Language Literacy Values

The language literacy courses at Yavapai College reflect the values and guidelines for general education and, in addition, commit students and faculty to recognize and acknowledge the importance of:

1. interpreting and critiquing the political, historical, social, and aesthetic aspects of language;
2. scrutinizing the relationship between language and reality;
3. recognizing the political, historical, literary and social contexts in which language exists.

Language Literacy Outcomes

Upon successful completion of verbal literacy courses the learner will be able to:

1. use reading, writing, listening and speaking as modes of discovery, reflection, understanding and sustained, disciplined reasoning;
2. generate organized and logical writing that responds to the demands of a specific rhetorical situation, particularly audience;
3. manage sustained reflection in the process of evaluating and revising his or her own writing;
4. express care for the meaning of words, precision in writing and thinking, and an awareness of the power and variety of language.
5. apply research methods and effectively integrate primary and secondary sources according to the conventions of academic writing in the development of thoughtful, unified and coherent writing;
6. identify and evaluate statements of fact and statements of opinion;
7. interpret written and spoken discourse and draw appropriate conclusions and inferences;
8. identify bias and the relevance and sufficiency of evidence in arguments;
9. express awareness of multiple meanings and perspectives in language.

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