Student Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes for the creative writing program

• Students will understand, analyze and effectively use the conventions of the English language.
• Students will examine how texts function across a range of genres, contexts and cultures.
• Students will fulfill Missouri State University’s Public Affairs Mission by analyzing how their writing, reading and research:
  • Respond to existing leadership and help provide new leadership.
  • Represent cultures and encounters between cultures.
  • Answer the needs of existing communities and creative new communities (or how these skills might be meaningfully applied in these areas).