The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article on 10-24-10 about efforts to assess student learning within the disciplines:
Disciplines Follow Their Own Paths to Quality
by David Glenn,
Villanova, PA
http://chronicle.com/article/Disciplines-Follow-Their-Own/125055/.
Of particular interest to me is the discussion of assessment within Classics and Political Science. Hopefully, this will produce some examples that will resonate with Liberal Arts faculty! I do think that we have a dearth of learning assessment examples that make sense to faculty who do not see their disciplines or curricula as sequential or linear.