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• Mission Statement

  The Department of English Language and Literature prepares students to become critical readers and writers through the study of literature and language in English.  Moreover, the Department serves the University community by providing students with reading and writing skills integral to their academic and career success.

  Mission of the Professional and Technical Writing program:
  The Professional and Technical Writing Emphasis, Minor, and Institutional Certificate (IC) prepare students to enter the workforce with advanced writing, editing, and designing skills. Students also learn content management, project management, and collaborative strategies.

• Student Learning Outcomes
  • Minor

    Upon completing the English Minor, students will: 

    1. Read, explicate, & analyze texts within their cultural, historical, & critical contexts.
    2. Research using a variety of methods & resources & document sources
    3. Apply relevant critical theories.
    4. Write effectively about texts for varied purposes & audiences. 
    5. Demonstrate knowledge of writers, works, genres & periods.

    Upon completing the English Teaching Minor, students will: 

    1. Write & Read in multiple genres
    2. Discuss, share, and evaluate a wide range of literature
    3. Plan a coherent curriculum for teaching language arts
    4. Integrate writing and language instruction 
    5. Use appropriate formal and informal assessments
    6. Articulate a professional and coherent philosophy of language arts instruction

    Upon completing the Linguistics Minor, students will:

    1. Conceptual Knowledge: Students will be able to explain, with an appropriate artifact, systematicity and one other property of language
    2. Procedural knowledge: Students will be able to employ, with a appropriate artifact, a method of language analysis  
    3. Compose, revise, and edit writing

    Upon completing the Literary Editing Minor, students will:

    1. Read, explicate, and analyze texts within their cultural, historical, & critical contexts
    2. Research using a variety of methods & sources & document sources
    3. Apply relevant critical theories
    4. Write effectively about texts for varied purposes & audiences
    5. Demonstrate knowledge of writers, works, genres, & periods

    Upon completing the Professional & Technical Writing Minor, students will:

    1. Apply theories of technical communication in a variety of genres 
    2. Write a variety of documents that reflect application of cognition
    3. Perform substantive editing    Rhetorical approach to document design
    4. Construct documentation projects
    5. Develop a portfolio

    Upon completing the Screen Writing Minor, students will:

    1. Have a basic understanding of the theory and history of screen genres.
    2. Know fundamental concepts and conventions of writing for the screen.
    3. Recognize and appreciate the differences between writing for the screen and writing for the stage or for various print genres.
    4. Be able to use at least one screenwriting software program.
    5. Utilize this knowledge in creating 3 short screenplays (original or adapted from other genres), together amounting to at least 100 pages and/or 90 minutes of viewing time.
    

  • Associate Degree

    Standards, competencies, and marketable skills students with the  Associate of Arts in English will have achieved:

    1. Writing and editing skills, including the inclusion of multimedia components

    • Includes writing, presentations made using presentation software from Microsoft and Adobe, and document design.
      • Assessment measures: Students will be assessed through exams, quizzes, multimedia and digital projects, presentations and writing assignments, using proven department assessment processes.

     

    2. Creativity

    • In the interpretation of written and multimedia texts; in document and web design; in writing analytical papers and creative texts.
      • Assessment measures: Students will be assessed through exams, quizzes, multimedia and digital projects, presentations and writing assignments, using proven department assessment processes.

     

    3. Ability to Communicate in Writing, Orally and Visually

    • Includes the ability to gather, analyze, and communicate information and insights creatively and critically; understand and apply various theoretical perspectives and discipline-specific terminology to interpretations of texts and/or analysis of data; demonstrate knowledge of research practices and application.
      • Assessment measures: Students will be assessed through exams, quizzes, multimedia and digital projects, presentations and writing assignments, using proven department assessment processes.

  • Bachelor Degrees

    Departmental Outcomes:

    There are two overall Departmental Outcomes plus Learning Outcomes for the individual programs within the department.
    All Bachelor of Arts in English and English Teaching students will:

    1. Read, interpret, and analyze language and texts.

    2. Compose, revise, and edit their writing.

    Emphases:

    Developmental English
    
    The Developmental English Program does not currently have updated programmatic outcomes. One of the program’s goals for 2025-26 is to develop/revise these and map how they connect with the course-level outcomes presented below.
    
    ENGL 0900

    • Demonstrate comprehension and retention of reading material.
    • Write with clarity, focus, creativity, and authenticity.
    • Edit writing to correct spelling, grammar, and any mechanical errors.

    
    ENGL 1000 & 1002
    
    The outcomes for ENGL 1000 and ENGL 1002 are the same, but with the expectation that students will achieve higher proficiency in 1002 than in 1000. 

    • Develop both intensive and extensive reading skills of narrative writing, textbooks, news articles, and other academic and historical texts.
    • Improve skimming, scanning, pre-reading, reading, and re-reading strategies to promote higher levels of comprehension and retention.
    • Read with a purpose and a plan, varying your reading approach according to the task at hand.
    • Read faster and with greater comfort and confidence to increase your college reading, testing taking, and learning outcomes, while reducing time spent. 
    • Increase vocabulary and academic collocation learning from reading to transfer to academic writing.

    
    ENGL 1001

    • Read and demonstrate comprehension of unadapted academic texts through writing and discussion.
    • Learn vocabulary through reading unadapted academic texts.
    • Learn reading skills such as critiquing, hypothesizing, analyzing and making connections.

