C2 Lower Division Humanities

Student Learning Outcomes for Lower Division Humanities (C2) (3 units)

After completion of a lower division general education course in humanities, students will be able to:

1. Understand or apply humanistic methods of inquiry, analysis, and interpretation to contest knowledge claims about expressive forms, cultural traditions, belief systems, or communicative practices while encouraging reflection on big ideas such as the nature of the good life, how and why cultural traditions change, and the power of imagination to enlarge and invigorate experience;

2. evaluate information from a variety of sources and use this information to formulate well-reasoned responses to major ideas, concerns, and/or debates that animate humanistic study or literary works;

3. appreciate various expressive or literary forms/styles, cultural traditions, belief systems, diverse human experiences/perspectives, or communicative practices;

4. identify ethical issues or themes that arise in expressive forms, literary works, cultural traditions, belief systems, or communicative practices, particularly in relation to demands for social justice and in terms of their implications for local and/or global communities;

5. situate expressive forms, literary works, cultural traditions, belief systems, or communicative practices in the local and/or global cultural, historical, and sociopolitical contexts in which they were produced; and

6. articulate the relevance of expressive forms, literature and literary studies, cultural traditions, belief systems, or communicative practices to their own lives.

Links between Educational Goals and Outcomes for Lower Division Humanities

The student learning outcomes were developed in relationship to the “Educational Goals for the Baccalaureate at San Francisco State University.” The chart below illustrates that relationship for lower division humanities. The numbers correspond to the way the educational goals and student learning outcomes are numbered above.