Learning Outcomes

English 175 Learning Outcomes

English 175 Learning Outcomes I:

By the end of the school year students enrolled in English 175 for Dual Credit will achieve the following learning outcomes:

1. Speak intelligently about and discuss literature using the proper terminology of the discipline.

2. Explain how literature “works”

3. Make connections between literature and their own lives in ways that enlarge their understanding of the human condition.

4. Understand the continuing relevant of literature to society

5. Create an admiration and appreciation of reading literature.

English 175 Learn Outcomes II:

1. Students can recognize and identify the formal and thematic characteristics of the literary genres of short fiction, poetry and drama. Students will be able to show how these characteristics are used to produce meaning though their aesthetic, intellectual, and emotional effects.

2. Students possess a critical vocabulary, analytical, and interpretive skills that enable them to understand and participate in the academic and popular conversations surrounding literary works.

3. Through close an analysis of literary works and their historical and modern contexts, students can demonstrate how themes and issues in these works are reagent to contemporary culture and their lives.

4. Students can write in various modes—formal and informal, personal, analytical, and persuasive—demonstrating critical thinking skills and an appropriate sense of audience and use of conventions for each.