Liberal Studies Degree - Bachelor of Arts

College of Arts & Sciences

Curriculum

Major Requirements (36 credit hours)

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Staying Human in a Digital World (Course cluster - 9 credit hours)

• IGEN 230 Digital Storytelling

  This course examines the processes and tools used in combining digital imagery and narration into a visual story. The application of storyboards, introductory level software, and the development of a personal voice will be used to develop a concept into a finished project.

• IGEN 330 Societies in the Information Age

  The information age has brought fundamental changes in how people live, work, and play. This course provides students with a much-needed framework for understanding the ways in which technologies transform and are transformed by societies. Students will explore the impact of technologies, both past and present, on our human relationships and cultural institutions.

• IGEN 331 Ethics, Privacy, and Quality of Life in a Digital World

  Technological innovations should prompt us to pause and consider questions of ethics, privacy, and quality of life before the innovations are embraced or rejected at home or at work. Accordingly, classroom activities, discussions, and assignments will prompt students to connect professional codes of ethics to the use of current and emerging technologies and reflect on the ethical and social issues being raised.

• One course of any 100-499 level in all of the following:
• Business
• Art History
• Culture
• Philosophy

• One upper-level course in all of the following:
• History
• Psychology
• Political Science
• Communication
• Sociology or Anthropology

Note: Courses taken as requirements in the Liberal Studies major may not be applied to fulfill both the Bellevue University General Education Core Curriculum and that major.