Linfield Arts and Humanities Courses

Art and Visual Culture

AAVC 110 Intro to Visual Culture
AAVC 120 Drawing
AAVC 150 Image Management
AAVC 165 Approaches to the Figure
AAVC 180 Survey of Western Art*
AAVC 182 Modern Art 1880-1945
AAVC 184 Contemporary Multicultural Art
AAVC 188 Post Modern Art
AAVC 210 Survey Non-Western Visual Culture
AAVC 260 Painting

English

ENGL 200 Intro to Creative Writing
ENGL 250 Literature of Experience
ENGL 270 Western American Literature
ENGL 301 Topics in Literature*
ENGL 303 Children’s Literature
ENGL 304 Environmental Literature
ENGL 305 Diverse Voices*
ENGL 310* Topics in American Literature
ENGL 312 Topics in English Literature*
ENGL 316 Creative Writing: Poetry*
ENGL 317 Creative Writing: Fiction*
ENGL 319 Creative Writing: Non-Fiction*
ENGL 320 Creative Writing, The Art of the Book
ENGL 380 Ultimate Questions in Literature

Interdepartmental Studies

IDST 485 Arts & Humanities Senior Seminar
IDST 490 Arts & Humanities Research Project

Modern Languages

MLCH 211 Intro to East Asian Culture
MLCH 212 Survey of East Asian Literature

Music

MUSC 131 Understanding Music
MUSC 135 Understanding Jazz
MUSC 251 American Sense in Sound

Philosophy and Religious Studies
(considered as one department for the purposes of this program)

PHIL 150 Fundamentals of Philosophy
PHIL 160 Philosophy East and West
PHIL 215 Bioethics
PHIL 250 Modern Philosophy
PHIL 306 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 345 Aesthetics
PHIL 354 American Philosophy
RELS 120 Old Testament
RELS 130 New Testament
RELS 140 The Holy Qur’an
RELS 254 Folklore and Mythology
RELS 303 Religious Quest I
RELS 304 Religious Quest II
RELS 315 Politics & Religion in US
RELS 331 History of Religion in America
RELS 340 Monks and Mystics
RELS 380 Buddhism
RELS 410 C.S. Lewis

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The Arts & Humanities degree is a Bachelor of Arts (BA).

To earn a BA you must complete either one year (two semesters or three quarters) of elementary college level work in a single foreign language or five credits at a more advanced level. Students whose native language is not English are exempt from the foreign language requirement. American Sign Language, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew are included in the languages that qualify for the BA degree, as well as a multitude of other modern languages.

At least 21 semester credits of the Arts and Humanities degree will be Linfield coursework. The Senior Seminar, the Senior Project, IDST 320/321 Western Thought I & II, and ENGL 377 Fundamentals of Research Writing count toward the 21.

A minimum of 15 semester credits in the Arts and Humanities major will be in Linfield courses numbered 300 and above. These courses will concentrate in the disciplines proposed for the research project, with a minimum of two upper division Linfield courses in each of the disciplines proposed for the research project.

Courses counting toward the 40 semester credits required in the major may be from no less than two and no more than three departments. No more than 20 credits from any one department may be counted toward the 40 semester credit minimum for the Arts and Humanities degree.

Students will complete ENGL 377 Fundamentals of Research Writing prior to enrolling in the senior seminar. The Senior Seminar is offered fall semester on the McMinnville campus, where students meet for three weekend classes with the professor and the Extended Services Librarian. Students need to plan their programs to include this capstone experience after all prerequisites are met.