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.
Below are the overall course goals from the official Course Outline of Record. They drive the course design.
Each of our assignments will also list one or more assignment "objectives." These are more granular and specific that the course Student Learning Outcomes, but they collectively build towards achieving the course SLOs.
Use literary terminology and critical theory to interpret, discuss, analyze, and synthesize representations of key concepts like power, race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability in fantasy and science fiction literature.
Evaluate how fantasy and science fiction literature informs, reinforces, challenges, alters, resists, or otherwise influences social constructions of power, race, class, gender, sexuality, and/or ability.
Situate literary texts within various historical, regional, political, literary, psychological, and cultural contexts and discuss how those contexts inform their meanings, values, and roles.