Learning Outcomes
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Learning Outcomes for English
- Identify and understand the significance of major American and British literary works.
- Write clear, strong academic essays.
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of the social, historical, religious, and political contexts of American, British and Global literature.
- Analyze literary and critical texts that raise issues and questions of social justice, values, meaning, races, class, gender, ethnicity, global and cultural diversity.
- Analyze and interpret texts from different literary perspectives and critical theories.
Learning Outcomes for Foreign Languages
- The student demonstrates the appropriate level of proficiency and communicative competence in reading, writing, listening, and speaking the foreign language.
- The student demonstrates a familiarity with the culture or cultures associated with the foreign language.
- The student demonstrates the ability to think critically about the foreign language, literature, and culture or cultures.