B.A. Degree in Humanities
Description
An interdisciplinary exploration of the diversity of human creativity and values, both contemporary and historical, as developed in multiple cultures. Students will engage with diverse methodologies and cultural perspectives, will develop both critical and empathetic perspectives, and will learn to engage with people different from themselves in an open and equitable manner. Completion of 120 credits is required for this degree which includes the Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Diversity and Equity Skills: Students should be able to articulate patterns of oppression in cultural capital (e.g., unequal power dynamics in the creation, content selection, distribution, and reception of cultural resources); articulate common challenges to cultural participation by individuals and groups who experience oppression; articulate patterns of resistive and emancipatory cultural creativity by individuals and groups experiencing historic and ongoing exclusion.
- Reading Comprehension and Cognitive Skills: Students should be able to identify the main point or thesis of writing produced in a humanities discipline; analyze how authors develop their theses and support them with evidence; and recognize and evaluate the differences in interpretation among different authors.
- Critical Thinking Skills: Students should be able to recognize potential sources of bias in evidence-based communication; understand and interpret events in their appropriate historic and cultural context; understand and interpret relations of cause and effect and other sequential relations; understand the complexity of human motivations, and appreciate cultural differences in patterns of behavior and ideation; and synthesize a variety of evidence into a coherent and plausible account of events.
- Global Outlook: Students should recognize important cultural innovations and patterns of Europe and the United States as differing from cultural innovations and patterns of other regions. Students should be able to recognize and identify their own ethnocentricities and should be able to articulate positive and negative aspects of several distinct cultures in an objective manner.
- Research Skills: Students should be able to recognize the difference between primary and secondary sources, and understand the uses and importance of each type; select and refine an original thesis; identify a variety of different kinds of source materials that relevant to a particular topic; use the library and various bibliographic aids to identify and locate different sources relevant to a particular topic; evaluate sources for credibility; and provide citations as appropriate.
- Written Communication Skills: Students should be able to write clear and grammatical prose; formulate a thesis on the basis of insights gained from research; develop their thesis in an organized and logical progression; use appropriate evidence to support points; cite their sources properly; summarize points made in source materials and make the connections between different points of view and their own; recognize the shortcomings of their evidence and anticipate possible objections; respond constructively to criticism and make appropriate revisions.
Program Delivery Mode
Online Plus: offered entirely online with face-to-face options available for some/all sections
Core Requirements
( 7 credits )
HUM 101 Humanities Through the Arts (3) (Goal 6) OR
HUM 102 Appropriation, Racism & the Arts (3) (Goal 7)
HIST 374 Plagues & Peoples: Disease & the Environment (3) (Goals 5 & 10) *Writing Intensive for Major
HUM 492 Capstone (1)
Designated Writing Intensive Course for Major
HIST 374 Plagues & Peoples: Disease & the Environment (3)
Program Requirements
Students must complete 10 courses (minimum of 30 credits). No more than 9 credits from a single rubric and no more than 6 credits lower division (100-200 level) may be applied.
ANTH 100 Debating Humankind (3) (Goal 2)
ANTH 110 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3) (Goal 8)
ANTH 265 Language and Culture (3) (Goal 5)
ANTH 307 Ecological Anthropology (3) (Goal 10)
ANTH 311 American Indians and the Environment (3) (Goal 10)
ANTH 316 Magic, Witchcraft and Belief (3) (Goal 8)
ANTH 333 Anthropology of Music (3) (Goal 8)
ANTH 380 Traditional Cultures (3)
ART 170 Art Appreciation: Content and Form (3) (Goal 6)
ART 320/PHIL 320 Philosophy of the Arts (3) (Goal 6) (student can apply either ART 320 or PHIL 320, but not both)
ENGL 317 Personal Lives, National Affairs (3) (Goals 6 & 8)
ENGL 322 19th-Century American Literature (3)
ENGL 340 Genre Studies (3)
ENGL 356 African American Literature (3)
ENGL 407 Big City, Big Impact (3) (Goals 6 & 10)
ENGL 435 Nature Writing/Ecocriticism (3) (Goal 10)
FILM 180 Understanding Movies (3) (Goal 6)
FILM 275 Film Appreciation (4) (Goal 6)
FILM 365 International Cinemas (4)
FILM 371 History of LGBT Representation in Film (4) (Goal 7)
HIST 104 World History I (3) (Goal 5)
HIST 105 World History II (3) (Goals 5 & 8)
HIST 122 History of the United States Since 1877 (3) (Goal 5)
HIST 350/WS 350 Women in European History (4) (student can apply either WS 350 or HIST 350, but not both)
HIST 379 Environmental History (3) (Goals 5 & 10)
HIST 385 History of Christianity (4)
HUM 101 Humanities Through the Arts (3) (Goal 6) (if not taken in core)
HUM 102 Appropriation, Racism & the Arts (3) (Goal 7) (if not taken in core)
HUM 211 Perspectives on Society (3) (Goal 6)
HUM 320 Humanities East and West (3) (Goals 6 & 8)
MUS 345/WS 345 Women in Musical Culture (3) (Goals 6 & 7) (student can apply either WS 345 or MUS 345, but not both)
MUS 346/WS 346 Sex, Sexuality and Music (3) (Goals 6 & 7) (student can apply either WS 346 or MUS 346, but not both)
PHIL 101 Introduction to Western Philosophy (3) (Goal 6)
PHIL 102 Philosophies of Human Nature (3) (Goals 6 & 7)
PHIL 120 World Religions (3) (Goals 6 & 7)
PHIL 215 Contemporary Moral Issues (3) (Goals 6 & 9)
PHIL 302 Buddhist Philosophy (3) (Goals 6 & 8)
PHIL 311 Morals and Medicine (3) (Goals 6 & 9)
PHIL 318 Professional Ethics (3) (Goal 9)
WS 312 Rhetorics of Resistance: Feminist Responses from the Humanities (3) (Goals 6 & 7)
WS 324 Feminist Theory (3) (Goals 6 & 7)