Learning Outcomes - English and Creative Writing

Seattle University undergraduate English students should be able to:

• Demonstrate a broad understanding of British and American literary history.
• Engage questions of justice, value,spirituality and meaning raised by literary texts.
• Read and interpret a variety of texts (written, oral, visual, and cultural) from different critical perspectives (formal, intertextual, and contextual) and appreciate how differences in theoretical framework can produce multiple readings of a text.
• Articulate an understanding of minority experience, cultural diversity, and multiculturalism, including issues of race, gender, class, and ethnicity, through the study of US ethnic minority literature or non-Western texts.
• Write and speak effectively for different audiences and purposes
  Early in the major : Produce effective close readings that engage basic formal and aesthetic features of texts.
  Late in the major : Conduct scholarly inquiry and produce literary research papers in the manner of a literary critic and in the style recommended by the current MLA.
  

Seattle University undergraduate Creative Writing students should be able to:

• Demonstrate a broad understanding of British and American literary history.
• Engage questions of justice, value, spirituality, and meaning raised by literary texts.
• Read and interpret a variety of texts (written, oral, visual, and cultural) from different critical perspectives (formal, intertextual, and contextual) and appreciate how differences in theoretical framework can produce multiple readings of a text.
• Write and speak effectively for different audiences and purposes
  Early in the major : Produce effective close readings that engage basic formal and aesthetic features of texts.
  Late in the major : conduct scholarly inquiry and produce literary research papers in the manner of a literary critic and in the style recommended by the current MLA.
• Produce effective creative pieces in three genres; late in the major,create a portfolio in a chosen genre sufficient to apply for an MFA program or to submit for publication.
• Demonstrate the professional habits of creative writers: revision,workshopping, public reading and submission for publication.

For complete list of Learning Outcomes for Seattle University Undergraduate Students, click here.