In this interdisciplinary course, students explore universal questions about the human condition. Students examine creative expression and process, cultural works, and human experience while learning the aesthetics and technical aspects of the humanities within historical and cultural contexts. Students develop critical and creative thinking skills and explore the ways humanities disciplines provide a strong foundation for their degree emphasis.
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This course explores issues relating to women including but not limited to women's history, women's work and the socialization of women. Additionally, this course examines some of the differences between women and men, with the hope that through descriptive study, female and male students become empowered in new ways. In part, this goal encourages an in-depth look at the social structures and dominant dialogues that have posed limits upon both women and men while encouraging the search for removing such limits.
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This course introduces students to the practice of analyzing American popular culture in its various forms, from films, advertisements, and music to the habits and practices that characterize everyday life in the United States. Students learn to "read" popular culture using a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives and theories, in particular, those that emphasize how class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and race are represented in cultural texts. Students discuss how these representations shape cultural beliefs and attitudes.
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HUM 201 — Humanities, Past, Present, and Future — 5.0
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An interdisciplinary class introducing students to the human quest for the meaning of life. Students will analyze literature, philosophy, music, history, and the visual arts of the past and present and then create future scenarios for themselves and societies. In addition to lecture presentations, students have assigned reading, elective reading and writing assignments weekly. Each student will also have a special humanities project.
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A team-taught interdisciplinary class. Specific content and focus vary from quarter to quarter according to designation and credits filed in advanced of each scheduling. Students participate in a variety of learning experiences such as lectures, seminars, panel discussions, etc., all of which explore selected issues from the following areas: philosophy, music, art history, film, drama, literature or the history of ideas.
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