HUM 109 - World Arts and Culture

Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
Provides a study of literature, poetry, visual art, film, theatre, music and history in cultures around the world by comparing differences and similarities across cultures. Completion of ENGL 097 recommended.
Course Outcomes:

Explain the influence art has on various cultures, especially their own.
Analyze the way that cultures are created and maintained, often by exclusion of marginalized groups, through societal constructions of such factors as gender, family, race, social class, and ideological identities.
Evaluate art according to its function, means of production, and cultural and social significance.
Interpret a variety of art through the perspectives of history, politics, philosophy, aesthetics, religion, anthropology, sociology, and literature.

Course Topics:

Social Construction
Semiotics
19th and 20th Century Photography
20th Century Feminism
Gender Construction
Cultural Appropriation
Art and Fashion of Subcultures
Painting, Sculpture and New Media
Film, Drama and Theatre
Music, Poetry and Literature

Course Attribute(s): Diversity, Humanities