English Major Core Requirements Learning Goals

Core Goal 1. Students will understand literary traditions of diverse peoples and cultures, particularly British and American.

Core Goal 2. Students will produce near-professional writing within their major concentration.

Core Goal 3. Students will demonstrate computer-aided design, editing, and publishing skills.

Core Goal 4. Students will understand the intertextuality of all writing as a product of its cultural time and place and as a contributor to its historical moment.

Core Goal 5. Students will understand the intertextuality of their own written work as a product of its cultural time and place and as a contributor to its historical moment.
English Majors Core Learning Goals Curriculum Map

All English majors complete the English majors core curriculum, which fulfills various specific learning goals within each of our three majors.

Writing Major Core Learning Goals

Writing Major Goal 1. Writing major students will know classical and contemporary rhetorics and epistemologies governing various writing theories.

Writing Major Goal 2. Writing major students will apply knowledge about writing theories and pedagogies to their own writing processes.

Writing Major Goal 3. Writing major students will synthesize a variety of writing theories to produce original writing theory scholarship.

Writing Major Goal 4. Writing major students will be able to contemplate, reflect on and critique their own writing processes and artifacts.

Writing Major Goal 5. Writing major students will synthesize knowledge specific to their writing concentration and develop a personal theory of writing or poetics.

Writing Major Core Requirements Learning Goals Map

All Writing Majors are required to complete a concentration of Advanced Writing Studies in either (1) Creative Writing, (2) Journalism, or (3) Professional Writing.

Creative Writing Concentration Learning Goals

Creative Writing Goal 1. Students will know the form and structure of a variety of literary genres, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction and scriptwriting.

Creative Writing Goal 2. Students will understand contemporary writers’ aesthetic responses to the tradition as well as student contributions to those traditions.

Creative Writing Goal 3. Students will be able to actively participate in and contribute to the creation of publishable or near professional texts.

Creative Writing Advanced Course Learning Goals Map

Journalism Writing Concentration Learning Goals

JW1. Students will be able to gather and critically evaluate information from a variety of sources.

JW2. Students will apply journalistic writing techniques and story formats in classroom and professional settings.

JW3. Students will develop editing and revision skills necessary to meet professional publication standards.

JW4. Students will understand multiple perspectives on the role and responsibilities of a free press in contemporary society.

Journalism Writing Advanced Course Learning Goals Map

Professional Writing Concentration Learning Goals

PW1. Students will know the various genres and publication conventions of professional writing.

PW2. Students will understand audience’s expectations in light of the ethical, legal and cultural implications of rhetorical choices.

PW3. Students will have the ability to write, edit, design, and publish effective professional publications using contemporary computer technologies.

Professional Writing Course Learning Goals Map

English Education Major Learning Goals

(learning goals beyond the Secondary Education & General Education requirements)

English Education Goal 1. English education students will have advanced understanding of a variety of literary genres, including an understanding of literatures’ historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts.

English Education Goal 2. English education students will understand the cultural and literary traditions of diverse peoples from the United States in the last 100 years (American literature).

English Education Goal 3. English education students will know classical and contemporary rhetorics and epistemologies governing various writing theories.

English Education Goal 4. English education students will apply a variety of writing theories to plans and scholarship on the teaching of writing (theory and practice of teaching writing).

English Education Goal 5. English education students will becoming familiar with best practices in the methods of teaching the English language arts and formulate their own teaching methodologies in the field (language arts teaching methods).

English Education Major Core Learning Goals Map

Literature Major Learning Goals

L1. Students will have advanced understanding of a variety of literary genres.
L2. Students will have advanced understanding of literatures’ historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts.
L3. Students will be able to apply literary criticism and theory in the interpretation of texts.
L4. Students will write a near-professional, original work of literary research and scholarship.

Literature Major Learning Goals Map
(EN202, EN420 & Three advanced studies courses)