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 fertility myths, seeing their relationship to the cycle of the seasons and their significance to archaic cultures.
• Students will read and analyze gender myths to recognize the ways in which gender has and continues to influence human relations.
• 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 discuss the ways in which fertility and gender myths reveal the qualities of their respective cultures.
• CSLO3: Explore global/cultural diversity.
• Students will discuss the ways in which fertility and gender myths demonstrate the continuity of human experience throughout history
• CSLO4: Frame a comparative context through which they can critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that have created the modern world.
• Students will discuss the significance of archetypes as a means of comprehending the infinite and eternal.
• 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 use the critical and analytical methodology of gender archetypes to create a character in a fantasy world. Students will be required to base their character on a minimum of three gender archetypes, demonstrating these archetypes in their description of their character and his/her role and behavior in this fictive world.
• Students will apply a variety of approaches to gender and fertility myths to the analysis of a novel (Novel Analysis semester project).