Heritage

Heritage at Carthage

The Heritage Studies Program consists of a two-course sequence taken by all entering students at Carthage. The goal of the Heritage Studies Program is to introduce students to a true liberal arts education. Using the seminar approach to learning, the Heritage sequence is taught collaboratively by faculty from academic departments across disciplines. Each Heritage seminar is an encounter with dynamic cultural legacies.

As a community of learners, students will be reconstructing and critiquing these legacies. Heritage is not contained within a prescribed set of sanctioned books or artifacts to be transmitted from teacher to student. Rather, the texts chosen for each Heritage seminar represent outstanding works of literature, social and political philosophy, science, film, or music, and serve as the beginning of meaningful intellectual inquiry. Through selected texts, students can focus on the process of rigorous thinking, questioning, and imagining that ultimately leads to authentic self-discoveries and self-expression. Thus, in each Heritage seminar, students will be called upon to read critically, discuss intensely, write engagingly, and articulate their insights in presentations, essays, and structured discussions. Serious commitment to the goals of each Heritage seminar provides students with a level of competency in areas that will aid them in all other course work at Carthage and in their future careers.

Any quesitons concerning the Heritage program may be directed to Cindy Welch, Administrative Assistant of the Heritage Studies Program; 551-5742. Her office is located in Lentz Hall 235.