General Skills Required for this Course

• Critical-thinking skills & Universal Intellectual Standards
• Elements of Reasoning
• Instructions for Comparison/Contrast Essays
• How to Read in College
• Tune up your Academic Reading skills
• How to Read a Primary Source
• How to Read a Poem
• How to Read Art
• How is College Different from High School?
• Computer Skills Help Sheet
• Grades in this Course

• How to answer an essay question
• How to write a paragraph
• How to organize paragraphs in a paper

Other Useful Material

• Dr. Paul Allen's Webpage (Dr. Allen is the Lead Instructor and Concurrent Enrollment Liason for this course)
• Email Dr. Allen

• Pieter Brueghel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (useful for the Reading and Interpretation exercise in your book)

• Suggested Reading List
• Why Study the Humanities?
• Are the Arts Dangerous?
• Free PowerPoint Viewer (for PowerPoint slide shows)
• Historical Timeline (to aid in understanding historical context)
• American History Outline - US Information Office