The Humanities Division empowers students to cultivate and articulate human thought and feeling through involvement with the mechanical, cultural, and aesthetic elements of speech, writing, art, music and drama. Graduates are aware of the elements of two or more arts and are sensitive to the interaction of each as significant parts of a whole. Graduates are skilled in active artistic experience, including the literary, oral, dramatic, musical and visual. Graduates discern emotion and feeling in artistic experience. Graduates are knowledgeable of and sympathetic to significant artistic works of others past and present in more than one culture.
Graduates discern what is lasting and valuable from that which is ephemeral and trite.
Graduates use verbal, visual, dramatic and aural media descriptively, accurately, precisely, and with imagination. Graduates interact with collegiate peers, mentors and laypeople in meaningful discussion of artistic experience. Mastery of Form. Graduates use conventional forms of organizing verbal, musical, dramatic and visual insights such as term papers, essays, speeches, musical compositions, dramas and visual objects. Graduates discover scholarly resources and related material appropriate to the thought, problem, or question.