Sophomore and Upperclassman

Experience Outcomes:

Effective community engagement, academic success, intrapersonal development, and citizenship

Crossroads and Self-Authorship

• Recognize legitimacy of other cultures but immersed in one’s own culture.
• Evolve awareness of limitations of dependent relationships
• Evolve awareness of multiple perspectives and uncertainty
• Evolve awareness of own values and identity
• Evolve awareness that knowledge is contextual.
• Able to use multiple cultural frames
• Development of internal belief system and sense of self including social identities
• Capacity to engage in authentic
• Interdependent relationships with diverse others

Educational Approach

• Choice in activities, plans, and processes
• Requires strong student input on goals
• Create opportunities for prolonged engagement, intensive reflection and greater student responsibility.
• Emphasis on collegial exchange of ideas
• Initiate experience, plans and process
• Will develop a self and not rely on staff as authority.

Outcome: Effective Community Engagement

If you are meeting this goal, you are:

• Taking responsibility for choices and decisions made as a student and member of the community.
• Uphold community standards while trusting, respecting and holding fellow peers accountable for meeting community standards
• Actively involved in creaking an inclusive community
• Develop strong problem solving skills to address and resolve interpersonal conflicts that may arise in your community.
• Unite in-class and out of class learning experiences.
• Pursue teaching and learning experience with diverse individuals
• Participate in local and global communities in and outside of Dakota State University.
• Establish and maintain relationships with individuals different from you

Outcome: Academic Success

If you are meeting this goal, you are:

• Evaluate and enhance goals for one’s educational experience.
• Explore career and post-graduation experiences and opportunities.
• Assess and reflect on multiple perspectives on any given topic.
• Utilize residential community to support one’s academic endeavors.
• Acquire opportunities and resources for educational experience and learning inside and outside the classroom.
• Maintain positive connections with staff, faculty and classmates
• Continuously strive to pursue one’s personal and intellectual growth.
• Apply lessons learned/knowledge gained to post graduation plans.

Outcome: Intrapersonal Development

If you are meeting this goal, you are:

• Engage in behaviors that promote your personal health and well-being
• Maintain confidence and competence as a university student
• Develop critical reflection skills
• Enhance personal values
• Understand the impact of one’s personal choices
• Explore and compare multiple aspects for one’s identity
• Reinforce one’s aptitude to overcome failures
• Establish interdependent relationships.
• Explore and incorporate multiple perspectives into one’s worldview
• Acknowledge one’s dominant identity.

Outcome: Citizenship

If you are meeting this goal, you are:

• Apply the meaning of citizenship for lifelong social responsibility.
• Respect the university values
• Recognize and apply power and privilege structures
• Actively participate in creating and applying inclusive communities.
• Express one’s culture and position within society.
• Acquire an awareness of local, regional, national and global cultural issues
• Recognize one as a member of a diverse campus community
• Acquire skills to engage in civil dialogue.
• Establish how one is and can be an advocate and ally for others and one’s self.
• Evaluate the relationship between one’s cultural position and structures of power and privilege.