An Arts & Creative Expression course will… 

1. …provide an opportunity for students to experience artistic expression through “hands-on” activity.

2. …promote an understanding of the value of creative thinking and the creative process.  

3.     …investigate and assess creative works based on aesthetics, established principles within a given discipline, originality, material application, etc.

4.     …demonstrate the value and necessity of the arts and arts institutions in human society (e.g., musical concerts, theatre productions, literary publications).

Courses with a Scientific Inquiry designation will

1. focus on content that is based on empirical evidence about the natural world.

2. encourage students to use critical thinking and scientific problem solving in context throughout the course.

3. provide students with at least one inquiry-based experience in which they address a scientific question by stating a hypothesis; designing or replicating an empirical study; and using data to draw a conclusion about the hypothesis or research question.

Courses with a Human Behavior and Society designation will

1. focus on content that is based on empirical evidence about individual human behaviors, groups, or systems.

2. teach students to critically evaluate theories and empirical evidence.

Courses with a Cultural & Textual Inquiry designation will

1. use at least one interpretive method to critically examine products and/or practices of human cultures.

2. provide multiple opportunities to critically examine products and/or practices of human cultures within their contexts.

3. have students reflect upon their own socio-economic, political, and historical positionality while studying the products and/or practices of human cultures.

Courses with the Historical Inquiry designation will

1. examine the influences of social, intellectual, political, and cultural movements of past human societies on the past and the present.

2. examine the implications of historical construction.

3. interpret, discuss, and critique primary sources and ideas of past human societies.

4. analyze different historical and scholarly interpretations in terms of their evidence and arguments.

Courses with a Data Analysis designation will

1. offer explicit instruction on data analysis skills, including, but not limited to, data wrangling, statistical analysis, and communication.

2. include several opportunities for students to engage in data analysis with real-world data sets connected to authentic problems.

3. provide feedback that is designed to help students evaluate and improve data analysis skills.