Program Missions & Objectives

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary degree in Arts and Performance that provides students the opportunity not only to master a specific area of artistic creation but also to connect that area with other forms of artistic expression and to develop skills of interpretation as well as creativity.

2.1 Describe and apply methodology processes: Students will be able to describe and apply basic methodologies processes by which aesthetic judgments are made

2.2 Demonstrate effective communication skills: Students will demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills

2.3 Demonstrate knowledge of principals and history: Students will demonstrate a broad knowledge of the principles and history of at least one major form of artistic expression

2.4 To gain experience and expertise : Students will gain experience and expertise in at least one area of the creative and performing arts

2.5 Apply knowledge to interpretation : Students will be able (a) to relate the process of creative practice that underlies different forms of artistic expression and (b) apply their understanding of creating works to the interpretation of artistic and humanistic works.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering students the opportunity to design an interdisciplinary degree combining literature, history, philosophy, and the creative and performing arts.

2.1 Describe and apply interpretation methodologies: Students will be able to describe and apply basic methodologies of interpreting literary, historical, and artistic texts

2.2 Demonstrate effective communication skills: Students will demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills

2.3 Demonstrate broad knowledge of a specific issue: Students will demonstrate a broad knowledge of a major period, genre, or issue in literature, history, and the arts

2.4 Apply insights from multiple disciplines: Students will be able to apply insights from multiple disciplines to the interpretation of texts and solution of problems

1. Mission Statement: The mission of our undergraduate Arts and Technology program is to provide students a broad grounding in digital content design and development by exposing them to the theory and practice of computer programming, information design, computer graphics/animation, digital sound design and interactive game design. The goal of the program is to prepare students to understand and succeed in the media-rich, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.

2.1 Knowledge Base: Students will describe and analyze fundamental concepts, theoretical perspectives, and historical and latest trends in digital content design and development.

2.2 Identify effective digital methods: Students will identify effective digital methods for visualizing artistic concepts.

2.3 Technology Based Creativity: Students will create original digital works that demonstrate their artistic and technical skills and reflect a high degree of individual expression.

2.4 Critical Thinking and Communication Skills: Students will explain aesthetic and technical merits of their works and others'.

2.5 Apply skills to construct creative projects: Students will construct creative projects by applying the knowledge and skills that they have gained in the program.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary degree in Historical Studies that provides students the opportunity not only to develop skills in historical inquiry but also to employ insights from literature and/or the creative arts in their investigation. Graduates are eligible to earn high school teaching certification in history and/or social studies.

2.1 Interpretive Skills: Graduates will be able to describe and apply basic methodologies of historical investigation and the processes by which historical judgments are made

2.2 Communicative Ability: Students will demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills

2.3 Knowledge Base: Students will demonstrate a broad knowledge of major periods of history and a thorough knowledge of one particular era, place or topic of historical investigation

2.4 Interdisciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to apply insights from other disciplines to the interpretation of historical texts and events

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary degree in Literary Studies that provides students the opportunity not only to demonstrate critical sophistication and acuity in responding to literary texts but also to connect literature with other forms of arts

2.1 Describe and apply basic methodologies: Students will be able to describe and apply basic methodologies of interpreting literary texts

2.2 Demonstrate effective communication skills: Students will demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills

2.3 Demonstrate broad knowledge of major genres: Students will demonstrate a broad knowledge of major periods and genres of literature

2.4 Apply insights from other disciplines: Students will be able to apply insights from other disciplines and/or forms of artistic expression to the interpretation of literary texts

1. Mission Statement: The mission of the Holocaust Studies Program at The University of Texas at Dallas is to teach about and enhance the national and international consciousness of the Holocaust. It is designed to advance knowledge and to educate students as well as the larger community about this historical catastrophe that turned into ashes the European Jews, and still overshadows the achievements of European Humanism and the Enlightenment. The certificate in Holocaust Studies is available to both non-degree and degree-seeking students. Professionals, students, teachers, and others employed in positions of education and related private organizations pursue the certificate to obtain additional education. Graduates of this fifteen-credit hours certificate will have a thorough understanding of the history of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and the major contemporary philosophical, aesthetic, and analytical responses to this calamity.

2.1 Students will demonstrate a solid of comprehension of the development of anti-Semitism and the history of the Holocaust.: Students will demonstrate a solid of comprehension of the development of anti-Semitism and the history of the Holocaust.

