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.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Engage in a humanities-based exploration of various worldviews.
2. Describe history, cultures, values, and aesthetics of self and others from a humanistic
   approach.
3. 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.
4. Analyze global events and issues and their interconnectedness from economic, political,
   environmental, aesthetic, or social perspectives through a narrative storytelling approach.
5. Identify and applying critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary
   issues of aesthetics, creativity, humanism, meaning, and/or invention through the
   humanities.
6. Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into analysis and problem-solving methods
   using narrative storytelling.
7. Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative and humanistic expression
   with social and cultural contexts of the human condition.
8. 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.
9. Summarize philosophical theories of the humanities as they have developed through history.
   
10. Identify ethical issues arising from cross-cultural study.
11. Write clearly and critically about the humanities.

Course Objectives

1. Engage in a humanities-based exploration of various worldviews.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Global Competency Rubric

   Global Competency

   • GC1
2. Describe history, cultures, values, and aesthetics of self and others from a humanistic
   approach.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Global Competency Rubric

   Global Competency

   • GC2
3. 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

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Global Competency Rubric

   Global Competency

   • GC3
4. 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

   • Global Competency Rubric

   Global Competency

   • GC4
5. 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

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP1
6. Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into analysis and problem-solving methods
   using narrative storytelling.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP2
7. 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

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP3
8. 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

   Creative Process

   • CP4
9. Summarize philosophical theories of the humanities as they have developed through history.
   

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10. Identify ethical issues arising from cross-cultural study.

    This objective is a course Goal Only

11. Write clearly and critically about the humanities.

    This objective is a course Goal Only