Institutional Student Learning Goals and Outcomes - Undergraduate
(ILG #1) Disciplinary Expert: Mount graduates will demonstrate the knowledge, skills and dispositions required of their chosen discipline.
(ILO #1) Disciplinary Competence: Mount graduates will demonstrate competence in techniques, concepts and knowledge specific to their chosen discipline.
(ILG #2) Complex Thinker: Mount graduates will be able to apply investigation, critical thinking, and analytic and decision-making skills to identify and solve problems effectively.
(ILO #2) Critical Thinking: Mount graduates will be able to identify, analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments.
(ILO #3) Quantitative Reasoning: Mount graduates will be able to apply college-level mathematical reasoning to analyze and explain real world issues.
(ILO #4) Information Literacy: Mount graduates will demonstrate the skills required to find, retrieve, evaluate, and use information effectively and ethically.
(ILG #3) Clear Communicator: Mount graduates will be able to effectively convey ideas, opinions, and facts in written and oral form.
(ILO #5) Written and Oral Communication: Mount graduates will be able to effectively express ideas in written form and oral form.
(ILG #4) “Dear Neighbor”: Mount graduates are prepared to ethically live, work, serve and lead within diverse local, national, and global communities.
(ILO #6) Women and Gender: Mount graduates will critically evaluate the roles of women and/or gender in society.
(ILO #7) Spirit of the Founders: Mount graduates will analyze and apply ideas and theories of social justice, human rights, ethics and engagement in light of the CSJ Mission and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.
(ILO #8) Community: Mount graduates will critically analyze and apply disciplinary perspectives and contexts to the studies of communities, in order to build a sense of responsibility and skills necessary to serve.
(ILO #9) Global Awareness and Understanding: Mount graduates will evaluate or apply modes of academic inquiry to historical and/or current global contexts.
(ILO #10) Leadership: Mount graduates will apply various approaches to leadership to affect positive change in their local and global communities.
(ILO #11) Diversity: Mount graduates will know how to articulate and engage transformative frameworks and communication exchanges that promote social justice, diversity, inclusion and equity.
Undergraduate Degree Program Descriptions
Associate Degree Programs
Through the Associate degree programs on the Doheny Campus and Fully Online, students have the opportunity to develop academic competencies and enhance their self-development through involvement on and off campus. Faculty and staff offer excellence in their specialized fields and show concern for the individual student.
Courses of study are offered which lead to the degrees of Associate of Arts and Associate of Science. Primarily these degrees are offered on the Doheny campus.
All students entering an Associate degree program are required to complete placement tests in reading, writing, and math prior to registering for classes. Four semesters are usually required to complete the an Associate degree; students who require supplemental work in mathematics or English may need one or two additional semesters.
This program is designed to prepare students for transition to a Baccalaureate program on the Chalon Campus or another institution or direct entry into a career after graduation.
Baccalaureate Degree Programs
Mount Saint Mary’s University offers courses of study leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. Primarily these are offered at the Chalon Campus.
Within the liberal arts tradition, the curriculum provides the student with a broad and liberating background in the arts and sciences, and aims at developing his or her ability to communicate knowledge and to apply appropriate principles and techniques to particular problems. During the junior and senior years, the students pursue deeper study in their major areas of concentration and take related elective courses.
Baccalaureate Weekend\Evening College
The Weekend\Evening College on the Doheny Campus of Mount Saint Mary’s University and the Fully Online Program is an innovative approach to learning that provides working adults with the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in Applied Psychology, Liberal Arts, English, Religious Studies, English and Business Administration, Film & Media, or a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Business Administration (also available Fully Online), Social Work and Criminology (also available Fully Online). Students can earn their degrees while continuing to fulfill their full-time obligations to their careers and families.
The Weekend\Evening College is a complete college experience, based on traditional curricula whose content has been organized in new ways and then redistributed so that classes, which would traditionally be spread out evenly over a full-semester, are concentrated into six intensive weekends. These weekends are non-consecutive and are scheduled in such a way that there is a space of at least two weeks between each class weekend. Adult students, even if they work full-time during the week and have, in addition, family and personal obligations, are nevertheless able to perform comfortably and successfully if they have developed a reasonable degree of maturity and motivation. Those who take three live weekend courses per semester spend the whole day in classes on both Saturday and Sunday on each of the six non-consecutive weekend sessions. We also offer courses in the evening and online in order to meet the needs of our students.
The program is designed for both men and women, part-time or full-time students, and for those who bring with them transfer credits from other colleges as well as students who are just beginning their college education. Teachers who exemplify Mount Saint Mary’s academic excellence Monday through Friday also teach courses with low student-teacher ratios on weekends in the Weekend and Evening College. Students who receive their Bachelor's Degree from the Weekend\Evening College (spend comparable hours in the classroom), receive the same outstanding quality of instruction, and graduate possessing the same high level of knowledge and skills as the graduates of all the programs at Mount Saint Mary's renowned University.