Course Outcomes
This FIQWS topic section satisfies the “World Cultures and Global Issues” category of Pathways. Students will
- Gather, interpret, and assess information from a variety of sources and points of view.
- Evaluate evidence and arguments critically and analytically.
- Produce well-reasoned written or oral arguments using evidence to support conclusions
- Apply the fundamental concepts of language and literacy studies by recognizing the role of language attitudes and standards in empowering, oppressing, and hierarchizing languages and their users.
- Analyze and discuss the role that race, ethnicity, class, gender, language, sexual orientation, belief, ability, or other forms of social differentiation play in world cultures or societies.
- Speak, read, and write a language other than English, and use that language to respond to cultures other than one’s own.
This FIQWS writing section satisfies the English composition requirement. Students will
- Explore and analyze in their own and other’s writing a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
- Develop strategies for reading, drafting, revising, and editing.
- Practice systematic application of citation conventions.
- Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
- Develop and engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
- Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
- Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives on the internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, and bias.
