ENG 2320 - Literature and Social Justice

• Students will be able to employ appropriate literary terminology to describe and discuss texts related to social justice, oppression, discrimination, inequality, and privilege.
• Students will be able to use appropriate evidence in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating literary texts related to social justice, oppression, discrimination, inequality, and privilege.
• Students will be able to explain the relationship between literary texts and issues of social justice in the cultures or historical periods being depicted or in which the literary text was produced.
• Students will be able to critically state, describe, and consider issues of social justice, oppression, discrimination, inequality, and privilege as they are depicted in literary texts.
• Students will be able to systematically and methodically analyze and evaluate the assumptions of authors, texts, or characters about social justice.
• Students will be able to a formulate a clear thesis and draw conclusions about the relationship between literature and issues of social justice that addresses form, content, and cultural/historical context.

ENG 2510 - British Literature I

• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of key authors and literary movements of British literature up to 1785..
• Students will be able to apply an understanding of the historical and cultural contexts that shaped this literature when discussing and writing about it.
• Students will be able to employ appropriate literary terms and concepts to interpret and analyze the various literary forms and genres of the period.
• Students will be able to use appropriate textual evidence to accurately communicate the key themes, ideas, and stylistic features of the authors and movements studied.

ENG 2520 - British Literature II

• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of key authors and literary movements of British literature, 1785 to the present.
• Students will be able to apply an understanding of the historical and cultural contexts that shaped this literature when discussing and writing about it.
• Students will be able to employ appropriate literary terms and concepts to interpret and analyze the various literary forms and genres of the period.
• Students will be able to use appropriate textual evidence to accurately communicate the key themes, ideas, and stylistic features of the authors and movements studied.

ENG 2530 - American Literature I

• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of key authors and literary movements of American literature up to 1865.
• Students will be able to apply an understanding of the historical and cultural contexts that shaped this literature when discussing and writing about it.
• Students will be able to employ appropriate literary terms and concepts to interpret and analyze the various literary forms and genres of the period.
• Students will be able to use appropriate textual evidence to accurately communicate the key themes, ideas, and stylistic features of the authors and movements studied.

ENG 2540 - American Literature II

• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of key authors and literary movements of American literature, 1865 to the present.
• Students will be able to apply an understanding of the historical and cultural contexts that shaped this literature when discussing and writing about it.
• Students will be able to employ appropriate literary terms and concepts to interpret and analyze the various literary forms and genres of the period.
• Students will be able to use appropriate textual evidence to accurately communicate the key themes, ideas, and stylistic features of the authors and movements studied.

ENG 2800 - Writing with Research

• Students will be able to articulate how writers make choices for their audiences based on context and purpose.
• Students will be able to use appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the subject, conveying the writer’s understanding, and shaping the whole work. Control writing style and grammar.
• Students will be able to present their research findings in a range of modes (e.g. paper, video, speech), implementing choices in formatting, organization, citation system, and style that are appropriate to the genre and audience.
• Students will be able to use source texts (written, oral, behavioral, visual, or other) appropriately to extend, argue with, develop, define, or shape their ideas.
• Students will be able to use syntax and mechanics effectively to communicate ideas.
• Students will be able to find, categorize, and evaluate multiple types of secondary sources.
• Students will be able to summarize, critique, synthesize, and document sources to effectively support their own arguments.
• Students will be able to follow a line of inquiry from developing appropriate research questions to composing polished findings that can be shared with a variety of audiences.
• Students will be able to use informal and scaffolded writing genres (e.g. ethnographic field notes, annotated bibliography, research journal) to support their research processes.

ENG 2820 - Writing About Literature as Social Action

• Students will know how literature functions rhetorically and how literary texts are situated in a time and culture and can be used as a means of social action.
• Students will learn to write rhetorical analyses of literary texts.
• Students will use formal writing to generate thesis-driven texts; these texts can include digital texts or presentations.
• Students will use informal writing to generate responses to literary genres, specific texts, or class themes.
• Students will work on improving their writing in a range of areas, including focus, organization, support, clarity, and correctness.

ENG 2900 - Special Topics in English

• Students will increase their knowledge in English.

ENG 2970T - Introduction to English Studies

• Students will become familiar with critical reading practices.
• Students will consider methods that can be used to understand a text.
• Students will consider which texts are worth reading, who has established the canon, and how this has been accomplished.
• Students will gain practice in writing tutorial papers and research papers.
• Students will make oral presentations of their own analytical work.
• Students will present a final portfolio that includes, for example, class essays and a reflective essay on their roles as scholars and writers.

ENG 2971T - Later British Literature

• Students will become familiar with major political, religious, social, and historical events and movements from the 18th to 20th centuries in England and the British Empire.
• Students will become familiar with major themes, concepts, and literary terms such as epic, mock-epic, neoclassical, sublime, picturesque, gothic, realism, stream of consciousness, hybridity.
• Students will demonstrate a mastery of subject matter and analytical approaches through a comprehensive exam at the end of the semester.
• Students will read and explore English literary works of all genres–canonical and non-canonical–from the period 1689 to the present.

