2015-2016 Catalog with Addendums [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Humanities Department
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What constitutes a literary education in the 21st century? What critical skills are involved in understanding and processing perspectives emerging from complex local and global landscapes? How do we cultivate and nurture an interest in critical interdisciplinary thinking that challenges and shape us as thinkers and doers? How do the humanities prepare us for living in and thoughtfully engaging with the world?
The Humanities Department invites students to capture these questions, explore them, challenge them, analyze them, and process them through varios lenses. Students are then encouraged to reshape, redefine, and/or reject these questions in favor of their own. They do this through class meetings, individual and collaborative community engagement, special projects, literary and research analyses, and exposure to and processing of stimulating interdisciplinary theory and practice.
Mission Statement
The Humanities Department strives to inspire students to bring to the world community original perspectives, inventive strategies, and knowledge that will contribute to the intellectual and creative spirit of our collective human experience.
What jobs are available for humanities graduates?
- Journalist
- Teacher
- Editor/copywriter
- Public relations specialist
- Nonprofit director
- Researcher
- Grant writer
- Professional fund-raiser
- Translator
- Museum specialist
- Archives management
- Federal, state, and local official
The Undergraduate English Program
The English Program comprises a large portion of the liberal arts core of the university and includes three emphases: literature, writing, and preparation for teaching certification. A Bachelor of Arts degree is offered through the program with a major in English or English/Language Arts (for a 5-12 teaching credential).
The English Program also serves the university by supporting the “W” courses (see “Special Programs”), general undergraduate requirements, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and by providing specialized classes in writing.
Program Outcomes
- Understand the history, development, and structure of the English language and know how English language theory relates in practice to the teaching and learning of language, both spoken and written
- Be aware of contemporary approaches to the composition process and be able to demonstrate the knowledge in a variety of genres, as well as connect the knowledge and those skills to the pedagogy of writing
- Know and appreciate the diversity of voices in both Anglo-American and Global literature, as well as be able to apply classical and contemporary critical approaches to illuminate texts for colleagues and students
- Demonstrate strong research, writing, and presentation skills through the production of works suitable for presentation and publication as appropriate to the student’s concentration, including the senior thesis
The Humanities Program
The Humanities Program offers courses in world languages, Native American and indigenous studies, history, humanities, philosophy, and religion. Thus, like the English program, the Humanities program contributes to the university by providing many of the General University Course Requirements, especially those that contribute to the general education goals in communications skills, critical thinking, multicultural awareness, ethics, and humanities. The program thereby helps students acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to become effective participants in the political and cultural life and leadership of their chosen communities.
In addition, the Humanities program offers Associate of Arts degrees in both Humanities and American Indian Studies.The Bachelor of Arts degree in American Indian Studies or American Cultural Studies, provide opportunities to explore the arts, language, linguistics, history and culture, through various socio-political and historical lenses. These areas of focus provide excellent support for practical careers involving multicultural skills, as well as offer graduate studies a critical overview of fields such as linguistics, museum science, professional writing, library science, history, American studies, and Ethnic studies.
Program Outcomes
Students will:
- Exhibit critical thinking skills in diverse oral and written contexts
- Develop a multicultural awareness in the contexts of language, the arts, community practices, and belief traditions
- Acquire the knowledge and abilities needed to become an effective participant in the political and cultural lives of communities, assuming leadership roles in many cases
- Identify different values and world views, with an emphasis on understanding relationships among government, religion, art, and science, and among individuals, society, and the global community
- Produce critically reflective, well-supported, organized, and clearly articulated research papers using both primary and secondary sources
- Recognize the connection among values, beliefs, and cultural forms, and among humanity’s economic, social, and environmental sustainabilitie
World Languages
The Heritage would language courses include American Sign Language, French, Latin, Sahaptin and Spanish.
In Spanish, a dual-track program is offered that allows non-native Spanish speakers and native Spanish speakers to gain proficiency with structure, form, history and culture of the Spanish language and provides the ability to converse in a variety of academic and non-academic settings. An emphasis is placed on attaining fluency in Spanish. Non-Spanish speakers are requested to enrol in SPAN 101 - SPAN 102 and Spanish- speaking students are requested to enroll in SPAN 205 - SPAN 206 .
The Graduate English Program
The English Graduate Program offers several degree paths for students seeking additional study of literature, language. and writing. Students may pursue a Master in Teaching English/ Language Arts 5-12. Multicultural English Literature and Language, M.A., Organizational Leadership, Specialization in English Language and Literature, M.Ed. with additional certificates, English/Language Arts Certificate, Multicultural Literature, Writing and Rhetoric, Applied Linguistics. Consider carefully which path would best suit your goals.
Program Outcomes
- Understand the history, development, and structure of the English language and know how English language theory relates in practice to the teaching and learning of language, both spoken and written
- Be aware of contemporary approaches to the composition process and be able to demonstrate the knowledge in a variety of genres, as well as connect the knowledge and those skills to the pedagogy of writing
- Know and appreciate the diversity of voices in both Anglo-American and Global literature, as well as be able to apply classical and contemporary critical approaches to illuminate texts for colleagues and students
- Demonstrate strong research, writing, and presentation skills through the production of works suitable for presentation and publication as appropriate to the student’s concentration, including the master’s thesis
Degrees and Programs Offered
The Humanities program offers courses to complete the following degrees and programs:
ProgramsAssociate of ArtsBachelor of ArtsMaster in TeachingMaster of ArtsCertificateNon-DegreeCoursesAmerican Cultural StudiesAmerican Sign LanguageCommunicationsEnglishFrenchHistoryPage: 1
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