School of Humanities and Social Sciences

After completing our English program, students will:

• identify and assess skills, knowledge, and dispositions they have cultivated in the major that are applicable to professional, academic, and personal goals after college.

Additionally, after completing one of the following concentrations, students will:

Literature and Film Concentration

• identify and assess skills, knowledge, and dispositions they have cultivated in the concentration that are applicable to professional, academic, and personal goals after college.

Creative Writing Concentration

• demonstrate the ability to take a single work of fiction or a body of poetry through its subsequent drafts.

Writing, Rhetoric, and Publication Concentration

• summarize and apply findings from Writing Studies research.

After completing our program, students will:

• list and explain three revision exercises/strategies that they can apply to their own drafts in order to improve their work by the time they finish their capstone course.
• demonstrate a working vocabulary for craft analysis relevant to creative genres (poetry and fiction) by the time they finish their capstone course.
• demonstrate familiarity with contemporary examples of genres studied by the time they finish their capstone course.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate visual literacy skills.
• demonstrate an understanding of important and emerging trends in non-traditional and non-American cinema, and the role of cinema in the representation of world cultures and in social change.

After completing our program, students will:

• identify how global and local processes make places.
• apply methods to query the relationship between people and place.
• be able to critique societal assumptions about environmental, political, and/or urban spaces.

After completing our program, students will:

• write clear papers that are well structured, properly cited, and that draw on evidence to support an argument. 
• develop skills and knowledge enabling them to identify key theories and explain both what the theory means and how the theory matters for the study of politics.
• develop skills and knowledge enabling them to identify key institutions and explain both what the institution is and how it matters for the study of politics.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate familiarity with the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical developments in neuroscience.
• demonstrate a familiarity of laboratory techniques used in neuroscience research.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate an understanding of major concepts and theoretical perspectives from courses targeted at understanding learning phenomena (Conditioning & Learning) and sensory and perceptual systems (Sensation & Perception).
• demonstrate an appreciation and knowledge of basic research methods in psychology and show evidence that they can apply this understanding in the areas of research design, data analysis, and interpretation.
• demonstrate an appreciation and knowledge of basic research methods in psychology and show evidence that they can apply this understanding in the areas of research design, data analysis, and interpretation.
• be assessed in comparable online and in-person psychology courses to evaluate performance outcomes in each instructional modality. 

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate an understanding of the key anthropological concepts: Culture and Cultural Relativism.
• demonstrate an understanding of the key anthropological concepts: Culture and Biological Diversity.
• demonstrate an understanding of the key anthropological concepts: Social Organization.
• demonstrate an understanding of the key anthropological concepts: Cultural and Biological Evolution. 
• demonstrate an understanding of the key anthropological concepts: Language and Communication.
• recognize the major theoretical perspectives in the discipline.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate the ability to distinguish between the ways different schools of thought make sense of social issues.
• demonstrate the ability to apply the Big Ideas of sociology to contemporary social issues and policy discussions.
• identify the Big Ideas and concepts that sociology’s Big Thinkers have contributed to the discipline.
• clearly define the “sociological perspective.”
• distinguish the sociological perspective from viewpoints of other social sciences (e.g., political science, psychology and/or economics).
• communicate in writing about key concepts comprising the sociological perspective.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate clear organization, basic writing expectations (mechanics, spelling, grammar, punctuation), and use of transitions.
• demonstrate critical thinking and deep thought in responses to a variety of prompts / topics throughout the course.
• demonstrate integrative learning in reflection papers and Capstone project.

After completing our program, students will:

•  examine how social groups influence and shape sustainability efforts, whether in areas of culture, language, economics, environment, and society
• analyze how culture functions in relation to sustainability. They will consider culture as something to be sustained in and of itself, as a feature of the triple bottom line, and as the foundation of all sustainability efforts.
• analyze the degree to which institutions and organizations prioritize, develop, and implement sustainability initiatives.
• have opportunities to identify and address cultural factors associated with social and environmental justice locally, nationally, or internationally.

After completing our program, students will:

• be able to identify and describe the major theoretical traditions and approaches to scholarship and practice in Urban Studies.
• will be able to apply core urban studies concepts in practice through the internship practicum.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate critical thinking about gender in historical and contemporary cultures & societies.
• evaluate social justice issues with attention to differences across social categories.
• demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinarity as relevant to the discipline