Lower Division

• Write with clarity and cogency as inquiring and analytical readers of imaginative literature of various genres and from various periods;
• Recognize and appreciate the wide diversity of values and traditions in the U.S. by reading, writing, and thinking critically about literatures that speak in a range of voices;
• Appreciate the artistic choices an author makes in shaping a text in order to influence a reader’s response;
• Articulate observations, express ideas, and formulate arguments.

Upper Division

• Demonstrate significantly more advanced and sophisticated written literacy than that required at the lower-division level;
• Write with clarity and cogency as inquiring and analytical readers of texts in the field of their major or other discipline;
• Articulate observations, express ideas, and formulate arguments within the relevant discipline.

10–12–2005