Learning Objectives: Literature
For the Literature Emphasis in the English BA/BS degrees, the three key Learning Objectives are:
1. Students can reach compelling conclusions through the development of critical arguments, professional documents, or creative texts. Specifically, student work shows evidence that the student understands how to reach compelling conclusions and does so with competence in the following ways:-
- Comes to a conclusion
- Conclusion is convincing
- Provides textual support for the conclusion
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- Refers to alternative approaches
- Refers to the assumptions behind the approaches
- Refers to the implications of the approaches
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- Free of problems at the sentence level (syntax, usage, grammar)
- Uses clear and descriptive language
- Flows well from paragraph to paragraph