Student Learning Outcomes


  • Knowledge and comprehension of conventions of standard English and ability to identify and utilize a variety of rhetorical strategies
  • Proficiency in planning, drafting, revising, and editing formal essays
  • Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate complex literary texts
  • Knowledge and comprehension of a basic corpus of works of significant literary merit
  • Ability to analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and document library and Internet sources in conducting research