Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
The Quest curriculum emphasizes transferable skills, preparing students for a rapidly changing economy and success in a wide range of endeavours. We review our program on an ongoing basis to ensure we’re delivering on our mission. Recently, a working group composed of students, staff and faculty engaged in research and community consultations to revise Quest’s learning outcomes.
HIGHER-ORDER THINKING
ASPIRATION: Quest graduates will demonstrate intellectual engagement through complex thought.
OUTCOMES: Students who complete Quest’s program can:
- Analyze, synthesize and evaluate information in order to make decisions or devise solutions;
- Demonstrate creativity and flexibility in generating a work of the imagination or meeting a purpose;
- Acknowledge the limits of their individual knowledge in ways which embrace ambiguity and complexity;
- Critique the quality and credibility of information, including quantitative and qualitative evidence.
INTEGRATED LEARNING
ASPIRATION: Quest graduates will make connections among concepts and experiences and apply what they have learned in new contexts.
OUTCOMES: Students who complete Quest’s program can:
- Apply knowledge and skills learned in their academic studies to other areas of their lives and vice versa;
- Connect information and ideas from diverse learning experiences;
- Operate with the tools and approaches of more than one discipline;
- Draw on prior knowledge to solve new intellectual and practical challenges.
COMMUNICATION
ASPIRATION: Quest graduates are accomplished, flexible communicators.
OUTCOMES: Students who complete Quest’s program can:
- Design and implement creative ways of sharing meaning or a message;
- Recognize the linguistic, social and cultural variations in communication practices;
- Listen to understand and adjust their approach for a variety of audiences;
- Analyze rhetorical and quantitative information and use a range of evidence in response.
MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
ASPIRATION: Quest graduates can respectfully engage with diverse perspectives.
OUTCOMES: Students who complete Quest’s degree program can:
- Employ multiple disciplines in engaging with topics or challenges outside of one’s cultural context or worldview;
- Discuss the influence of bias and power in the production of knowledge;
- Examine the factors that construct academic fields and worldviews;
- Practice humility and exhibit openness to the perspectives and lived experiences of others.
SELF AND WORLD
ASPIRATION: Quest graduates practice life-long learning and are exceptional members of their communities.
OUTCOMES: Students who complete Quest’s program can:
- Reflect on their own thinking, actions and beliefs and apply what they learn from that reflection;
- Connect human activities and ideas to their consequences for individuals, society and the environment;
- Make decisions in self-directed projects while considering that project’s wider implications for others;
- Apply principles of effective collaboration and conflict resolution.