The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates

Welcome to HUMA 101: Our Lives In Community

Olic is the first course students take at Tusculum. An examination of public and private roles of citizens in immediate communities: family, neighborhood, city, and Tusculum College, the course draws on insights from literature, religion, history, psychology, and other disciplines. Because CMNS 101 is the first course taken by all new freshmen at Tusculum College, it also functions to introduce students to the academic expectations of the institution.

1. Community.  The course examines the theme of individual responsibility to the community, and the community's responsibility to the individuals comprising it. The notion of interdependence is central to effective democratic functioning. 
2. A different type of education. OLIC explores the meaning of being part of a Civic Arts college. It will help to establish expectations with regard to close working relationships with college professors, and the quality and quantity of work expected at Tusculum College. Students will have practice in developing appropriate time management skills, and gain familiarity with college graduation requirements.
3. Skills. The course is structured to improve rhetorical and community skills, because these skills can enable improved civic performance, and because these skills are tools enabling greater success in continued college-level work. More specifically, the course emphasizes Analytical Reading. 
4. Service. Part of being a member of a community is working to improve that community. A collective service project is an integral part of the requirements for this course.