Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will explain schema and reflect critically on effectiveness of one’s own critical reading and thinking processes in analyzing, criticizing, and generating complex ideas
• Students will use structural organization to identify the relationship of language to logic in arguments, fallacies, patterns of discourse, author and reader bias, facts vs. judgement, and knowledge vs. belief from academic texts across disciplines
• Students will integrate critical reading, critical thinking, and written communication as applied to thematically-related expository texts from a range of academic disciplines
• Students will synthesize and respond appropriately to discipline-specific academic texts by identifying intended audience, purpose, and social context from diverse perspectives
• Students will evaluate relevance, reliability, and appropriateness of scholarly sources in a variety of rhetorical contexts across disciplines
• Students will analyze and apply rhetorical principles in a range of thematically-related written assignments that scaffold into a final research paper with peer and instructor feedback