Liberal Studies

Description

The mission of the Humanities department is to provide students with scholarly and practical opportunities for learning about the discrete disciplines of Communications, Drama, English, the Fine Arts, History, and Philosophy. Students are also offered the opportunity to ground their undergraduate experience in an American Studies major, a History and Social Studies major, or a Liberal Studies major, as well as the Humanities Core curriculum courses. All Humanities courses seek to enact the general goal of the Humanities department to instill in the student the significance of and the means by which discrete disciplines within the Humanities interact not only with each other, but also with fields of study outside the traditional purview of the Humanities. Learning
is done with a conscious awareness of how the study of the Humanities relates to a Christian worldview.

Major Competencies

• Graduates will use a multidisciplinary approach to learning; demonstrate sound understanding of content, methods, and interpretive perspectives within different fields in the Humanities, Religious Studies, Math, and the Natural and Social Sciences.
• Graduates will identify connections and inter-relationships among disparate disciplines to effectively engage complex social and professional issues.
• Graduates will think critically and collaboratively.
• Graduates will communicate effectively in both written and oral forms.
• Graduates will transform culture by engaging aesthetic urban contexts and communities.

Courses

Part 1: General Education Core
(See Core Studies Requirements)

Part 2: Liberal Arts Major

40 credits, no more than nine of which may be used to satisfy Core Studies requirements. None of these credits may be used to satisfy another major in the Humanities Department.