LAS/UNV Courses at the APGS Campuses

LAS 20010 College Seminar I: Exploring the Liberal Arts

The first of two foundational LAS courses introduces the breadth areas of the liberal arts and examines the importance and meaning of a liberal arts education that integrates learning across the disciplines. The course engages students in adult learning methods and emphasizes skills of critical self-reflection for learning, reading for comprehension and deeper understanding, effective class participation, and thinking and writing at the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

LAS 20020 College Seminar II: Developing Learning Tools

This second of two foundational LAS courses examines Ottawa’s liberal arts breadth areas in greater depth. Students acquire skills for learning in particular disciplines, including developing research questions and methods in different breadth areas. Students learn to integrate and synthesize information as they read scholarly articles and develop a properly cited research paper.

LAS 30012 Writing and Critical Thinking in the Liberal Arts

Engages students in exploring and understanding different ways of knowing through activities, readings, and discussion in four breadth areas. Students strengthen skills in reflective and critical thinking, written and oral communication, problem-solving, information literacy, and research writing as they explore knowledge and values in the interdisciplinary context of the liberal arts. Students apply new and experiential knowledge in everyday life as they learn to examine multiple points of view and evaluate sources.

LAS 45012 Global Issues in the Liberal Arts

In this liberal arts capstone course, students reflect on experience, knowledge, and skills in each of four breadth areas and apply that learning as they examine current issues and concerns in global contexts.  Students use critical thinking skills to recognize different values systems, cultural interpretations, and social constructs. They demonstrate research and writing skills in exploring a global issue.

UNV 30001 Academic Success & Personal Significance

This course will provide information for a successful academic experience.  Topics will include an exploration of stewardship, the mission and history of the University and student support services, student responsibilities and the growth mindset.  Students will examine their resources, skills and attributes with a goal of increased self-awareness culminating with the creation of a personal definition of success and significance.  This course runs concurrently with the student's first course at Ottawa University and is facilitated by the student's academic advisor.