PSLO (Goal - Program Student Learning Outcome)

The goal of the Humanities/Fine Arts requirement is to enhance the understanding of students who, as citizens and educated members of their community, need to know and appreciate their own human cultural heritage and roots. Through the study of the Humanities and Fine Arts, such students will gain substantial knowledge and appreciation of their global heritage, both in its western and non-western aspects. Also, through study of Humanities and Fine Arts, students will develop an understanding, which they otherwise would not have, of the present as informed by the past.

Course Student Learning Outcomes (CSLO)

• CSLO2: Explain the ways in which humanistic and/or artistic expression throughout the ages expresses the culture and values of its time and place.
• Students will recognize the broad outlines of various approaches to mythology in their historical context.
• Students will recognize how the gods and goddesses of the Graeco-Roman and Norse pantheons reveal the qualities of their respective cultures.
• Students will also demonstrate familiarity with the key figures and stories of myths, particularly classical and Norse myths, helping them recognize the allusive nature of myth in modern life and literature.
• CSLO3: Explore global/cultural diversity.
• Students will recognize some of the impact that Graeco-Roman and Norse mythology has had on Western culture.
• CSLO4: Frame a comparative context through which they can critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that have created the modern world.
• Students will recognize the broad outlines of various approaches to mythology and how those approaches continue to inform how people see the world.
• CSLO5: Recognize the ways in which both change and continuity have affected human history.
• Students will recognize some of the recurring themes and concepts that have influenced people's understanding and attitudes toward mythology throughout Western history.
• CSLO6: Practice the critical and analytical methodologies of the Humanities and Fine Arts.
• Students will apply a minimum of three critical approaches to mythology to the interpretation of a novel selected from an approved list, demonstrating their understanding of these approaches, the similarities that exist between cultural myths and belletristic writing, and the commonalities of human experience. Students must identify those theories relevant to the novel and apply them, making consistent, reasonable, and valid judgments to argue thoughtful and logical conclusions that will accurately reflect an understanding of the novel and of the critical theories being applied. (Semester Project)