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 selected trickster myths, noting both how these stories reflect the values of their respective cultures and how these myths reflect current concerns.
• CSLO4: Frame a comparative context through which they can critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that have created the modern world.
• Students will study and apply key terms related to discussions of the sacred and the profane..
• 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 tricksters throughout history.
• Students will recognize the ways in which a sense of the sacred has affected and continues to affect culture.
• CSLO6: Practice the critical and analytical methodologies of the Humanities and Fine Arts.
• Students will apply concepts regarding tricksters and sacred space to their analysis of a novel.
• Students will discuss how concepts regarding sacred space apply to the analysis of various myths.