Academic Learning Compact - English

English explores the rich diversity of cultures through study of the interaction of cultural objects and contexts. In the English major, you learn how to understand, to communicate about and to produce cultural objects. The study of English does not imply a specific course of study nor a prescribed set of outcomes; instead, you explore the study of language, literature, theory, etc., within different contexts such as American literary history, British literary history, African-American literary history, film and media studies, genders and sexualities, theory, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, world literatures in English, communications and creative writing.

Additional information is available from your major's website.

Before Graduating You Must

• Complete ten English courses (3000 or above) that demonstrate proficiency in the five student learning outcomes, graded according to the department grading rubric.
• Complete requirements for the baccalaureate degree, as determined by faculty.

Skills You Will Acquire in the Major (SLOs)

1. Understand cultural objects by exposure to interpretations and/or the practice of interpretations in different contexts.
2. Effectively produce cultural objects and/or interpretations of cultural objects: texts, films, media, hypertexts, etc.
3. Understand and work with contexts. Context models include:
   1. Advanced Writing
   2. African-American/African Diaspora Studies
   3. American Literature
   4. British Literature
   5. Children's Literature
   6. Creative Writing
   7. Cultural Studies
   8. Drama/Theater
   9. Feminisms, Genders and Sexualities
   10. Film and Media Studies
   11. Medieval Studies
   12. Postcolonial Studies
   13. Studies in Theory
4. Demonstrate the ability to interpret cultural objects.
5. Articulate cultural objects in texts (e.g., essays, term papers, reaction papers, short stories, poems, screenplays, memos, reports, etc.), films or videos, hypertexts, media, etc.