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College-Wide Learning Outcomes

College-Wide Learning Outcomes (CWLO) are core knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes every Clover Park Technical College graduate must develop. These include communication, critical thinking, responsibilities, and technological literacy, ensuring readiness for career and life success.

Communication

  • Remember/Understand: Recognize individual differences, multiple learning styles, and multilingual backgrounds that inform the context, audience, and purpose of communication.
  • Apply/Analyze: Use situationally appropriate language, nonverbal behaviors, visual support, and/or technical literature to communicate with clarity, accuracy, and fluency, considering diverse audience members.
  • Evaluate/Create: Communicate with empathy, respect and cultural humility.

Critical Thinking

  • Remember/Understand: Ensure the selection of quality information and credible resources includes diverse perspectives and approaches for problem solving.
  • Apply/Analyze: Apply logical reasoning and innovative approaches to create real world solutions in the workplace while being mindful of cultural impacts.
  • Evaluate/Create: Evaluate information, decisions, and systems for relevance, logic, feasibility, efficiency, validity, inclusivity, and disparate cultural impact.

Responsibility

  • Remember/Understand: Increase cultural awareness to foster inclusive practices and responsibilities in diverse academic and social settings.
  • Apply/Analyze: Apply principles of cultural humility and environmental sustainability in work attitudes and habits in organizational settings.
  • Evaluate/Create: Develop culturally informed soft skills to successfully enter the workforce and maintain employment in the industry, while facilitating/creating a sense of belongingness.

Technological Literacy

  • Remember/Understand: Recognize industrial needs, as well as the cultural and social economic barriers to accessing and using appropriate technology.
  • Apply/Analyze: Apply principles of cultural humility that challenge assumptions in the selection and use of industry specific devices to accomplish tasks in today’s workplace.
  • Evaluate/Create: Create culturally responsive, socioeconomically, and environmentally sustainable products, systems, and/or services with relevant technology skills that have been critically evaluated for equitable impact.