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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 be able to:

  • Read inquisitively and generously.
  • Read with attention to detail and nuance.
  • Engage with texts of varied genres and mediums.
  • Formulate productive questions that guide exploration of a complex text (broadly construed).
  • Use discussion as a means to discover and reconsider ideas.
  • Learn collaboratively with classmates and professor.
  • Use writing as a means to discover and reconsider ideas.
  • Adapt writing to different forms, genres, and/or audience.

GENS 176: Making Powerful Arguments

Students will be able to:

  • Read inquisitively and generously.
  • Read with attention to detail and nuance.
  • Practice respectful but rigorous debate.
  • Learn collaboratively with classmates and professor.
  • Use writing as a means to discover and reconsider ideas.
  • Develop arguable and defensible thesis statements.
  • Integrate appropriate evidence to support argumentative claims.
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