Assessment: Course Four Column

Courses (A&L) - English

ENG 259:Speculative Fiction and Fantasy Literature

Course Outcomes Assessment Measures Results Actions

Analyze speculative and fantasy Assignment - Written - Assessment Reporting Period: 2016-2017 Action: The students achieved this genre texts. - Students will analyze of discussion/response assignments, Criterion Met: Yes goal admirably, though for future speculative and fantasy genre texts. Assessment of formal course papers. 100% of students earned at least an 80%. (10/06/2017) classes, I may try to branch into Course Outcome Status: Active Criterion: At least 80% of students more sub-genres of both fantasy Next Assessment: 2021-2022 earn at least 80% for the final grade. and speculative fiction such as Start Date: 10/06/2017 apocalypse novels, steampunk and pulp high fantasy. (10/06/2017)

Connections between course texts Assignment - Project - Assessment Reporting Period: 2016-2017 Action: Students did an effective and cultural issues - Students will of discussion/response assignments, Criterion Met: Yes job with this standard, though I explicate connections between Assessment of formal course papers. 100% of students earned at least an 80%. (10/06/2017) believe this could be more precise course texts and cultural issues. Criterion: At least 80% of students and directly accessed. In future Course Outcome Status: Active earn at least 80% for the final grade. courses, I may include a brief Next Assessment: 2021-2022 lesson and/or reading on cultural Start Date: 10/06/2017 studies. (10/06/2017)

Using interpretive frameworks to Assignment - Written - Assessment Reporting Period: 2016-2017 Action: Students did an effective analyze texts in a variety of genres. - of discussion/response assignments, Criterion Met: Yes job of using interpretive Students will use interpretive Assessment of formal course papers. 100% of students earned at least an 80% (10/06/2017) frameworks such as Feminism, frameworks to analyze texts in a Criterion: At least 80% of students Marxism, Environmental Studies variety of genres. earn at least 80% for the final grade. and others, but I believe students Course Outcome Status: Active would benefit from more critical in Next Assessment: 2021-2022 class readings, which I plan to Start Date: 10/06/2017 incorporate. (10/06/2017)

Synthesize complex literary analyses Assignment - Project - Assessment Reporting Period: 2016-2017 Action: Students achieved the - Students will demonstrate their of discussion/response assignments, Criterion Met: Yes goal, but I believe there should be

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Course Outcomes Assessment Measures Results Actions ability to synthesize complex literary Assessment of formal course papers. 100% of students earned at least an 80%. (10/06/2017) more time spent on developing analyses using course texts, Criterion: At least 80% of students close reading and interpretive interpretive frameworks and the earn at least 80% for the final grade. skills, and I plan to do so in future work of other critics courses. (10/06/2017) Course Outcome Status: Active Follow-Up: Overall, I greatly Next Assessment: 2021-2022 enjoyed teaching the course and Start Date: 10/06/2017 students did an admirable job of achieve course goals. My notes for improvement are listed above, and, additionally, I plan to remove The Once and Future King as a course text and replace it with the classic and, frankly, better written The Hobbit by Tolkien. (10/06/2017)

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