Essential Learning Outcomes

Nevada State University has established an assessment program that identifies twelve Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) that students are expected to achieve.

Civic Knowledge and Engagement: Learning about your community and the democratic processes that will help you engage in the local, state, and/or national scale.

Co-Creative Problem Solving: The ability to actively work with others to develop creative solutions and move us toward a better world.

Creative Expression and Aesthetics: The development of skills for creating works in a particular medium, and strategies for improving technique and producing original and expressive art (Creative Works), or the study of art through the history and context of various movements, styles, or periods; examination of the form and qualities of a particular type of art; and/or strategies for analyzing and critiquing art (Aesthetics).

Critical Literacy: Critical Literacy is the ability to identify, interpret, reimagine, and remake how socially constructed concepts like power and bias operate through historical and contemporary texts, images, and practices.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: An understanding of power and privilege within cultural and social identities, systems, and institutions, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, social class, sexuality, ability, religion, education, and national origin.

Ethical Reasoning: Thinking critically about the nuances of right and wrong human conduct.

Information Literacy: The ability to identify, locate, skeptically evaluate, and effectively and ethically use information to inform a decision or solve a problem.

Inquiry and Analysis: A systematic process of refining our understanding of issues, objects, and works through a cycle of questions and evaluation.

Lifelong Learning: Lifelong Learning is understanding the process of learning (learning how to learn) and recognizing your own level of knowledge and motivation to learn.

Oral Communication: Oral Communication is the ability to communicate purposely in a variety of social contexts and situations.

Quantitative Reasoning: The ability to create meaning from numeric data by making appropriate logical inferences, and also communicating those ideas to others.

Written Communication: The ability to develop and express ideas through writing, including communicating to a diverse set of audiences through a variety of genres and mediums using text, graphics, and data.