HUM 330 Humanities of Spatial Design (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Prerequisite Admission into BAS Business Applied Management or Construction Management or instructor permission.
Course Description
HUM 330 focuses on the interpretation, analysis, and evaluation of human spatial design and uses for their impacts on individuals, communities, and environments.
Course Content
A. Spatial Theory B. Race and space (e.g., segregation, American Apartheid) C. Local and global impact of development D. Public art E. Environmental impacts and sustainability (e.g., natural disasters, disaster capitalism, climate change) F. Codes and laws (e.g., redlining, gerrymandering, anti-homeless architecture, eminent domain, gentrification) G. Architectural and urban design choices H. Art as tools for social change (e.g., resistance, preservation, historical memory, activism, and communication) I. “Natural spaces” (e.g., green spaces, feral spaces, commons, parks, nature reserves, etc.)
Student Outcomes
1. Analyze local and global developments for their human and environmental impacts.
2. Investigate local, indigenous, and activist histories of space.
3. Evaluate the impact of private and public design on expressions of identity, positionality, and agency.
4. Critique public art, architecture, and urban design as tools for social change.
5. Evaluate the relationships among human developments, climate change, and sustainability.
6. Analyze how human experience of space is regulated by codes and laws.
7. Apply concepts of spatial theory to ameliorate a local problem in an extended research project.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of 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.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
1. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses, interviews 2. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions 3. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary 4. Group discussions and classroom activities 5. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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