ENG 260 syllabus > objectives and outcomes

The following objectives for SUNY Cortland GE 7 courses are stated in the SUNY Cortland 2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalog and will therefore be considered primary objectives of this course:

Students will

1. be able to critically respond to works in the humanities;
2. be able to discuss major human concerns as they are treated in the humanities;
3. demonstrate an understanding of the conventions and methods of at least one area in the humanities.

One emendation of these objectives in this course is that the "major human concerns" mentioned in objective 2. will necessarily be for the most part the important role that sports plays in contemporary life in the U.S. and some other countries. In addition, this course has the following secondary objectives:

• to apply sound techniques for reading and analyzing literature
• to use standard vocabulary and conventions for describing and responding to literature
• to write about literature effectively in Standard English
• to gain an appreciation of how different aspects of sports are represented in various types of imaginative literature

To see the specific list of works of literature that we will be the subject of the above objectives, please go to the next section of this syllabus, the subsection "required texts" of the main section "books and materials."