Learning Outcomes

These are the learning outcomes for my Shakespeare courses:

1. Gain “Shakespeare Literacy.”
   Demonstrate mastery over fundamental information about Shakespeare’s works, life, and legacy
• Breadth (knowledge of a range of Shakespeare’s works)
• Depth (more thorough knowledge of a single work)
• Performance (stage and screen)
• Legacy (history, scholarship, popular culture)
2. Analyze Shakespeare Critically
   Interpret Shakespeare’s works critically in their written form, in performance (stage or screen) and in digitally mediated transformations. This includes
• Textual analysis (theme, language, formal devices)
• Contextual analysis (historical, contemporary, cultural)
• Application of literary theories
• Analysis of digital mediations
3. Engage Shakespeare Creatively
• Performance (memorization, recitation, scene on stage or video)
• Individual creative work (literary imitation, art, music, etc.)
• Collaborative creative project
4. Share Shakespeare MeaningfullyThis includes engaging in the following:
• Formal Writing. Develop and communicate your ideas about Shakespeare clearly in formal and researched writing.
• Informal Writing. This mainly means through regular online writing
• Connecting. Share one’s learning and creative work with others both in and outside of class.
5. Gain Digital Literacy
   Students use their study of Shakespeare as a way of understanding and developing fluency in 21st century learning skills and computer-mediated modes of communication. Those skills are grouped under the following categories.
1. Consume - Effective and independent selecting, searching, researching, 
2. Create - Producing content that demonstrates learning and which can be shared for others to profit from.
3. Connect - Engage with other learners within and outside of the class to develop thinking and share more formal work.