the Outcomes requirements that were in place at the time that they first enrolled or switching to the Areas of Inquiry requirements approved by the Faculty Senate on December 12, 2001. This page describes the Outcomes requirements.

Students must complete sixteen "flags" distributed across the eight Outcome areas listed below. Courses meet a flag when they centrally address the area of study with which a particular Outcome area is concerned. Since some courses are relevant to multiple Outcome areas, a single course may carry multiple flags. However, students may use a given course to satisfy no more than two flags across different outcome areas. Recommended course lists have been compiled for each Outcome area. Note that students and their advisors may together select courses not appearing on the approved lists to fulfill a flag requirement, but only if said course centrally addresses the goals and objectives of the relevant outcome area. For full descriptions of the Outcomes areas summarized below along with recommended course lists, click here: Descriptions and Course Lists .

Each student must record and periodically update their plan for fulfilling the Outcomes requirements. All plans must be reviewed and approved by the advisor. To view your plan, click on the following and then enter your social security number and PIN: Drake Curriculum Outcomes Planner.


Communication
The Drake graduate will be able to read with discrimination and understanding, write clearly and persuasively, and speak and listen effectively.
1. Writing Skills
2. Speaking Skills

Critical Thinking
The Drake graduate will be able to make and understand logical arguments, identify assumptions in arguments, distinguish facts from opinions, value skepticism, and understand that conclusions must be based on relevant evidence.
3. Fundamental Concepts
4. Application
Information Literacy
The Drake graduate will be able to acquire, integrate, analyze, and interpret information and to use appropriate technology to assist in these processes.
5. Fundamental Concepts (no application flag required)
 
Artistic Experience
The Drake graduate will understand historical development in the fine arts, that artistic expression (including music, art, literature, and drama) communicates ideas, emotions and values, and will appreciate that the arts can humanize, stimulate, and engage.
6. Fundamental Concepts
7. Application
 
Historical Consciousness
The Drake graduate will be able to view him/herself and society in the context of a historical narrative, will understand how the current period differs from other historical periods, and will appreciate historical geographic and cultural differences.
8. Fundamental Concepts
9. Application
 
International and Multicultural Understanding
The Drake graduate will have the skills to analyze the world in relation to nationality, race, ethnicity and culture, including the interactive nature of relations among peoples who differ according to these categories, will have the skills to analyze the relation of the individual to his or her larger communities of identity and affiliation, will understand that knowledge reflects the perspective of the knower, and will understand the value of inquiring into the perspectives and experiences of others.
10. Fundamental Concepts
11. Application
 
Scientific and Quantitative Literacy
The Drake graduate will have a basic understanding of the logic, methods, and terminology of the sciences and be able to comprehend (both physical and biological) scientific phenomena and to evaluate scientific and mathematical information and its impact on decisions.
12. Quantitative
13. Physical Science
14. Life Science
 
Values and Ethics
Drake graduates will have enhanced both their skills to engage in ethical inquiry and ethical reasoning and their moral imagination which includes the ability to recognize ethical issues and the demands of conscience.
15. Fundamental Concepts
16. Application