33 2020: Signature Assignments

ENGL 2020 courses can follow a wide scope of literary themes and ideas, which allows for flexibility and creativity in the types of possible assignments. Nonetheless, each course must include one Signature Assignment featuring all True Blue Core course objectives (copied below for convenience):

• Explore how literature reflects, informs, and shapes both personal and collective experience
• Articulate cogent responses to literature that demonstrate cultural awareness and understanding
• Reflect on how reading, writing, and interpreting literature initiates and contributes to cultural and social conversations
• Examine how the production and interpretation of literature is shaped by historical, cultural, and social contexts
• Analyze how literature from different cultures, movements, and time periods employ narrative and stylistic strategies to convey complex ideas and meanings
• Compose projects (written, digital, or audio) that utilize critical thinking, analysis, and research to situate literature within diverse cultural and conceptual frameworks
• Identify connections between literature and the values, experiences, and practices of multiple cultures
• Develop an approach to reading, writing, and interpretation that demonstrates an understanding of human experience from multiple cultural vantage points

Sample Signature Assignments

The following projects from Dr. Elyce Rae Helford are examples of ENGL 2020 assignments that include each of the True Blue Core course objectives and thus qualify as True Blue Core assessable assignments.

• Women Immigrants and the American Dream assignment
• Holocaust Survivor Literature assignment
  • Holocaust Survivor Literature Sample Student Essay

If you would like a more in-depth exploration of creating ENGL 2020 and 2030 assignments that meet the True Blue Core Course Objectives, check out this helpful guide from Dr. Helford.