2021 - 2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
English Minor
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Mission
The Language and Literature Department strives to develop a true community of learners where a working knowledge of literary history and literary analysis gives students a home in their own culture and makes them careful and compassionate judges of human nature.
Program Learning Outcomes
A graduate of the English program at the University of Mary:
- displays mastery of usage and mechanics in edited work
- can analyze a text or image in terms of its formal elements and their implications
- can distinguish major critical theories
- can use major research tools to construct a preliminary bibliography
- can produce an original short work of narrative, dramatic, or poetic art
- can use grammatical terminology to explain the stylistic or dialectal differences between two texts
- can apply several different critical theories to the same literary text and discuss their implications
- can analyze an argument in terms of both its logic and rhetoric
- can produce a well-supported argument incorporating research
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