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×1. Demonstrate close-reading skills that produce layered, rich, cohesive meanings from a text.
2. Through formal writing, demonstrate original and critical thinking by posing and answering interpretive questions clearly and persuasively.
3. Demonstrate the ability to recognize and use reference books, databases, and leading journals in the discipline.
4. Demonstrate breadth of exposure by analyzing literary texts in relation to a variety of literary movements, genres, and periods.
5. Demonstrate awareness of larger debates in American and British literary history.
Assessment of Writing Concentration Outcomes:
The Writing Committee conducts a regular assessment of student papers and portfolios submitted for specific writing courses. See 2B for the Writing Committee’s report on this year’s assessment efforts.
In these courses, students will
Consider: Rhetorical occasion, or the audience, genre and purpose of any writing/reading situation
Reflect: on the relationship between individuals and society; on their development/growth as a writer; on strategies/tools they might import to other rhetorical occasions; on their role as a writer and thinker in out worlds; on the relationship between oral and written texts
Explore: strategies for organizing a text, multiple viewpoints; strategies for reading academic texts; strategies for developing rhetorical flexibility in regard to voice
Engage: with texts; with peer and instructors feedback; with complex ideas and problems; with academic discourse; with sources; in scholarly conversations
Practice: generative work and extensive revision; locating, evaluating, summarizing, and synthesizing sources; thinking on paper; representing complex thinking in formal writing; conventional documentation; inquiry-based writing and reading
Produce: polished prose that claims a position
In achieving these goals for Composition I, students will
In achieving these goals for Composition II, students will
Assessment Plan for Composition Program:
The Composition Committee regularly assesses student learning through an analysis of students’ end-of-the-semester portfolios. Please see the Composition report in section 2B, especially “Promoting Portfolios for Comp II”, for more information about this year’s assessment activities.
All students will demonstrate:
All students will acquire:
All students will acquire:
Students concentrating in Performance will acquire:
e. The ability to competently direct actors and to stage a play.
All students will acquire:
Students concentrating in Design/Technology will acquire:
1. Demonstrate advanced understanding of American, British, and diverse literatures.
2. Demonstrate mastery of the concepts of literary theory.
3. Demonstrate the ability to write sophisticated and persuasive literary critical method analysis for capstone.
4. Demonstrate the ability to carry out independent research and contribute to an ongoing scholarly conversation in a field of English studies.
5. Demonstrate the ability to present a well-planned, effective, and engaging oral argument.