1. The Arts Legacy Freshman Program

2. One of 3 Arts Freshman Programs:
The General Freshman Program
The French Option
Arts Legacy
Launched in Fall, 2005

3. Framework Interdisciplinary / Integrated Historical
Cross-Cultural / Comparative
Thematic
weekly themes for each course
common themes across all four courses
“Embodied”: Cultural activities and “performances”

4. Four Courses (24 credits)
Fall Semester (12 credits)
ARLE 101: Ancient Worlds
ARLE 102: Medieval Mediterranean Worlds
Winter Semester (12 credits)
ARLE 103: Early Modern Atlantic Worlds
ARLE 104: Modern Global Worlds

5. Four Components Lectures: 6 hours per week Seminars: 3 hours per week
Tutorials: 1 hour per week
Performances: 2 hours per week
“Passive”: Weekly Cultural Events
“Active”: Student Performances

6. Arts Legacy Freshman Program
Fall Semester (12 credits)
Winter Semester (12 credits)
ARLE 101
Ancient Worlds
ARLE 102
Medieval Mediterranean Worlds
ARLE 103
Early Modern Atlantic Worlds
ARLE 104
Modern Global Worlds L
Lecture
6 hours L L S
Seminar
3 hours S S
Tutorial
1 hour T T T
Perf.
2 hours P P P

7. Assignments / Evaluation
Writing Intensive: bi-weekly essays
2 primary text essays
1 scholarly/research essay (Lib. Workshops)
The Independent Research Project (IRP)
Seminar Assignments
Performances
Exams

8. God(s) and the Cosmos
Human Nature, Justice, and the Political Order
Truth and Persuasion
Identity, Self, and Other
History, Memory, and Cultural Creation / Self-understanding

9. ARLE 101 ANCIENT WORLDS BILL GLADHILL (Classics) GWEN BENNETT
(Anthropology / East Asian Studies)

10. ARLE 102 MEDIEVAL WORLDS CHELSEA HONEYMAN (English-Medieval Europe)
HEATHER EMPEY
(Islamic Studies)

11. ARLE 103 EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC WORLDS JOHN BISHOP (History)
WES FOLKERTH (English-Renaissance Studies)

12. ARLE 104 MODERN GLOBAL WORLDS
HELENE SICARD-COWAN
(Postcolonial Studies)
MICHAEL COWAN (German Studies)