iRubric: Humanities rubric

Broadly defined as the study of important works of ideas and of the imagination, the humanities are a longstanding and central component of a liberal education. More specifically, the humanities focus on questions related to meaning, ethics, aesthetics, and identity, and the foundations of knowledge; and they involve the study of major works that focus on ideas, traditions, and concepts that have fundamentally shaped our understanding of the world and our sense of self at different moments in time and in diverse places. Courses in the humanities should introduce students to central works of literature and/or ideas, or other historically important primary texts. Additionally, all humanities courses should explore the nature of humanistic inquiry, and the central methods by which scholars in the humanities pursue their work.