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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course introduces a wide range of topics related to indigenous peoples and cultures in the Americas. Students will explore representations and misrepresentations of indigenous identities in visual and performance art, story-telling, and mass media. The class will examine how the identities, cultures, and lives of indigenous peoples have been influenced by colonization, legal issues, and environmental challenges.
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3.00 Credits
This course serves as an introduction to the various cultures of Chinese-speaking people around the world. The study of geography, history, literature, and arts will foster interest in the traditional, religious and social values of other cultures. Students will explore the responsibility world citizens share for our common global future by examining interconnections with Chinese-speaking peoples.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to film as an art form. This course presents the study of film as a medium for portraying ideas, myths, human concerns, and aesthetic principles. Included in the course are an examination of film techniques, film theories, and artistic styles of film such as formalism, surrealism, expressionism, and neorealism.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a study of film as an art form and as a means of cultural communication from an international point of view. The course is designed to cultivate an ability to think about film in a critical way, as well as to broaden understanding of film and cultures in a global context. Each semester a variety of national cinematic traditions are examined, including film works from Russia, Eastern Europe, Germany, France, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin and South America.
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3.00 Credits
Film is not only for entertainment, it is also an art form, a technology, an industry, and a medium of communication and expression. This course presents a survey of the history of film in the United States, and is intended to improve visual literacy so that students will understand and think about film in an intelligent and critical way. The entire history of American films is studied, from the early moving-picture inventions up to the digital revolution. Included in this course are representative examples of major American filmmakers, film genres, film theories, film techniques, and the historical and cultural events that were related to production, exhibition, styles, and the content of films in the United States from 1895 to the present.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys broad elements of humanities that comprise the culture of African Americans from slavery to present day. Its aim is to show how elements such as literature, science, politics, history, religion, music, theater, language, art, television, and motion pictures have contributed to the formation and some current appreciations and interpretations of African American culture. These elements are studied in the context of how white culture, though the institution of slavery, sharply influenced these elements, and therefore, African American culture itself. The course also focuses on how African American, European American, and other non-African Americans respond to overall characteristics of African American culture, and how African American culture has influenced the dominant American culture.
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3.00 Credits
This class explores how the world has changed Hip-Hop and more importantly how Hip-Hop has changed the world. It investigates the ways Hip-Hop has been used historically to define identities, industries, and cultures by looking at its impact on society. This course uses Hip-Hop as a lens to examine global identities, historical movements, and other aspects of the humanities. Prerequisite(s): Course placement into ENGL 0950 and RDNG 0950 or above OR completion of RDNG 0940 with a grade of C or higher OR course placement into ESOL 0051 and ESOL 0052 and ESOL 1033 OR completion of ESOL 0041 with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0042 with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0043 with a grade of C or higher.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course offers students an opportunity for a further in-depth exploration of (an) aspect(s) of culture. This may include art, literature, film, music, theater, philosophy, etc. This course requires completion of a HUM course with a grade of B or above. Prerequisite(s): Instructor and dean consent.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the history of women's involvement in the creative fields of visual art, design, architecture, film, dance, theater and music. It focuses on Western Civilization and covers artistic issues for women from the Classical Greek to contemporary times both chronologically and thematically. Creative works by women will be examined within social and historical contexts. Significant creative works representing women will be evaluated from a feminist perspective. The course explores the cultural assumptions about gender that have influenced artistic choice and interpretation. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021 with a grade of C or higher.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Topics of special interest which may vary. Prerequisite(s): Instructor and dean consent.
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