ENG 2980T - Early British Literature

• Students will become familiar with religion, history, culture, and social structures and forces bearing on literature in England from the 8th to 17th centuries.
• Students will demonstrate a mastery of subject matter and analytical approaches through a comprehensive exam at the end of the semester.
• Students will read and explore primary texts and literary art ranging from epic poetry to political propaganda from the period 700-1688 C.E.

ENG 2981T - American Literature

• Students will become familiar with the major political, religious, social, and historical events influencing or producing American literature from 1608 to the present.
• Students will demonstrate a mastery of subject matter and analytical approaches through a comprehensive exam at the end of the semester.
• Students will read and explore American literary works of all genres (including pamphlets, sermons, and tracts), canonical and non-canonical, from 1608 to the present.

ENG 3010 - Shakespeare

• Students will develop an understanding of early modern political, cultural, and philosophical contexts that inform Shakespeare’s plays.
• Students will master strategies of close analytical reading of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century playtext, and employ a sophisticated critical and theoretical vocabulary for literary analysis.
• Students will recognize and appreciate Shakespeare’s dramatic literature, particularly genre-specific aspects of Shakespeare’s Plays, including plot structure and character development.

ENG 3020 - Topics in Shakespeare

• Students will develop a sense of the material conditions of London’s Early Modern theater culture, including the building of purpose-built theaters, the origin of commercial playing companies, and authorial collaboration in playwrighting.
• Students will develop an understanding of early modern political, cultural, and philosophical contexts that inform the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
• Students will master strategies of close analytical reading of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century playtexts, and employ a sophisticated critical and theoretical vocabulary for literary analysis.
• Students will recognize and appreciate the dramatic literature of Shakespeare and his English contemporaries, studying specific dramatic conventions, including common themes, traditional plot structure and character development.

ENG 3030J - Writing, Reading, and Rhetoric in the Professions

• Create documents for different audiences and purposes.
• Learn to analyze various genres of professional writing rhetorically.
• Learn to read various texts critically, applying rhetorical theory, such as ethos, logos, pathos.
• Understand that writing is a recursive process involving idea generation, drafting, receiving feedback, and revising.
• Use writing as a tool for learning.

ENG 3040 - English Bible

• Achieve a working knowledge of English Bible as a foundation for Western literature.
• Discover the sources and original contexts of the books of the Bible.
• Understand the political, ethical, and linguistic variables that influence interpretation of the Bible.

ENG 3050J - Advanced Multilingual Writing and Rhetoric

• Articulate the complex ways in which English operates as a global language.
• Complete multiple drafts of their compositions.
• Compose rhetorically appropriate texts in a variety of genres for a variety of audiences and situations.
• Compose successful arguments in public and professional genres.
• Employ strengths of multilingualism when composing.
• Identify strengths of multilingualism.

ENG 3060A - Honors Experience: Women and Writing: New Woman Fiction

ENG 3060J - Women and Writing

• Learn to read various texts critically by analyzing texts rhetorically, focusing on audience and purpose.
• Understand that writing is a recursive process involving idea generation, drafting, receiving feedback, and revising.
• Use writing and researching to investigate issues related to women and gender.
• Use writing as a tool for learning.
• Write in a variety of genres.

ENG 3070J - Writing and Research in English Studies

• Composing an effective research essay that integrates use of primary and secondary sources.
• Constructing viable research questions in English studies.
• Evaluating research sources in English studies.
• Revising a research essay.
• Using academic databases in English studies.

ENG 3080J - Writing and Rhetoric II

• To apply rhetorical strategies to our own writing, realizing its power to establish, disrupt, and persuade.
• To become better thinkers, writers, and readers overall.
• To critique our own and others’ ideas.
• To develop an understanding of the writing process and writing strategies.
• To further develop our understanding of appropriate ways of documenting work.
• To gain confidence in our ability to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize primary and secondary texts through reading and writing.
• To identify and understand rhetorical purposes, audiences, and situations and the relationship among these.
• To use informal writing as a tool for critical thinking as as a bridge to formal public writing.

ENG 3090J - Writing in the Sciences

• Learn how to read and write about scientific topics.
• Learn to locate and use appropriate research sources.
• Learn to revise effectively.
• Master the specific genres involved in science writing.

ENG 3100J - Writing About Environmental Sustainability

• Become more skilled practitioners of writing craft at the sentence, paragraph and structural levels.
• Become skilled researchers who can locate, summarize, evaluate, and synthesize researched material for their own purposes.
• Learn more about the complexities of sustainability and the current and future environmental predicament.
• Practice writing rhetorically, that is, shaping discourse for specific audiences.
• Use rhetorical concepts effectively to enhance critical reading and composing of print and visual media.

ENG 3110 - English Literature to 1500

• Demonstrate the prosody of Old English literature.
• Enable students to read the works of Chaucer in Middle English.
• Introduce resources for research in medieval literature.
• Introduce the literature written in England between the seventh and fifteenth centuries.
• Sharpen skills for literary analysis.
• Show the effect of the Norman Conquest (1066) on literary genres and languages.

