Learning Outcomes

1. Develop a capacity for close attention to language structure and language use.
2. Develop familiarity with and appreciation for major authors, literary movements and genres and their place in the development of American, British and other literatures.
3. Build the skills required to write persuasive, coherent explications of literary texts, to appropriately support arguments with both primary and secondary source material and to properly employ the conventions of documentation as a foundation for writing effective critical essays in upper-division courses.
4. Develop familiarity with the core issues in writing studies.
5. Analyze issues in language usage, language variation, language acquisition and history of the English language.
6. Explain and analyze structure and function in the English language system at multiple linguistic levels.
7. Analyze the relationship between individuals and the multiple discourse communities they belong to.