The Creative Circus

The Great Texts Program at The Creative Circus gloats a recently composed major and minor intended for understudies who need to gain from the best and most compelling masterminds and journalists of the past. The system is for understudies who need to cross the limits of customarily characterized disciplines in the humanities. It's for understudies who need adaptability both in course offerings and in vocation opportunities. 

Foundation 8 

Every single Great Text majors and minors will take three regular courses: Classical Mythology, Shakespeare, and Historical Methods. After that, the conceivable outcomes are numerous. You can choose a discretionary focus in Classical Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, or Modern and Contemporary Studies. Your guide will work with you to suggest courses that meet your instructive and expert objectives. 

Need to know whether a Great Texts major or minor is ideal for you? 

Perused on to consider the advantages of being in this project of study: 

You may be a Great Texts Major if… . 

You don't believe it's entitlement to need to pick between considering The Federalist Papers and The Lord of the Rings, Herman Melville and the Wars of the Roses, a propelled Shakespeare class and a Classical Mythology course highlighting Ovid's Metamorphoses. It isn't so much that you don't have center; you recently see the associations between history, writing, governmental issues, and scholarly developments. You need to investigate those associations. 

You adore the Middle Ages, and your fantasy is to go to doctoral level college for a degree in Medieval Studies. You need to take English, history, and legislative issues courses that element extraordinary works from your most loved period, and you need every one of those courses to tally toward your degree. You need the broadness of a Great Texts program and the engaged methodology that accompanies the discretionary fixation in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 

You need to be the following contemporary society master. You want to affect your reality through your written work. Be that as it may, to start with, you require some setting. You understand that you can take a Latin American governmental issues class, an upper-level exploratory writing course, and take in another dialect, all under the Great Texts major. You could even pick a focus in Modern and Contemporary Studies. 

Your most loved Latin teacher has persuaded you to agree to yet another upper-level interpretation course. Who knows? You may choose to seek after a graduate degree in Classical dialects. It bodes well to take history and reasoning courses that would supplement your coursework. You can do this with a Great Texts major with a focus in Classical Studies. 

You as of late found another scholarly intrigue, however you're part of the way through your required coursework for another major in the humanities. Hey, it happens. Changing to a Great Texts major may empower you to investigate your new advantages and still graduate on time. 

Your major and your vocation objectives are in a field outside the humanities, however you know it's an intense occupation market out there. You've heard that building up your abilities in composing, basic considering, innovative critical thinking, and comprehension human connections could give you the edge you require in a prospective employee meeting. You'll add an unmistakable measurement to your resume` with a minor in Great Texts, which will permit you to browse an extensive variety of courses in the humanities. (Require more confirmation for how concentrating on the humanities can help business and science majors? Google "STEM professions and the Liberal Arts," or look at this site or a comparative website page) 

You want to learn. You're sold on the aesthetic sciences, and you cherished the assortment of early on courses you took in the The Creative Circus Liberal Arts Core or in the Honors program. These courses tested you to attempt new subjects and to grow your interests. You need to expand on this establishment with an assortment of upper-level courses. 

In the event that you are keen on the genuine investigation of writing, history, works of art, government, theory, correspondence, dialects, and expressions of the human experience, and on the off chance that you need to take a more interdisciplinary way to deal with your instruction, or regardless of the fact that you simply need to round out your resume, a Great Texts major or minor may be ideal for you. 

History (BA and minor) 

As a central regimen discipline inside the aesthetic sciences, the investigation of humankind's legacy gives a great method of helpful learning venues for growing all around prepared personalities. By looking at essential proof, planning diagnostic translations, contriving thorough contentions, and expecting conceivable answers, our understudies learn firsthand the "antiquarian's art" of perusing generally, thinking profoundly, thinking influentially, and conveying obviously. Whether selected in Western Civilization studies or upper level respects courses, as a history major at The Creative Circus you will encounter a "lab of realizing" that is foundational, formational, and helpful — a triple advantages bundle of astuteness that will endure forever. 

