Program Description
The Liberal Studies Major aims to provide a rich educational experience
through coursework in a broad range of academic disciplines. The student is
guaranteed a breadth of academic experience, as well as depth in a single
field.
The broad-based, interdisciplinary nature of Liberal
Studies provides a knowledge base and the communication and analytical
skills appropriate to many careers and occupations. Hence, the Liberal
Studies major is excellent preparation not only for teaching, but for
graduate work, for law school, and for employment in business and
government.
Student Learning Outcomes
Students
graduating with a B.A. in Liberal Studies from should:
1. Demonstrate
understanding of issues of self,
society and nature as an educated
generalist, through application of deep knowledge in at least one
subject area or discipline, and
broad knowledge integrating multiple
disciplines
2. Demonstrate articulate communication (written and oral) skills
3. Practice independent thinking tempered by respect for others and the
environment; to become an informed, responsible, active citizen
Course Descriptions
Undergraduate Level 1
HUM 101 Humanities
(10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Homer,
Iliad and Odyssey, Plato, Ion, Republic, and Symposium, Aeschylus,
Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides,
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus,and Antigone, Herodotus, Histories, Aristotle,
Poetics and Rhetoric, Plutarch Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Alcibiades, Aristides,
Alexander), Euripides, Hippolytus, Thucydides, History of the
Peloponnesian War, and Aristophanes,
The Birds
and The Clouds.
MAT 101 Mathematics
(3 Credit Hours)
The review of
literature for this subject area includes an in-depth analysis of:
Euclid,
Elements.
SCI 101 Science (7
Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Aristotle,
Parts of Animals,
Fabre, The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects,
Galen,
On the
Natural Faculties,
Harvey,
On
the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals,
Pascal,
Pensees,
Archimedes, Geometrical Solutions Derived From Mechanics: A Treaties of Archimedes,
and Mendel,
Experiments in Plant Hybridization.
PHI 101 Philosophy
(10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Plato, Meno,
Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, Aristotle, Prior Analytics, and
Posterior Analytics, and Aquinas,
On Being
and Essence
THE 101 Theology (10 Credit Hours)
The review of
literature for this subject area includes an in-depth analysis of:
The Holy Bible.
Undergraduate Level 2
HUM 201 Humanities
(10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Lucretius,
On the
Nature of Things,
Cicero,
De Inventione,
Plutarch, Lives (Marcellus, Timoleon & Caius Marius, Sylla,
Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus), Tacitus, Annals,
Epictetus, Discourses, Augustine,
Confessions,
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, Dante,
Divine
Comedy, Chaucer,
Canterbury
Tales, and Spenser,
Faerie Queen.
MAT 201 Mathematics (5 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Plato,
Timaeus
and
Archimedes, Geometrical Solutions Derived From Mechanics: A Treaties of
Archimedes.
SCI 201 Science (5
Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Aristotle,
On
Generation and Corruption,
Aquinas, On the Principles of Nature, Lavoisier,
Theory of Combustion,
Avogadro,
Distinction
between Molecules and Atoms,
Dalton,
A
New System of Chemical Philosophy,
Gay-Lussac,
Relationship between Temperature and Volume, Bethollet, (Review
of science contribution), Couper,
(Review of
science contribution) Lavoisier,
(Review of science
contribution), Mendeleev,
(Review of science
contribution), Wollaston,
(Review of science
contribution), and
Cannizzaro,
(Review of
science contribution).
PHI 201 Philosophy
(10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Aristotle,
Physics, On
the Soul
and Descartes, Meditations on the First Philosophy.
THE 201 Theology (10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Augustine,
On
Christian Doctrine
and Luther, Concerning Christian Liberty.
Undergraduate Level 3
HUM 301 Humanities
(10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Cervantes,
Don
Quixote Machiavelli,
The Prince
and Discourses on Livy,
Bacon, The Essays, Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, King Henry
the Fifth: Part One, Hamlet, and Macbeth, Montaigne,
Essays,
Descartes,
Discourse
on Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason,
Pascal, Pensées, Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Locke,
Essay
Concerning Human Understanding,
Berkeley,
Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge,
Hume,
An Enquiry
Concerning the Principles of Morals,
Swift,
Gulliver's Travels, Milton,
Paradise Lost,
Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
Corneille,
Polyeucte,
Racine,
Phaedre,
Rousseau,
Social Contract,
and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,
Spinoza,
Theologico-Political Treatise,
Hamilton, Madison and Jay, Federalist Papers, Smith, An Inquiry
into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason,
and Leibniz,
The
Monodology.
MAT 301 Mathematics
(5 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and then by title, the review of literature for this
subject area includes: Viete, Geometry,
Archimedes
(Review of Mathematics contribution),
Cavalieri (Review
of Mathematics contribution), Bernoulli (Review
of Mathematics contribution), Newton (Review
of Mathematics contribution),
Balzano
(Review of
Mathematics contribution), Descartes
(Review of
Mathematics contribution), and Archimedes,
Geometrical Solutions Derived From Mechanics: A Treaties of Archimedes.
SCI 301 Science (5
Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Descartes,
Principles of Philosophy,
Galileo (Review of Science contribution), Newton,
Principia,
Heisenberg (Review of Uncertainty Principle), and Feynman,
Quantum
Electrodynamics QED.
PHI 301 Philosophy (5
Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics, and Politics.
THE 301 Theology (10
Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Aquinas,
City
of God and
Luther, Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of
Indulgences.
MUS 301 Music (5
Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Plato,
Timaeus
and Mozart,
the Man and the Artist, As Revealed in His Own Words.
