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What Are The Humanities?
The Humanities are a family of subjects--majors, minors, and individual courses that can be taken for breadth. The Humanities disciplines deal with the worlds that humans build for themselves in thought, experience, imagination, and artistic creation. Humanities courses use and enhance skills with all forms of interpretation, communication, and expression in the written and spoken word, electronic media, music, theatre, and the plastic arts.
Learning Goals of Humanities Courses
Humanities graduates are empowered to
Investigate: to research both deeply and precisely; to evaluate sources with mature, informed judgment
Understand: to see context and make connections; to cultivate empathy; to appreciate diversity and complexity; to be fair-minded, honest, and self-aware
Think: to reason, imagine, invent, and criticize; to solve problems and construct cogent arguments
Influence: to explain and persuade; to write and speak powerfully; to make images and music that move and inspire
Collaborate: to work in teams; to cooperate and to lead
Be Good: to choose wisely and ethically; to love the true, the beautiful, and the good; to live full, engaged, and meaningful lives
- All students take four humanities courses as part of the General Education curriculum.
- Students have freedom and flexibility in choosing the four courses!
- You can also complete a variety of majors and minors!
Events
Any student, regardless of class year or major, can take specialized courses usually reserved for majors and graduate students at other colleges and universities:
- The Quest for Civil Rights
- Literature, Medicine, and Culture
- Intro to 3-D Art
- Classical Mythology
- Rise Up! Protest and Dissent in American Literature
- Intro to Buddhist Traditions
- Women and the Bible
- African History and Cultures
- Intro to Creative Writing
- Happy vs. Meaningful Lives
- Costume & Makeup Design
- Masterpieces of Music
- History of Rock and Roll
- Japanese Pop Culture
- Hollywood Stars
- Shakespearean Comedy
- Money & Power in French Literature
- The Beat Rebellion
- Asian Ceramics
- Natural Disasters in the U.S.
- Games in Contemporary Culture
- Law and Morality
- History of the Art of Comic Books
- Chinese Medicine