Program Learning Outcomes

Literature Department Undergraduate

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the Literature major should emerge with the following knowledge and skills:

PLO 1.

A capacity for critical analysis of texts that is attentive to:

1. the formal structures, genres, and rhetorical strategies of different kinds of writing, public

   discourse, and media;

2. the historical and social contexts of such texts;

3. the role cultural and linguistic difference play in the interpretation of texts read in

translation and in a language not one's own.

PLO 2:

Effective written communication that demonstrates the following abilities:

1. to evaluate multiple interpretations of texts;

2. to write effective argumentative prose;

3. to situate texts in relation to a critical/theoretical tradition;

4. to design and initiate a substantive independent project of research or creative activity.

PLO 3:

Experience reading a variety of texts:

1. from a breadth of world cultures and traditions;

2. from different historical periods, including the pre-modern;

3. originally written in languages other than English.