HUM 107 Latin American Thought and Cultures (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly HUMAN 107
Course Description
This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Latin American humanities, its diverse elements, principles, themes, and influences.
Course Content
A. Regional geography, ethnicity, languages and other markers of identity
B. Latin American politics and economics (e.g., colonization, Latifundia system, U.S. imperialism, history, modernity, progressive social movements, agrarian reform movements, Capitalism, Socialism) as it relates to the humanities
C. Humanistic responses to Latin American socio-political (e.g. agricultural revolutions, environmentalism, ancestral land movements
D. Latin American religious movements (e.g. indigenous religions, Catholicism, Liberation Theology, African Religions, Evangelicalism) as pertains to artists and their works.
D. Relevant concepts and themes within the Latin American humanities and its disciplines (e.g. visual arts, performing arts, aural arts, literature, philosophy, religion critical theory, cultural studies, history)
E. Latin American artistic works and expressions as community, circumstance, process, and commodity
F. Research relevant to the study of Latin American humanities
Student Outcomes
1. Examine Latin America’s regional geography, ethnicities, languages, and other markers of identity in order to understand the region’s diversity.
2. Analyze the impacts of Latin American politics, economics, socio-political movements, and religious movements on artists and their work.
3. Examine relevant concepts and themes within Latin American studies as influences on diverse artists and their works.
4. Explain how the Latin American humanities reflect and shape humanity and the values of societies and cultures.
5. Synthesize historical contexts and cross-cultural conversations between artists, communities, and/or their audiences.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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