Upon completion of any of our majors/minors, students can:
- recognize the specificity of cultural products (i.e., art, music, literature, digital media, etc.) without essentializing them as separate from the world at large, using critical and analytic skills
- clearly understand what others are saying in the target language(s) and have confidence in making themselves clearly understood in that same language(s) (both formally and informally).
- present emotions, statements, information, and data through varied discursive structures (i.e., narrative, expositive, argumentative), using a variety of strategies to communicate their point both in their own language as well as in the target language(s).
- compare practices and social norms between their own and other cultures with empathy, using information gathered through research processes, without imposing value judgments.
- communicate my needs to others using the appropriate structures, vocabulary and expressions enough to survive in the target language(s)
ASL Outcomes
By the time students finish the intermediate
- Articulate the various aspects of deaf community
- Express themselves using the deaf grammatical structure
- Recognize and use finger spelling to express needs (101)
- Read and interpret other signs using appropriate visual-receptive, and expressive skills
- Recognize differences in methods for educating the deaf
- Be able to recognize the difference between ASL, PSL and SEE
- Explain the current technology for deaf and hard of hearing individuals
- Identify the impact medical practice have on the deaf community
- Identify causes and types of hearing loss
- Recognize variation in regional signs and contexts
- Identify important icons in the deaf community
Combined Languages
Students in the Combined Languages program are expected to achieve fluency in at least two target languages: the primary will be at the intermediate high level or above, and the secondary language(s) at the intermediate low level or above. All the outcomes described below are developed with this idea in mind. Upon completion of our program, students can:
- Interpretive:
- interpret, identify, and compare basic information on daily life and familiar contexts in at least two target languages
- Interpersonal:
- communicate in spontaneous spoken, written, or signed conversations on familiar and everyday topics in at least two target languages.
- Presentational:
- present information on familiar and unfamiliar topics, using a variety of practiced and memorized words, expressions in at least two languages
- Investigate:
- identify and investigate cultural productions in the primary target language to understand perspectives and compare with cultural productions in other languages and particularly with the secondary target languages
- Interact:
- interact at a functional level in familiar contexts in the primary target language and maintain basic interactions in very familiar contexts in the secondary languages
Comparative Literature
Upon satisfactory completion of our BA in Comparative Literature, our students will be able to:
- Demonstrate ability to analyze literary, cultural, linguistic, and historical representations between two literary traditions in two languages. One can be an Anglophone tradition.
- Be able to highlight diversity and interconnectedness as well as the significance of translation
- Challenge and critique social constructions through comparative textual analysis.
- Create cogent and persuasive arguments from comparative perspectives to discuss literary, cultural, and social issues
- Search, evaluate and curate information and research materials that can be used to support their argument
- Build competency in a language other than their own to analyze cultural productions
- Demonstrate ability to make an informed comparison of literature and another discipline or field (including but not limited to visual arts, literary and cultural theory, philosophy, religion, anthropology, history, communications, etc.)
French and Francophone Studies
After going through FFS, students will be able to (can do):
- understand the general as well as most of the secondary themes presented in a book-length literary text in French, and can grasp the hidden meaning and stylistic aspects; I can do the same in written and visual media; I can understand the gist of an audio podcast designed for francophones, but may lose a lot of the specifics.
- follow conversations, communicate freely on basic and complex topics and understand the reply in the exchange; I can make significant contributions to discussions on a variety of topics; I also situate these topics in their socio-cultural context.
- present for about 20 minutes or more on a complex topic pertaining to the francophone world that I have investigated and prepared in advance. I can react to questions on my presentation.
- situate a variety of basic and complex topics in their socio-cultural context and can interpret behaviors within this socio-cultural context
- follow and make significant contributions to discussions on a variety of topics and can situate these topics in their socio-cultural context.
Modern Hebrew
After completing our program in Hebrew, students will be able to (can do):
- Handle successfully most uncomplicated communicative tasks and social situations
- Comprehend longer stretches of connected discourse on a number of topics which are not limited to a single context of time or place
- meet most practical and some social writing needs on topics related to the writer’s immediate environment, such as biographical details
- understand Advanced-level texts featuring description and narration
Japanese
- Speak, read, write and comprehend Japanese at the intermediate level
- Understand and appreciate the cultural context of Japanese language
- Experience Japanese language and multiple media
Latin
By completing our program in Latin, students will be able to (can do):
- Recognize literary patterns in fiction.
- Access and understand to Latin culture and literary output
- Communicate information on the cultural and aesthetic constituents of diverse literary and cultural themes.
Spanish
By the time they graduate, Spanish majors ought to be able to (can do):
- Speak, read, write, and comprehend Spanish at an advanced-low level
- Delve into different forms of literature and media critically
- Have made a connection to the Department, Clark, and the local Hispanic or Latinx community
- Distinguish between formal and colloquial Spanish, and between fact and fiction
- Take advantage of different research tools
- Engage problems creatively
- Recognize the value of diversity and difference
- Have had an experience abroad
- Treat peers amicably and cooperatively
- Ask questions and look for answers
- Acknowledge their own (racial, economic, educational) privilege