OUTCOMES GOALS FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGLISH MAJORS

Agreed on by the faculty, spring 2006; revised 2008

1.  Students can exhibit knowledge of the aesthetic qualities and the cultural and historical contexts of diverse literatures in English.

2.  Students can write a well-focused analytic essay that exhibits critical thinking and an appropriate sense of audience.

3.  Students’ edited writing exhibits correct usage.

4.  Students’ research writing exhibits correct use of professional conventions.

5.  Students can produce proficient advanced work within their emphases.

6.  Students can integrate their knowledge and abilities so that they attain a level of competence sufficient for productive citizenship and sustained learning.

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COURSE GOALS FOR ENGLISH 490

The department's goals:

        1.  Assess the undergraduate curricula, with an eye to improving them

        2.  Our final chance to advise you, polish you, tell you what the world expects

The use of the course to you:

        3.  An occasion to do significant individual work

        4.  A chance to assemble your undergraduate work and reflect on it

        5.  A chance to consider, and to read materials directed at, life beyond the academy

        6.  A chance to work on presentation skills and other skills/knowledge the world thinks you possess

Questions the course should pose:

    What do you know as a result of being an English major?
    How do people react when you tell them you’re majoring in English? (“What are you going to do with that?”)
    What don’t you know because you majored in English?
    What kind of curriculum would you design to position you, an English major, better?
    What do your skills prepare you to do right now? What learning are you prepared to take on that will address real-world concerns?