Eloquentia Perfecta: Creative Expression

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Eloquentia Perfecta: Creative Expression Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this Core component will be able to:

Articulate persuasive positions through engagement in a creative or design process that includes multiple stages of invention and arrangement
Develop perceptual, analytical, and technical skills and processes that enable engagement with elements of the arts, design, or performance (e.g. form, color, perspective, rhythm, movement) to communicate concepts and ideas
Critically analyze their own and others’ creative expression and/or design
Examine how personal and cultural contexts influence choices made within creative expression or design traditions
Reflect on the ways in which rhetorically and technically proficient creative expression or design contributes to ethical public discourse

University Core Learning Outcomes

Eloquentia Perfecta: Written and Visual courses must be directed toward achievement of their Core component learning outcomes in order to help students develop the relevant Core SLOs connected to this course in the overall Core design.

SLO 3: ALL SLU graduates will be able to assess evidence and draw reasoned conclusions
- - Eloquentia Perfecta: Written and Visual courses should develop students' skills needed to assess evidence and draw reasoned conclusions.

SLO 4: ALL SLU graduates will be able to communicate effectively in writing, speech, and visual media.
- - Eloquentia Perfecta: Written and Visual courses should develop students' ability to communicate effectively in writing, speech, and visual media.
SLO 5: ALL SLU graduates will be able to analyze how diverse identities influence their lives and the lives of others.
- - Eloquentia Perfecta: Creative Expressioun courses should introduce students to the ways in which diverse identities influence their lives and the lives of others.

Essential Criteria

EP 3 Final Approved Core Overview.pdf

Guide students in developing the skills essential to articulating positions within a form of creative expression or design
Facilitate students’ critical and ethical thinking through engagement with a creative or design process
Require students to reflect on the relationship between the creative or design process and its larger cultural or linguistic context(s), including potentially world languages and cultures
Assign some formal reflection on creative or design choices, e.g. a craft paper to facilitate Core assessment

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