ENG 3120 - English Literature: 1500-1660

• Students will develop an understanding of early modern English political, cultural, and philosophical contexts.
• Students will master strategies of close analytical reading of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts, and employ a sophisticated critical and theoretical vocabulary for literary analysis.
• Students will recognize and appreciate English Renaissance literature, distinguishing between poetic, dramatic and prose genres, including lyric poetry, the sonnet, epic poetry and plays.

ENG 3130 - English Literature: 1660-1800

• Become familiar with canonical and noncanonical writers of the period.
• Discover how to interpret and analyze the variety of literary forms during this period.
• Learn to identify the salient genres, themes, and conventions of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature.
• Understand the relation of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature to its cultural context.

ENG 3140 - English Literature: 1800-1900

• Explore Romantic and Victorian poetry, fiction, and polemic in the context of the political and cultural unrest in Britain.
• Examine the complicated relationships between personal and national identity, imperial and domestic policy, and history and modernity.
• Trace the ideological and aesthetic influences of dissenting and patriotic discourses in C19 Britain.

ENG 3140A - Honors Experience in English Literature: 1800-1900

ENG 3150 - English Literature: 1900 to Present

• The student will be able to draw connections between various authors and/or movements.
• The student will be able to identify dates and traits associated with various literary movements of the period.
• The student will be able to identify key topical and stylistic characteristics of individual authors.
• The student will be able to identify the historical development of various genres during the period.
• The student will be able to provide the socio-historical context of the works we study.

ENG 3210 - American Literature to 1865

• Examine changes in style and purpose of American literature during this period.
• Familiarize students with major literary and cultural trends in Early American literature.
• Help students to research, analyze and write about nontraditional literary texts.
• Introduce Native American Literature.
• Introduce the literature of European explorers, invaders and settlers through America’s Civil War.

ENG 3220 - American Literature: 1865-1918

• An understanding of the major literary trends in American literature written between 1865 and 1918.
• Gender warfare, class, economy, science, urbanization, and the closing of the American frontier as it pertains to this literary period.
• Some familiarity with African, American, Native American, and multiethnic literature written between 1865 and 1918.
• The debates over Americanization as they pertain to this period of literature.
• The roles that Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modern and aesthetic experimentation play in the literature of this period.

ENG 3230 - American Literature: 1918 to Present

• An exploration of the techniques used by this era’s literary artists to challenge readers’ preconceived notions of value and order.
• Attitudes toward gender, class, ethnicity and race in this period.
• Examine twentieth and twenty-first century American writings, their stylistic innovations and disruption of traditional syntax and form.
• The relationship of American literature during this period to global literary ideas and form.
• Understanding terms and movements such as Modernism, Postmodernism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Transnationalism as they pertain to the literature of this period.

ENG 3240 - Jewish American Literature

• Analyze the relationship between Jewish American literature and the classical canon of American literature.
• Provide an overview of Jewish American literature from the seventeenth century to the present.
• Study how Jewish American writers respond to the Jewish mandate to tikkum olam (to heal the world) - to place, environment, and the diaspora.

ENG 3250 - Women’s Literature

• Students will be able to describe unique conditions associated with female authorship.
• Students will be able to recognize multiple communication styles and relate those to communication outside the classroom.
• Students will be able to evaluate and use strategies to mitigate their own biases and expectations in addressing women authors from other cultures and/or with other identity markers such as race, religion, sexuality, and ability.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions about women-authored texts and articulate answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of other cultural groups.
• Students will be able to use literary evidence to make effective arguments about literary works.
• Students will be able to describe characteristics of significant genres and authors of women-authored texts using critical terminology.

ENG 3260 - Queer Literature

• Students will be able to describe characteristics of significant genres and authors of queer literature using critical and theoretical terminology.
• Students will be able to describe relationships between the historical and cultural contexts of queer texts and how LGBTQ+ identities and experiences have been represented.
• Students will be able to recognize multiple communications styles and strategies in queer writing and relate those to communication within and outside the classroom.
• Students will be able to evaluate and use strategies to mitigate their own biases and expectations in addressing queer literature.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions about queer literature and articulate answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to use literary evidence to make effective arguments about literary works.
• Students will be able to interact with others who are culturally different from themselves in an open and supportive way.

ENG 3270 - Queer Rhetorics and Writing

• Define and understand rhetorical queer contexts and exigencies.
• Display an understanding of why queer writing and rhetorical issues are important to composition, rhetoric, and literature.
• Rhetorically analyze a variety of texts through queer and heteronormative frameworks.
• Understand some of the key rhetorical, social, and political issues facing queer writers.
• Understand the potential questions of identity within queer rhetorics.

ENG 3280 - Women’s Rhetorics

• Students will have knowledge about the activist roles of women historically in male-dominated cultures.
• Students will know how to research, write up, and present material on women’s rhetorics.
• Students will think critically about traditions of persuasive writing in the context of their historical and material conditions.
• Students will understand relationships between women’ rhetoric and women’s literature.

