- The General Education Curriculum
- What is the difference between a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts Degree?
- Bachelor of Arts General Education Requirements
- Bachelor of Science General Education Requirements
- Bachelor of Fine Arts – College of the Arts
- Middle Childhood Education
- Sample Syllabi
- Group Studies Courses
- Schedule Classes
- Academic Advising
Arts and Humanities
You will need to complete 25 hours to fulfill this area of the GEC. The required historical sequence will fulfill ten of these 25 hours. You will also need five hours of literature and five hours of visual and performing arts. The remaining five hours can be from literature, visual performing arts, or cultures and ideas. This is a good area in which to fulfill your diversity requirements.
Arts and Humanities: Historical Survey
Goals/Rationale
- History courses develop students’ knowledge of how past events influence today’s society, and help them understand how humans view themselves.
Learning Objectives
- students display knowledge and understanding of human history
- students compare contemporary social values with those of other communities in time and space
- students place current problems and issues in their larger historical context
Analysis of Texts and Works of Art
Goals/Rationale
- Courses in analysis of texts and works of art enable students to evaluate significant writing and works of art. Such studies develop capacities for aesthetic and historical response and judgment; interpretation and evaluation; critical listening, reading, seeing, thinking, and writing; and experiencing the arts and reflecting on that experience.
Learning Objectives
- students develop abilities to be enlightened observers or active participants in the visual, spatial, musical, theatrical, rhetorical, or written arts
- students describe and interpret achievement in the arts and literature
- students explain how works of art and literature express social and cultural issues