2.2 Students will learn the background and events of the Holocaust, and the subsequent aesthetic, philosophical, and literary responses to this event: Students will learn the background and events of the Holocaust, and the subsequent aesthetic, philosophical, and literary responses to this event

2.3 Students will learn of political and developments and of the major writers, and artists of 19th, and 20th century Germany.: Students will learn of political and developments, and of the major writers, and artists of 19th, and 20th century Germany.

2.4 Students will demonstrate thorough mastery of 19th, and 20th Jewish culture, history, aesthetics, and literature: Students will demonstrate thorough mastery of 19th, and 20th Jewish culture, history, aesthetics, and literature

1. Mission Statement: The mission of our Masters of Art in Arts and Technology (ATEC) program is to provide students a broad grounding in digital content design and development by exposing them to the theory and practice of computer programming, information design, computer graphics/animation, digiotal sound design and interactive game design. The goal of the program is to prepare students to understand and succeed in the media-rich, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century. The ATEC MA program offers advanced training and the opportunity to create and/or discover new practical applications for technologically based creativity

2.1 Knowledge base: Students will describe and analyze advanced concepts, theoretical perspectives, and historical and latest trends in digital content design and development.

2.2 Effective digital methods: Students will identify and evaluate effective digital methods for visualizing artistic and technical concepts

2.3 Technology based creativity: Students will create original digital works that demonstrate their artistic and technical skills and reflect a high degree of individual expression

2.4 Critical thinking and communication skills: Students will analyze aesthetic and technical merits of their works and others'

2.5 Application: Students will construct research projects to advance our knowledge and technology in the field and to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing global society.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an M.A. that prepares students for doctoral studies in History or Humanities, to conduct research in History, and to teach History at the secondary or community college level. To support the university's commitment to producing engaged graduates who are prepared for life, work ,and leadership (especially in the liberal arts) in a constantly changing world.

2.1 Historical Method: Students will be able to describe, apply, and analyze major concepts and goals of research appropriate to the discipline of history (Hist 5311)

2.2 Focused Expertise : Students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in history by evaluating trends in US History. (Hist 6325)

2.3 Research Capability: Students will be able to produce research that reflects the ability to aggregate relevant evidence and use evidence to support their interpretation (HUHI 7368)

2.4 Professional Advancement: Research track graduates will be adequately prepared for doctoral programs in history or humanities by writing and defending an MA thesis (HIST 8398--Thesis hours)

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary M.A. in the Humanities that enables students not only to gain advanced expertise in a specific academic field (studies in literature, history of ideas, aesthetic studies) but also to place the specific focus of their studies in a larger humanistic context. To support the university's mission of advancing excellent educational an research programs in the liberal, creative, and practical arts.

2.1 Interdisciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to describe, apply, and analyze the major concepts and goals of research that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.

2.2 Focused Expertise: Students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in the Humanities

2.3 Research Capability: Students will be able to produce research that reflects the ability to aggregate relevant evidence and use evidence to support their interpretation

2.4 Professional Advancement: Research track graduates will be adequately prepared for doctoral programs in the humanities by completing a portfolio that included independent research of a lengthy nature sufficient for academic argument and requiring demonstrable ability to use a foreign language in an academic context.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary master's program that prepares students to produce publishable research and/or creative work that transcends traditional academic disciplinary boundaries; to prepare students not only to gain advanced expertise in a specific area (studies in literature, history of ideas, aesthetic studies) but also to conduct research that creates connections across disciplines; to prepare students for teaching careers at the college/university level. To support the university's mission of advancing excellent educational and research programs in the liberal, creative, and practical arts.

2.1 Inter-disciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to describe and analyze the major concepts and goals of research that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines

2.2 Focused Expertise : Students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in Aesthetic Studies through performance, writing, and oral presentations as required by courses (HUAS 6315, HUAS 6373).

2.3 Research Capability: Students will be able to produce research that reflects the ability to aggregate relevant evidence and use evidence to support their interpretations.

2.4 Performance Capability: Students with focus on creative performance will be able to produce works of art in one or more medium/genre and to place their work in a larger critical and cultural context.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary M.A. in the Humanities that enables students not only to gain advanced expertise in a specific academic field (literary studies, history of ideas, aesthetic studies) but also to place the specific focus of their studies in a larger humanistic context. To support the university's mission of advancing excellent educational and research programs in the liberal, creative, and practical arts.

2.1 Interdisciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to describe, apply, and analyze the major concepts and goals of research that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.

2.2 . Focused Expertise: Students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in the History of Ideas.

2.3 Research Capability: Students will be able to produce research that reflects the ability to aggregate relevant evidence and use evidence to support their interpretation.