    
    ENGL 1005, 1006, & 1007
    
    To assess English 1005 and English 1006/English 1007 (these two courses combine the curriculum of ENGL 1005), the DE program uses the English 1010 (EN1) outcomes:

    • LO1 Composing processes: Identify and practice composing processes including: peer review, recursive drafting, summary, synthesis and authorial ownership.
    • LO2 Genre: Analyze and apply genre features including: organization, surface features, and modalities.
    • LO3 Audiences: Identify and analyze various audiences, texts, and writing situations in order to determine appropriate rhetorical strategies, conventions, media, and sources.
      
       

    Composition

    Composition EN1 (ENGL 1005, 1006/1007, or 1010):

    • LO1 Composing processes: Identify and practice composing processes including: peer review, recursive drafting, summary, synthesis and authorial ownership
    • LO2 Genre: Analyze and apply genre features including: organization, surface features, and modalities.
    • LO3 Audiences: Identify and analyze various audiences, texts, and writing situations in order to determine appropriate rhetorical strategies, conventions, media, and sources.

     

    Composition EN2 (ENGL 2010 or 2015): 

    • LO1 Processes: Demonstrate proficiency in academic research and writing processes.
    • LO2 Connections: Articulate audience and critically evaluate information sources, identifying connections between and among texts, ideas, language, and disciplines, in various contexts.
    • LO3 Conventions: Implement writing that employs ethical and appropriate conventions such as thesis statements, topic sentences, surface features, and documentation.
       

    English (BA)

    • Read, explicate & analyze texts within their cultural, historical, & critical contexts.
    • Research using a variety of methods & sources & document sources.
    • Apply relevant critical theories.
    • Write effectively about texts for varied purposes & audiences.
    • Demonstrate knowledge of writers, works, genres & periods.

     

    Professional and Technical Writing

    • Students should apply theories of technical communication in a variety of genres demonstrating theoretical and practical foundation of the Professional and Technical Writing minor and emphasis.
    • Students should write a variety of documents that reflect application of sophisticated levels of cognition in addition to mastering basic concepts in the discipline.
    • Students should perform substantive editing in both hard copy and electronic copy.
    • Students should demonstrate a rhetorical approach to document design by thoroughly analyzing situational audience, purpose, and context.
    • Students should construct documentation projects using single-sourcing and modular-writing principles.
    • Students should develop a portfolio of their best work containing a variety of documents created throughout the entire program; the portfolio may be in hardcopy, online, or a combination of media.

     

    Linguistics

    • 1. Conceptual: Demonstrate fundamental knowledge and understanding of terms, concepts, and theories by identifying, defining, and describing
    • 2. Analytical: Apply conceptual knowledge in critiquing, analyzing, and/or reflecting on data, samples, texts, readings, lesson plans, and other artifacts
    • 3. Procedural: Extend application and analysis to extracting general linguistic and pedagogical principles and using those principles in hands-on tasks 

     

    English Teaching

    • 1. Encourage Students to express their life experiences in writing a variety of genres such as journals, memoir, narrative, essay, and argument.
    • 2.  Secondary Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions (e.g, philosophical, ethical, aesthetic) of human experience.
    • 3. Plan a coherent curriculum based on student needs that integrate reading, writing, and language instructions guided by the Utah State Core Standards.
    • 4. Demonstrate to their students how to apply knowledge of language structure, usage, and conventions to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for different purposes.
    • 5. Use appropriate formal and informal assessments to inform instruction and verify student learning.
    • 6. Articulate a professional and coherent philosophy of language arts instruction based on current practices, the connections between reading and writing processes, and current research in the field of teaching English that promotes respect ofr physical, ethnic, gender, and cultural diversity (Appendix 8).

     

    Creative Writing

    • Experiment in writing and develop drafts into polished original work.
    • Show critical self-awareness.
    • Exhibit editorial proficiency.
    • Understand the professional writing environment.
    • Show knowledge of contemporary, canonical, and marginalized literature.

     

    Literary and Textual Studies

    • LO1 Writing: Students will write effectively about texts/cultural artifacts for academic and non-academic audiences.
    • LO2 Research: Use research tools and effective research strategies to locate and evaluate information for written and oral communication about texts/cultural artifacts.
    • LO3 Critical analysis: Students will use analysis and critical thinking to engage with texts/cultural artifacts.
• Curriculum Grid

   

  KEY: 1= introduced, 2 = emphasized, 3 = mastered, NA=Not Applicable

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• Program and Contact Information

  The Department of English Language and Literature offers a broad spectrum of language, literature and writing courses. English majors and minors, English teaching majors and minors, English majors with professional and technical writing emphasis and professional and technical writing minors, and English majors with creative writing emphasis, in consultation with English department advisors, can select programs individually designed to satisfy academic requirements. Furthermore, students preparing for careers in law, medicine, business, public relations and government service may find departmental courses highly beneficial. The English Department has also designed courses for the general student in introductory and intermediate writing.

  English Language & Literature Department Website

  Contact Information:
  Dr Becky Jo Gesteland
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  1395 Edvalson St., Dept. 1404
  Ogden, UT 84408-1404
  Elizabeth Hall, Rm 435A
  (801)626-7902

• Assessment Plan

  Each program has developed or is in the process of developing their own plans. Follow to the individual plans. 

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• Program Review

  2020-21
   

This information is part of the cyclical program review process. Details such as mission statements, learning outcomes, etc., are updated as part of the biennial assessment reporting process, an integral component of program review.