Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes should set out what students will be able to do by the end of the course or programme. From there, educators can work backwards from these outcomes to design teaching practices and assessments accordingly. They should be written with active verbs, and using language the students can understand. 

Course Level Learning Outcomes

EUCLID asks for 3-5 learning outcomes when submitting paperwork for a new course.

These are some resources to guide setting learning outcomes:

• Short guide: Short guide to writing learning outcomes (3 pages)
• Blog post: How to make intended learning outcomes useful
• Video: Designing learning outcomes: A basic introduction (7 mins) - also embedded below:

Programme Level Learning Outcomes

Each programme should have six learning outcomes that relate to the following six subsections based on the University’s Graduate Attributes:

1. Knowledge and understanding 
   • Understand heritage as the contemporary processes and outcomes of interacting with tangible and intangible aspects of the past, by assigning cultural and social meanings to them.
2. Graduate attribute: Research and enquiry
   • Research and evaluate how uses, values and practices of heritage can help responses to contemporary societal challenges in data rich environments.
3. Graduate attribute: Personal and intellectual autonomy 
   • Use disruptive thinking to create theory and data rich solutions that foster innovation with social purpose.
4. Graduate attribute: Communication 
   • Be proactive and adaptable in applying professional, sustainable and inclusive styles of communication to influence change in the heritage sector.
5. Graduate attribute: Personal effectiveness
   • Adopting collaborative mindsets and behaviours to respond to longstanding and emerging problems within the heritage world with sensitivity and integrity.
6. Technical/practical skills 
   • Applying and adapting a range of data science and computational approaches to critically inform workflows for the study and practice of heritage.

Further resources

• Blog post: Crafting an inclusive curriculum: How to write programme learning outcomes
• Video: How to Write Programme-Level Learning Outcomes (4 mins) - also embedded below