Student Learning Goals for Undergraduate English Major
Skills
- Think critically and creatively.
- Write clearly and effectively in a variety of formats.
- Explicate literary texts.
- Conduct literary research and incorporate it into papers.
Knowledge
- Recognize the diverse range and historical development of British and American literary works and traditions, as well as selected literary works from other traditions.
- Be conversant with a wide range of historical and critical literary terms and categories.
- Understand how literary texts reflect, critique, and produce culture.
- Develop a specialized knowledge of particular authors and works.
- Understand the structure of language and how language varies over time, across social situations and social groups.
Experiences
- Participate in face-to-face exchanges of ideas with faculty, fellow students, and authors in the classroom and other academic or social settings.
- Participate in small seminars where ideas are tested and sharpened.
Life-long Goals & Values
- Sustain an engagement with literature.
- Analyze, understand and delight in literature, art and culture.
- Perpetuate an interest and involvement in aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual matters, including social and political issues.
- Draw upon multiple literacies to interpret literary, visual and cultural texts.
