As a core seminar in the American Studies major, it fulfills the learning outcomes listed below:
- Integrate knowledge from several disciplinary perspectives.
- Utilize technological resources in research, data analysis, and presentation.
- Communicate evidence and analysis orally.
AMST 307 also fulfills the university’s speaking intensive (SI) and digital intensive (DI) general education requirements. As part of the SI requirement, this course will expose students to the following speaking skills:
- Understand and be able to explain the conventions and expectations of oral communication as practiced within the discipline of the course taken.
- Apply theories and strategies for crafting messages (verbal, nonverbal, and visual) for particular audiences and purposes.
- Craft oral messages after a conscious process in which various options are reviewed and will be able to explain and support their choices.
- Plan, research, organize, support, and deliver ideas and arguments in a public speaking setting.
As part of the DI requirement, this course will expose students to the following digital skills:
- Successfully locate and critically evaluate information using the Internet, library databases, and/or other digital tools.
- Use digital tools to safely, ethically, and effectively produce and exchange information and ideas.
- Creatively adapt to emerging and evolving technology.