Program Learning Outcomes

English

• Demonstrate broad familiarity with Anglophone literature in its historical contexts, including cultural traditions, aesthetic movements, generic conventions, and critical theories.
• Compose clear, well-organized, and well-supported interpretive essays that combine effective close reading of primary texts with a consideration of relevant historical and cultural circumstances and appropriate secondary frameworks (or, in the case of students in the creative writing emphasis, effective poems and stories).
• Find, assess, and correctly utilize an array of research materials from both print and electronic media.   

2012