General Studies Information

GENERAL STUDIES COURSES

III. HUMANITIES (9-15 hours from three separate perspectives required; a maximum of 15 hours count as General Studies credit)

In addition to those objectives required of all General Studies courses, students will:

1. demonstrate the ability to comprehend primary texts, i.e., the work of literary figures, historical figures, philosophers, and critics; film and theatrical performance; works of art; music in performance and/or notation,
2. demonstrate the ability to form and support, in writing, coherent positions on issues relevant to primary texts,
3. demonstrate the ability to use, in speaking and writing, the forms of reference and the manners of discourse appropriate to the particular discipline,
4. demonstrate the ability to see primary texts as cultural descriptions as well as individual creation.

While not all courses in the Humanities focus exclusively on primary texts, students in every course will experience, through reading, seeing, or hearing, significant cultural works and documents.

Within the Humanities requirement, courses should be distributed among the perspectives listed below. At a minimum, students must take one course from Literary Perspectives, one from Aesthetic Perspectives and one from Historical Perspectives.

• Literary Perspectives
  (3 hours required; a maximum of 6 hours count as General Studies Credit)
  • ENG 234GS, Reading and Writing about Literature - 3 hours
  • ENG 235HGS, American Studies - 3 hours
  • ENG 240HGS, Literary Classics of the Western World - 3 hours
  • ENG 250GS, Introduction to Literature: British Literature - 3 hours
  • ENG 251GS, Introduction to Literature: American Literature - 3 hours
  • ENG 252GS, Introduction to Literature: Western Civilization - 3 hours
  • ENG 253GS, Introduction to Literature: Non-Western Civilization - 3 hours
  • ENG 254GS, Introduction to Literature: Special Topics - 3 hours
  • ENG 280HGS/HIST 280HGS Variable Topics - 3 hours
• Aesthetic Perspectives
  (3 hours required; a maximum of 6 hours count as General Studies Credit)
  • ART 100GS, Art Structure - 3 hours
  • ART 120GS, Art Appreciation - 3 hours
  • MUS 100GS, Introduction to Music - 3 hours
  • MUS 106GS, Introduction to Jazz and Blues - 3 hours
  • MUS 107GS, Introduction to Rock and Blues - 3 hours
  • DANC 122GS, Dance Appreciation - 3 hours
  • THEA 120GS, Introduction to Theatre - 3 hours
• Historical Perspectives
  (3 hours required; a maximum of 6 hours count as General Studies Credit)
  • HIST 210GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
  • HIST 211GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
  • HIST 212GS, Non-Western World History - 3 hours
  • HIST 215GS, Introduction to Latin America - 3 hours
  • HIST 250GS, American History - 3 hours
  • HIST 251GS, American History - 3 hours
• Philosophic Perspectives
  (0 hours required; a maximum of 6 hours count as General Studies Credit)
  • PHIL 100GS, Introduction to Philosophy - 3 hours
  • PHIL 120GS, Introduction to Ethics - 3 hours
  • PHIL 260GS, Philosophy of Culture - 3 hours
  • PHIL 314GS, Philosophy of Religion: Reason and Faith - 3 hours
  • PHIL 360GS, Philosophy of Science - 3 hours