Approved Courses in Literary, Visual & Performing Arts

Goals & Outcomes

Students should cultivate a love of human expression in the arts.

• Students will be able to understand how the literary, visual, and performing arts reflect and inspire the richness of human expression, and how language and other forms of expression convey meaning and story.
• Students will be able to analyze how forms of expression are used to reflect, exalt, or challenge the values of a culture.
• Students will be able to explain the many purposes for which art is created and the multiple contexts in which it acquires meaning and value.
• Students should acquire perceptual habits and conceptual lenses conducive to the appreciation of specific media, genres, and styles.

Civic Responsibilities Definition

Students should have an understanding of the nature of race and ethnicity, gender, and global communities, and the impact of each on our lives in the contemporary world.  The fulfillment of these goals is achieved by completing major or liberal learning courses designated as meeting each requirement.  Each goal may also be met through an approved program or equivalent sustained experience.  Also, students should seek to sustain and advance the communities in which they live by engaging in an informed and academically based service experience.  The fulfillment of the goal is achieved by completing a course in the major or liberal learning designated as meeting the requirement, or through an approved program or equivalent sustained experience. No single course, program, or sustained experience may satisfy more than two of the four civic responsibility categories.