Essential Characteristics
Literary and Intellectual Traditions courses focus primarily on texts. These courses make use of primary sources, such as texts, documents, artifacts, etc., either created during the period under study or by someone who participated in the events of the time, to demonstrate how disciplines in the humanities, such as English, Philosophy, History, Women’s and Gender Studies, and World Languages, contribute to the development, growth, and understanding of the human experience. Students in these courses learn to analyze or evaluate texts, events, or ideas in their cultural, intellectual or historical contexts. Students will develop an interpretation or argument about forms of human agency, understanding, or expression grounded in humanistic analysis. They will use literary and intellectual methods to analyze diverse narratives or viewpoints in order to explore the complexity of the fundamental issues related to the human experience across space and time.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Such a course should enable students to:
- Construct an interpretation or argument based on texts from literary, historical, or philosophical traditions;
- Analyze or evaluate texts in their cultural, intellectual, and/or historical contexts; and
- Apply general concepts, terms, and/or methods of analysis to the particular course topic
(Committee approved: 2/2020)