Dr. Dean Taciuch
George Mason University

Spring 2020

English 302: SaS and Mason Impact

Students as Scholars (SaS) Learning Goals

This course participates in the Students as Scholars (SaS) program, a university-wide initiative that encourages undergraduate students to engage in scholarly research.  Across campus, students now have increased opportunities to work with faculty on original scholarship, research, and creative activities, through their individual departments and the OSCAR office (http://oscar.gmu.edu).

At the end of the course, the Office of Institutional Assessment and the Composition Program will collect random samples of students’ final research projects to assess the effectiveness of the Students as Scholars Program. This assessment has no bearing on your grade in the course.

Below are course goals and learning outcomes for the composition program and the SaS initiative.

• CORE: Articulate and refine a question, problem, or challenge.
• ETHICAL: Identify relevant ethical issues and follow ethical principles.
• DISCOVERY: Distinguish between personal beliefs and evidence.
• METHOD: Gather and evaluate evidence appropriate to the inquiry.
• METHOD:  Appropriately analyze scholarly evidence.
• CONTEXT: Explain how knowledge is situated and shared in relevant scholarly contexts.

Mason Impact

As a Mason Impact course, ENGH 302 teaches students to understand knowledge creation and to investigate a meaningful question through the development of an inquiry-based research project that evaluates, synthesizes, and incorporates multiple perspectives.