Language. Students will demonstrate an ability to operate in French, i.e. communicate orally and in writing, demonstrate an awareness of appropriateness of communication with respect to situation and register, be able to write a cogent essay according to appropriate disciplinary standards.
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).
Economic Vocabulary. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the terms and concepts commonly used in discussions of economic issues, such as in the popular press. Examples would include monetary and fiscal policy, supply and demand, market equilibrium, gains from trade, etc.
Program Learning Outcomes
East and Southeast Asian Studies
Communicate in and understand basic Chinese or Japanese or other East and Southeast Asian Languages, have exposure to elementary Chinese and Japanese or other East or Southeast Asian languages, and comprehend simple texts in such media as newspaper, books, and magazines
Effectively comprehend and analyze aspects of the civilizations of East and Southeast Asia as manifested in such areas as its sociopolitical systems, literary/artistic expressions, and sociological and economic trends
Demonstrate a comparative understanding of national literature and literary traditions within the context of world literature through close readings of primary texts in their original languages and in translation
Situate texts within their cultural and historical contexts by integrating and analyzing secondary scholarship and criticism
Describe the communication discipline and the central questions that drive the discipline.
Performance Indicators:
Explain the areas of inquiry of the discipline.
Identify the current opportunities and challenges facing the field of Communication.
Differentiate the Communication discipline from other areas of study.