Student Learning Outcomes by Graduate Program

Goal 1: Ethical, global, and sustainability considerations in business

Graduates will: 

• Use an ethical framework to recognize and evaluate ethical dilemmas and offer justifiable solutions.
• Analyze financial decision making in global business environments.

Goal 2: Connection to Silicon Valley: Innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship

Graduates will: 

• Evaluate the current state and recommend actions to strengthen organizational innovation mechanisms.
• Apply an entrepreneurial tool-set to identify opportunities and plan transformational change.

Goal 3: Communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills

Graduates will: 

• Evaluate team effectiveness and recommend actions for improving team dynamics.
• Prepare and deliver persuasive oral and written communications.

Goal 4: Analysis to drive decision making [given tools of the specific program]

Graduates will: 

• Interpret and analyze data to recommend strategic decisions.

Goal 5: To think holistically about business decisions with a global vision

Graduates will: 

• Integrate multiple business disciplines while evaluating business opportunities and challenges.

Goal 1: Ethical, global, and sustainability considerations in business

Graduates will:

• Describe ethical dilemmas in business, and identify and articulate an ethically justifiable response, using appropriate ethical frameworks.  Evaluate these questions in the contexts of corporate social responsibility, stakeholders, and sustainability in modern business.
• Assess global economic trends, international financial links, and key drivers of international trade and competition, and describe and analyze international differences in business environments.

Goal 2: Connection to Silicon Valley: Innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship

Graduates will:

• Recognize and evaluate innovative business models.
• Understand and describe the paths for a successful start-up to evolve into a technology leader.

Goal 3: Communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills

Graduates will:

• Write clear, well-documented, and effective memoranda and reports.
• Prepare and deliver professional-quality presentations.
• Work effectively in a team.

Goal 4: Analysis to drive decision making

Graduates will:

• Select and apply appropriate analytical techniques, models, and frameworks to business decisions.
• Summarize and analyze quantitative information using statistics and data visualization.

Goal 5: Provide a multi-disciplinary, integrative approach to business issues, focusing on a general management perspective

Graduates will:

• Integrate multiple business disciplines while evaluating business opportunities and challenges.

Goal 1: Ethical, global, and sustainability considerations in business.

Graduates will:

• Understand ethical implications of information system for individuals, organizations, and societies.
• Assess the impact of global economic, societal, and sustainability trends on information system design.

Goal 2: Connection to Silicon Valley: Innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Graduates will:

• Understand contemporary technologies utilized in the construction of information systems.
• Understand how information systems can deliver strategic advantages to businesses.

Goal 3: Build and manage project teams effectively.

Graduates will:

• Select, keep track, and act on key performance indicators for project success.
• Write clear, well-documented, and effective reports.
• Identify, mediate, and resolve team conflicts.

Goal 4: Analyze and improve information system design, use, and/or operations.

Graduates will:

• Understand the process by which information systems are developed, improved, and maintained.
• Design and develop information systems that meet business and organizational objectives, providing business value to firms.

Goal 1: Ethical, global, and sustainability considerations in business

Graduates will:

• Describe ethical dilemmas in business, and identify and articulate an ethically justifiable response, using appropriate ethical frameworks.
• Analyze financial decision making in international business environments.

Goal 2: Connection to Silicon Valley: Innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship

Graduates will:

• Describe the structure of finance, management, and marketing in technology and innovative industries and markets.

Goal 3: Communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills

Graduates will:

• Write clear, well-documented, and effective reports.
• Work effectively on a project in a team.

Goal 4: Analysis to drive decision making

Graduates will:

• Select and apply appropriate analytical techniques, models, and frameworks to business decisions.
• Summarize and analyze quantitative financial data to make business decisions.

Goal 5: Capital markets and financial institutions

Graduates will:

• Explain the foundational role markets and financial institutions play in the economy.

Goal 6: Corporate finance and financial information

Graduates will:

• Interpret and analyze corporate financial information, including financial statements.
• Develop financial models utilizing corporate financial information to facilitate decision-making.

Goal 1: Connection to Silicon Valley

Graduates will:

• Evaluate the impact of technology on business decisions in marketing.
• Identify potential opportunities to leverage analytically driven decision making.

Goal 2: Understand, Implement, and evaluate data-driven, technology driven marketing decision making

Graduates will:

• Develop, interpret and analyze models with marketing data and link to theoretical foundations of marketing.
• Use data to make better marketing decisions and communicate technical results to non-technical audiences.

