Tougaloo college catalog 2013 2015

Humanities Division analytical research skills in critical and creative thinking to address and work toward solving the most challenging problems and issues of our contemporary world.

The Liberal Studies Major is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental program which aims to relate humanistic studies to career preparation. The program intends to stimulate examination of the values, ideas, ideals, and culture of human beings in the attempt to realize the inter-relatedness of human knowledge and activity as well as the conditions and characteristics of a human civilization.

Writing is considered to be an essential skill for both communication and for the development of critical thinking habits. Since communication and critical thinking are crucial goals of this interdisciplinary major, writing is an important component of each core course in the major. Seminar in the Humanities (HUM 311), has a particularly strong emphasis and is designated as the major junior level writing-intensive course.

Specific Requirements Students will be able to possess a greater understanding and appreciation of cultures other than their own. Students will develop an understanding of the main theoretical themes in the academic field of humanities for maintaining a humane civilization in the late-modem world. All students are required to participate and successfully complete the following: the Junior Year Assessment, a Senior comprehensive examination, and a student’s Senior Thesis, which includes a public presentation and an additional departmental defense.

The student majoring in Liberal Studies will complete five interdisciplinary courses: HUM 211, 212 311, 312 and 411 and fifteen semester hours beyond the general education 1evei in one humanistic discipline such as Art. English, Music, African American Studies, Speech, History or Philosophy and Religion.

This latter discipline will be called the student’s primary discipline. The student will also complete three semester hours in the performing arts, plastic and visual arts, or creative writing.

A very important part of the students’ program is their career electives. In Page 163