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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Lecture This course continues the study of the issues and trends introduced in HU 1211, beginning with the period of Reconstruction at the end of the Civil War. Using textbook readings, primary sources and scholarly articles as well as lectures, this course teaches students how to synthesize a variety of materials.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture This course focuses on visual art and architecture as it reflects the development of Western civilization and some non-Western cultures, from prehistory to the European Middle Ages. Students learn visual vocabulary and explore ways in which cultural perspectives are reflected in art forms. Social, political, economic and philosophical structures are studied to provide a context for the art.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture This course focuses on visual art and architecture as it reflects the development of Western civilization and some non-Western cultures, from the time of the Renaissance to the present. As in HU1431, students learn visual vocabulary and explore ways in which cultural perspectives are reflected in art forms. Social, political, economic and philosophical structures are studied to provide a context for the art.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture HU1011, HU1211, HU1212, HU1431, HU1432, HU Core Trans, HU1012, EN1021, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 This course introduces students to questions relating to human nature, good and evil and ways of knowing. These topics are discussed within the framework of five world views: Christian theism, deism, naturalism, nihilism and existentialism. Fiction, non-fiction and poetry are studied as vehicles to understanding the various perspectives, and students are encouraged to begin formulating their own world views.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture FY1011, FY1001, EN1021, EN1015, HU1011, HU1012, HU1211, HU1212, HU1431, HU1432, HU Core Trans Beginning at the end of the 19th century, there was profound shift in European and American culture. The name "Modernism" has been applied to the "new" thought and art of the next half-century, which reflected recent developments in fields as diverse as industrialism, psychology and physics. This course considers both the historical circumstances that created this "modern" aesthetic, and also the impact the "modernists" continue to have on the way we see and think about the world.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture HU1011, HU1012, HU1211, HU1212, HU1431, HU1432, HU Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 Investigation of how women have been portrayed in the visual culture of Western civilization from the ancient world to the 20th century. A primary focus on art history utilizes historical imagery and readings by and about women.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001, HU1011, HU1012, HU1211, HU1212, HU1431, HU1432, HU Core Trans An overview of the central myths and legends that shaped the classical Greek and Roman imagination and provided the sources that artists from the classical age to the present have drawn upon to create their works. Through a variety of readings, films, art and theatrical works, students become conversant with the epic stories of the gods and heroes--their origins, variants, importance in Greek and Roman society, and continuing impact on Western civilization.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture HU1011, HU1012, HU1211, HU1212, HU1431, HU1432, HU Core Trans, EN1021, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 A course building on the foundation of HU1211/1212 to intensively investigate American culture. Students will use the interdisciplinary perspective of American Studies as developed over the past half century to probe more deeply into issues of race, gender, ethnicity and class, and the roles of cultural production and consumption in American life. This course also concentrates on advanced critical thinking skills such as analysis and synthesis to prepare students for upper-level undergraduate work in the humanities and related fields.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture FY1011, FY1001, EN1021, EN1015, HU1011, HU1012, HU1211, HU1212, HU1431, HU1432, HU Core Trans This course offers an introduction to key themes, issues and methods in African-American studies, concentrating on black voices and perspectives. Using an interdiscplinary approach, this course investigates the African-American experience through slave narratives, essays, fiction, poetry, film, music, vernacular literature, photography and other visual arts, autobiographies, websites and field trips to historical sites.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture HU1011, HU1012, HU1211, HU1212, HU1431, HU1432, HU Core Trans, EN1021, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 An introduction to the cultural history of American Romanticism as it developed in the decades before the Civil War. The course will probe sources in literature, art, religion, philosophy, and reform as we investigate movements including transcendentalism, abolitionism, women's rights, utopianism, and temperance. Readings will include works from Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and others.
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