ENG 3290 - Rhetoric and Law

• Demostrate familiarity with rhetorical concepts and appeals that shape law and practices of the law.
• Explain some ways in which law constitutes society through language.
• To demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between rhetoric and law.
• To practice rhetorical and analytical skills necessary for understanding written conventions of legal documents.
• Use rhetorical and analytic skills necessary to critique theories of law and legal decisions.
• Write critically about the law.

ENG 3300 - Ecological Discourses in English Studies

• Understand how to recognize and analyze rhetorical strategies of ecologically focused texts.
• compose a variety of effective writings on course topics.
• gain a complex historical sense of the development of ecological thinking and its influences on the study and practice of English as a discipline.
• read widely in the range of ecological discourses in English Studies.
• understand rhetorical and cultural theories and practice the application of these to a variety of textual genres.

ENG 3310 - Studies in Asian Literatures I: Beginnings to 1850

• To develop their reading and writing skills in relation to genres and themes in Asian literature.
• To familiarize students with the richness and diversity of Asian civilizations in transnational and global contexts.
• To help students dispel their stereotypes of Asian cultures and peoples.

ENG 3320 - Studies in Asian Literature II

• To develop students’ reading and writing skills in relation to genres and themes in Asian literature.
• To familiarize students with the richness and diversity of Asian civilizations in transnational and global contexts.
• To help students dispel their stereotypes of Asian cultures and peoples.

ENG 3340 - Israeli Literature

• Analyze the complexity of Israeli literature with regard to issues of race, class, and gender.
• Introduce students to significant Israeli writers and theorists.
• Understand how history, memory, ethics, the diaspora, and aesthetics function in Israeli literature.

ENG 3350 - Irish Literature

• Students will be able to discuss Irish literary texts in a broad historical context.
• Students will be able to write analytical prose that considers literature in terms of its social, historical and political context
• Students will be able to discuss and write about the impact of the physical and cultural geography on imaginations of Irish writers
• Students will be able to explain the significance of specific places in the Irish cultural imagination.

ENG 3370 - Black Literature to 1930

• Students will be able to describe characteristics of significant genres and authors of Black literature before 1930 using critical terminology.
• Students will be able to describe relationships between Black literary works before 1930 and their historical and cultural contexts.
• Students will be able to recognize multiple communication styles and strategies in Black writing and relate those to communication within and outside the classroom.
• Students will be able to evaluate and use strategies to mitigate their own biases and expectations in addressing Black literature.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions about Black literature and articulate answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to use literary evidence to make effective arguments about literary works.
• Students will be able to interact with others who are culturally different from themselves in an open and supportive way.

ENG 3380 - Ethnic American Literature

• Students will be able to describe characteristics of the literature assigned in the class using critical terminology.
• Students will be able to describe relationships between ethnic American literature and its historical and cultural contexts.
• Students will be able to recognize a variety of communication strategies in and audiences for ethnic American literature.
• Students will be able to evaluate and use strategies to mitigate their own biases and expectations in discussing literature of historically marginalized communities.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions about ethnic American literature and articulate answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to use literary evidence to make arguments about literary works that are effective for audiences of multiple cultural backgrounds.
• Students will be able to interact with others who are culturally different from themselves in an open and supportive way.

ENG 3390 - Black Literature from 1930 to the Present

• Students will be able to describe characteristics of significant genres and authors of Black literature after 1930 using critical terminology.
• Students will be able to describe relationships between Black literary works since 1930 and their historical and cultural contexts.
• Students will be able to recognize multiple communication styles and strategies in Black writing and relate those to communication within and outside the classroom.
• Students will be able to evaluate and use strategies to mitigate their own biases and expectations in addressing Black literature.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions about Black literature and articulate answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to use literary evidence to make effective arguments about literary works.
• Students will be able to interact with others who are culturally different from themselves in an open and supportive way.

ENG 3400 - Introduction to Analysis of Moving Image Texts

• Introduction to criticism and theories about moving image texts.
• Introduction to different genres of moving image media (film, television, Internet, etc.).
• Introduction to formal analysis of moving image texts (editing, composition, lighting, cinematography, etc.).
• Introduction to moving image media (film, television, video, etc.) as texts.
• Understand relation between literary (source material) and moving image texts.

ENG 3450 - Intercultural Adaptations

• Students will be able to articulate insights about the cultural conventions and biases embedded in canonical Anglo-American literature.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complex ethical and aesthetic values important to members of another culture in relation to its literary and creative practices.
• . Students will be able to interpret intercultural literary exchanges from their own and others’ worldview and recognize the feelings of another cultural group as expressed in literature or creative texts.
• Students will be able to recognize communication styles and strategies in writing and creative expression from different cultures and relate those to communication within and outside the classroom.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions regarding the creative practices of other cultures and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to understand and analyze culturally different creative texts while suspending judgment in valuing their interactions with these texts.

ENG 3490 - History of Books and Printing

• Analyze the role of print culture in the construction of modern society.
• Differentiate between scrolls and manuscript codices as ancestors of the modern book.
• Discuss scribal transmission of texts and textual scholarship.
• Explore manuscript illumination and its social and cultural role.
• Understand the nature of electronic publishing in transforming reading habits.
• Understand the relation between manuscript culture and social institutions.

