English, MAT Learning Outcomes

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of their degree, our M.A.T. students should be able to:

• Synthesize information from primary and secondary sources
• Apply hermeneutical approaches to texts (such as historical, theoretical, rhetorical, philosophical, genre-based, cultural, reception)
• Identify appropriate methodologies to apply to research questions
• Position an argument within contemporary scholarly debates in English studies
• Craft presentations of professional work
• Present original scholarship to an academic audience
• Apply scholarship on English studies pedagogy to curriculum design