The document outlines student learning outcomes for English majors with literature and rhetoric and writing emphases. For the literature emphasis, outcomes include generating close readings of texts, demonstrating familiarity with literary traditions and works by diverse authors, engaging in disciplinary conversations using theory and research, and writing effective prose. For the rhetoric and writing emphasis, outcomes focus on selecting writing strategies for different contexts, collaborating, integrating research, performing rhetorical analysis, understanding the role of language, and demonstrating knowledge of rhetorical traditions.
The document outlines student learning outcomes for English majors with literature and rhetoric and writing emphases. For the literature emphasis, outcomes include generating close readings of texts, demonstrating familiarity with literary traditions and works by diverse authors, engaging in disciplinary conversations using theory and research, and writing effective prose. For the rhetoric and writing emphasis, outcomes focus on selecting writing strategies for different contexts, collaborating, integrating research, performing rhetorical analysis, understanding the role of language, and demonstrating knowledge of rhetorical traditions.
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The document outlines student learning outcomes for English majors with literature and rhetoric and writing emphases. For the literature emphasis, outcomes include generating close readings of texts, demonstrating familiarity with literary traditions and works by diverse authors, engaging in disciplinary conversations using theory and research, and writing effective prose. For the rhetoric and writing emphasis, outcomes focus on selecting writing strategies for different contexts, collaborating, integrating research, performing rhetorical analysis, understanding the role of language, and demonstrating knowledge of rhetorical traditions.
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1. Generate a close reading of a text, recognizing, understanding, and interpreting a text's
elements. 2. Demonstrate familiarity with English language literary and rhetorical traditions, including prominent authors, genres, movements, and styles, as well as the historical and cultural contexts important to those traditions. 3. Demonstrate familiarity with literary and rhetorical works by writers of diverse backgrounds. 4. Engage in disciplinary conversations, drawing on theory and scholarship in fields appropriate to one’s area of emphasis. 5. Engage in research and sustained inquiry, which is disseminated in an appropriate forum(s). 6. Recognize and write effective prose, attending to such features as style, genre, audience, and purpose.
Rhetoric & Writing Emphasis Outcomes
A student graduating from this program will be able to
1. Select and modify writing strategies for different discourse communities
2. Understand and use stylistic and genre conventions 3. Apply invention/writing-to-learn techniques and recursive composing processes 4. Write collaboratively (co-authoring, giving and using feedback, etc.) 5. Integrate appropriate sources using primary and secondary research methods 6. Demonstrate competence in fundamental areas of writing (e.g., focus, organization, development, voice/tone, prose style, editing) 7. Perform rhetorical analysis and critique of a variety of texts 8. Understand the dynamic role of language in culture, history, and society 9. Engage in disciplinary conversations, drawing on knowledge of rhetoric and composition studies 10.Demonstrate knowledge of rhetorical traditions from classical times to present