INSTRUCTORS TEACHING 2000-LEVEL COURSES SHOULD ACCOUNT FOR THE FOLLOWING IN THEIR SYLLABI AND TEACHING

(examples of courses that come under these assessment rubrics include but are not exclusively:  AFH 2000 African Civilizations;  AMH 2041 Origins of American Civilization;  AMH 2042 Modern American Civilization;  EUH 2011 Western Civilization: Early European Civilization;  EUH 2021 Western Civilization: Medieval to Modern Europe;  EUH 2030 Western Civilization: Europe in the Modern Era;  LAH 2020 Latin American Civilization;  W0H2001 World Civilization)

Humanities with Writing

In these courses students strengthen the critical reading and writing skills needed to succeed within the University and beyond. Students interact analytically with, and respond critically to, primary and secondary texts in the humanities and learn to integrate the ideas and words of others into their own writing. By writing informed essays, students develop the ability to present ideas logically and sequentially and to provide balanced exposition and critical examination of complex events, positions, arguments, or texts.

In these courses, students learn to use writing as a form of inquiry in reflecting critically upon central topics in the humanities, such as individual, moral, and social values; historical perspectives and events; culture and the arts; philosophy and religious beliefs and practices. Students address themes centered on the traditions; shared values and myths; literary, artistic, historical, and philosophical traditions; and cultural standards and common values which underlie contemporary societies and their historical antecedents.

Competencies:

Students will be able to:
*interpret and explain in an organized, critical, and analytical fashion the meaning and structure of various historical texts;

*explain, interpret, evaluate, elaborate, and describe in an organized critical and analytical fashion the context, history, influence and structure of one or more of the following:

*architectural, interior, and landscape design;

*religion and society;

*philosophies/historical and contemporary

*cultures of the ancient world

*major world civilizations

*American history

*Ibero-American history

*morality and life

*Contemporary Europe

*History of Ideas

*intellectual History