humanities Humanities Foundations Learning Outcomes Approved 14 June 2005 Learning Outcomes

							Humanities Foundations
                                              Learning Outcomes Approved, 14 June 2005


Learning Outcomes for the Humanities
Conventions:

1.     Students will be able to reflect on basic questions of life with the goal of understanding
the world and one’s place in it.

2.   Students will be able to articulate and defend critically informed values.

3.    Students will be able to recognize and demonstrate creative thought in producing answers
to individual and social questions.


Methods:

4. Students will be able to employ close reading, analysis and discussion (oral and written) of
significant primary texts* in literature, philosophy, religion, rhetoric and journalism.


*“Texts” are broadly defined to include written works, audiovisual works, and related forms of
expression.