Find program competencies and student learning outcomes for Kelley School programs

The program competencies for each of Kelley’s programs describe the knowledge, skills, and attitudes students should command upon graduation. These broad competencies support the school's mission and have been created and endorsed by the faculty.

Each program competency is broken down into three to six student learning outcomes (SLOs) to make it possible to measure students’ progress. By observing individual student performance on each of the SLOs, faculty can determine the extent to which students are mastering the learning competencies set forth by the program.

Kelley instructors are required to attach the appropriate set of program competencies and SLOs to each syllabus as an appendix.

Curriculum maps show a bird's-eye view of the entire required curriculum of each program and, when first completed, allow program leadership to identify any gaps or redundancies in short order. They facilitate and support Kelley’s assurance of learning process.

At the Kelley School of Business, we use tabular curriculum maps, with required courses forming the columns of the table and the program’s SLOs forming the rows of the table.

In this truncated example of a curriculum map, a program's required courses are listed across the top. Two of this program’s six learning competencies and their concomitant SLOs are listed down the page. A quick glance shows which program student learning outcomes each required course addresses.