Humanities - Eastern Washington University

Humanities from Eastern Washington University is a Campus Bachelor Humanities degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The humanities are more than one thing; they include many ways of expressing and understanding human values. Thus, the Humanities program is designed for innovative, integrative, and interdisciplinary study--including some of the sciences and many of the social sciences. It is your opportunity to put things together in a new way. Program Objectives: 1. Students should be able to read a variety of materials at the conceptual as well as factual levels. 2. They should be able to distinguish basic forms and strategies of philosophy, literature, and one of the arts among examples they have not studied previously. 3. Students should be familiar with significant steps in the development of Western Civilization, not only with how values have developed internally, but also with the ways in which new values have entered the culture from other civilizations. 4. Students should be able to describe the context of at least one philosophical, artistic, or literary example from a non-Western civilization (Asian, African, Western Hemisphere). 5. They should be able to recognize simple true/false inconsistencies and to formulate verbally questions left unanswered by very general assertions. 6. Students should write clear and effective English in a variety of rhetorical contexts. They should understand the different areas and functions of a library and demonstrate practical use of information technologies in simplebut independent research. View more details on Eastern Washington University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Humanities courses.