Course Learning Objectives

At the course level, Development Faculty utilize the master course outcomes, developed through the residential University curriculum process, and format or differentiate them into specific classifications. The development process uses Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956) for classification of course objectives. They are:

• Knowledge – Define, identify, label, state, list, match

• Comprehension – Describe, generalize, paraphrase, summarize, estimate

• Application – Determine, chart, implement, prepare, solve, use, develop

• Analysis – Point out, differentiate, distinguish, discriminate, compare

• Synthesis – Create, design, plan, organize, generate, write

• Evaluation – Appraise, critique, judge, weigh, evaluate, select