Learning outcomes can be at the university, program or course level. They may be defined as the change in a student’s knowledge or skills as a result of the student’s experience. The focus of the ...

Learning outcomes and objectives are the fundamental elements of most well-designed courses. Well-conceived outcomes and objectives serve as guideposts to help instructors work through the design of a ...

The sequence of courses that undergraduates complete to satisfy the Written, Oral, and Multimodal Communication (WOMC) component of the Unified General Education Requirements (UGER) ensures that ...

I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

In the MFA program, we recognize that the pursuit of excellence in the arts must be understood in diverse, patient, and supple ways. Some of our graduates (like many writers) will not pursue further ...

Writing practice and instruction fosters higher order thinking and cultivates critical intellectual processes such as analyzing ideas, solving problems, and evaluating claims. Writing is a complex ...

Be able to read academic and/or professional or technical texts and understand how disciplinary conventions and goals shape the texts they read. Understand and use writing as a means of learning and ...

Requirement: One Course -- clear expression of ideas in writing; includes grammar, organization, and structure. Varying levels and types of writing skills are required for different jobs. The ability ...

Advanced Writing courses are intended to provide Miami students with extended writing instruction and opportunities for revision. These courses are not simply writing intensive, but writing ...