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Material Type: Assignment; Professor: Burton; Class: Intro to Humanities *HU; Subject: Humanities; University: Dixie State College of Utah; Term: Fall 2000;
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Fall 2006 INSTRUCTOR: Terre Burton OFFICE: McDonald Center 225 PHONE: 652-7812 (W) - 674-2972 (H) OFFICE HOURS: M-Th 10:15-11: E-MAIL: burton@dixie.edu W 4-
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Landmarks of Humanities, Gloria Fiero
GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course fills a requirement for graduation in the humanities area. It can also be taken as an elective or as a background course for majors in English, humanities, history, or philosophy. The course will cover significant ideas, art forms, philosophies, and scientific developments in Western culture. Through examining such ideas and events, we can see the traditional ways in which humans viewed their relationship with the past, with the future, with God, with nature, with other humans, and with themselves. This may prove to be one of the most challenging courses you have ever attempted. You will be exposed to a great number of ideas, writers, and artists–as well as their works and the civilizations they represent. They may be frightening at first, but when you have completed this all-too-brief excursion into the cultural history of western civilization, you will have a better idea of what a rich cultural legacy has been bequeathed to us. We will be looking at a number of genres, including painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, drama, music, dance, and film. And we will be considering a number of themes that seem common to various civilizations throughout history, including the following:
Students will study the enduring creative expressions of humans that reflect our experiences, as well as our feelings and ideas about ourselves, other humans, the past, and the universe.
Students will develop an understanding of the interrelatedness of human history, great ideas, and the arts.
Students will recognize that the study of humanities is a study of values, beginning with the special value of life and its concomitant value, beauty.
Students will develop and increased understanding of what moves humans to create.
By learning how others have asked “big questions” in creative ways and in seeing their answers, students will make progress in answering those same questions for themselves and in realizing the universality of the human condition.
You must do your own work. Dixie State College policy says that plagiarism will be rewarded with an F. If you want to use the words of others in your exams or response journals, simply give credit by introducing the author and parenthetically including the page number where the quotation or information in your quote or paraphrase was found. Students who plagiarize will receive a 0 on the assignment; this is true whether you copy from another student, give answers to another student, or pass off other writers’ words as your own. If a student plagiarizes a second time, the student will receive an F for the course. Obviously, it is not worth plagiarizing, even if you think “everyone else” is also cheating.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADES
If you are a student with a medical, psychological, or learning disability or think you might have a disability and would like accommodations, contact the Disability Resource Center (652-7516) in the Student Services Center Room 201. The Disability Resource Center will determine eligibility based on your professional documentation and determine the appropriate accommodations related to your disability.