HUMN 101 Introduction to the Humanities
This course is an introduction to the humanities as an academic discipline which studies the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences. This course helps students see context and make connections across the humanities by tying together the entire cultural experience through a narrative storytelling approach.
Hours Weekly
3 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- Engage in a humanities-based exploration of various worldviews.
- Describe history, cultures, values, and aesthetics of self and others from a humanistic
approach. - Identify and explain multiple perspectives when exploring subjects within and across
cultures, considering the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical,
or speculative. - Analyze global events and issues and their interconnectedness from economic, political,
environmental, aesthetic, or social perspectives through a narrative storytelling approach. - Identify and applying critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary
issues of aesthetics, creativity, humanism, meaning, and/or invention through the
humanities. - Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into analysis and problem-solving methods
using narrative storytelling. - Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative and humanistic expression
with social and cultural contexts of the human condition. - Assess, reflect on, and critically analyze the role of creative and aesthetic activities and
products of humanistic expression, in illuminating the human condition and search for
meaning through the humanities. - Summarize philosophical theories of the humanities as they have developed through history.
- Identify ethical issues arising from cross-cultural study.
- Write clearly and critically about the humanities.
Course Objectives
- Engage in a humanities-based exploration of various worldviews.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Describe history, cultures, values, and aesthetics of self and others from a humanistic
approach.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Identify and explain multiple perspectives when exploring subjects within and across
cultures, considering the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical,
or speculative.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Analyze global events and issues and their interconnectedness from economic, political,
environmental, aesthetic, or social perspectives through a narrative storytelling approach.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Exams
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Identify and applying critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary
issues of aesthetics, creativity, humanism, meaning, and/or invention through the
humanities.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
- Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into analysis and problem-solving methods
using narrative storytelling.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
- Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative and humanistic expression
with social and cultural contexts of the human condition.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
- Assess, reflect on, and critically analyze the role of creative and aesthetic activities and
products of humanistic expression, in illuminating the human condition and search for
meaning through the humanities.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Final exam
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
- Summarize philosophical theories of the humanities as they have developed through history.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- Identify ethical issues arising from cross-cultural study.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- Write clearly and critically about the humanities.
This objective is a course Goal Only