Humanities
The Humanities Department offers a wide-range of courses that seek to enrich and transform students’ lives by allowing them to explore the art, history, philosophy, and literature that is reflective of the human condition. Humanities courses emphasize questions of meaning, value, and significance while critically engaging with an array of humanity’s artistic and intellectual accomplishments.
Explore Your Options
Communications Studies
Explore courses in speaking, listening, writing, relationship building (including conflict resolution), and new/digital media management.
Drama and Theater
WVC offers a drama course (Introduction to Theater) and theater courses in acting and production and administration.
Humanities
Explore the art, history, philosophy, and literature that is reflective of the human condition.
Languages
WVC offers courses in German, Japanese, Latin and Spanish, and Native American Languages as options for fulfilling the humanities requirement for the associate of arts degree.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and devise strategies for independent inquiry.
- Recognize the aesthetic and formal qualities of artistic, literary, and/or filmic texts.
- Demonstrate critical thinking skills by synthesizing information from multiple sources.
- Analyze texts from historical, cultural, artistic, philosophical, and/or theoretical perspectives.
- Demonstrate reflective and metacognitive thinking about the humanities.
Contact
| Rene Baca | S. Hartwell Johnson | Jack Johnson | ||
| Faculty, Languages | Faculty, Humanities | Faculty, English and Humanities | ||
| Craig VanderHart | ||||
| Faculty, Philosophy |