First Year Seminars Learning Outcomes
Students in Whitman College's First Year Seminars can expect to achieve the following learning outcomes:
GENS 175: Exploring Complex Questions
- Students will demonstrate improved ability to ask increasingly focused and complex questions.
- Students will demonstrate improved ability to read with attention to detail and nuance.
- Students will demonstrate improved ability to use discussion as a means to discover and reconsider ideas.
- Students will demonstrate improved ability to understand how a writer’s overt purposes and readers’ expectations influence the structure and style of writing.
GENS 176: Making Powerful Arguments
- Students will demonstrate improved ability to develop arguable and defensible thesis statements.
- Students will demonstrate improved ability to read with attention to detail and nuance.
- Students will demonstrate improved ability to debate respectfully and rigorously.
- Students will demonstrate improved ability to integrate appropriate evidence to support argumentative claims.
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