HUM 110 Pacific Rim Humanities (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
Humanistic inquiry of historical and contemporary interactions among people of Oceania and Asia (with an emphasis on Pacific Islander, Southeast Asian, and East Asian peoples), and their respective artistic and cultural productions.
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. Colonial, imperial, and indigenous histories of Oceania, East and Southeast Asia regions
C. Artistic and cultural expressions in Oceania and Asia
D. Artistic and cultural production in Oceania and Asia
E. Evolution and effects of colonization and imperialism
F. (Post)colonial geographies
G. Political and social justice movements in Oceania and Asia
H. Diasporas of people from Oceania and Asia
I. Contexts of artistic and cultural expression (e.g. historical, social, economic, ethnic contexts)
Student Outcomes
1. Apply lenses of humanistic inquiry to cultural artifacts and cultural production.
2. Reflect on how humanistic inquiry is conceptualized by theorists and artists of Oceania and Asia.
3. Examine how geography and regional interactions inform artistic and cultural production in Oceania and Asia.
4. Examine artistic and cultural productions among people with heritage from Oceania and Asia in diasporic contexts.
5. Analyze how works of art and cultural expressions are shaped by their contexts.
6. Distinguish images, themes, and ideas found in texts and cultural artifacts in order to examine how they interact with the cultures from which they originate.
7. Identify how artistic and cultural productions in Oceania and Asia interact with political and social justice movements.
8. Evaluate one’s own relationship to humanities of Oceania and Asia.
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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