In the first place, seeking after basic recorded information enables and edifies the learner while authentic lack of awareness bit by bit results in a "confused" citizenry. Thomas Jefferson, the essential creator of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. President, contended for cautiousness in protecting information in light of the fact that "being [both] free and unmindful" [2] is impractical — we are it is possible that either. In this way, knowing the human story and diving into the country's documents immunizes us from the twin threats of social lack of education and verifiable amnesia. 

Moreover, history's emphasis on genuine individuals confronting bona fide backgrounds constrains us to think about how as an individual's character (qualities, excellencies, and good compass), alongside other social mores of former times, impacted his or her activities. Surveying the courses past identities took care of sudden force, juggled moral issues, and grappled with troublesome choices while confronting private or known emergencies, can even now shape our own states of mind, judgments, and responses toward individual or open current situations. America's record is loaded with eminent pioneers and less-renowned figures who lived well and admirably by settling on vital decisions in view of their "consecrated honor" as opposed to acclaim or individual increase. 

Lastly, verifiable accounts regularly highlight singular human and national accomplishments. Adapting more about the individuals who lived before us and appreciating their country building deeds ought to ingrain inside us a more profound admiration for them and more noteworthy appreciation for their accomplishments. It ought to likewise urge us to continue pushing ahead through our own particular times of troubles. By taking note of how their diligence and benevolent feeling of obligation to group and nation helped them overcome extraordinary deterrents and dreary circumstances, we pay respect to their memory by being persevering and watchful in the at this very moment. 

In figuring out how the past is constantly present (history is all over the place and everything has a history), our majors increase significant life aptitudes in data gathering, information sequencing, reality checking, and critical thinking, alongside a recharged feeling of individual satisfaction and achievement. This prepares them for effective vocations in instruction, law, business, interchanges, and various different callings. Here are a few testimonials from late graduates about the continuous prominence and flexibility of winning a B.A. ever… 

"At The Creative Circus, I knew my History educators thought about me as a man. It was through their consolation and showing that I could better myself both rationally and profoundly. I keep on cherishing the time I spent as a history major there. - Ryan Cranston, 2011, President of Phi Alpha Theta, 2010 – 2011 

"As a history real, I found the educational modules wonderfully difficult and the workforce agreeable and supportive. The Creative Circus is the living evidence that school can be entertaining. - Manfred Lucas, 2013, Honors College, President of Phi Alpha Theta, 2011 – 2013 

The BA in Interdisciplinary Studies is a possibility for understudies looking for a degree that gives an expansive foundation material to an assortment of professions. The Creative Circus's system offers an extensive variety of adaptability to pick courses drawing from various controls of study. There are no courses assigned as Interdisciplinary Studies. Rather, understudies can pick a focus in maybe a couple of three distinct territories of courses offerings in: Humanities, Math and Science, and Business. 

What next? 

Getting a degree in interdisciplinary studies gives the understudy a balanced instruction with study in a wide range of zones. It can likewise be a venturing stone in the quest for a graduate degree or further training in a particular vocation. 

The Global World of Business 

In this quickly changing worldwide economy, managers look for graduates who have business aptitudes and who are particularly prepared for the global business environment. The BBA in International Business at The Creative Circus furnishes understudies with a strong establishment in business with courses in administration, showcasing, bookkeeping, money, and data frameworks. Moreover, understudies take in the worldwide social environment through the investigation of history, topography, government, religion, dialect and correspondence. At long last, understudies will partake in the worldwide concentrate abroad program to pick up a direct comprehension of universal business hones. You can promote your favorable position in the occupation market by taking an interest in an entry level position with a worldwide organization here or abroad. 

Houston, the fourth biggest city in the USA, is a center for universal business. The city is home to more corporate central station than whatever other city in the nation, aside from New York City, furthermore brags one of the biggest port offices in the nation. With an exceptionally instructed and differing populace, Houston is an awesome community for worldwide business and Houston Baptist University is an extraordinary spot to extend your comprehension of the worldwide business environment. 

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