List the outcomes intended for students participating in the course.
Student learning outcomes should be phrased in terms of observable or measurable behaviors that a student should be expected to demonstrate as a result of taking the course.

Some examples of well-written Student Learning Outcomes statements:

"By the end of this course, students will be able to.........

.......identify five key provisions of the clean air act"
.......outline the procedure for calibrating a gas chromatograph"
.......interpret poetry in the cultural context of its period"
.......distinguish between conduction and convection"
.......apply structured and semi-structured interviewing techniques in his/her fieldwork"
.......calculate the probability that two sample means will differ by more than 5%"
.......explain which economic and political factors contributed to the outbreak of W.W.II"
.......design an experiment to determine the effect of temperature on..."
....... formulate a resume in the foreign language for a job application abroad"
.......evaluate the usefulness of various anthropological research methods for the study of a specific problem by selecting one of the options and justifying your choice"

Student learning outcomes that are phrased . the student will: know, learn, appreciate, understand, etc. .are not appropriate for this purpose.
They may be critically important overarching goals, but are not specific enough to lend themselves to measurability for the purposes of course assessment.