BA Program Student Learning Outcomes
Upon graduating from the BA in SLS, students will:
- Manifest the skills, understandings, and dispositions necessary to be exceptional language professionals
- Demonstrate critical thinking and awareness of issues within the context of their professional work and social practice
- Demonstrate an understanding of the value bases of their professional work
- Interpret the history of second and foreign language study and its contemporary issues
- Critically evaluate and make use of research into the learning, use, structure, and pedagogy of second languages
- Develop and apply sound frameworks to the assessment and evaluation of institutions and agents involved in second language instruction, planning, and policy
- Show an understanding of local language issues of Hawai’i and the Pacific in their professional work
- Be able to prepare minority language students to acquire the academic literacies that would allow them to succeed in educational institutions
- Improve the quality of teaching and learning of second, foreign, and heritage languages, in the state of Hawai’i, domestically, and abroad
Additional program goal: Upon graduating from the BA in SLS, students will be prepared to apply for admission to graduate programs in second language studies, applied linguistics, or related fields.
