Bachelor of Arts in English
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Critical Thinking and Writing
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Our graduates think about complex social, political, cultural, and textual issues and effectively communicate their ideas about these issues in written and spoken form.
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Critical Thinking and Writing
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Our graduates develop sophisticated and convincing critical arguments about texts.
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Critical Thinking and Writing
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Our graduates defend these arguments with logical and original analysis that skillfully integrates textual examples to support interpretation.
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Critical Thinking and Writing
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Our graduates explain with precision and skillful reasoning the relationship of textual evidence to meaning, interpretation, and argumentation.
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Reading and Interpretation
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Our graduates interpret significant literary and cultural forms, conventions, and genres.
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Reading and Interpretation
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Our graduates identify through close reading how the language, form, and structure of a work contribute to its meaning.
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Reading and Interpretation
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Our graduates formulate sophisticated, cohesive, and compelling readings of texts by connecting numerous specific textual details to overall meaning and context.
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Reading and Interpretation
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Our graduates creatively and insightfully analyze the use of literary devices, such as figurative language, tone, narrative perspective, narrative voice, and authorial voice.
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Reading and Interpretation
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Our graduates explore and analyze complexity, ambiguity, and subtlety in texts, including such concepts as connotation, irony, symbolism, and allegory.
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Contextual Awareness
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Our graduates have knowledge of the traditions of Anglo-American literary, cultural, and critical texts, both within and beyond the canon.
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Contextual Awareness
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Our graduates are sensitive to the diversity of literary and cultural voices, including the voices of groups that have been silenced, erased, and/or marginalized.
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Contextual Awareness
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Our graduates can articulate sophisticated connections between relevant contexts of history, culture, genre, criticism, and literary history.
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Contextual Awareness
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Our graduates have the ability to incorporate contexts in meaningful ways to produce rich, insightful, and nuanced readings of texts.
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Literary and Cultural Aesthetics
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Our graduates formulate well-developed ideas about the distinctive intellectual and aesthetic experiences provided by literary and cultural texts.
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Literary and Cultural Aesthetics
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Our graduates write and speak about texts with a sophisticated awareness of and appreciation for the qualities that make texts meaningful, moving, and pleasurable.
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Literary and Cultural Aesthetics
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Our graduates enrich readings with meaningful reference to the sensory and affective aspects of literary and cultural texts.