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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
(1-3 units)(No prerequisite. Please see Directed Study category.) (CSU/UC w/limit)
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 120. Three lecture hours weekly.) This humanities sequence is designed to introduce students to Western culture. The course focuses on Greek and Roman culture: the epics, philosophy, and architecture of these periods. Students will study the themes and conflicts that the modern world has inherited. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area C-2, IGETC Area 3B
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 120. Three lecture hours weekly.) This humanities sequence is designed to introduce students to Western culture. This course begins in the late medieval period, focusing on the developing Renaissance and the impact on Europe's "rebirth" of Asian and Arabic ideas. The scientific revolutioof Shakespeare's England and the political revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries constitute the next third of the class. The last section includes Romanticism, the new paradigms of Freud, Marx, and Darwin, and concludes with the Age of Anxiety. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area C-2, IGETC Area 3B
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course surveys the full range of artistic expression from ancient times to the present, examining the relation between human creativity and the larger cultural setting. Through 15 hours of videotaped programs hosted by poet Maya Angelou, students can observe how various art forms--painting and music, sculpture and architecture, drama and film--all reflect humankind's continuing quest for dignity and meaning. This self-paced course offers the non art specialist an accessible introduction to the interplay of art forms evolving over the centuries. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, IGETC Area 3B
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Can be taken for credit as Humanities 108, Art 108 or Ethnic Studies 108. Credit will be awarded for only one course. Three lecture hours weekly.) A survey of the arts and architecture of the Americas--North, Central, Caribbean, and South America--focusing on a selection of works from the major pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, and modern cultures. Art of the United States will focus on works from the culturally diverse peoples of the Bay Area. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Areas C & G, CSU Area C-1, IGETC Area 3A
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Can be taken for credit as Humanities 109A or Communications 109A. Credit will be awarded for only one course. Four lecture hours weekly.) This course offers a chronological survey of narrative film as art, business, technology, and politics from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s to post World War II. Periods and movements covered will include the Silent Era, German Expressionism, Soviet Avant Garde and editing of the 1920s, French classicism, American Studio Period and sound, as well as the history of censorship in the United States. Classroom screenings of representative films. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area C-1, IGETC Area 3A
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Can be taken for credit as Humanities 109B or Communications 109B. Credit will be awarded for only one course. Four lecture hours weekly.) This course offers a chronological survey of narrative film as art, business, technology, and politics from 1950 to the present. Periods and movements covered will include the American Studio Period, 1950s Film Noir and subversive movements, Italian Neorealism, French Nouvelle Vague, National Cinemas of Sweden, England, Czech Golden Age, Poland, Hungary, Japan, India, China, Iran, The New German Film, Third World Cinemas; Australia, the Hollywood Renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s, Dogma 95, and independent film movements. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area C-1, IGETC Area 3A
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 120. Students may receive credit for Humanities 114 or 118, but not for both courses. Three hours weekly.) Thirteen one-hour cassettes in this series trace the journey of a lone traveling host on his global search for religious understanding. Along the way he witnesses the modern interpretation of new and ancient religions, studying each religion's history as well as its relationship to the host society. The 12 major religions are presented in a unique and imaginative documentary style. Class meetings with the instructor will augment the videocassette tapes with lecture and discussion. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area C-2, IGETC Area 3B
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 120. Students may receive credit for Humanities 118 or 114, but not for both courses. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course is an introduction to the major religious traditions of the world and the spiritual practices of preliterate or primal religions. The course will focus equally on East and West, principles and practice, history and psychology. Examples of the art, music and literature of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Chinese Religion, Judaism, Christianity and primal religions will be presented to enhance the experience and understanding of the religions. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area C-2, IGETC Area 3B
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