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COAS-Owned Programs and their PLOs

First-Year Writing Program (ENL 101, 102)

  1. Read, interpret, and communicate key concepts in writing and rhetoric
  2. Use flexible writing process strategies to generate, develop, revise, edit, and proofread texts
  3. Use reflection and self-evaluation to connect choices they have made in texts to audiences and purposes for which texts are intended
  4. Use appropriate conventions for surface-level language and style
  5. Adopt strategies and genres appropriate to the rhetorical situation
  6. Use inquiry-based strategies to drive informal research and reflection
  7. Use inquiry-based strategies to conduct research that explores multiple and diverse ideas and perspectives, appropriate to the rhetorical context
  8. Use rhetorically appropriate strategies to evaluate, represent, and respond to the ideas and research of others
  9. Address readers’ biases and assumptions with well-developed evidence-based reasoning
  10. Use appropriate conventions for integrating, citing, and documenting source material as well as for surface-level language and style

Interdisciplinary Studies BA BS

  1. Analyze and understand the interconnections of your three academic areas (minors, certificates)
  2. Discover and identify the skills and competencies within interdisciplinary studies
  3. Articulate the value of the unique connections, skills, and experiences from your studies
  4. Apply the knowledge and competencies of your three areas to relevant context, issues, and opportunities

Interdisciplinary Studies MA MS

  1. Integrate knowledge and skills from various disciplines to address contemporary challenges.
  2. Create defensible and coherent arguments or explanations summarizing their work. 
  3. Articulate and evaluate the ways in which the two or more fields or knowledge influenced their work. 

Digital Communications Management MA

  1. Create action plans regarding the development and use of digital communications based on analysis of media metrics.
  2. Produce and publish professional-level communications content to achieve identified goals.
  3. Engage clients to define and achieve identified project goals.
  4. Mentor communications team members to achieve identified project goals and develop team members.
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