HUM 1025 - Introduction to Global Humanities

Credits: 4
Hours/Week: Lecture 4
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to the humanities through a global lens by thematically exploring relationships, interactions, and connections between human expressions and human cultures throughout time and geographies, with a particular emphasis on non-western cultures. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the class engages in an analysis of what it means to be human, and the projects humans enact when representing our stories and values by drawing on a myriad of analytical and creative texts, such as in visual art, sculpture, performance, music, dance, philosophy, religion, mythology, film, theater, literature, poetry, fashion, architecture, histories, anthropology, law, religion, popular culture, digital texts, and more. Topics include: humanhood, origin stories, death, immortality, ethics, love, justice, identity, power, and community-building.

Note: Attendance at a museum, art gallery, play and/or concert will be required.
MnTC Goals
Goals 6 & 8

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950 with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940 with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950 with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090 with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051 with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052 with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content
1: The Humanities and Humanhood

2. Human Origin Stories: Creation Myths

3. Power and Immortality in Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia & Egypt

4. The Philosophies of Religions and the Religions of Philosophies

5. The Melodrama of Love and Lyrics

6. The Art of Justice, Protest, and Revolution

7. National Cinemas/National Identites: Nollywood & Bollywood

8. Museums: Preservation & Theft
Learning Outcomes

describe essential terminology from a variety of humanities areas.
compare and contrast perspectives, ideas, themes, and content of creative and intellectual work in the humanities.
evaluate structural elements in a variety of humanities areas.
analyze artistic value and intellectual content of various creative works.
differentiate between representative works in the humanities from cultures throughout the world, (Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, and western examples as points of contrast), by comparing forms, media, styles, and philosophies.
analyze relationships between representative works in the humanities and their creators, eras, and cultures.
analyze cultural, social, religious, and linguistic differences in humanistic themes and traditions from around the world
analyze relationships between political power and human expression throughout time and geographies
evaluate performances and art works in personal, cultural, and global contexts
assess the role that the humanities play in global struggles of justice, protest, and revolution
describe their role as global citizens in preserving, valuing, and remembering objects, expressions, and histories in the humanities

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Goals 6, 8
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
06. 01. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.

06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
08. 01. Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.

08. 02. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.

08. 04. Understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future.

Practicum hours per week: 0

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