Student Outcomes
Connected Learning Student Outcomes
Shared language about the value and desired outcomes of students’ participation in connected learning experiences is important to achieving our mission. Through a series of focus groups engaging more than 40 faculty/staff and 21 students during the 2021-22 academic year, we mapped exemplar courses and programs and articulated student learning outcomes that can be applied across a variety of courses and programs. Building on common areas of strength, the team collectively drafted and refined student learning outcomes on the following three themes.
As a result of involvement in Connected Learning experiences, students will:
Prepare for a career or profession through experiential learning
- Apply theories, concepts, and knowledge to hands-on experiences in community, professional or university settings
- Gain skills and competencies needed in a specific career or professional field
- Grow a professional network, e.g., discuss career/professional steps with a mentor
- Examine challenges and opportunities encountered by professionals or community leaders in applied settings
Find belonging and community
- Articulate a sense of identity/authentic self and feel comfortable sharing it with others
- Develop supportive relationships through substantive interactions and collaboration with faculty, staff, peers, and/or community members
- Develop a sense of connection to UW Bothell and the broader community
- Develop improved confidence, determination, and persistence in the face of challenges
Contribute to a more just and equitable community
- Practice respect, responsiveness, and compassion
- Develop or deepen equity-oriented and strength-focused practices when interacting with people and communities that are similar and different from your own
- Understand diversity and its implications to organizations, teams, individuals, and community to improve communication and collaboration
- Engage in critical and courageous conversations about race, gender, ability, class, or culture
- Show evidence of using concepts or a framework that centers equity, access, and inclusion
Student Stories
Journey to self-growth through teaching kids to code
Through the Digital Scholars program, Parisa Soltanian honed her skills in computer science while discovering a new passion for teaching kids to code.
LEARN ABOUT PARISA’S EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EXPERIENCEMy Story: Voting as a call to action for social change
As a NextGen Civic Leader, Andy Walker-Tran pursues his commitment to civic engagement by building connections with local communities and encouraging young people to vote.
LEARN MORE ABOUT ANDY’S CIVIC LEADERSHIPBusiness students worked with NAMI and interviewed community members
Each year, students in Laura Umetsu’s Business Writing course interview and write about community leaders with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to raise awareness about local mental health resources.
LEARN ABOUT BUSINESS STUDENTS’ POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONSResearch from the heart
With the support of a Founders Fellow Summer Research Award, Vi Nguyen developed non-contact electrodes intended to make heart monitoring testing easier and more cost-effective.
LEARN MORE ABOUT VI’S BIOMEDICAL INNOVATIONS