Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will critique videotaped performances of their literature performances using an appropriate theoretical framework.
• Students will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
• Demonstrate effective use of voice, body, facial expressions, focal points, emphasis, and integration of manuscript during performance
• Students will construct a program of literature that advances an argument.
• Students will be able to edit a text for performance.
• Students will be able to compose an original introduction for a literary selection.
• Students will identify the central theme of a literature selection.
• Students will evaluate performances of literature using an appropriate critical framework.
• Students will express subtext of written literature.
• Students will feel more confident.
• Students will perform in front of a live audience.
• Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
• Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.
• Students will be able to classify literature into the poetry, drama or prose genre