According to the University of Northern Iowa's humanities Web site, required Liberal Arts Core humanities courses are intended to achieve the following student outcomes:
- acquainting students with the history of the Western tradition as expressed in its literature, philosophy, religion, politics, arts, sciences, and technology
- developing such core skills as reading, writing, and critical inquiry
- learning to explain the structure of a selected literary, religious, or philosophical work, the historical and/or cultural context in which it was written, and its significance within the Western tradition.
- analyzing the historical and/or cultural context of selected documents or artistic works, within the Western tradition.
- expounding on the causes of selected historical events, the course of those events, and their impact on the subsequent history of Western civilization.
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