Arts and Sciences
(AR), Fine Arts (FA),
and First-Year Seminar (FY SEM)
These courses are designed to improve basic skills, to
provide knowledge and direction essential to success in college and
later life, and to provide enrichment opportunities in the arts. Besides
those described below, other courses in the academic departments serve
the same objective. Among them are courses in composition and rhetoric
(EN 103, 111-112, 114-116), basic speech communication (CO 100), Word
Power through the Classics (CL 210), and Introduction to the World of
Work (CE 101).
Students may apply a maximum of four 1 credit AR courses, and a maximum
of four 1 credit FA courses, toward graduation. Unless otherwise specified,
no more than eight 1 credit courses from any combination of courses
in Arts and Sciences (AR), Communications (CO) 140-175, Cooperative
Education (CE), Fine Arts (FA), and/or Physical Education (PE) 120-174
may be applied toward graduation. Except for AR 291, credits from these
courses may not be used to satisfy Core or major requirements.
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First-Year Seminar (FY SEM)
Chair of University Core Committee: Lauren L. Bowen (PO)
Chair of First-Year Seminar Committee for 2005: E. Paul Thomson
(PL); 2006-2007: Earl W. Spurgin (PL)
FY SEM 3 cr. Introduction to the academic life
which focuses on the perennial questions of human experience,
utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach to those questions, and
promotes active learning among both students and faculty. This
seminar encourages students to question and clarify their values
as they simultaneously develop their oral, written, problem solving,
and critical thinking skills. Faculty are drawn from all academic
departments. Common readings used in all sections. Topic for 2005:
Democracy, Science, and Capitalism. Topic for 2006-2007: The Body
in Art, Science, and Literature. This course is required of all
first-year students.
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