Goal 3: Ethical, global, and sustainability considerations in business

Graduates will:

• Understand ethical standards in business, and recognize and be able to evaluate ethical issues that data analysis might involve.

Goal 4: Communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills

Graduates will:

• Write clear, well-documented, and effective memoranda and reports.
• Prepare and deliver professional-quality presentations.
• Work effectively in a team.

Graduates will:

• Develop as leaders who are deeply committed to addressing questions of the social and common good, value justice, and lead ethically.
• Engage in leadership practices that are inquiry-based, critically reflexive, data-driven, collaborative, and attentive to social justice, both within an organization and in engagement with the broader community.
• Demonstrate expertise in vision setting, teambuilding, human resource management, financial management, legal and governance issues, and strategic planning in organizational settings.
• Demonstrate expertise in their specialization area (K-12 Schools; Higher Education; Social Impact) informed by a deep understanding of current issues, scholarship, and critical analyses of the problems facing their field. 

Graduates will:

• Demonstrate academic competence: Graduate students will demonstrate abilities to plan and implement change, shape a collective vision, shape a safe and functional environment, implement assessment and accountability functions, shape parent and family engagement programs, lead a professional learning culture and manage fiscal and human resources.
• Engage in creative and collaborative learning: Graduate students will foster community partnerships, implement plans and procedures to include the community in the school, and understand and communicate policy to a variety of audiences. 
• Enhance professional development: Graduate students will exhibit professionalism, consistent with the University’s Jesuit mission, that includes moral and ethical decision making, ethical action, transparency and reflective practice.

Graduates will: 

• Engage and Support All Students in Learning 
• Create and Maintain Effective Environments for Student Learning 
• Understand and Organize Subject Matter for Student Learning 
• Plan Instruction and Design Learning Experiences for All Students 
• Assess Student Learning 
• Develop as a Professional Educator

Graduates will:

• Engage and Support All Students in Learning 
• Create and Maintain Effective Environments for Student Learning 
• Understand and Organize Subject Matter for Student Learning 
• Plan Instruction and Design Learning Experiences for All Students 
• Assess Student Learning 
• Develop as a Professional Educator

In addition, students who graduate from the CATMAT program will:

• Build professional community among cohort members and CatMAT/ExCEL alumni (integrated within TPE 6 “Develop as Professional Educator”) 
• Develop spiritual practices and relationship with God, and familiarity with Catholic traditions of faith  
• Grow in awareness of inequities within education and seek out knowledge and practices to transform classrooms and schools into more equitable spaces of learning

Graduates will:

• Engage and Support All Students in Learning 
• Create and Maintain Effective Environments for Student Learning 
• Understand and Organize Subject Matter for Student Learning 
• Plan Instruction and Design Learning Experiences for All Students 
• Assess Student Learning 
• Develop as a Professional Educator

In addition, students graduating from ExCEL will:

• Build professional community among cohort members and CatMAT/ExCEL alumni (integrated within TPE 6 “Develop as Professional Educator”) 
• Develop spiritual practices and relationship with God, and familiarity with Catholic traditions of faith  
• Grow in awareness of inequities within education and seek out knowledge and practices to transform classrooms and schools into more equitable spaces of learning

Graduates will:

• Analyze a variety of core psychological theories that underpin counseling, psychotherapy, and mental health counseling. 
• Integrate professional and personal development through self-reflection and personal psychotherapy, emphasizing personal capacities such as self-awareness, integrity, sensitivity, flexibility, insight, and compassion.
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in addressing the needs of people of diverse backgrounds and circumstances. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of the laws and ethics that guide counseling practice.

Learning Outcomes for the four Emphases:

• Latinx Counseling: Graduates will apply theories of Latinx psychology and treatment to their work with Latinx individuals, families, and communities.
• Health Psychology: Graduates will apply theories of health psychology and treatment to their work with individuals, families, and communities [within medical and non-medical settings].
• Correctional Psychology: Graduates will apply principles of forensic psychology to their work with individuals, families, and communities both within and outside correctional facilities
• LGBTQ Counseling: Graduates will apply theories of LGBTQ+ psychology and treatment to their work LGBTQ+ individuals, families, and communities.

Graduates will:

• Students will learn a variety of psychological theories and demonstrate competence in the differential application of these theories based on context.
• Apply appropriate theories of intervention in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment plan for a specific client or clients in various clinical contexts, including but not limited to, issues of race, gender, SES, religion, culture, creed, age, disability status and sexual orientation as these influence the therapeutic relationship.
• Integrate professional and personal development through self-reflection and personal psychotherapy, emphasizing personal capacities such as self-awareness, integrity, sensitivity, flexibility, insight, and compassion.
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in addressing the mental health needs of people of diverse backgrounds and circumstances.
• Apply professional, ethical decision-making, and legal standards in counseling practices.

