Common Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) for majors:
Upon the successful completion of the English majors (ENGL, ENGW, and ENGA), students
will be able to demonstrate proficiency in four primary areas:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Knowledge
Theories and methods of reading
Critical thinking skills
Communication
Knowledge
Student learning outcome (SLO) 1: Define multiple literary traditions and
genealogies
SLO 2: Define multiple literary critical traditions
SLO 3: Explain how history and culture inform the production and study of
literature and other texts
SLO 4: Articulate how the imaginative constructs of poetry, drama, and prose
(fiction and nonfiction) illuminate fundamental questions of human experience
Theories and methods of reading
SLO 5: Define critical theories/methods of reading
SLO 6: Employ critical theories/methods of reading to interpret texts
Critical thinking skills
SLO 7: Identify rhetorical tactics within texts
SLO 8: Analyze the function of rhetorical tactics within texts
SLO 9: Argue for interpretations and evaluations of texts
SLO 10: Reflect on the validity of personal bases for evaluating texts in light of
textual, historical, and cultural evidence
SLO 11: Demonstrate habits of logical thinking, proceeding from the
identification of evidence, through the construction of hypotheses, to the
identification of conclusions
Communication
SLO 12: Construct well-written texts in a variety of genres and/or media
SLO 13: Deliver effective multi-media presentations
SLO 14: Demonstrate effective strategies for collaboration with peers
SLO 15: Articulate how the learning outcomes for their major transfer to other
courses and vocations they pursue after graduating from Marquette University
Major-Specific Student Learning Outcomes: In addition to the common Learning Outcomes, students
in the following majors will be able to . . .
ENGL
SLO 16: Evaluate the
relevance of textual
representations to specific
historical and cultural
contexts
ENGW
SLO 17: Demonstrate writing
expertise across a variety of
texts and contexts.
ENGA
SLO 17: Demonstrate writing
expertise across a variety of
texts and contexts.
SLO 18: Explain writing
expertise in relation to their
own writing as well as the
writing of others across a
variety of texts and contexts.
SLO 19: Explain how
language plays a role in
constructing social
relationships in different,
differently mediated contexts.
SLO 18: Explain writing
expertise in relation to their
own writing as well as the
writing of others across a
variety of texts and contexts.
SLO 19: Explain how
language plays a role in
constructing social
relationships in different,
differently mediated contexts.
SLO 20: Demonstrate
competency in content areas
specified by D.P.I.