Assessment of Academic Achievement
Students should have a variety of assessments including written essays, oral presentations, and/or multi-media/multi-genre projects.
Students will complete at least one project critiquing a work of visual, musical, or literary art
Students will complete at least one project comparing two different time-periods
Students will write at least one essay (which may meet one of the requirement of the projects above).
General Course Requirements and Recommendations
This course is to be an interdisciplinary study of humanity throughout its existence.
While an instructor can choose a specific timeframe or theme to focus upon, there should be an emphasis on using multiple disciplines and various media to explore with students the story of humankind.
Instructors should consider focusing on a given time periods or cultural themes. (For example: Renaissance, Medieval, Enlightenment, Ancient or “Death and Dying”, “The Nature of Humankind”, “Technology and the Root of Humanity”)
An emphasis should be placed on the interconnectivity of disciplines in the humanities and the natural progression and evolution of philosophical and/or social movements.
Texts
Please see the department chair for text options.