Brown-Bag Lunch: Why I Don't Do Learning Outcomes (but it's OK if you do) Please join Dr. Shannon Murray, Department of English, on Wednesday, November 29 from 12:30-1:30 in the SDU Main Building Faculty lounge as she leads a discussion about "Why I Don't Do Learning Outcomes (but it's OK if you do)": Many universities—and indeed whole provinces—have moved to requirements for Learning Outcomes, either for individual courses or for whole programs. These outcomes are to be "SMART": specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound, and there is good literature on the sort of language that forms strong and not-so-strong outcome statements. A conversation about learning outcomes—or objectives or goals—is certainly helpful for both instructors and students. Instructors are forced to think carefully about what they expect and how assessment aligns with what really matters in the course; and students aren't forced to guess what those expectations are and can, ideally, assess their own progress. And yet, I will not draft outcomes for (most of) my courses. Come for a chat about what's great about learning outcomes: and why some of us might have good reasons to politely decline. All are welcome!