Institutional Learning Outcomes: Critical Thinking and Investigation Students demonstrate critical understanding of major works and movements in American fiction between 1900 and 1950, including naturalism, realism, and modernism, through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of chosen fiction, students show an advanced ability to critically and creatively analyze and articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers of this period, and a mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills. Prerequisite: 6 credits of first-year English (with the exception of ENGL 1150) or equivalent or completion of 45 credits, or permission of the instructor or department chair.
Institutional Learning Outcomes: Critical Thinking and Investigation Students demonstrate critical understanding of major works and movements in American fiction between 1900 and 1950, including naturalism, realism, and modernism, through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of chosen fiction, students show an advanced ability to critically and creatively analyze and articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers of this period, and a mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills. Prerequisite: 6 credits of first-year English (with the exception of ENGL 1150) or equivalent or completion of 45 credits, or permission of the instructor or department chair.
