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Credit Hours: 3 Effective Term: Fall 2010 SUN#: None AGEC: |
Credit Breakdown: 3 Lectures Times for Credit: 1 Grading Option: A/F Cross-Listed: |
| Measurable Student Learning Outcomes |
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| 1. (Application level) Produce discursive samples that involve sustained research, resource evaluation and manipulation, and critical thinking.
2. (Application level) Apply the reading conventions of a specific discipline or field in the analysis of texts from that discipline or field. 3. (Synthesis level) Develop annotated bibliographies, textual notes, and correlate materials from scholarly resource sources to evidence successful and appropriate search techniques. 4. (Evaluation level) Evaluate source material for credibility, objectivity, and accuracy. 5. (Synthesis level) Strategize methods for implementing source materials in written discourse while balancing the writer's own voice. 6. (Application level) Employ complex argument and critical analytical skills in written discourse. 7. ( Analysis level) Recognize inductive and deductive forms of reasoning and methods of arrangement. 8. (Synthesis level) Construct discipline-specific discourse or metadiscourse using MLA, APA, and/or CMS style format. 9. (Synthesis level) Use technology, to develop hyper-textual essays that incorporate targets and hyperlinks, presentation software, websites, and a variety of visual elements. 10. (Synthesis level) Develop strategies for the revision of written, grammatically correct discourse based on oral and written feedback from peers and the instructor. |
| Internal/External Standards Accreditation |
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1. Perform evaluations that critically question or analyze a piece of discourse for a specific field or discipline.
2. Written and oral evaluations of source material that demonstrate critical thinking about the relative merits of particular sources. 3. Utilize strategic research collection practices that encompass some or all of the following: need for source material, editing of source material, need for proper introduction to material and attribution to the authors credentials, appropriateness of quotation or paraphrase, and choices related to the presentations of the materials (charts, graphs, tables as well as placement (i.e.: endnotes, appendices, etc.)) 4. Produce sustained persuasive written discourse based on the textual analysis of a given text or texts. 5. Identify and analyze samples of inductive and deductive reasoning in course readings, in written discourse, and class discussions. 6. Create at least one hypertextual essay that utilizes current technologies such as, but not limited to, hyperlinking, website connections, presentation software, or power point. 7. Develop written discourse, class presentations and/or discussions that indicates a process of reflection, peer review, revision and a mastery of college level punctuation and sentence structure. 8. Produce a minimum of three documented discipline or field area specific essays at least five pages in length. Total written discourse should be approximately 30 pages, of which seventy-five percent is revised, polished writing. |