The Arts Legacy Freshman Program

One of 3 Arts Freshman Programs:

1. The General Freshman Program

2. The French Option

3. Arts Legacy

Launched in Fall, 2005

Framework

• Interdisciplinary / Integrated

• Historical

• Cross-Cultural / Comparative

• Thematic– weekly themes for each course– common themes across all four courses

• “Embodied”: Cultural activities and “performances”

Four Courses (24 credits)Fall Semester (12 credits)ARLE 101: Ancient WorldsARLE 102: Medieval Mediterranean

Worlds

Winter Semester (12 credits)ARLE 103: Early Modern Atlantic

WorldsARLE 104: Modern Global Worlds

Four Components

• Lectures: 6 hours per week• Seminars: 3 hours per week• Tutorials: 1 hour per week• Performances: 2 hours per week

“Passive”: Weekly Cultural Events

“Active”: Student Performances

Arts Legacy Freshman Program

Fall Semester (12 credits)Fall Semester (12 credits) Winter Semester (12 credits) Winter Semester (12 credits)

ARLE 101Ancient Worlds

ARLE 101Ancient Worlds

ARLE 102 Medieval

Mediterranean Worlds

ARLE 102 Medieval

Mediterranean Worlds

ARLE 104 Modern Global

Worlds

ARLE 104 Modern Global

Worlds

ARLE 103 Early Modern Atlantic

Worlds

ARLE 103 Early Modern Atlantic

Worlds

Lecture 6 hoursLecture 6 hours

Seminar 3 hours Seminar 3 hours

Tutorial 1 hourTutorial 1 hour

Perf.2 hours

Perf.2 hours

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Assignments / Evaluation

• Writing Intensive: bi-weekly essays– 2 primary text essays– 1 scholarly/research essay (Lib. Workshops)– The Independent Research Project (IRP)

• Seminar Assignments

• Performances

• Exams

God(s) and the Cosmos

Truth and Persuasion

Human Nature, Justice, and the Political Order

Identity, Self, and Other

History, Memory, and Cultural Creation / Self-understanding

ARLE 101ANCIENTWORLDS

GWEN BENNETT(Anthropology / East Asian Studies)

BILL GLADHILL (Classics)

ARLE 102MEDIEVAL WORLDS

CHELSEA HONEYMAN(English-Medieval Europe)

HEATHER EMPEY(Islamic Studies)

ARLE 103 EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC WORLDS

JOHN BISHOP (History)

WES FOLKERTH (English-Renaissance Studies)

ARLE 104MODERN GLOBAL WORLDS

MICHAEL COWAN (German Studies)

HELENE SICARD-COWAN(Postcolonial Studies)