School of Arts and Humanities

The School of Arts & Humanities provides a meaningful context for a variety of programs for the College in the best tradition of liberal learning and excellence in proficiencies in performance and production oriented specialties. The School is charged with ensuring that arts and humanities students receive, from its curriculum, cutting edge discipline-specific information, and an outstanding foundation in liberal studies.

The School is comprised of a highly qualified guild of faculty who are deeply committed to quality teaching, discovery, and practicing new pedagogical methods for our students. The School’s faculty members also contribute to the advancement of knowledge within their respective disciplines, staying current and relevant to contemporary needs, as well as to developments in their fields.

The School provides approximately fifty percent of the Liberal Arts/Fine Arts requirement for the College. In addition, we offer high quality degrees in Art, English, Foreign Languages, History and Political Science, Communications, Music, and Philosophy and Religious Studies. Many of our programs support other degree programs in other Schools within the College, such as Education, Business, and Mathematics and Science.

The objective of the School of Arts & Humanities is to produce depth and breadth of knowledge, and to do so through programs that provide students with opportunities to develop mastery of an academic or performing discipline, as well as to demonstrate high order skills, such as critical thinking through the examination of theory and the comparison of historical and current data. The School and its faculty encourage a deep engagement in scholarly inquiry, and promote student inquiry, and scholarly research, as well as practical internships in discipline specific context.

The School’s vision is based on the College Vision and Mission – The development of the whole person through a strong Liberal Education program, and is guided by the American Academy of Liberal Education that asserts that the languages of verbal/oral and written communications are the media of all thought, and must be well developed through rigorous instruction and specially designed applications across disciplines.