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University Undergraduate Learning Outcomes

Writing Mastery Paper

Jenelle Magbutay

University of Las Vegas, Nevada

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Abstract

This paper explores my experience, implementation, and reflection on the University

Undergraduate Learning Outcomes. It will also explore my academic goals, career goals and preparation

for life post-graduation.

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Introduction

In UNLV, there are five University Undergraduate Learning Outcomes (UULOs) that are

intended to define what undergraduate students should know and be able to apply to their lives on a

professional and personal level when they graduate. I think that they do a good job encompassing the

basic intellectual needs to be a well-rounded, functioning member of society. These outcomes are as

follows: Intellectual Breadth/Lifelong Learning, Inquiry/Critical Thinking, Communication,

Global/Multicultural Knowledge and Awareness, and Citizenship/Ethics. Students who leave UNLV,

according to the UULOs, will be well rounded, cultured, and will want to continue learning throughout

their lives. Combined with these things and my majors in Vocal Performance and Human Services, I am

taking at UNLV, not only am I confident that I will graduate prepared socially, culturally, and globally, I

feel that I will be able to take my knowledge with me to places across the globe in order to be a part of

things for the greater good of humanity. With these skills, I will be able to start new ventures in new

places with new people with the confidence that I was well prepared during my time at UNLV. Now

entering my 2nd year at UNLV as a junior, I can already see the growth I have experienced from before I

started. I have become someone who is highly ambitious, confident in my ability to learn new things, able

to communicate and collaborate well with others, and someone who enjoys interacting with like-minded

individuals.

Intellectual Breadth and Lifelong Learning (IB&LL)

I have taken all of my general education courses, so I can attest to this broad knowledge that I

have. I feel that the courses in social science specifically helped guide me to my passion in human

services, especially my PSY 101 class. It has lead me to like people more, as before I was very antisocial

and did not want anything to do with interacting socially in my career, but taking the social sciences and
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really getting into the psychology of what socializing is has made me rethink my initial distaste for it.

Combined with my music major and the nature of a performance career, I have learned to love interacting

with people and making it my full time job. I have transferred what I have learned to both of my majors,

and they are both very people-centered subjects. I have also applied my foreign language courses to help

with my diction and comprehension in singing foreign languages. Without my general education courses,

I would have never found my passion for helping people musically, mentally, and spiritually.

Inquiry and Critical Thinking (ICT)

In my time at UNLV, I have definitely grown as a critical thinker. I’ve been able to articulate my

opinions and justifications for numerous things more clear than I ever have been able to before. I have

also become more assertive and inquisitive, being able to hold a constructive debate on my own. I used to

be the kind of person who avoided confrontation, but now I know that it is necessary in a healthy

relationship. In my continued studies at UNLV, I know that the need to improve on my inquiry and

critical thinking will always be present, but I can definitely say that I have improved a lot in this

discipline ever since I started studying here.

Communication

As I attend UNLV, I’ve found that communication is vital to collaborate with instructors and

students alike. As mentioned in the previous section, I grew up being very anti-social. I did not like to

interact with people and did not see myself going into a career that involved a lot of social interaction. My

time at UNLV has made me realize that I was afraid of it because I didn’t understand it. With more

experience from my coursework, I am now able to give presentation, collaborate with other like-minded

individuals, and articulate what it is that I would like to say in an organized, understandable manner.

Global/Multicultural Knowledge and Awareness

Since UNLV is known as one the most diverse schools in America, I have really felt that as I

have been attending UNLV. Even in my choral program, we celebrate the different cultures that make us

unique in an all-inclusive manner. I also have a lot of respect for the organizations on campus that
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represent a lot of political activism for fairness and support of the all-inclusiveness that not only UNLV

has to offer but the world as well. In my studies, I have learned multiculturalism in regards to education

and how to nurture a multicultural learning environment, I have learned new things about different

cultures that I have never known before, and I have had the pleasure of singing and performing music of

different cultures not in the popular classical repertoire including my own culture, being Filipino.

Citizenship and Ethics

I feel that next semester, being the first official school semester I will be pursuing my Human

Services degree, will fall perfectly into this category. There is a lot of activism and community outreach

involved in my new major, and focusing my efforts onto this area of the UULOs will help me immensely

in my new pursuit of helping guide people through difficult times in their lives. Human services

encompasses many things, such as social work, and in order to properly function as a social worker I must

indeed be familiar with all political, economic, and social institutions and how they affect the people in

our community. There are a lot of ethical dilemmas due to the nature of human services, and focusing my

efforts on defining what ethical standards are at the professional level will help me in my continual

pursuit in the human services field.

A lot of the UULOs align to what I want to see myself as after I graduate. Being a junior

upperclass and therefore being almost finished with my time at UNLV, I think that I am making good

progress in implementing each of the UULOs to my studies and my personal and professional life. I have

definitely felt the stress of change, but I believe it is for the better. So far, I have seen a change in myself

that has made me more of a Type A go-getter. I have better time management skills, practice discipline,

study discipline, and collaborative work ethic. I have also become very proactive in working on projects

and meeting deadlines at the right time. I hope that in my last two years of UNLV I continue to progress

as much as I have in my first two years.