Open when gep_category = HUM
Each course in the Humanities category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Students will analyze and interpret literary texts from a variety of critical perspectives, including formal/aesthetic and historical approaches.
Quizzes. Example: a quiz on Shakespeare's Sonnets asks students to perform a formal analysis of a single sonnet (labeling its component parts, marking the rhyme scheme and metrical pattern, identifying figurative language); then to compose a paragraph connecting the formal analysis to the poem's wider contexts -- both within the sequence of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and to the historical and biographical contexts of its creation.
Students will engage with previous scholarly interpretations of literary texts, compare those interpretations with their own, and debate the merits of different perspectives.
Forum posts (using Moodle forum tool) and/or exam essay questions.
Example prompt: One scholar, Laurie Finke, has suggested that Marie de France’s main interest in the *Lais* was to “explore the situations of those marginalized members of the Norman aristocracy, specifically women and bachelor knights, those younger sons dispossessed by the system of primogeniture by which the ruling class perpetuated itself.” But if this is the case, then is Marie’s exploration limited to *describing* the plight of the marginalized? Or do her tales provide any resistance to the status quo? Compose an essay in which you test Finke's theory using *Lanval* and *Chevrefoil* as case studies.
Students will demonstrate proficiency in composing well-constructed written arguments, drawing connections between literary artifacts and the historical and cultural contexts in which those artifacts were created and disseminated.
Exam essay questions. Example prompt: Compose an essay in which you discuss the ways in which religion and literature are interconnected in at least two of the following texts: Dream of the Rood, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Pardoner's Tale, and Paradise Lost. Good responses will provide supporting evidence from the texts themselves AND from their historical and cultural contexts.
Open when gep_category = MATH
Each course in the Mathematial Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = NATSCI
Each course in the Natural Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = SOCSCI
Each course in the Social Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = INTERDISC
Each course in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = VPA
Each course in the Visual and Performing Arts category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = HES
Each course in the Health and Exercise Studies category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Open when gep_category = GLOBAL
Each course in the Global Knowledge category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve objective #1 plus at least one of objectives 2, 3, and 4:
Please complete at least 1 of the following student objectives.
Open when gep_category = USDIV
Each course in the US Diversity category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following
objectives:
Please complete at least 2 of the following student objectives.