Students who have completed these requirements should be able to identify, understand and evaluate the significance of continuously developing knowledge in each of these domains. Courses fulfilling the breadth requirements will ordinarily be at the introductory level. Students actively engage in the process of understanding the natural world through the use of scientific methods. Students study phenomena that are the product of natural processes and are known through the senses rather than only through thought or intuition. Student learning goals thus include mastery of both content and process.
Students study the organizational structure of human societies.
In addition, students explore the connections between historical processes and contemporary social issues. Students examine and reflect upon human culture as expressed in historical tradition, literature and languages, art and music, ideas and beliefs. Students learn about diverse heritages, customs and values that form patterns and analogies but not general laws. Students actively engage in the making or performing of artworks as modes of creative invention, interpretation, expression, and discovery. Through the critique and analysis of artworks, students develop a context for and an understanding of their own creative output as well as the creations of others.