Arts/Humanities

General education courses for Arts and Humanities

Students must have at least 3 credit hours in arts and humanities courses and a total of 9 credit hours distributed across the Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities domains.

Course learning outcomes

Instructors teaching courses in the Arts and Humanities domain include at least half of the following learning goals so students can successfully complete this general education core requirement.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Recognize and describe humanistic, historical, or artistic works or problems and patterns of the human experience
• Apply disciplinary methodologies, epistemologies, and traditions of the humanities and the arts, including the ability to distinguish primary and secondary sources
• Analyze and evaluate texts, objects, events, or ideas in their cultural, intellectual or historical contexts*
• Analyze the concepts and principles of various types of humanistic or artistic expression
• Create, interpret, or reinterpret artistic and/or humanistic works through performance or criticism
• Develop arguments about forms of human agency or expression grounded in rational analysis and in an understanding of and respect for spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts*
• Analyze diverse narratives and evidence in order to explore the complexity of human experience across space and time*

_{*Cross-listed under Cultural Understanding outcomes}

Courses