III. Themes of Liberal Education for Private and Public Life (12 hrs)
The UNC Charlotte faculty has selected four key aspects of a liberal arts education essential to students’ development as educated citizens: arts and society, the Western tradition, global understanding, and ethical or cultural critique. These Liberal Studies courses, which are taught by faculty members from departments across the University, are dedicated exclusively to general education. Please note that the specific subjects covered in any given section of one of these LBST classes will vary depending upon the faculty member’s interests and expertise. For that reason, you are strongly urged to select a section based on its approach to the general subject matter indicated by the title. You can access the generic catalog description for the courses in each of the four areas of the LBST curriculum by clicking on the title of each section; you can get information on the topics of individual sections by searching for that course in the course schedule for the current semester.
One course in the arts and society. Art is indispensable to the structure and fabric of all societies, and each course examines this fundamental connection from the perspective a specific art form. Selected from:
LBST 1101 The Arts and Society: Dance
LBST 1102 The Arts and Society: Film
LBST 1103 The Arts and Society: Music
LBST 1104 The Arts and Society: Theater
LBST 1105 The Arts and Society: Visual Arts
One course in the western tradition. Each section of this course examines a major aspect of western culture through the process of analyzing the present in terms of the past.
LBST 2101 Western Cultural and Historical Awareness
One course in global understanding. All liberally educated people need to have the ability to understand the world from the point of view of more than one culture and be able to analyze issues from a global perspective.
LBST 2102 Global and Intercultural Connections
One course dealing with ethical issues and cultural critique. Each of these courses deals with an important contemporary issue, and each one gives significant attention to ethical analysis and cultural critique in the liberal arts. Selected from:
LBST 2211 Ethical Issues in Personal, Prof, & Public Life
LBST 2212 Literature and Culture
LBST 2213 Science, Technology, and Society
LBST 2214 Issues of Health and Quality of Life
LBST 2215 Citizenship
All these courses include a consideration of the diversity of perspectives afforded by gender, race/ethnicity, and class, as appropriate for understanding the individual themes of these courses.
