Program Learning Outcomes

  • Literature Department Undergraduate

    Program Learning Outcomes


     

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

    1. A capacity for critical analysis of texts that is attentive to:
    • the formal structures, genres, and rhetorical strategies of different kinds of writing, public discourse, and media
    • the historical and social contexts of such texts

     

    1. Effective written communication that demonstrates the following abilities:
    • to evaluate multiple interpretations of texts
    • to write effective argumentative prose
    • to situate texts in relation to a critical/theoretical tradition

     

    1. Advanced critical reading skills across cultures and time periods
    • become a critical reader across different cultures, languages and time periods
    • from a breadth of world cultures and traditions
    • from different historical periods, including the pre-modern
    • originally written in languages other than English

     

    1. Design and carry out a research project or creative activity
    • conceptualize and formulate a research problem or question and write a research proposal 
    • conduct a review of prior research on the topic using physical and digital archives, develop an annotated bibliography or similar review
    • complete a research paper or creative project