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)

• CSLO1: Analyze significant primary texts and works of art, ancient, pre-modern, and modern, as forms of cultural and creative expression.
• Students will read and analyze specific cosmic myths, noting how the myths express the cultures of the people.
• 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 read and analyze various cosmic myths as reflections of their historical, social, and/or cultural context, and of a universal human condition.
• CSLO3: Explore global/cultural diversity.
• Students will recognize similarities between various cultures' cosmic myths and Christian myths.
• CSLO4: Frame a comparative context through which they can critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that have created the modern world.
• Students will read and analyze specific myths, noting their similarities to modern ideas and culture.
• Students will read and analyze specific creation myths, noting similarities based on Weigle's classification types.
• 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 views of the world.
• CSLO6: Practice the critical and analytical methodologies of the Humanities and Fine Arts.
• Students will use the critical and analytical methodology of creation typology to write an original creation myth, in appropriate grammatical form, that would explain our current world.
• Students will then write an essay demonstrating how their creation myth explains our world, which creation types they have used, how the types they have used compare with existing creation myths, and how their creation myth illustrates and supports the ideas, forces, and values which have created the world in which we live.