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School of Liberal Arts
Kathleen Barlow, Ph.D., D Min.
Dean, School of Liberal Arts
Martin University
2171 Avondale Place
Indianapolis, IN 46218
317-917-3377
liberalarts@martin.edu
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Mission
The School of Liberal Arts strives to provide students with the highest quality of education that focuses on a range of in-class and co-curricular activities that introduces them to various cultures, rhetorical trends, linguistic modes, and music application and theory. Courses in the School of Liberal Arts are designed to enhance students’ academic writing ability, effective communication skills, interpretation of literature, appreciation of the fine arts, proficiency in foreign languages, and understanding of history.
Objectives
Course offerings are derived from the disciplines of literature, philosophy, art, music, language and speech. Students will embark upon history classes, theatre classes, literature classes and advanced communication courses. As such, the liberal arts degree is a generalist degree that leads to multiple competencies revolved around the arts of oral and written communication and critical thinking. The Liberal Arts degree is a degree track that teaches students the core skills, competencies and knowledge that are necessary to successfully prepare for a career and/or graduate studies in the humanities. Students will take interdisciplinary courses that explore the impact of great literature, world religions, cultures, ethnicities and languages on business and economic systems. Our courses of study not only develop habits of mind (such as mastery in reading, communication, and critical thinking skills), but also address the meaning of human experience and expression. Working closely with their faculty mentors, students will have the chance to take language immersion courses, study abroad and develop research projects and presentations.
The courses offered within the major are structured in a way that will provide liberal arts majors with the following objectives:
- To broaden students’ reading abilities so that they are confident in understanding materials related to academic, professional, and personal interests
- To offer students the opportunities to practice, develop, and master verbal communication and public speaking skills
- To provide students with a clear, concise, and thorough grounding in the use of critical thinking which will enable them to learn more effectively in all of their course work at Martin University as well as to help them to communicate clearly and effectively in today’s complex work environment
- To provide students the opportunity to explore and appreciate the fine arts as expressions of their cultural inheritance
Upon completing the general education core (60 hours), students are required to take an additional 63 hours in the School of Liberal Arts.
The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies
BA in Liberal Arts Distribution Requirements (Beyond the General Education Core)
SPA 101 Spanish I (3 Cr)
SPA 102 Spanish II (3 Cr)
ENG 200 Practical Writing or
ENG 260 Introduction to Film Studies (3 Cr)
RES 200 Introduction to World Religions (3 Cr)
SPA 203 Spanish III (3 Cr)
SPA 204 Spanish IV (3 Cr)
MUS 241 Music Composition and Theory or
ART 210 Topics in Art (3 Cr)
PHI 300 World Philosophies & Perspectives (3 Cr)
MUS 301 History of Black Music (3 Cr)
ENG 305 Creative Writing—Poetry (3 Cr)
ENG 306 Creative Writing—Fiction (3 Cr)
THE 307 Theater Production (3 Cr)
COM 310 Society and Mass Communication (3 Cr)
ENG 350 Comparative Studies in African-American
Literature or
SPA 350 Survey of Spanish & Spanish-American
Literature (3 Cr)
HIS 320 Modern History (3 Cr)
COM 400 Cross Cultural Communication
LIB 450 Liberal Arts Capstone (3 Cr)
HIS 410 or
HIS 420 Modern History or
HIS 420 African Nations (3 Cr)
ART 430 Appreciation of World Art (3 Cr)
ENG 435 Writing Seminar (3 Cr)
LIB 495 Program Major Internship (3 Cr)
LIB 499 Final Project (3 Cr)
60
PHI 201 Critical Thinking (3 Cr)
PHI 202 Philosophy and Logic (3 CR)
Each liberal arts major is required to partake in a Liberal Arts Project which serves as a culminating academic project and/or paper which highlights the student’s understanding of liberal arts as an area of study. The course is designed to reflect the student’s particular academic area of concentration.
Minors
Students who take a total of 18 hours in any of the following areas can earn a Minor Degree:
- Communications
- English
- Spanish
- Music
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