37 2030: Signature Assignment

Each 2030 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 Assignment

The following project from Alyson Lynn is an example of an ENGL 2030 assignment that includes each of the True Blue Core course objectives and thus qualifies as a True Blue Core assessable assignment.

Alyson Lynn’s 2030 Time Travel Sample Assignment

Below is a sample student essay based on this assignment:

2030 Student Example: A Perfect Storm: Prufrock and the Pandemic

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.