English and Humanities

Learning Objectives:
 

Number	Student Learning Outcome	How is this outcome assessed?
1	Student is able to recognize major generic elements in a literary work and to analyze the role of generic conventions in creation of a work’s theme.	English and Humanities faculty use a rubric to assess a sample of collected assignments from ENGL 200.
2	Student is able to integrate research with critical analysis and to document research materials accurately.	English and Humanities faculty use a rubric to assess a sample of collected assignments from ENGL 381.
3	Student is able to analyze a literary work in the context of its historical time period.	English and Humanities faculty use a rubric to assess a sample of collected assignments from ENGL 211 or 212 and ENGL 251 or 252 and an assignment from one of the following: ENGL 311, 312, 321, 322, 371, 373, 410, 411, 421, 424, 441, 446, 461, 471.
4	Student is able to recognize culturally diverse perspectives in literary works by historically/ traditionally marginalized peoples and to explain how cultural values and institutions influence themes and other elements in literary works by historically/traditionally marginalized peoples.	English and Humanities faculty use a rubric to assess a sample of collected assignments from ENGL 205, 249, 240, 341, 342, 343, 344, 346.
5	Student is able to identify key developments in the history of language and/or grammar and to identify basic aspects of the structure of language.	English and Humanities faculty review midterm and final grades from ENGL 360.
6	Student is able to examine works/ products from related humanities and media-based studies/disciplines (communication, film, media, philosophy, literature in another language, history, etc.).	English and Humanities faculty review a sample of collected assignments from ENGL 275, ENGL 352, ENGL 375, ENGL 377, ENGL 385, ENGL 390, ENGL 480, PHIL 105, PHIL 220, PHIL 260, PHIL 300, PHIL 340.
7	Student is able to design a well-organized speech and to demonstrate fundamental speaking skills.	English and Humanities faculty review the graded rubric from the final speech in SPCH 103.
8	Student is able to apply ideas drawn from the works of key or relevant philosophers to support their arguments, to distinguish between (to articulate) different philosophical approaches to issues/problems/ questions, and to distinguish between qualitative and quantitative modes of knowledge.	English and Humanities faculty use a rubric to assess a sample of collected assignments from PHIL 105 and PHIL 200.
9	Student is able to analyze a work of literature employing a distinctive critical perspective (i.e., school of criticism such as formalism, feminism, myth, historical, etc.) and to integrate research from diverse “schools” of criticism with critical analysis.	English and Humanities faculty use a rubric to assess a sample of collected assignments from ENGL 381.