Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Minor

SLO #1. Intersectional Thinking: Students will analyze complicated social problems and forces based on multiple systems while understanding that several variables, systems and identities can cause a problem.

SLO #2. Textual Analysis: Students will be able to do close, careful, and deep reading that is more than simply the ability to understand an argument but the ability to be alert to what is surprising or nuanced about it.

SLO #3. Effective Citizenship: Students will connect theory to contemporary politics while understanding how to take theoretical insights and apply them in real-world contexts, thus moving beyond critique to action. Also, they will demonstrate robust and responsible community engagement.

SLO #4: Critical Evaluation: Students will listen for what is missing from an analysis (whose voices, which ideas, which assumptions are not being taken into account) while acknowledging contradiction in arguments and working with that contradiction.

SLO #5. Locate and Effectively integrate information: Students will critically evaluate sources for their utility in making an argument while articulating an independent analysis that reflects original thinking. They will also be able to address a research question.

SLO #6. Mastering a body of knowledge or mode of inquiry: Students will engage with literature on a focused topic or developing independent research questions.

SLO #7. Effective communication in written, oral, and digital presentation: Students will communicate effectively in written, oral and digital presentation, as well as a demonstrated receptiveness to digital and written text. They will be able to demonstrate effective analysis across multiple methodologies and platforms.