Learning Outcomes:
Division of Humanities

BFA - Creative Writing

• • The student will demonstrate an advanced understanding of the forms and elements of the craft used by published writers of his/her selected genre - fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction - and be able to apply these forms and elements to his/her writing.

  • The student will demonstrate an advanced ability to provide constructive oral and ritten feedback on the work of his/her peers.

  • The student will demonstrate an advanced ability to develop an individual writing process that includes generation and revision of creative work that has benefited from instructor and/or workshop feedback.

  • The student will demonstrate an awareness of the diverse social contexts in which writers write and readers read, including the role of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, dis/ability, class, etc.

  • The student will demonstrate the use of digital technologies applicable to literary and related professions.

Communication Studies

• • Students will be able to effectively analyze and criticize communication processes in various contexts.

  • Students will be able to model communication competence in various contexts.

  • Students will be able to effectively formulate questions about communication and devise appropriate ways to answer those questions.

  • Students will be able to recognize what is necessary to work as a productive member of a project oriented group.

  • Students will be able to effectively analyze the interaction between diversity and communication.

  • Students will be able to exhibit the ability to effectively use technology to disseminate messages, do research and analyze communication phenomena.

English

• • Students will read texts critically and creatively.

  • Students will write a theoretically-informed textual analysis that contributes to critical scholarship.

  • Students will apply literary and cultural theory in and beyond the discipline.

  • Students will communicate effectively in presentations and discussion.

  • Students will collaborate and lead in a range of workshop, classroom, and small group contexts.

  • Students will examine how texts produce and challenge diverse world views, value systems, and social positions.

  • Students will conduct and produce research using appropriate disciplinary and technological methods.

  • Students will explain how disciplinary skills prepare majors for professional opportunities and civic service.

Global Studies

• • Students will work in a language other than his/her first language.

  • Students will communicate in depth knowledge of a region of the world or cultural group.

  • Students will apply interdisciplinary methodological approaches.

  • Students will formulate a global studies-appropriate research question

  • Students will analyze transnational/transcultural issues using field specific concepts

  • Students will demonstrate digital information literacy and globally-oriented technology-based research skills using traditional media as well as alternative sources of information such as social media.

MFA

• • The student demonstrates an advanced understanding of the forms and elements of the craft used by published writers of his/her selected genre—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction-and is able to apply these forms and elements to his/her writing.

  • The student demonstrates an advanced ability to provide constructive written and oral feedback on the work of their peers.

  • The student demonstrates an advanced ability to develop an individual writing practice that includes generation and revision of creative work that has benefited from instructor and/or workshop feedback.

  • The student demonstrates mastery of the craft in their chosen genre(s).

  • The student demonstrates an awareness of the diverse social contexts in which writers write and readers read, including the roles of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, dis/ability, and class, etc.

  • The student demonstrates the use of digital technologies applicable to literary and related professions.

MFAC

• • Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the elements of the craft used by published writers of their selected genre—picture book, fiction, nonfiction— and be able to apply these elements to their own writing appropriate to the audience.

  • Demonstrate an advanced ability to provide constructive written and oral feedback on the work of their peers. 

  • Demonstrate an advanced ability to develop an individual writing practice that includes generation and revision of  a thesis-length manuscript or collection of picture books that has benefited from instructor and/or workshop feedback.

  • Demonstrate an advanced ability to write a cogent, well-organized, research-based essay while applying  standards of good writing with regard to sentence structure, grammar, diction, spelling, and punctuation.

  • Demonstrate an awareness of the diverse social contexts in which writers write and readers read, including the roles of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, dis/ability, class, etc.

  • Demonstrate the use of digital technologies as applicable to literary and related professions.

Modern Languages and Literature

• • Students will express themselves proficiently in the target language in interpersonal, interpretive and presentational communication.

  • Students will express informed opinions about current issues relating to the Chinese, Spanish, German, or French-speaking world.

  • Students will analyze literary texts, art, and culture from countries where the target language is spoken.

  • Students will write effective compositions in the target language.

  • Demonstrate understanding of (1) systemic inequalities and power differences in a diverse world, and (2) traditions, identities, and history from multiple perspectives.

  • Students will do effective, discipline-specific research on literature, linguistics, or cultural studies and compile a comprehensive, correctly formatted bibliography.

Philosophy

• • Students will explore and share philosophical ideas in written and spoken discourse.

  • Students will analyze, Evaluate, and Construct philosophical arguments.

  • Students will know the main figures and themes in the history of western European philosophy and demonstrate an awareness of critical and counter-hegemonic discourses from within and outside that tradition.

  • Students will apply abstract philosophical theories to the real world at the personal, local, national, and global level.

Religion

• • Students will demonstrate a critical understanding of the beliefs, practices, and communities of at least one religious tradition, both historically and as part of contemporary global society.

  • Students will interpret primary and secondary religious sources, and communicate these interpretations effectively in written and oral form.

  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of how religion informs and is informed by other dimensions of human experience and knowledge, such as culture, gender, race, and politics.

  • Students will engage in critical self-reflection on their own values through encounters with worldviews, practices, and ethical commitments different from their own.

  • Students will apply various theories and methodological perspectives to the study of religion.