The courses in this area enable students to develop a basic appreciation of the human imagination and understand the value of personal creativity in a complex, global society. Exposure to a diverse range of work in art, literature, languages, and cultures cultivates the students’ ability to express intellectual and emotional responses and make subjective and objective evaluations. Awareness of diverse cultural contributions, in both historical and contemporary work, stresses the interrelationship between individual aesthetics and collective human sensibility. Numerous teaching methodologies involve active participation in the creative experience, leading to personal inquiries into the cultural diversity prevalent in the visual, literary, audible, kinetic, and oral traditions of human expression.

Students must complete a minimum of three courses in Areas C1 and C2, with at least one course from each subarea. Students must also complete one UDGE-C course.

• Area C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater       
• Area C2 Humanities: Literature, Philosophy, Languages other than English     
• Area UDGE-C Arts and Humanities