Undergraduate Bulletin > Liberal Studies > Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies, Humanities concentration
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
Humanities Concentration
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Robert C. Hansen, Director, Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
Kathleen E. Forbes, Division of Continual Learning
Andreas Lixl, Department of German and Russian
Wade Maki, Department of Philosophy
Matthew McKinnon, Department of Religious Studies
Jay Parr, College of Arts and Sciences
Hephzibah Roskelly, Department of English
Stephen Ruzicka, Department of History
Rationale and Program Objectives
The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies, Humanities Concentration, is an on-line degree completion program for adult students who have earned a minimum of 60 hours of transferable credit at other institutions. The program is designed to provide students with an opportunity to earn their baccalaureate degree in an e-learning environment by gaining a thorough understanding of the humanities, the interconnections among them, and their relevance to individuals and to modern society. The humanities are broadly defined to include those disciplines that study people—their ideas, their history, their literature, their artifacts, and their values. The program will investigate individual people in their solitude, life together in societies, and models of and for reality that constitute cultures. Individual courses will tackle the Big Questions that have been the traditional province of the humanities such as “What makes a life worth living?” The program is designed to enhance the student’s ability to:
- Think critically and analytically
- Communicate clearly and effectively
- Understand and explain interconnections among the Humanities disciplines
- Appreciate the wide range of human experience
- Achieve increased depth of knowledge in one of the four categories of the Humanities: Literature, Fine Arts, Philosophy/Religion/Ethics, Historical Perspectives.