ENG 3500 - Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage

• Understand and practice basics of sentence analysis.
• Understand and practice basics of sentence mechanics.
• Understand and practice basics of sentence punctuation.
• Understand and recognize principles of clarity, word and phrase order, edited English, valid exceptions to edited English.
• Understand sentence grammar in detail.

ENG 3510 - The History of the English Language

• Become familiar with the history of Indo-European linguistic study.
• Develop students’ understanding of the structure of English.
• Discover the historical origins and development of English over time.
• Examine the change and variety in English.

ENG 3550 - Global Literature

• Students will be able to describe characteristics of significant genres associated with non-Western literary traditions using critical and theoretical terminology.
• Students will be able to describe relationships between the historical and cultural contexts associated with the works studied, as well as way this literature is represented and perceived from both within the culture and from outside of it.
• Students will be able to recognize a multiple communication styles and strategies in global literature and relate those to communication both within and outside the classroom.
• Students will be able to evaluate and use strategies to mitigate their own biases by exploring non-Western texts exploring, celebrating, and/or problematizing various issues of identity, including cultural, racial, gender, ethnic, religious, linguistic.
• Students will be able to describe the benefits of multi-cultural and transnational perspectives in their own lives.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions about global literature and articulate answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to use literary evidence to make effective arguments about literary works.
• Students will be able to interact with others who are culturally different from themselves in an open and supportive way.

ENG 3560 - Young Adult Literature

• Become acquainted with young adult literature, including its development, themes, and particular relevance to adolescents.
• Connect their personal experience, other literature, and elements of popular culture with young adult literature.
• Explore and support rationales for reading and studying young adult literature.
• Learn to identify the characteristics of different forms and genres as they are represented in young adult literature.
• Participate in a classroom environment that encourages collaboration and sharing.
• Study and practice active learning strategies that engage readers.

ENG 3570 - Law and Literature

• Students will be able to compare how law and literature approach justice, equity, morality, and punishment.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the place of empathy in literary works and legal systems.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between literature and law.
• Students will be able to describe how literature has been employed to criticize, oppose, and reform the legal system.
• Students will be able to explain how laws and legal systems utilize literary techniques.
• Students will use critical skills and contextual knowledge to analyze literary treatments of the law across various cultures and time periods.

ENG 3570A - Honors Experience: Law and Literature

ENG 3610 - Creative Writing: Fiction

• Examine how fiction works and how it differs from other written narratives.
• Learn to teach themselves how to write fiction.
• Read and dissect fiction to comprehend the craft that underlies fictional technique and strategies.

ENG 3620 - Creative Writing: Poetry

• Discuss and constructively critique the writing of others.
• Learn to employ poetic techniques and strategies in the composition of original verse.
• Understand the workings of poetic form and structure by intensive reading of poetry.

ENG 3630 - Creative Writing: Nonfiction

• Create works of creative nonfiction utilizing specific craft components.
• Develop an eye and ear for language and its effect on readers.
• Develop critical reading skills.
• Understand and define the genre and various subgenres of creative nonfiction.
• Understand the importance of revision and discovery.

ENG 3650 - Introduction to Literary Editing and Publishing

• Become familiar with the vocabulary of literary editing and publishing.
• Distinguish and understand what editors consider publishable literary poetry and prose.
• Further develop critical reading skills.
• Sample a wide variety of literary publications and understand their editorial prerogatives.
• Understand the real-world circumstances of literary publishing and editing.

ENG 3820 - Writing About Genre

• Students will be able to apply rhetorical theories to produce and analyze a variety of genres.
• Students will be able to compose using multiple drafts
• Students will be able to analyze texts using rhetorical concepts (ethos, logos, pathos, kairos)
• Students will be able to articulate how different genres make persuasive appeals given their rhetorical situations and history
• Students will be able to document sources correctly
• Students will be able to respond to peers’ texts constructively at both global and local levels
• Students will be able to use academic databases for research
• Students will be able to evaluate the quality of sources

ENG 3830 - Politics and Literacy: Issues of Race, Class and Gender

• Students will demonstate a critical understanding of the range of consequences attributed to literacy by theorists and historians.
• Students will demonstrate a critical understanding of how literacy can be used as a means of political and social liberation and control.
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of how literacy experiences are shaped by background and social circumstance, by interactions of race, class, gender.
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of key concepts involving a variety of perspectives of literacy, such as historical, social and politica perspectives
• Students will use informal and formal writing to explore and create arguments about literacy. Informal writing includes focused reading responses and in class freewriting on a discussion question.
• Students will use research to explore and create arguments related to issues in literacy; for example, students might investigate the debate about Ebonics and its role in education.

ENG 3850 - Writing About Culture and Society

• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication and to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to write about them in ways that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to use writing to analyze ways that cultures persuade, both within the culture and to outsiders, based on particular historical or social relationships.
• Students will be able to analyze a variety of text types (e.g. print, digital, audio and other cultural artifacts) and genres for audience, purpose, and context.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others¿ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to use formal and informal writing to articulate insights about their own cultural insights and biases.
• Students will be able to identify and write persuasively about how at least one culture uses rhetoric to engage in cultural preservation.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment in valuing their interactions with culturally different others.