Learning Outcomes for the four Emphases (offered within the MA in CP):

• Latinx Counseling: Graduates will apply theories of Latinx psychology and treatment to their work with Latinx individuals, families, and communities.
• Health Psychology: Graduates will apply theories of health psychology and treatment to their work with individuals, families, and communities [within medical and non-medical settings].
• Correctional Psychology: Graduates will apply principles of forensic psychology to their work with individuals, families, and communities both within and outside correctional facilities
• LGBTQ Counseling: Graduates will apply theories of LGBTQ+ psychology and treatment to their work LGBTQ+ individuals, families, and communities

Learning Outcomes for the Specialization in Child and Adolescent Mental Health:

• Graduates will apply theories of child and adolescent psychology and treatment to their work with youth, families, schools, and communities.

Graduates will:

• Analyze a variety of core psychological theories that underpin counseling, psychotherapy, and mental health counseling. 
• Integrate professional and personal development through self-reflection and personal psychotherapy, emphasizing personal capacities such as self-awareness, integrity, sensitivity, flexibility, insight, and compassion.
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in addressing the needs of people of diverse backgrounds and circumstances. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of the laws and ethics that guide counseling practice.

Learning Outcomes for the four Emphases (offered within the MA in CP):

• Latinx Counseling: Graduates will apply theories of Latinx psychology and treatment to their work with Latinx individuals, families, and communities.
• Health Psychology: Graduates will apply theories of health psychology and treatment to their work with individuals, families, and communities [within medical and non-medical settings].
• Correctional Psychology: Graduates will apply principles of forensic psychology to their work with individuals, families, and communities both within and outside correctional facilities
• LGBTQ Counseling: Graduates will apply theories of LGBTQ+ psychology and treatment to their work LGBTQ+ individuals, families, and communities

Learning Outcomes for the Specialization in Child and Adolescent Mental Health:

• Graduates will apply theories of child and adolescent psychology and treatment to their work with youth, families, schools, and communities.

Also includes Flex J.D. Hybrid, Part-Time

Graduates will: 

• know the relevant substantive and procedural rules of law in those subjects constituting the core of the curriculum and shall be capable of assimilating new information into the structure of the law.
• use analytical skills, logic, and reasoning to evaluate legal questions.
• know how to find the legal and factual information appropriate to evaluate a legal issue or problem.
• write in an organized, accurate, well-reasoned, clear, and concise manner.
• know the legal rules governing the ethical obligations of lawyers and shall exercise those responsibilities.
• demonstrate compassion and concern for others and act to promote equity, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination.
• be capable of using their creativity to devise solutions to problems.
• communicate and collaborate effectively with others.
• take responsibility and proactively manage their work.

Graduates will: 

(J.D.)

• know the relevant substantive and procedural rules of law in those subjects constituting the core of the curriculum and shall be capable of assimilating new information into the structure of the law.
• use analytical skills, logic, and reasoning to evaluate legal questions.
• know how to find the legal and factual information appropriate to evaluate a legal issue or problem.
• write in an organized, accurate, well-reasoned, clear, and concise manner.
• know the legal rules governing the ethical obligations of lawyers and shall exercise those responsibilities.
• demonstrate compassion and concern for others and act to promote equity, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination.
• be capable of using their creativity to devise solutions to problems.
• communicate and collaborate effectively with others.
• take responsibility and proactively manage their work.

(MBA)

Goal 1: Ethical, global, and sustainability considerations in business

Graduates will:

• Describe ethical dilemmas in business, and identify and articulate an ethically justifiable response, using appropriate ethical frameworks.  Evaluate these questions in the contexts of corporate social responsibility, stakeholders, and sustainability in modern business.
• Assess global economic trends, international financial links, and key drivers of international trade and competition, and describe and analyze international differences in business environments.

Goal 2: Connection to Silicon Valley: Innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship

Graduates will:

• Recognize and evaluate innovative business models.
• Understand and describe the paths for a successful start-up to evolve into a technology leader.

Goal 3: Communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills

Graduates will:

• Write clear, well-documented, and effective memoranda and reports.
• Prepare and deliver professional-quality presentations.
• Work effectively in a team.

