HUM 105 Black American Thought and Cultures (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly HUMAN 105
Course Description
HUM 105 offers an introductory, multi-genre approach to the humanities from the perspectives of Black American artists, theorists, and influences.
Course Content
A. Lenses of humanistic inquiry (i.e. examination of imaginative human expressions such as theory, art, literature, etc. to understand more deeply others’ and one’s own condition in the world)
B. African traditions, The Black Diaspora, the legacy of slavery, and Civil Rights
C. Black artists and theorists across multiple genres of the humanities
D. Movements in African American history and their impact on art (e.g. The Harlem Renaissance, The Black Arts Movement, The Civil Rights Movements, Black Feminism, Black Lives Matter)
E. The role of collectivity, resistance, and reform in Black thought and cultures
F. Positionality, intersectionality, and cross-cultural influences
G. Impact of Black artists and their works in a global context.
H. Appropriation vs. Appreciation
I. Cultural expression in multiple genres and cross-genre form
Student Outcomes
1. Apply lenses of humanistic inquiry to cultural artifacts and cultural production.
2. Reflect on how identities and positionalities impact Black artists and their cultural works.
3. Analyze the aesthetics, purposes, and experiences that inform the creation of Black forms of expression.
4. Analyze the relationship between contemporary Black art and activism.
5. Describe African American humanistic responses to systemic racism and tactics of oppression.
6. Examine the impacts and influences of Black intellectuals and creatives on global culture.
7. Evaluate one’s own relationship to Black thought and culture.
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,
individual, multimedia 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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