Class Goals and Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this class, students will be able to:

For English 120:

1) Use reflective writing to explore aspects of their identities, career goals, interests, learning experiences, and/or values.

2) Develop and support their own position in relation to academic, social, and/or cultural genealogies of thought.

3) Analyze academic texts to support claims, identify how authors create meaning, and critically engage with the larger significance of key concepts.

4) Construct clear, well-organized, writing which demonstrates an awareness of audience and purpose

For English 020:

1) Earn a passing grade in ENGL 120 (Freshman Composition).

2) Utilize the various phases in the writing process—prewriting, writing revision, and proofreading—to produce clear, well-supported, well-organized essays.

3) Using meta-language of effective writing, describe the ways in which their own work and the work of other students meets the standards and structures of required essay assignments.

Here are the Course Objectives that will get you there: 

1) Critical Thinking:

a. Analyze issues from multiple perspectives and apply ideas in texts to real-world contexts and their lives.

b. Identify and discuss the context, assumptions, values and implications in author’s ideas.

2) Reading:

a. Read a variety of texts analytically. Analysis of written texts will be introduced, and students will gain experience identifying audience and purpose, evaluating arguments, assessing the credibility of evidence, and identifying rhetorical appeals in multiple texts.

b. Use written texts as models for their own writing.

3) Writing:

a. Write effective essays that engage readers and present original ideas or points of view.

b. Create thesis-driven essays, which will demonstrate the principles of argumentation, including claims, evidence, and analysis, as well as addressing counterarguments through refutation and concession.

c. Edit their own writing for errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

4) Process:

a. Employ all stages of the reading and writing processes—including pre-reading, reading, post-reading, pre-writing, writing, and editing—in order to critically analyze readings and produce clear, well-organized essays predominantly free of grammatical and proofreading errors.

5) Research:

a. Engage in the research process—including narrowing a topic, researching the topic, evaluating a variety of source material, and correctly documenting sources in MLA format—in order to produce a researched argument.

6) Career Connections:

a. Communicate the relationship between course concepts and career goals, with an emphasis placed on effective communication (both oral and written), critical thinking and the ability to develop creative solutions to real-world problems, and effective analysis of information.