Goal 4: Analysis to drive decision making

Graduates will:

• Select and apply appropriate analytical techniques, models, and frameworks to business decisions.
• Summarize and analyze quantitative information using statistics and data visualization.

Goal 5: Provide a multi-disciplinary, integrative approach to business issues, focusing on a general management perspective

Graduates will:

• Integrate multiple business disciplines while evaluating business opportunities and challenges.

Graduates will: 

(J.D.)

• know the relevant substantive and procedural rules of law in those subjects constituting the core of the curriculum and shall be capable of assimilating new information into the structure of the law.
• use analytical skills, logic, and reasoning to evaluate legal questions.
• know how to find the legal and factual information appropriate to evaluate a legal issue or problem.
• write in an organized, accurate, well-reasoned, clear, and concise manner.
• know the legal rules governing the ethical obligations of lawyers and shall exercise those responsibilities.
• demonstrate compassion and concern for others and act to promote equity, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination.
• be capable of using their creativity to devise solutions to problems.
• communicate and collaborate effectively with others.
• take responsibility and proactively manage their work.

(MSIS)

Goal 1: Ethical, global, and sustainability considerations in business.

Students will:

• Understand ethical implications of information system for individuals, organizations, and societies.
• Assess the impact of global economic, societal, and sustainability trends on information system design.

Goal 2: Connection to Silicon Valley: Innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Students will:

• Understand contemporary technologies utilized in the construction of information systems.
• Understand how information systems can deliver strategic advantages to businesses.

Goal 3: Build and manage project teams effectively.

Students will:

• Select, keep track, and act on key performance indicators for project success.
• Write clear, well-documented, and effective reports.
• Identify, mediate, and resolve team conflicts.

Goal 4: Analyze and improve information system design, use, and/or operations.

Students will:

• Understand the process by which information systems are developed, improved, and maintained.
• Design and develop information systems that meet business and organizational objectives, providing business value to firms.

Goal 1: Theological Foundation

• Knowledge of the broad intellectual foundation for ministry in the areas of scripture, systematic and contextual theology, and spirituality; and incorporate theological reflection to enrich their ministerial practices across varying contexts.

Goal 2: Pastoral Proficiency

• Familiarity with ministerial practices in various manifestations of church life, expressed in concrete pastoral applications which include discernment, compassion, and ministries of accompaniment.

Goal 3: Servant Leadership

• A commitment to identify injustices and developing skills to work individually and in collaboration with other ministers, in accompanying those in need and in service to the poor, the marginalized, and the alienated, both within and outside the Church.

Goal 4: Diversity Fluency

• Awareness of and critical engagement with how one’s own culture influences ministry, and then to engage in ministries that build the community of Christ and are sensitive to and respectful of all cultures and traditions, and individuals who vary by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and dynamics of wealth, poverty, and power.

Graduates will: 

• Apply mathematical skills to solve engineering problems.
• Relate real-world problems to research inquiries.
• Design complex aerospace engineering systems.
• Work in interdisciplinary teams and demonstrate professionalism by upholding the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
• Demonstrate effective communication through both speech and writing.

Graduates will: 

• Identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
• Apply engineering design to create solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
• Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, and societal contexts environmental.
• Function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
• Develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze/interpret data, and evaluate solutions.
• Acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.

Graduates will: 

• Be able to apply modern tools for computations, simulations, analysis and design to civil engineering problems in a self-selected technical area within their course of studies.
• Be able to synthesize and integrate necessary engineering concepts into engineering solution process and effectively communicate the results to appropriate audience.
• Demonstrate the ability to critically assess, evaluate and understand:
  • the potential impacts of infrastructure projects in a global and societal context,
  • Their professional/ethical responsibilities

Graduates will: 

• Demonstrate mastery of the three fundamental areas of computer architecture, systems, and theory.
• Demonstrate proficiency in at least two advanced topics of computer science and engineering.
• Demonstrate a breadth of perspective through successful study in the areas of emerging topics in engineering, engineering and society, and engineering and entrepreneurship.

Graduates will: 

• Design and implement technical solutions to real-world problems that reflect an advanced command of principles in mathematics and science.
• Effectively communicate expert analysis of technical problems and features of proposed solutions to stakeholders.
• Practice as an expert specialist in at least one of the major subfields of electrical and computer engineering.

Graduates will: 

• Demonstrate the ability to formulate and communicate key concepts in management of technology projects and ventures.
• Assess the roles of finance, marketing, and strategy in the success of technology deployment.
• Synthesize organizational and planning techniques and use them to lead teams in varied industry, technology, and business settings.
• Master one or more graduate engineering disciplines.
• Exhibit ethical and professional leadership.

