Targeted Course Learning Outcomes

  1. You will discover possibilities through text, ideas, observations, opinions, experiences, and emotions.

  2. You will express personal text preferences and expand interests towards other texts or text creators.

  3. You will connect yourself to text, culture, physical settings, by identifying and considering personal, moral, ethical, and cultural perspectives in text.

  4. You will consider and address form, structure, and medium by understanding concepts of various communication uses in oral, print, and multimedia text forms.

  5. You will appreciate diversity of expression, opinion, and perspective by viewing, monitoring, and evaluating various texts.

  6. You will form tentative understandings, interpretations, and positions as they connect your own and others' explorations of characteristics in various texts.

  7. You will evaluate sources and assess information by reflecting on and describing strategies to ensure credibility and quality in found resources, as well as identifying bias or inaccuracy in gathered information.

  8. You will form generalizations and conclusions by integrating information new to you with knowledge you already have.

  9. You will develop content and enhance organization by assessing relationships among a controlling idea, supporting ideas, and details, as well as strengthening relationships as needed to enhance the unity of created texts.

  10. You will evaluate the nearness to reality, appropriateness, and significance of print and non-print texts by examining the significance of the text's theme or controlling idea, as well by considering the effectiveness of the text's content in terms of adequate and relevant supporting details or illustrations.

  11. You will assess text creation context by reflecting on the purpose behind created texts, as well by assessing your own choices made in text creations for the course.

  12. You will improve thoughtfulness, effectiveness, and correctness of communication.

  13. You will use language and image to show respect and consideration.