Student learning outcomes state what students are expected to know or be able to do upon completion of a course or program. Learning outcomes are statements that describe the knowledge or skills students should acquire by the end of a particular assignment, class, course, or program.
Use literary terminology and basic critical theory to discuss, analyze, synthesize, and interpret Black literary works in various genres.
Write evidence-based literary analyses of Black literature demonstrating close reading and interpretive skills, logical reasoning, and argumentative strategies.
Analyze how Black literary texts portray struggle, resistance, social justice, solidarity, and/or liberation, and how the texts engage with anti-racist issues, practices, and movements to build a diverse, just, and equitable society.
These come from Gholdy Muhammad's book Cultivating Genius.
Identity Formation: students will examine their personal identities as well as those who differ from them in order to situate themselves in scholarly conversations and leverage their cultural, historical, and ancestral capital as well as lived experiences
Skills: Students will develop writing, research, synthesis, critical thinking, rhetorical analysis, technology, and presentation skills
Intellect: Students will gain new knowledge outside of the English discipline by examining the history and interdisciplinary applications of their social issues
Criticality: Students will engage in the projects this term in order to challenge systems of oppression and create social change