There are six Board of Regents System General Education Requirement (SGR) goals. English courses fulfill System General Education Requirement Goal #1 - Written Communication and Goal #4 - Arts and Humanities.
SGR #1: Written Communication
Departmental courses ENGL 101, 201, 277, 283 and 284 fulfill the System General Education Goal 1, Written Communication, as follows:
Goal #1: “Students will write effectively and responsibly and will understand and interpret the written expression of others.”
Student Learning Outcomes:
As a result of taking courses meeting this goal, students will:
- Write using standard American English, including correct punctuation, grammar and sentence structure [assessment based upon your performance on various exercises and responses and on the major essays].
- Write logically [assessment based upon your performance on the major essays].
- Write persuasively, using a variety of rhetorical strategies (e.g., exposition, argumentation, description) [assessment based upon your performance on the major essays].
- Incorporate formal research and documentation into their writing, including research obtained through modern, technology-based research tools [assessment based upon your completion of the research component of the major essays and various documentation exercises].
SGR #4: Arts and Humanities
Several of our literature classes meet SGR Goal #4, which is defined as follows:
System Goal #4: “Students will understand the diversity and complexity of the human experience through study of the arts and humanities.”
Student Learning Outcomes:
As a result of taking courses meeting this goal, students will:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the diversity of values, beliefs and ideas embodied in the human experience.
- Identify and explain basic concepts of the selected disciplines within the arts and humanities.
In addition, as a result of taking courses meeting this goal, students will be able to do at least one of the following:
- Identify and explain the contributions of other cultures from the perspective of the selected disciplines within the arts and humanities.
- Demonstrate creative and aesthetic understanding.
- Explain and interpret formal and stylistic elements of the literary or fine arts.
- Demonstrate foundational competency in reading, writing and speaking a non-English language.