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Course
Descriptions
- Curricular Area 1: The Creative Arts
- Curricular Area 2: Traditions that Shape the Western World
- Curricular Area 3: Global and Multicultural Perspectives
- Curricular Area 4: Social Institutions and Behavior
- Curricular Area 5: The Natural Sciences
Curricular Area 1: The Creative Arts
Foundation Courses: Students select a 100-level course in one of the two clusters.
Second-level Courses: Students select a 200-level course in the same cluster as the foundation course.
Cluster One: Understanding Creative Processes
Foundation Courses
ARTS-100 Art: The Studio Experience
LIT-105 The Literary Imagination
PERF-110 Understanding Music
PERF-115 Theater: Principles, Plays and Performance
Second-Level Courses
ARTS-205 The Artist’s Perspective: Drawing
ARTS-210 The Artist’s Perspective: Painting
ARTS-215 The Artist’s Perspective: Sculpture
LIT-215 Writers in Print/in Person
PERF-200 Dance and Society
PERF-205 Masterpieces of Music
PERF-210 Greatness in Music
PERF-225 The African American Experience in the Performing Arts
Cluster Two: Understanding Creative Works
Foundation Courses
ARTH-105 Art: The Historical Experience
COMM-105 Visual Literacy
LIT-120 Interpreting Literature
LIT-135 Critical Approach to the Cinema
Second-Level Courses
ANTH-225 Language and Human Experience
ARTH-210 Modern Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ARTH-215 Architecture: Washington and the World
LIT-225 The African Writer
LIT-245 The Experience of Poetry
LIT-270 Transformations of Shakespeare
PERF-215 Opera on Stage and Film
PERF-220 Reflections of American Society on Stage and Screen
PHIL-230 Meaning and Purpose in the Arts