English uses program-specific student learning outcomes separated into two categories: Skills and Knowledge.

Skills

Understand analyze and interpret literary texts especially through close and critical reading
Place literature in relation to its historical, cultural, intellectual, theoretical, aesthetic, social, and political contexts;
Locate evaluate and use relevant scholarship literary criticism and cultural commentary both in print and online
Formulate a focused well organized and stylistically appropriate argument that supports its claims with evidence and demonstrates an awareness of audience purpose and context
Engage in public discourse through careful listening respectful questioning and thoughtful speaking in both formal and informal settings
Collaborate with others to identify define and solve problems related to the production publication and interpretation of literature

Knowledge

Recognize literature as a vehicle for both individual and cultural expression that can engage the imagination elicit feeling express value and enable inquiry
Identify the major historical periods of literature written in English including British American and Anglophone authors movements and styles
Identify the characteristics of different forms of literature including their major genres (fiction nonfiction poetry drama) and hybrid forms
Demonstrate familiarity with literary terms themes and techniques both traditional and experimental
Understand the relationship between language authorship publication audience and power
Appreciate the importance in producing publishing and interpreting literature including racial ethnic gender sexual religious economic and ideological differences
Appreciate the relationship of literature to other arts such as dance music photography theater visual art and performance

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