Intellectual Heritage
Mosaic I & II Learning Goals:
- Read an unfamiliar and problematic written text (rhetorically, historically or culturally challenging)
- Recognize and wrestle with abstractions, large ideas, and implications associated with difficult written texts
- Construct positions, arguments and interpretations
- Make connections across disciplines, history, and cultural boundaries
- Apply ideas and extrapolate meanings
- View the world in radically and culturally different ways
- Express themselves in persuasive and thoughtful writing that reflects the conventions of academic discourse
- Engage in intelligent discussions that construct thoughtful and persuasive positions