Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate mastery of all available research methods and existing scholarship specific to their fields of emphasis.
- By the end of their coursework, students will demonstrate in-depth knowledge of their primary scholarly field of emphasis, including extensive knowledge of authors, texts, and central issues specific to a major area of literary and rhetorical studies.
- Students will extend the applicable range of professionally relevant theoretical concepts by using them in the analysis of canonical and/or marginalized texts and/or central issues specific to their fields of emphasis.
- By the end of their coursework, students will demonstrate in-depth knowledge of a secondary scholarly field of emphasis, including extensive knowledge of authors, texts, and central issues specific to a significant area of literary and rhetorical studies.