ENG 3860 - Composing in New Media

• Students will be able to apply rhetorical analysis to understand multimedia compositions, to develop multimedia compositions, and to explain their rhetorical choices.
• Students will be able to develop a plan and workflow to complete a major multimedia project.
• Students will be able to apply their relevant experience and skill sets for multimedia projects and to identify desired areas for growth.
• Students will be able to effectively collaborate with others and to appropriately integrate feedback into their work.

ENG 3870C - Composing for the Community

• Students will be able to create effective compositions in at least two modes (e.g. text-based print, graphics-based print, audio, web, video) in order to enhance meaning.
• Students will be able to identify and describe important cultural features of Appalachia (or other relevant cultures and geographical regions) along with their implications for an organization’s audience.
• Students will be able to identify and describe relevant social contexts of the organization’s audience(s) and adapt their composing accordingly.
• Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts.
• Students will be able to adapt and apply their existing academic composing skills, abilities, and theories to community organization contexts.
• Students will be able to articulate connections between their existing knowledge of composing and the experience of composing for community organizations.
• Students will be able to connect their knowledge of effective composing with their research into the cultures and experiences of the organization’s members/clients.

ENG 3950 - Creative Writing Workshop: Nonfiction

• Create works of creative nonfiction utilizing specific craft components.
• Develop an eye and ear for language and its effects on the reader.
• Develop critical reading skills.
• Understand and define the genre and various subgenres of creative nonfiction.
• Understand the importance of revision and discovery.

ENG 3960 - Creative Writing Workshop: Short Story

• Create works of literary fiction utilizing specific craft components.
• Develop an eye and ear for language and its effects on the reader.
• Develop critical reading skills.
• Understand narrative, character, and setting in the genre of literary fiction.
• Understand the importance of revision.

ENG 3970 - Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry

• Ability to compose a coherent poem using iambic pentameter.
• Awareness of several contemporary poetic styles.
• Familiarity and facility with poetic modes including narrative, dramatic monologue, parody, metaphorical conceit.

ENG 3970T - Specialized Tutorial I

• Student will meet regularly with tutor to discuss readings.
• Student will produce final tutorial portfolio, consisting, for example, of analysis and overview of works read; essays produced during tutorial; and a statement of progress toward thesis.
• Student will produce written works as directed by tutor.
• Student will read and explore primary and secondary works in the area of focus.

ENG 3980 - Critical Theory for Multi-Ethnic/Cross-Cultural Studies

• Students will become familiar with major critical concepts, specific arguments, and cultural-historical contexts within which these theoretical arguments are made.
• Students will come to understand the relationships between epistemological/ideological narratives and the politics of the sign.
• Students will develop an appreciation of the interconnections between sex, race, class, and nation.
• Students will examine the operative mythologies of Empire
• Students will explore the ways in which the study of critical theory helps us not only read specific literary texts, but also interpret the world and culture around us.

ENG 3980T - Specialized Tutorial II

• Student will meet regularly with tutor to discuss readings.
• Student will produce a thesis prospectus, including, for instance, an abstract, an annotated bibliography, and a timeline for production of the thesis.
• Student will produce written works as directed by tutor.
• Student will read and explore primary and secondary works in the area of focus.

ENG 3990 - Literary Theory and Ethical Practice

• Students will be able to describe and apply multiple lenses from literary and cultural theory.
• Students will be able to recognize ethical theories and assumptions embedded in different literary theories and methods of reading.
• Students will be able to recognize the influence of their own critical assumptions and ethical beliefs on their reading practice.
• Students will be able to evaluate the ethical implications of different reading practices and modes of critical analysis.
• Students will be able to describe and demonstrate critically and ethically sophisticated forms of literary analysis.

ENG 4030X - English Electronic Portfolio II

ENG 4470 - Studies in Criticism

• Enable students to apply an understanding of theoretical vocabulary and concepts in discussion and written analysis of a variety of texts.
• Familiarize students with the discursive economy of advanced theory.
• Introduce students to issues and problems in contemporary critical theory at the advanced level.

ENG 4500 - Postcolonial and Transnational Literature

• Familiarity with selected major literary texts, theoretical approaches, and specific historical contexts.
• Study of relevant issues: colonization, decolonization, neo-colonialism, border-crossings, as well as issues surrounding exiles, migrants, refugees, immigrants.
• Understanding of postcolonial and transnational literatures in relation to studies of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, histories of imperialism.

ENG 4510 - Teaching Language and Composition

• Develop a framework of knowledge to assist students in designing instructional activities for teaching language and composition.
• Evaluate a professional book in English Education to help students become reflective teachers and writers in their future classrooms.
• Lead a Socratic Seminar, MG/Zine Writing Assignment, or Vocabulary Report.
• Learn lesson planning skills through designing a Portfolio for Teaching Language and Composition.
• Teach a Language or Composition lesson to the class.