2.4 . Professional Advancement: Research track graduates will be adequately prepared for doctoral programs in literature, history, and/or the humanities as evidenced by acceptance rates to advanced programs.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary M.A. in the Humanities that enables students not only to gain advanced expertise in a specific academic field (literary studies, history of ideas, aesthetic studies) but also to place the specific focus of their studies in a larger humanistic context. To support the university's commitment to advancing educational and research programs in the liberal arts.

2.1 Interdisciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to describe, apply, and analyze the major concepts and goals of research that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.

2.2 Focused Expertise: Students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in literature by describing and analyzing specific literary texts.

2.3 Research Capability: Students will be able to produce research that reflects the ability to aggregate relevant evidence and use evidence to support their interpretations.

2.4 Professional Advancement: Research track graduates will be adequately prepared for doctoral programs in the humanities by completing a portfolio that included independent research of a lengthy nature sufficient for academic argument and requiring demonstrable ability to use a foreign language in an academic context.

1. Mission Statement: The mission of the M.A.T. in Aesthetic Studies degree program is to provide graduate education for practicing high school teachers that places Aesthetic Studies in a broader interdisciplinary context. The Aesthetic Studies M.A.T. program provides graduates who have achieved a Masters level command of best practices in teaching a range of topics in at least one area of "Aesthetic Studies" (e.g. visual arts, drama, music) in high school. This program also supports the university's mission to transform ideas (about the arts and humanities) into actions that directly benefit the personal, economic, social, and cultural lives of the citizens (K-12) of Texas.

2.1 Interdisciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to describe and analyze major concepts and goals of instruction that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines

2.2 Focused Expertise : Students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in the creative and/or performing arts through analysis and evaluation of specific works of art or specific genres of art.

2.3 Professional Application: Students will be able to apply interdisciplinary approaches to the development of new courses or programs of instruction at the K-12 level

2.4 Other Outcomes: Students will acquire a commitment to interdisciplinary education.

1. Mission Statement: The mission of the M.A.T. in History of Ideas degree program is to provide graduate education in History and Philosophy for practicing high school teachers. The History of Ideas M.A.T. program provides graduates who have achieved a Masters level command of best practices in teaching a wide variety of topics in history and/or philosophy in high school. This program also supports the university's mission to transform ideas (history) into actions (curriculum and pedagogy) that directly benefit the personal, economic, social, and cultural lives of the citizens (K-12) of Texas.

2.1 Interdisciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to describe and analyze major concepts and goals of instruction that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines

2.2 Focused Expertise : Students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in history or philosophy through the analysis and evaluation of specific texts.

2.3 Professional Application: Students will be able to apply interdisciplinary approaches to the development of new courses or programs of instruction at the K-12 level

2.4 Other Outcomes: Students will acquire a commitment to interdisciplinary education.

1. Mission Statement: The mission of the M.A.T. in Studies in Literature degree program is to provide graduate education in Literature for practicing high school teachers. The Studies in Literature M.A.T. program provides graduates who have achieved a Masters level command of best practices in teaching a wide variety of topics associated with the study of literature in high school. This program also supports the university's mission to transform ideas (about literature) into actions (curriculum and pedagogy) that directly benefit the personal, economic, social, and cultural lives of the citizens (K-12) of Texas.

2.1 Interdisciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to describe and analyze major concepts and goals of instruction that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines

2.2 Advanced Knowledge: Students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in literature through the analysis and evaluation of specific texts and/or genres of literature.

2.3 Apply Interdisciplinary Approaches: Students will be able to apply interdisciplinary approaches to the development of new courses or programs of instruction at the K-12 level

2.4 Interdisciplinary Education: Students will acquire a commitment to interdisciplinary education.

1. Mission Statement: The mission of our Masters of Fine Art in Arts and Technology (ATEC) program is to provide students a broad grounding in digital content design and development by exposing them to the theory and practice of computer programming, information design, computer graphics/animation, digital sound design and interactive game design. The goal of the program is to prepare students to understand and succeed in the media-rich, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century. The ATEC MFA program is designed to produce a new generation of artists and college level educators in an emerging field likely to have an impact on 21st-century culture and education analogous to that of film and Film Studies in the 20th century.

2.1 Knowledge base: Students will describe and analyze advanced concepts, theoretical perspectives, and historical and latest trends in digital content design and development.

2.2 Effective digital methods: Students will identify and evaluate effective digital methods for visualizing artistic and technical concepts.

