HONR 251 - Independent Study-Tutorial in the Humanities

This tutorial emphasizes independent study in areas not listed among the credit courses in the humanities. Appropriate faculty tutor individual students in specific studies: e.g., philosophy, the problem of knowledge; literature, a comparative study of literary utopias; art, a project in oil painting; and language, Schiller and Goethe. Students may repeat this course provided that each time it is taken, a different topic is covered.

3 semester hours

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

Use selected terminology, theoretical concepts, and methodologies of the humanities.
Apply concepts from one or more humanities disciplines to contemporary issues.
Summarize how selected concepts in languages, literature, history, philosophy, or gender studies affect the individual.
Clarify one’s own attitudes and values as inheritors of the humanistic tradition.
Read and critically evaluate selected writings in the humanities.
Offer reasoned opinions and help facilitate productive discussion on selected topics in the humanities.
Locate valid sources of information in libraries and computer databases, and effectively incorporate those sources into their academic writing.
Solicit and utilize feedback from peers and mentors to improve his/her writing and thinking skills in the humanities.

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