Lit&Civ2-665

Literature and Civilization II

Goals, Aspirations, Outcomes, and Action Steps

--Students will examine the role of literary, rhetorical, and dramatic expression in the development of cultural ideas, institutions, and roles. 

--Students will investigate literary responses to cultural developments from around the world.

--Students will develop a greater critical awareness of global perspectives.

--Students will analyze literary texts to explore the nature and value of human life.

--Students will construct relevant arguments based on their readings and research.

--Students will analyze representative literary texts of significance and practice critical analysis of these texts.

--Students will explore texts in terms of multiple cultural heritages, aesthetic approaches, and ideological perspectives.

--Students will demonstrate critical awareness that problem solving in the global community requires the integration of a variety of perspectives.

--Students will learn how to evaluate sources from a variety of perspectives and to use those sources.

--Students will demonstrate through reading responses, informal writing, and class discussion a critical engagement with intellectually challenging texts.

--Students will incorporate additional media into the composing course assignments.

--Students will demonstrate strategies of literary analysis through writing about the assigned texts.

--Students will identify representative authors and works in a particular literary tradition.

--Students will gain an appreciation of the development of humor as both a literary genre and cultural phenomenon.

--Students will gain global experience, and develop greater sensitivity to significant cultural issues, by working closely with an IEP student.

--Students will improve their critical skills as readers and as writers.

The Heritage, Mission, Vision, and Values Curriculum Competency, Learning Outcomes, and Student Action Steps Global Awareness

Competency: TCU graduates will demonstrate knowledge of trends, issues, and opportunities that impact the global community.

Learning Outcomes

--Students will demonstrate critical awareness that problem-solving in the global community requires the integration of a variety of perspectives.

--Students will demonstrate the ability to develop informed judgments about global issues.

Student Action Steps

--Students will examine and critique information and argument related to substantive problems that have a global dimension.

--Students will learn how to evaluate sources from a variety of perspectives and use those sources to inform their critique of problems in the global community.

--Students will learn to employ discipline-specific skill sets in their analyses of global issues.

--Students will synthesize and balance information in developing appropriate evidence-based conclusions about global issues.

The Human Experiences and Endeavors Curriculum Competency, Learning Outcomes, and Student Action Steps Humanities

Competency: TCU graduates will apply methods of humanistic inquiry and construct relevant arguments.

Learning Outcomes

--Students will be able to analyze representative texts of significance and to practice critical analysis of work at the center of the humanities.

--Students will demonstrate a critical ability to analyze questions about the nature and value of human life as embodied in the traditions of the humanities.

Student Action Steps

--Students will explore texts in terms of multiple cultural heritages, aesthetic approaches, and/or ideological perspectives;

--Students will practice the problem-solving skills of critical reading and interpretation;

--Students will critically examine and appraise diverse ideas.

--Students will use analytical tools to write logically coherent, informed, and persuasive prose.

--Students will identify, explore and evaluate representative products of human culture and human intellect to discern expressions about the nature and value of human life.

--Students will identify and compare the characteristics of human life reflected in the products of human culture.

--Students will articulate their analysis of the products of human culture in logically coherent, informed, and persuasive prose.