Tallahassee Community College offers an Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree which features various disciplines. An A.A. degree features a general education curriculum, which is often sought by students interested in transferring to a 4-year college or university as a junior upon graduation from TCC.
The A.A. degree at TCC helps students achieve holistic, interdisciplinary skills aligned with specific Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) necessary to successfully transition to a 4-year college or university. These SLOs are illustrated below.
The General Education SLOs for currently assess at TCC are described in more depth below.
Communications
Students will demonstrate effective reading and writing skills by using appropriate strategies for a variety of rhetorical purposes and audiences.
Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning
Students will identify and apply appropriate quantitative analytical methods to explain phenomena and generate effective solutions.
Critical Thinking
Students will apply critical and creative thinking skills to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize ideas.
Global and Social Diversity
Students will demonstrate an understanding of diverse perspectives and their influence on individual, social, historical, and political events or on cultural expression.
Information Literacy
Students will demonstrate effective information literacy skills by locating, evaluating, and effectively and ethically using information to achieve an academic or professional purpose.
The Associate in Arts /University Transfer General Education program follows a Five-Year Assessment Schedule to re-assess the above student learning outcomes. *This plan is an extension of the 2015-16 to 2019-20 plan.
Communications SLO (covering Communications/English; Humanities-TCC Core, and written Communications Rubric) will:
- Re-assess in Fall 2020
- OIE (Office of Institutional Effectiveness) data analysis and reporting in Spring 2021
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2021
- Re-assess in Spring 2022
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Fall 2022
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Spring 2023
- Re-assess in Fall 2023
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Spring 2024
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2024
- Re-assess in Spring 2025
Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning SLO (Mathematics: Quantitative Literacy Rubric; and Natural Sciences: Problem-Solving for Quantitative Literacy Rubric) will:
- Re-assess in Fall 2020
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Spring 2021
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2021
- Re-assess in Spring 2022
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Fall 2022
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Spring 2023
- Re-assess in Fall 2023
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Spring 2024
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2024
- Re-assess in Spring 2025
Critical Thinking SLO (All Areas, Critical Thinking Rubric) will:
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Fall 2020
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Spring 2021
- Re-assess in Fall 2021
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Spring 2022
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2022
- Re-assess in Spring 2023
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Fall 2023
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Spring 2024
- Re-assess in Fall 2024
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Spring 2025
Information Literacy SLO (Communications/English and Information Literacy Rubric) will:
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2020
- Re-assess in Spring 2021
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Fall 2021
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Spring 2022
- Re-assess in Fall 2022
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Spring 2023
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2023
- Re-assess in Spring 2024
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Fall 2024
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Spring 2025
Global and Social Diversity SLO (Humanities-State Core, All Social Sciences (see catalog), SLS, and Global and Social Diversity Rubric) will:
- Re-assess in Fall 2020
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Spring 2021
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2021
- Re-assess in Spring 2022
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Fall 2022
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Spring 2023
- Re-assess in Fall 2023
- OIE data analysis and reporting in Spring 2024
- Close the loop: analyze results and identify improvements in Fall 2024
- Re-assess in Spring 2025
This schedule is illustrated in the table below:
