Meaning
"Defining the meaning of higher degrees can provide clarity for institutions, for students, and for a public that seeks to understand what unique educational experience will be had at that particular institution and what makes the investment in that experience worthwhile...Exploring the meaning of a degree thus involves addressing questions about what the institution expects its students -- undergraduates and graduates alike -- to know and be able to do upon graduation, and how graduates embody the distinct values and traditions of the institution through their dispositions and future plans."
- WSCUC 2013 Handbook of Accreditation, pg 29
Meaning can be defined through PLOs and Curriculum Maps
Program Learning Outcomes
Students will demonstrate a moral, ethical, or spiritual consciousness in their own writing.
Students will think critically and communicate clearly in analyzing the major's primary genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction, and screen/television writing.
Students will demonstrate proficiency in writing each of the major's primary genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction, and screen/television writing.
Students will demonstrate expertise in writing and analysis of at least one of the major's primary genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction, and/or screen/television writing.
