Associate of Arts - Liberal Art - Arts and Humanities

The Associate in Arts in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Arts and Humanities provides students the opportunity to cultivate intellect, imagination, sensibility and sensitivity. Students will respond subjectively as well as objectively to aesthetic experiences and will develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses. Students will also refine their affective, cognitive, and physical faculties through studying great works of the human imagination. Critical thinking skills and self-understanding through these courses provide a framework for lifelong study in the arts and humanities areas and offers students a breadth of knowledge that could be focused into single discipline degrees as well as applied to an interdisciplinary degree. Program Learning Outcomes: • Students will explain or demonstrate the connections between language, communication, and culture. • Students will create, critique or analyze key elements of artistic expression by individuals or cultures. • Students will interpret art forms and analyze humanistic texts in their historical and social contexts.