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Landmarks of Humanities – Assignment | HUM 1010, Assignments of Humanities

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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HUMANITIES 1010 OBJECTIVES AND ASSIGNMENTS
Fall 2006
INSTRUCTOR: Terre Burton OFFICE: McDonald Center 225
PHONE: 652-7812 (W) - 674-2972 (H) OFFICE HOURS: M-Th 10:15-11:00
E-MAIL: burton@dixie.edu W 4-5
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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:
1. Codes and Value Systems: What kinds of laws do we need? What kinds of
behavior are acceptable?
2. Family Life and Growing Up
3. Love and Marriage: Is it okay to love? Who should we marry? Why should we
marry?
4. The Hero: How does he exemplify a society’s values?
5. Woman’s Nature: Is she human? Good? Evil? Equal?
6. The Good Society: What is the good life?
7. Religion: Who or what is God or the gods?
8. Illusion and Reality: Is what we see real? Are there different ways of seeing?
9. Nature: How is the physical world represented?
10. War and Violence
11. Art and the Artist: Why do people create? What is beautiful
12. Freedom: What is it? Is it worth fighting for?
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HUMANITIES 1010 OBJECTIVES AND ASSIGNMENTS

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:

  1. Codes and Value Systems: What kinds of laws do we need? What kinds of behavior are acceptable?
  2. Family Life and Growing Up
  3. Love and Marriage: Is it okay to love? Who should we marry? Why should we marry?
  4. The Hero: How does he exemplify a society’s values?
  5. Woman’s Nature: Is she human? Good? Evil? Equal?
  6. The Good Society: What is the good life?
  7. Religion: Who or what is God or the gods?
  8. Illusion and Reality: Is what we see real? Are there different ways of seeing?
  9. Nature: How is the physical world represented?
  10. War and Violence
  11. Art and the Artist: Why do people create? What is beautiful
  12. Freedom: What is it? Is it worth fighting for?

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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.

PLAGIARISM

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

You should actively participate in class, whether we are having

discussions in small or large groups, viewing videos about the humanities, or

listening to lectures or class presentations. It is important that you come to

class on time and that you remain for the entire class. Quizzes will often be

given at the beginning of the hour, but sometimes later. Quizzes worth more

than 10 points may be made up for 90% credit, if you arrange to do so before

I return graded ones. Response journals are due at the beginning of class.

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.