- PLO 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- CLO 3: Diversity: Students will understand that the social, political, economic, and cultural value of different English literary, linguistic, and rhetorical conventions result from uneven power relations within a diverse society. Students will engage in meaningful collaborations and critical dialogues with peers and faculty from a range of communities and perspectives in order to analyze and produce various types of texts that examine (and sometimes revise, critique, and resist) the varied and complex uses of the English language and its varieties.
- PLO 2: Integrative Learning
- CLO 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.
- CLO 5: Textual Historicity: Students will learn to think historically about texts from the meaning of individual words to the emergence, flourishing, and transformation of literary genres. They will examine how aesthetic sensibilities, beliefs and values change along with the English language and the cultures that use it.
- PLO 3: Critical Literacies
- CLO 1: Social Construction: Students will understand that the meaning of any given word or text is established through a continuing process of social interaction, negotiation, consensus, and dissent. Students will examine how meaning is made in relation to texts of various literary, rhetorical, and linguistic genres in their various contexts.
- CLO 4: Semantic Multiplicity: Students will understand that texts and language are rich, multiplicitous, and ambivalent in their meaning. Students will learn to uncover and engage these multiple meanings through analysis and production of textual and linguistic details, including literary tropes, generic conventions, rhetorical modalities, and linguistic registers.