HUM 110 Pacific Rim Humanities (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
A study of historical and contemporary interactions among Pacific Rim peoples (with an emphasis on Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, and East Asian) and their respective artistic and cultural productions.
Course Content
A. Colonial, imperial, and indigenous histories
B. Pacific Rim biogeographies
C. Artistic and cultural production and context
D. Political and social justice movements
E. Pacific Rim diasporas
Student Outcomes
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Compare ethnic formations among Pacific Rim peoples in order to understand the evolution and effects of colonization and imperialism.
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Analyze how biogeography and biopolitics inform Pacific Rim artistic and cultural production.
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Analyze how works of art and cultural expressions are shaped by their historical, social, and economic contexts.
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Distinguish images, themes, and ideas found in texts and cultural artifacts in order to examine how they are shaped by–and help shape–the cultures from which they originate.
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Identify how Pacific Rim artistic and cultural productions interact with political and social justice movements.
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Analyze racial and ethnic identity formations among Pacific Rim peoples in diasporic contexts.
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Reflect on how individuals’ positional identities in learning spaces shape an understanding of the field of study.
Degree Outcomes
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.
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.
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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