2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog

Humanities

Humanities

Humanities

This requirement aims to teach students to analyze information and perspectives, to identify relationships between ideas, hidden assumptions and potential bias, and to distinguish between known elements (facts) from suspected elements (hypotheses, opinions), and between correlations and causal relationships.  Further, they challenge students to understand the human condition, empathize with those suffering, recognize injustice, and detect God's creative presence in the world.

Students completing a bachelor of arts degree will need to complete three of the following courses.  One course will need to be a history course, the second will need to be a literature course, and the third will need to be a Philosophy course.

Students completing a bachelor of science, bachelor of science in engineering, or bachelor of social work degree need to complete only one (history, literature, or philosophy) courses.
 
Total Credit Hours:3-9
Education majors should take ENGL 350 Children's Literature to fulfill the humanities requirement.

Music education majors should take MUSG 309 Music History I to fulfill the humanities requirement.

International students may take either HIST 304 American History I or HIST 205 American History II.

History

HIST 101Western Civilization

3

HIST 110/HIST 310/SPAN 310Latin America

3

HIST 202Eastern Civilization

3

HIST 225History of Slavery in the United States

3

HIST 226Long Civil Rights Movement

3

HIST 240/HIST 340Social History of Latin America

3

HIST 248History of Mexico

3

UNIV 101.01 taught by Dr. Richard Huston in the fall of 2019 will fulfill the Humanities-History general education requirement.

American History and Political Science courses will be accepted in transfer but will not fulfill the humanities general education requirement.

Literature

ENGL 201Introduction to Literary Study

3

ENGL 240Voices in American Literature

3

ENGL 243Global Literature

3

ENGL 244Voices in British Literature

3

ENGL 246Contemporary Cross-Cultural Literature

3

ENGL 350Children's Literature

3

Transfer courses such as Poetry, Mythology, or Short Stories will fulfill the Humanities Literature requirement.

Philosophy

PHIL 201Major Issues Philosophy

3

PHIL 260Philosophy of Gender Studies

3

PHIL 265Philosophy of Aesthetics

3

Philosophy courses such as Ethics and Logic will be accepted in transfer to fulfill the Humanities Philosophy requirement.
 
ARTE 211 Fine Arts does not fulfill the Humanities requirement.