Department of English

Outcomes for 2000-level Survey Courses

• Demonstrate familiarity with representative authors and works from the relevant historical periods:

• Demonstrate awareness of the broad historical and cultural contexts of the literature:

• Trace characteristic recurring themes, observing how these themes are sometimes subverted or treated with ambiguity or ambivalence:

• Demonstrate familiarity with literary terms and genres, and appreciate and enjoy works in these genres:

• Demonstrate awareness of the factors, reflecting to a degree our own concerns, tastes, and culture, that contribute to literary valuation and canon formation:

• Demonstrate ability to infer meanings that are not explicitly stated in a work:

• Demonstrate understanding of how the audience and purpose of a work affect its content:

• Relate insights from the literature to one’s understanding of abstract ideas and abiding human concerns:

• Demonstrate ability to make text-based oral and written arguments: