Early Global Cultures
[3 Credit Hours]
Spring, 2023
HUMA.1301.9001
Jan. 17–May 14 (16 weeks)
Meeting Place and Time: Online/D2L
Access the online/D2L course at https://d2l.lonestar.edu/d2l/loginh/.
Course Description: This stand-alone course is an interdisciplinary study interpreting human experience through introductions to the visual and performance arts, literature, history, philosophy, and comparative religions. The focus is on acquiring practical experience in inquiry, recognition, and assessment.
Enrollment Requisites: College Level Readiness in Reading AND Writing
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities;
- Articulate how these works express the values of the individual and society within a historical and social context;
- Articulate an informed personal response and critically analyze works in the arts and humanities;
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the influence of literature, philosophy, and the arts on cultural experiences;
- Demonstrate an awareness of the creative process and why humans create.
Books
We will use the following texts:
Reframing Art History
Global perspectives through an open-access multimedia “textbook” for the 21st century
Reframing Art History, an open-access multimedia art history “textbook,” gives you a guided journey through the living, breathing, meaningful side of art history. We’re less concerned with names and dates than with meaning and movement. With chapters developed by a group of more than 40 experts, it showcases art and history from the bottom up.
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A Short History of Myth
by Karen Armstrong
ISBN-13: 978-1782118909
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An Edible History of Humanity
by Tom Standage
ISBN-13: 978-0802719911
In addition, I’ll regularly post excerpts or whole chapters of other books as well as journal and web articles, all of which will be available electronically and for free. One of these will include the following:
Introduction to Philosophy (OpenStax)
Edited by Nathan Smith, et al.
(Available FREE, ONLINE in multiple formats: browser, PDF, EPUB)
ISBN-13: 978-1951693596
Films
You will also be assigned several films to watch, in part or in whole.