ENG 4520 - Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools

• Create a repertoire of teaching strategies by creating sample projects and lesson plans for the English/Language Arts classroom.
• Deepen awareness and understanding of teacher efficacy.
• Develop models of projects and assignments to assist student learning.
• Engage in discussions and presentations that emphasize collaboration with peers/colleagues.
• Explore how dramatic and artistic responses to literature can be used to help students develop reading skills.
• Increase familiarity with NCTE standards applicable to OU’s AYA/ELA program.
• Learn to make curricular choices and instructional decisions while in the classroom.

ENG 4560 - Readings in Children’s Literature

• Acquire knowledge of selected genres/types of literature for children from infancy to early adolescence.
• Acquire knowledge of selected professional resources in the field of children’s literature.
• Acquire skills for responding to and analyzing the literary and graphic characteristics of various genres of children’s literature.
• Be aware of the complexity of childhood and the place of literature in it.
• Become familiar with selected topics and issues depicted in various types of children’s literature and pertinent to the field of children’s literature.
• Develop an understanding of selected strategies for promoting children’s engagement with literature.

ENG 4600 - Topics in English Studies

• Students will be able to critically engage with scholarship in English studies.
• Students will be able to recognize and evaluate the relevance of their own experience or assumptions for understanding the course topic.
• Students will be able to transfer and apply appropriate methods of literary or rhetorical analysis.
• Students will be able to synthesize viewpoints from a variety of scholars and multiple texts and in order to construct their own argument.
• Students will be able to communicate a sophisticated scholarly argument through writing and, when relevant, through other appropriate media.
• Students will be able to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of their scholarly arguments and use those reflections to improve their work.
• Students will be able to clearly, coherently, and convincingly communicate about a topic in English studies through oral presentation.

ENG 4640 - British Authors

• Students will be able to critically engage with scholarship in English studies.
• Students will be able to recognize and evaluate the relevance of cultural or historical contexts, including their own, while critically interpreting texts.
• Students will be able to transfer and apply appropriate methods of literary or rhetorical analysis.
• Students will be able to synthesize knowledge about an author or theme from multiple scholarly sources in order to construct their own argument.
• Students will be able to communicate a sophisticated scholarly argument through writing and, when relevant, through other appropriate media.
• Students will be able to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of their scholarly arguments and use those reflections to improve their work.
• Students will be able to clearly, coherently, and convincingly communicate about a topic in English studies through oral presentation.

ENG 4650 - American Authors

• Students will be able to critically engage with scholarship in English studies.
• Students will be able to recognize and evaluate the relevance of cultural or historical contexts, including their own, while critically interpreting texts.
• Students will be able to transfer and apply appropriate methods of literary or rhetorical analysis.
• Students will be able to synthesize knowledge about an author or theme from multiple scholarly sources in order to construct their own argument.
• Students will be able to communicate a sophisticated scholarly argument through writing and, when relevant, through other appropriate media.
• Students will be able to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of their scholarly arguments and use those reflections to improve their work.
• Students will be able to clearly, coherently, and convincingly communicate about a topic in English studies through oral presentation.

ENG 4660 - International Authors

• Students will be able to critically engage with scholarship in English studies.
• Students will be able to recognize and evaluate the relevance of cultural or historical contexts, including their own, while critically interpreting texts.
• Students will be able to transfer and apply appropriate methods of literary or rhetorical analysis.
• Students will be able to synthesize knowledge about an author or theme from multiple scholarly sources in order to construct their own argument.
• Students will be able to communicate a sophisticated scholarly argument through writing and, when relevant, through other appropriate media.
• Students will be able to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of their scholarly arguments and use those reflections to improve their work.
• Students will be able to clearly, coherently, and convincingly communicate about a topic in English studies through oral presentation.

ENG 4810 - Form and Theory of Literary Genres: Fiction

• Students will become more sophisticated readers of fiction, from a practitioner’s perspective.
• Students will deepen their awareness of narrative strategies for managing plot, character, setting, and style.

ENG 4820 - Form and Theory of Literary Genres: Poetry

• Students will become more sophisticated readers of poetry, from a practitioner’s perspective.
• Students will deepen their awareness of poetic strategies for managing structure, diction, range of reference, and relation to reader.
• Students will understand how poetry produces multiple aesthetic effects.

ENG 4830 - Form and Theory of Literary Genres: Nonfiction

• Students will appreciate the variety of forms and styles of nonfiction prose.
• Students will become more sophisticated readers of nonfiction, from a practitioner’s perspective.
• Students will deepen their awareness of discursive strategies for presenting observations, meditations, social commentary, and/or autobiographical narratives.

ENG 4860 - Advanced Workshop in Fiction

• Ability to develop characters through dramatic interaction.
• Ability to sustain a longer narrative such as a story of 25 pages or more, or a novella.
• Sophisticated understanding of components of fiction including plot, narrative voice, point of view, characterization, dialogue.

ENG 4870 - Advanced Workshop in Poetry

• Ability to compose poems in various traditional meters.
• Detailed knowledge of the achievements of several contemporary poets.
• Readiness to submit four or more poems for journal publication.
• Sophisticated understanding of elements of poetry including formal devices, structures, levels of diction, voice and tone.

