MLO 1: Critical Communication Skills

Ability to communicate critically and empathically in both oral and written contexts, including reading, writing, listening and speaking.

MLO 2: Media, Narrative, and Ethnographic Skills

Ability to gather responsibly, interpret critically, narrate and disseminate the voices and stories of people, communities or events by integrating ethnographic or journalistic field research methods, cultural or media analysis, narrative writing and media production, including new digital media.

MLO 3: Relational Communication Skills

Ability to interact ethically and effectively in interpersonal and group communication and decision-making processes.

MLO 4: Philosophical Analysis

Ability to understand why and how beliefs, values, assumptions and communication practices interact to shape ways of being and knowing.

MLO 5: Critical Cultural Analysis

Ability to investigate and explain relationships among cultural ideologies and sociohistorical experiences, interests, identities and actions of specific cultural groups.

MLO 6: Comparative Literary Analysis

Ability to appreciate and analyze literature in a social, historical and cultural context. Ability to compare and contrast literatures of at least three different cultural traditions, including non-Eurocentric traditions.

MLO 7: Historical Analysis

Ability to actively engage our complex multicultural pasts by integrating historical understanding with historical thinking skills.

MLO 8: Creative Writing and Social Action

Ability to acquire basic competency in creative writing. Ability to apply this skill to the production and presentation of an art project that actively responds to a public issue. Ability to sustain the creative process throughout a given project, taking it to completion.