{"id":1773,"date":"2015-03-10T23:37:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/?page_id=1773"},"modified":"2015-03-10T23:37:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:37:56","slug":"program-learning-goals-fall-winter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/program-learning-goals-fall-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Learning Goals, fall &amp; winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you write your self-evaluation, you might find our program learning goals (available in the fall syllabus and the winter syllabus update) to be useful. Below, I&#8217;ve consolidated them to try to reflect what you&#8217;ve had the opportunity to do by the end of winter quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Through your work in fall and winter quarter, you have had the opportunity to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve your ability to articulate and assume responsibility for your own work.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen your collaborative skills and the ability to respond in useful ways to the work of colleagues.<\/li>\n<li>Improve your skills in clear communication of historical, mathematical, and scientific ideas, both orally and in writing.<\/li>\n<li>Improve your ability to analyze the structure, content, and objectives of a text with focus on developing conceptual understanding and procedural skills and understanding themes and argument.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand key ideas in the trajectory of human thought towards modern physics.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen research skills and knowledge of resources associated with the history of physics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gain a deeper understanding of mathematical thinking by exploring how non-Western cultures have incorporated mathematics.<\/li>\n<li>Develop a broad and deep understanding of a mathematical or physical concept and clearly communicate the key features of that concept to a non-specialist audience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Deepen your prerequisite understanding of the concepts of function, slope, and limits which form the backdrop for calculus and improve your algebra skills.<\/li>\n<li>Learn the definitions of the derivative and the integral, and be able to relate them to algebraic, numerical, graphical, or verbal descriptions and data.<\/li>\n<li>Learn to calculate derivatives and integrals using a variety of standard techniques.<\/li>\n<li>Learn to use derivatives and integrals in applied problems, particularly in the context of the physical sciences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Utilize the mathematical models that describe and explain motion in the natural world.<\/li>\n<li>Understand that physics is based on a few key principles that can be applied to a wide range of natural phenomena.<\/li>\n<li>See the central role that unification plays in physics.<\/li>\n<li>Experience that physics is both a mathematical and an experimental science.<\/li>\n<li>Use the main ideas of classical mechanics (kinematics, dynamics, and conservation principles), special relativity, and electricity &amp; magnetism to solve fundamental and applied problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you write your self-evaluation, you might find our program learning goals (available in the fall syllabus and the winter syllabus update) to be useful. Below, I&#8217;ve consolidated them to try to reflect what you&#8217;ve had the opportunity to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/program-learning-goals-fall-winter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"no"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}