Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completing a B.A. in French, German, Italian, or Spanish, students shall

  1. Use the target language with confidence and joy.  
  2. Demonstrate interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational competencies in the target language in order to effectively engage in communicative situations at the academic, professional, personal, and communal level.
  3. Engage in creative, intellectual, and practical projects and activities that promote multilingualism.
  4. Interact confidently and with cultural competence to critically and ethically explore ideas, issues, systems, and events of local, national and international significance.
  5. Identify diverse linguistic, cultural, socio-economic, and geographical contexts and their intersections and how they relate to issues of power.  
  6. Demonstrate skills related to the discipline of literary and cultural studies such as:
  • recognizing literary traditions, movements, and the authors who represent them; 
  • analyzing texts in terms of style, genre, tone, medium, figurative language, rhetorical devices, and convention; 
  • evaluating original arguments about a wide range of texts considered within their aesthetic, social and historical milieu; 
  • utilizing secondary materials to perform literary criticism and explain their interpretations in speech and in writing; 
  • engaging with and analyzing cultural and historical frameworks of knowledge production, exploring diverse perspectives that challenge dominant narratives in literary and cultural contexts. 
     

Upon completing a M.A. in French, German, Italian, or Spanish, students shall

  1. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills in discipline-specific genres at a minimum at the Advanced Low level on the ACTFL scale.
  2. Demonstrate proficiency in subject content knowledge (including cultures, literatures, and thought) in the language program of study. 
  3. Analyze literary and other cultural products and practices through appropriate theoretical, historical, and critical lenses. 
  4. Demonstrate transferable skills related to professionalism and career readiness such as critical thinking and analytical skills, cross-cultural communication, metalinguistic awareness, digital literacy, editing and revising, and research skills. 
  5. Conduct independent research and analysis ethically and responsibly in their discipline to produce original work.