Learning Outcomes

1. Reading. Students will interpret texts with attention to the complexities of content, form, and aesthetic value.

2. Writing Process. Students will practice a deliberate process of writing as revision, with emphasis on inquiry, argument, and craft.

3. Genre, Media, and Rhetorical Situation. Students will study diverse genres, media, and modes of communication and write for a variety of purposes and audiences.

4. Culture, History, and Power. Students will read diverse texts within their historical and cultural contexts, developing a critical understanding of how literature can both uphold and resist existing structures of power.

5. Critical Approaches. Students will apply ideas from works of criticism and theory in their own reading and writing.

6. Vocation and Community. Students will evaluate the roles reading, writing, and language play in their vocational goals and in different community settings.