2.3 Technology based creativitiy: Students will create original digital works that demonstrate their artistic and technical skills and reflect a high degree of individual expression

2.4 Critical Thinking and Communication Skills: Students will analyze aesthetic and technical merits of their works and others'.

2.5 Research Application: Students will construct research projects to advance our knowledge and technology in the field and to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing global society.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary doctoral program that prepares students to produce publishable research and/or creative work that transcends traditional academic disciplinary boundaries; to prepare students not only to gain advanced expertise in specific areas (studies in literature, history of ideas, aesthetic studies) but also to conduct research that creates connections across disciplines; to prepare students for teaching careers at the college/university level.

2.1 To support the Mission of the School of A&H: Students will be able to describe, apply, and analyze major concepts and goals of research that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines

2.2 Advanced Knowledge: Students will be able to participate in constructing and demonstrating advanced knowledge of a focused, integrated area in the Humanities

2.3 Research Capability: Research Capability:Students will be able to produce research that reflects the ability to aggregate relevant evidence and use evidence to support their interpretation.

2.4 Advanced Research Dissemination: Some students will be able to conduct and create publishable interdisciplinary research.

2.5 Professional Advancement: Some graduates will successfully obtain faculty appointments in higher education (universities, colleges, community colleges) or appointments in related fields requiring a doctoral degree.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary doctoral program that prepares students to produce publishable research and/or creative work that transcends traditional academic disciplinary boundaries; to prepare students not only to gain advanced expertise in a specific areas (studies in literature, history of ideas, aesthetic studies) but also to conduct research that creates connections across disciplines; to prepare students for teaching careers at the college/university level. To support the university's mission of advancing excellent educational and research programs in the liberal, creative, and practical arts.

2.1 Inter-disciplinary Perspective: Students will be able to describe and analyze the major concepts and goals of research that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines

2.2 Focused Expertise : Students will be able to design and demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in Aesthetic Studies.

2.3 Research Capability: Students will be able to produce cogently written interdisciplinary research that reflects the ability to aggregate relevant evidence and use evidence to support their interpretation

2.4 Performance Capability: Students with focus on creative performance will be able to produce works of art in one or more medium/genre and to place their work in a larger critical and cultural context

2.5 Advanced Research/Creative Dissemination: Some students will be able to conduct publishable interdisciplinary research and/or works of artistic expression.

2.6 Professional Advancement: Some graduates will successfully obtain faculty appointments in higher education (universities, colleges, community colleges) or other appointments in related fields requiring a doctoral degree

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary doctoral program that prepares students to produce publishable research and/or creative work that transcends traditional academic disciplinary boundaries; to prepare students not only to gain advanced expertise in a specific areas (literary studies, history of ideas, aesthetic studies) but also to conduct research that creates connections across disciplines; to prepare students for teaching careers at the college/university level. To support the university's mission of advancing excellent educational and research programs in the liberal, creative, and practical arts.

2.1 1. Inter-disciplinary Perspective: Graduates will be able to describe, apply and analyze major concepts and goals of research that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.

2.2 . Focused Expertise : Graduates will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area in the History of Ideas.

2.3 Research Capability: Students will be able to produce cogently written interdisciplinary research that reflects the ability to aggregate relevant evidence and use evidence to support their interpretation.

2.4 Advanced Research Dissemination: Some graduates will be able to conduct publishable interdisciplinary research

2.5 5Professional Advancement: Some graduates will successfully obtain faculty appointments in higher education (universities, colleges, community colleges) or other appointments in related fields requiring a doctoral degree.

1. Mission Statement: To support the Mission of the School of Arts and Humanities by offering an interdisciplinary doctoral program that prepares students to produce publishable research and/or creative work that transcends traditional academic disciplinary boundaries; to prepare students not only to gain advanced expertise in a specific areas (literary studies, history of ideas, aesthetic studies) but also to conduct research that creates connections across disciplines; to prepare students for teaching careers at the college/university level.

2.1 Inter-disciplinary Perspective:: Students will be able to describe and analyze the major concepts and goals of research that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines

2.2 Focused Expertise : Graduates will be able to design and demonstrate advanced knowledge of a focused area (theme, genre, historical period) of Literary Studies

2.3 Research CapabilitY: Students will be able to produce cogently written interdisciplinary research, focused on a literary topic, that reflects the use of evidence to support interpretation.

2.4 Advanced Research Dissemination: Some graduates will be able to conduct publishable interdisciplinary research and/or works of artistic expression.

2.5 Professional Advancement: Some graduates will successfully obtain faculty appointments in higher education (universities, colleges, community colleges) or other appointments in related fields requiring a doctoral degree.