Course Goals (Student Learning Outcomes):
1. Comprehend, summarize, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a variety of primarily non-fiction texts.
2. Write clear, well-organized essays with arguable theses, persuasive support, and synthesis of several sources, demonstrating engagement in a full and productive reading, thinking, and writing process, and showing syntactical maturity.
3. Think critically at a college level by evaluating their own reading and writing process, describing and evaluating arguments, recognizing bias and identifying and avoiding errors in logic, and recognizing tone, audience and purpose in texts.
4. Consider diverse perspectives and worldviews (related to ethnicity, race, gender, class, language, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, or political beliefs) in order to engage thoughtfully with the perspectives of others.
5. Conduct basic research using library tools, incorporating various sources into essays using appropriate documentation format
