The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Peabody's Humanities requirement as a whole is designed to enhance your capacity and skills in these areas:  

 

• Reasoning - the ability to think logically and reflectively and to analyze critically and constructively.
  
   
• Communication - the ability to express your thoughts and feelings coherently and persuasively through written and oral communication and to work effectively in collaboration with others.
  
   
• Historical Consciousness - the ability to understand achievements, problems, and challenges of the present with perspectives gained from a study of the past. 
  
   
• Global and Multi-Cultural Awareness - the ability to understand and appreciate a variety of social and cultural perspectives. 
  
   
• Aesthetic Judgment - the ability to understand and appreciate creative responses to the world and to develop your own mode of creative expression.
  
   
• Valuing and Decision-Making - the ability to understand and appreciate differing moral viewpoints, to make carefully considered, well-reasoned decisions, and to make a mature assessment of your own abilities, beliefs and values. 
  
   
• Tolerance of Ambiguity - the ability to appreciate the complexity of important issues, to respect a diversity of opinions and perspectives, and to defer judgment while recognizing the inconsistencies and conflict in your own viewpoints. 
  
   
• Research and Information Gathering - the ability to use available research technology (including old-fashioned technological resources such as books and library catalogs) to find information and data, to organize what you find, and to discern its utility and value.