- PLO 2: Intertextuality: Students will understand that texts, in all of their forms, must be read in relationship to relevant contexts (historical, linguistic, social, political, personal) and in relationship to one another. Students will demonstrate intertextual thinking by analyzing how texts relate to these broader contexts and by producing their own texts in ways that attend to text-context relationships.
- PLO 3: Writing: Students will understand that writing is a process of social and intertextual engagement that requires writers to negotiate the possibilities and demands of participation within a given context. As writers, students will recognize and apply (and sometimes revise, critique, and resist) the elements of various genres and rhetorical and stylistic conventions in realizing their purposes.
- PLO 5: Theory: Students will understand that theoretical and aesthetic traditions and frameworks of thought necessarily shape the interpretation and creation of texts, and the production of new knowledge. Students will engage in a range of methodological approaches, actively theorizing their own reading and writing practices in a variety of intellectual, rhetorical, and aesthetic contexts.
- PLO 8: Research: Students will understand that research in English Studies begins with an inquiry question or problem that needs to be solved and involves engaging sources in a conversation rather than using them for unquestioned answers. Students will generate inquiry questions to launch their individual research and creative/imaginative projects and follow discipline-specific methodologies to produce meaningful research and original imaginative writing in their field.