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Humanities and/or Fine Arts ( 9 semester hours )

Goal: The goal of the Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement is to enhance the understanding of students who, as citizens and educated members of their communities, need to know and appreciate their own human cultural heritage and its development in a historical and global context. Also, through study of Humanities and/or Fine Arts, students will develop an understanding, which they otherwise would not have, of the present as informed by the past.

Learning Outcomes
Students will demonstrate the ability to…..

  1. Analyze significant primary texts and works of art, ancient, pre-modern, and modern, as forms of cultural and creative expression.
  2. Explain the ways in which humanistic and/or artistic expression throughout the ages expresses the culture and values of its time and place.
  3. Explore global/cultural diversity.
  4. Frame a comparative context through which they can critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that have created the modern world.
  5. Recognize the ways in which both change and continuity have affected human history.
  6. Practice the critical and analytical methodologies of the Humanities and/or Fine Arts.

For the purposes of Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement, courses will come from the areas of Art, Dance, Literature, Philosophy, Music, Theatre, and those offerings from other disciplines that also include, among other criteria, analytical study of primary texts and/or works of art as forms of cultural and creative expression. This requirement does not include work in areas such as studio and performance courses or courses that are primarily skills oriented.

Course(s) satisfying this category must meet four (4) or more of the learning outcomes.

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General Education Curriculum
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