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Humanities and Sciences
The Humanities and Sciences Department offers a wide range of courses which compliment the student’s artistic training and enriches their personal and professional development. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the Humanities and Sciences Department strives to impart crucial decision making, critical analysis, and communication skills to students.
In order for students to succeed in their career and in their art, it is essential for them to have an understanding of the diverse world in which they live. The Humanities and Sciences curriculum introduces students to a broader context of ideas and perspectives and provides them with the necessary tools to analyze information from a variety of sources. Students must evaluate their own thinking and expand their range of ideas to create work that will communicate to an increasingly global audience. Understanding the historical and cultural context of a society is not only a key to interpreting works of art, but also to placing a student’s own work within a historical framework.
Our courses emphasize professional skills that students will apply throughout their careers, such as effective methods of acquiring and exchanging information and responding to conclusions based on numbers and statistics in both abstract and concrete contexts. Students also examine the organization of social structures and the science of human behavior.
Class assignments focus on the practical application of concepts. Each course requires academic research and writing to strengthen communication skills. Students complete individual and collaborative projects that demonstrate analytical skills, information and technology literacy, and ethical values and social reasoning.
At the time of degree completion, our students are equipped with artistic skills and a richer understanding of their world, enabling them to produce significant work addressing the society in which they live.
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