ENG 4880 - Advanced Workshop in Nonfiction

• Ability to illuminate a complex issue in human experience.
• Ability to write a clear, focused, shapely, and cogent essay.
• Sophisticated understanding of the elements of successful essays, including clarity and originality of thought.

ENG 4900 - Special Topics in English

• Students will increase their knowledge in English.

ENG 4910 - English Internship

• Students will be able to decide whether a particular career path is suited to their abilities and inclinations.
• Students will gain experience in applying their critical and analytical skills by working in a business, service, or institutional setting.

ENG 4911 - Field Experience in Secondary English/Language and Composition

• Assist classroom teachers with creation and implementation of lesson plans.
• Evaluate the success of lesson plans in promoting students’ knowledge of course material.
• Observe successful classroom management strategies for secondary school teachers.
• Test various instructional strategies for teaching language and composition under supervision of classroom teachers.

ENG 4912 - Field Experience in Secondary English/Literature

• Deploy projects and assignments to assist student learning.
• Enact teaching strategies and lesson plans for the English/Language Arts classroom.
• Explore how dramatic and artistic responses to literature can enhance development of reading skills.
• Increase familiarity with NCTE standards.
• Learn to make curricular choices and instructional decisions while in the classroom.
• Practice productive collaboration with colleagues.
• Understand techniques for effective teaching.

ENG 4930 - Independent Reading

• Students will refine analytical and writing skills in independent study concerning a topic to be designed in consultation with faculty member.

ENG 4940 - Research Apprenticeship in English Studies

• Students will become familiar with advanced research methods in the field.
• Students will evaluate their interest in and apptitude for graduate study in English.
• Students will participate in the management of complex projects.
• Students will refine their ability to solve problems and sift information.

ENG 4970T - Thesis Tutorial I

• Student will complete research and planning of second half of thesis.
• Student will research and write drafts of chapters or sections of at least the first half of the thesis.

ENG 4980T - Thesis Tutorial II

• Student will complete and revise thesis and present it to the College in electronic and hard copy.

ENG 4990H - English Departmental Honors

• Creation of original analytical scholarship or creative writing project in English.
• Expertise at organizing, drafting, and revising lengthy texts.
• Masterful use of primary and secondary sources.

PBIO 1000 - Plants and the Global Environment

• Students will be able to evaluate the impacts of historical and modern achievements in energy use, such as fossil fuels, biofuels and sustainable energy sources and assess the role of policy in managing these resources.
• Students will be able to describe how humans rely on diverse categories of plant communities, the role that plants play in maintaining a healthy global ecosystem and the effects of climate change on plant communities.
• Students will be able to describe the drivers of climate and climate change and analyze models to predict future outcomes.
• Students will be able to explain how trade, agricultural practices and energy use are related to globalization and sustainability.
• Students will be able to analyze the importance of conservation efforts at local, national and international levels in protecting ecosystem services provided by plants.
• Students will be able to assess the impact of their personal choices and actions on the biosphere and make recommendations for broader strategies to address environmental problems.

PBIO 1000L - Plants and the Global Environment Laboratory

• Consider the history of agriculture, energy use, and sustainability.
• Develop skills at plant classification and identification.
• Evaluate alternative strategies for reducing greenhouse emissions and the role that plants play.
• Investigate the evolution of plants and their complexity as organisms.
• Investigate the uses of plants as raw materials for industrial processes: paper making, fabric, and dyes.
• Investigate the uses of plants in feeding a growing human population.
• Recognize the potential and limitations of plants to provide bio-energy sources.
• Relate agricultural production and trade in the context of global economic development.
• Relate climate change to energy use and impact on plant communities.
• Understand national and global policies on endangered species and invasive species.
• Understand the basis of climate and climate change, especially greenhouse gases.

PBIO 1020 - Plant Biology

• To understand the anatomy and morphology of plants.
• To appreciate the diversity of life forms in the Kingdoms of Fungi and Protista, and see the microhabitats available in saltwater algae beds.
• To gain skill in the use of light microscopy, including handling a diversity of specimen types and preparation of wet mounts.
• To understand plant organs and their modifications.
• To understand the evolutionary advances defining major groups of plants.
• To gain a general understanding of the basics of taxonomy and the systematics of plants.
• To learn the use of a taxonomic key for identification of the local flora.
• To understand the plant life cycle and modes of reproduction, including pollination and seed dispersal.
• To understand horticultural and commercial methods of plant propagation and fruit production, in terms of hormone production and nutrient requirements.
• To understand photosynthesis as the base of the world’s food chain.
• To understand plant interactions in the structure of plant communities.

PBIO 1030 - Plants and People

• Students will be able to explain basic structures, processes and reproductive strategies of plants, ecosystem services provided by plants, and how these are applied to support human populations around the world.
• Students will be able to explain the scientific method, critically evaluate new technologies, current regulations, and conservation efforts involving plants and plant products, and draw evidence-based conclusions.
• Students will be able to compare and contrast historical and modern methods of plant use and development for agricultural, medicinal, spiritual, recreational, and other practices
• Students will be able to communicate how scientific findings regarding agricultural practices, ecosystem services, and plant-based products contribute to the modern world.