Program Learning Outcomes

English: Writing and Literature

Bachelor of Arts

Literary Knowledge and Practice

Employ a vocabulary of literary terms, theories, and critical methods in interpreting texts.
Identify and interpret ambiguities in meaning.
Recognize differences in genre and form and employ them in textual analysis.
Identify important interpretive contexts -- including historical, cultural, aesthetic, intertextual, social, or ethico-political-- and analyze texts with reference to them.
Interrogate literary representations of gender, class, race, ethnicity, or sexuality and the ways these categories intersect.

Critical Thinking and Writing

Analyze the ways in which discourses and texts are linked to power structures and ideologies.
Employ a recursive process of drafting and revision, including analysis of their own work and the work of their peers, to develop written arguments.
Make effective use of secondary sources in constructing their own argument.

Information Literacy and Analysis

Evaluate and use standard bibliographic and reference sources.
Observe ethical citation practices, making use of MLA or Chicago style conventions.
Through an evolving research process, formulate, refine, and fully explore a research question.
Present a clear and well-reasoned argument, using appropriate form for rhetorical situation and academic conventions such as thesis.