Student Learning Outcomes

1. Build a broad understanding of craft techniques across literary genres and gain facility with a wide variety of literary forms.
2. Develop skills as a thoughtful reader, critic, and editor of literary writing with an understanding of writing across time periods and genres
3. Apply skills of literary analysis to offer constructive feedback on peers’ work and to revise with intention a student’s own work-in-progress
4. Create writing that merits consideration for literary publication by applying literary craft techniques and aesthetic standards
5. Cultivate the abilities and habits—such as providing productive critique, confidently presenting work in public, and regularly attending literary events—necessary to becoming an engaged member of literary communities and to developing a sustained writing practice