Write below (verbatim) all course learning outcomes listed in the syllabus.

Rewrite each course learning outcome in your own words. 

Rate your learning (see score key above) 

Briefly describe an example (or provide a hyperlink to your work) to demonstrate your level of learning.

“Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” is a rebuttal to the harmful assumption within English-speaking communities that “broken” English, or English spoken without advanced grammatical structure, is less valuable communicatively.”

“She proves that any version of language is powerful and deserves to be understood and attended to.”

“Published in 1988, June Jordan’s “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You” refutes the societal assumption that Black English, or African-American Vernacular English, is a less proper and communicative form of the English language.”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oOG0HPAdgF8M_Y_uT-juKcocC4A-hJOc/edit

“ In Vershawn Ashanti Young’s 2011 essay entitled “Should Writers Use They Own English,” Young dissects the linguistic phenomenon of standard English exclusively promoted in academic settings.”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c33e7Y1tV-joN-7I8tP5DmZmvEXgwnhc/edit

“Published in 1990, Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” is a rebuttal to the harmful assumption within English-speaking communities that “broken” English, or English spoken without advanced grammatical structure, is less valuable communicatively.”

“The digital age has become a catalyst for accessible communities to entail the anonymity of its members. Modernly, digital spaces offer an array of conversational opportunities that, without the social feedback of live dialogue and with the increased anonymity of each participant, removes dialogue from mutual awareness of personal upbringings and progressions of ideology. Behind a screen, social variables, such as reception to conversational cues and knowledge of the opposite party’s familiarity with a given topic, can become lost. Generalized language, carrying with it ambiguity or progressing significance, is especially threatened by the loss of interpersonal intimacy established by digital spaces. Particularly, this could threaten the social awareness of language progression in relation to how marginalized communities identity and communicate. This essay will explore how communication across digital spaces as opposed to live interaction can hinder the social progress established through the usage of generalized sexual identity-based labels.”

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“The digital age has integrated anonymity into communication. Because of this, digital spaces offer an array of conversational opportunities that, separate from live dialogue, hinders both emotional and intellectual awareness on both ends of an exchange. Behind a screen, social variables, such as reception to conversational cues and mutual awareness of educational backgrounds, can become lost. Language with generality, carrying with it ambiguity or progressing significance, is especially threatened by this loss of interpersonal intimacy. On a larger scale, this could threaten language progression in relation to minority communication and identification among those raised in post-progression societies. This essay will explore how Generation Z’s communication across digital spaces, as opposed to in live interaction, can hinder the social progress established within the usage of generalized sexual identity-based labels.”

“Through their deconstruction of a pushed “standard” English, Young appeals to English readers that have been educated through this convention as well as those that communicate through subforms of the English language, such as the African American Vernacular Language Young uses throughout the essay. Thus, the audience consists of those from multiple linguistic backgrounds that have been exposed to one common medium of language throughout their lives, either affirming or defying their native subform.” 

“In Vershawn Ashanti Young’s 2011 essay entitled “Should Writers Use They Own English,” Young dissects the linguistic phenomenon of standard English exclusively promoted in academic settings. They write in response to educator Stanley Fish’s published assertion that in order to appeal to the linguistic familiarity and comfort of those not speaking this academic “standard” English, academic settings should teach it to supplement the native Englishes spoken rather than encourage it in replacement of “standard” English.”

“Database for consumer behavior Civic Science’s 2023 survey regarding the usage of these spaces between generations proves their immense presence, with 90% of respondents ages eighteen to twenty-four reporting their general usage of social media platforms.”

“The 1952 publication of the American Psychiatric Association’s “The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” the earliest inclusion in the collection of texts commonly used for diagnoses within professional psychiatric practices, established the identity as one of atypicality.”

“A 2025 study conducted by the Pew Research Center reveals that when LGBTQ+ adults were polled on their identity, 48% described themselves as queer. Furthermore, a significant 59% of the polled queer-identifying adults are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine, representing the aforementionedly most prevalent in the digital age (“A majority of young LGBTQ adults describe themselves as queer”).”

“This label, however, is not the only used within the LGBTQ+ community to carry with it an oppressive history and conflicting connotations. As discovered by history and psychology researcher Meredith Worthen at the University of Oklahoma, the term “queer” was commonly used to describe odd nature in the sixteenth century—a gateway to its usage as an insult towards LGBTQ+-identifying folks in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. However, in an act of rebellion and reclamation, the term was repurposed by the LGBTQ+ community as a generalized identity label amidst the 1990s  (Worthen ). The label now signifies the community’s social progression as opposed to social oppression. Self-described queer identity is, in the twenty-first century, commonplace. A 2025 study conducted by the Pew Research Center reveals that when LGBTQ+ adults were polled on their identity, 48% described themselves as queer. Furthermore, a significant 59% of the polled queer-identifying adults are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine, representing the aforementionedly most prevalent in the digital age (“A majority of young LGBTQ adults describe themselves as queer”). Through separating the term from its originally oppressive meaning, the community’s adaptation of its reclaimed meaning simultaneously identifies many members of the LGBTQ+ feeling otherwise unencompassed through different labels. Generally, interpretation of the term “queer” depends on both social and emotional comprehension of community members’ histories and present comfortability. “ 

Kruk, Mary et. al. “Extending the Social Category Label Effect to Stigmatized Groups:             Lesbian and Gay People’s Reactions to ‘Homosexual’ as a Label.” Journal of S                 Social and Political Psychology , vol. 10, no. 1, Aug. 2022, p. 384.                                       jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/6823/6823.pdf. PsychOpen.                 Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.

“LGBTQ Curricular Laws.” LGBT Map, Movement Advancement Project,                                    https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/curricular_laws.