1. Pursue and evaluate knowledge through the skills of
inquiry, research, critical thinking and problem solving.
2. Communicate effectively in both speech and writing.
3. Understand the varying perspectives of the liberal arts
and sciences and apply them to personal, civic or professional issues.
4. Understand and appreciate diversity and develop a
worldview informed by multicultural and global perspectives.
5. Understand and appreciate the Jesuit/Catholic linking of
faith and justice.
6. Assess their own levels of commitment to community
service and to a just world.
7. Demonstrate proficiency in the content and methodology of
their discipline or profession.
8. Think systematically about moral, ethical and spiritual
questions and assess and articulate their own values.
9. Demonstrate team and leadership skills needed to convert goals to action.
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Department/Program ENGLISH/CREATIVE
WRITING Student
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Students should be able to: |
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Demonstrate
a broad understanding of British and American literary history |
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Engage questions of justice, value, spirituality,
and meaning raised by literary texts |
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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 |
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Write
and speak effectively for different audiences and purposes
a.
Early in the major: Produce effective close readings that engage
basic formal and aesthetic features of texts. b. 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 |
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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
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Demonstrate the professional habits of
creative writers: revision, workshopping, public reading, and submission for
publication
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