Schools and Departments

Department of Fine Arts and Foreign Language

The Fine Arts and Foreign Language Department is comprised of two main disciplines and the following classes fall under those sub-headings:

Objectives: Foreign Language

  1. Students will develop listening skills in order to understand what is being communicated to them by foreign language speakers.

  2. Students will communicate with others with confidence in their responses.

  3. Students will begin to read in the foreign language specified so that they may be able to read a newspaper or magazine.

  4. Students will write in the foreign language specified so that they can write on a particular subject.

  5. Students will explore the culture of the country of the foreign language specified in order to be able to compare and contrast cultural mores between the cultures of the United Sates and other countries that speak that particular foreign language.

Objectives: Fine Arts

  1. Students who enroll in Fine Arts classes as liberal arts electives will be taught to develop an appreciation of the role of fine arts in a diverse culture.

  2. Students who choose to pursue a minor in Fine Arts will develop the objectives for their minor in consultation with their mentor and faculty members in the Fine Arts and Foreign Language Department. These objectives must be individualized because the minor may be a concentration or diversification in music, theater, or visual art.