Student Learning Outcomes
Student Learning Outcomes
The student will demonstrate the ability to do the following:
- Verbal literacy – to write expository essays that have focused theses, organization, development, and Standard English, that draw upon both primary and secondary sources, and that document those sources correctly.
- Literary Forms and Concepts– to identify and analyze the literary elements and forms of major genres: drama, epic, fiction, and poetry.
- Historical and cultural contexts – to make connections between a specific literary work (e.g., subject, form, style) and its historical and cultural contexts (e.g., major event, documents, behavior patterns, beliefs).
- Major in English – to focus and sustain an argument relating to literary works, analyzing and synthesizing materials from both primary and secondary sources and interrelating critical and research skills.
- Major in English with a Writing Emphasis – to focus and sustain a creative writing portfolio, interrelating form and technique appropriate to a specific literary genre.