Graduates will:

• Apply concepts in mechanical engineering, mathematics, and science to solve fundamental mechanical engineering problems.
• Identify, formulate, and analyze advanced-level problems in a selected emphasis area within the mechanical engineering discipline. 
• Understand the ethical and societal impacts of technological innovations and engineering solutions.

Graduates will: 

• Apply the basic principles of power systems and renewable energy to understand the electric grid. 
• Solve engineering problems using knowledge from at least two renewable and clean energy areas.
• Apply knowledge and ethical analysis of contemporary technical, political, and economic issues related to energy.
• Communicate engineering ideas and techniques.
• Use advanced mathematical concepts to solve power systems problems.
• Explain in depth technical energy problems at an advanced level.

Graduates will: 

• Apply fundamental knowledge and techniques from mathematics and the engineering sciences to the solution of engineering problems.
• Design interdisciplinary systems that meet requirements and satisfy customer needs.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Articulate complex concepts and designs in both written and verbal forms.
• Understand how advanced technology can lead to extraordinary value creation, both commercial and societal, while also posing critical ethical and societal challenges.

Graduates will: 

• Demonstrate mastery of the three fundamental areas of computer architecture, systems, and theory.
• Contribute original scholarship to the field of computer science and engineering.
• Demonstrate technical mastery of an original thesis through scientific inquiry, generation of new ideas, and discovery and validation of novel solutions.
• Articulate, communicate, and defend an original thesis.

Graduates will: 

• Comprehend, assess, and constructively critique the research of others in the field.
• Conduct independent research in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Contribute to the base of knowledge in their field and present their research in a manner suitable for publication.
• Explain and teach complex technical material to others.

Graduates will: 

• Apply advanced concepts in mechanical engineering, mathematics, and science to solve complex mechanical engineering problems.
• Employ fundamental concepts to adapt to evolving technologies and emerging advancements in the field of Mechanical Engineering.
• Understand the ethical and societal impacts of technological innovations and engineering solutions.
• Conduct original independent research to identify and address scientific research questions contributing to current literature.
• Communicate research findings effectively through oral, visual, and written means.

Graduates will:

• Apply advanced concepts in mechanical engineering, mathematics, and science to solve complex mechanical engineering problems.
• Employ fundamental concepts to adapt to evolving technologies and emerging advancements in the field of Mechanical Engineering.
• Understand the ethical and societal impacts of technological innovations and engineering solutions.
• Perform guided research in the field of mechanical engineering and integrate it within the existing body of literature.
• Communicate research findings through written technical reports.

Graduates will:

• Demonstrate an understanding of theological competencies in areas, including:  Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, Theological Ethics, Religion and Culture, and Pastoral Studies. 
• Apply theological competencies knowledge of theology to their preaching, teaching, liturgical presiding, celebrating sacramental rites, and pastoral situations.
• Appraise theological and pastoral issues in the cultural, social, and global contexts in which they emerge.
• Develop practices of prayer and discernment appropriate to their circumstances, with a particular grounding in Ignatian principles and spirituality.
• Demonstrate strong professional/ministerial ethics, including collaborative leadership, self-care, and clear ministerial boundaries.
• Articulate a deepening sense of their ministerial identity that emerges in their prayer and theological reflection on pastoral experience. 

Graduates will: 

• Demonstrate focused knowledge in the field of study represented by a chosen concentration.
• Demonstrate general knowledge of several different approaches to theological and religious studies.
• Engage in respectful dialogue with practitioners of another religious tradition.
• Produce research projects, each with a clearly formulated thesis statement that is supported by appropriate evidence from primary and secondary sources and communicated in an effective scholarly presentation.

Graduates will:

• Demonstrate knowledge in areas, including: Biblical Studies; Systematic Theology; Theological Ethics; Religion and Culture; and Pastoral Studies.
• Integrate and apply their depth of knowledge of the above areas within a chosen concentration. 
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of social, cultural, and global contexts and their significance to theology. 
• Apply informed knowledge of the Catholic tradition in the assessment of theological questions or pastoral issues. 
• Articulate the connections among their course work, their individual formation as shaped by their own practices and through interactions with peers or professional colleagues. 

Graduates will:

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and research methods in their selected area of concentration.
• Apply advanced theological competencies in their appraisal of theological or pastoral issues in light of their selected areas of concentration. 
• Assess theological and pastoral issues in the socio-cultural contexts in which they emerge.