HUM& 101 Introduction to Humanities (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly HUMAN 201 - CCN
Course Description
This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the humanities, its diverse elements, principles, themes, and influences.
Course Content
A. Terms and elements within the humanities within its attendant disciplines (e.g. visual arts, performing arts, aural arts, literature, philosophy, religion, history)
B. History of the humanities, its complexities, and conversations/debates, including what the Western humanities includes and excludes
C. The interdisciplinarity of the humanities.
D. Major concepts and themes within the humanities related to the study of diverse, representative artists and works
E. Historical, social, political, and cultural influences on artists and their work.
F. Globally and systemically non-dominant cultural studies
G. Art as community, circumstance, process, and commodity
H. Research relevant to the study of the humanities
Student Outcomes
1. Examine various terms and elements within humanities studies, including those used and transgressed in its genres and disciplines.
2. Discuss how the humanities reflect and shape humanity and the values of societies and cultures.
3. Analyze historical contexts and cross-cultural conversations between artists and/or their audiences.
4. Analyze major concepts, themes, intertextual references utilized by artists and evidenced in their style and works.
5. Examine the various styles of humanities as it pertains to historical periods, cultures, themes, and social movements.
6. Employ a decolonizing framework to explore works in the humanities both within and outside one’s own context (history, religion, philosophy, etc.).
7. Evaluate and synthesize diverse sources to provide historical, sociopolitical, and cultural contexts for artists and their works.
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, and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
B. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions
C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary
D. Group discussions and classroom activities
E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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