By the end of the Humanities Program, students will be able to:

• Analyze contemporary and historical cultural artifacts—including fiction, nonfiction, drama, visual art, music, performance, and media—by identifying their constituent parts and explaining how those parts generate meaning, effect, and argument.
• Establish connections between works separated by period, place, medium, or genre, and defend the significance of those connections.
• Construct historical arguments grounded in the evidence of primary and secondary sources—contextualizing each source, attending to its gaps and silences, and accounting for how understandings of the past are constructed and change over time..
• Make fair and effective use of the work of others, including appraising the work’s credibility, situating the work within a broader conversation, integrating the work into one’s own reasoning, and representing and attributing the work precisely.
• Compose and revise arguments for specified audiences and purposes, justifying what changed during revision and why.
• Create a digital portfolio that synthesizes discrete pieces of work—including visual, audio, textual, and archival materials—into a coherent analytic and creative whole, and assess one’s own development as a reader, writer, and thinker.