Academic Catalog - Humanities

HUM 103 / HUM 1003 – Introduction to Film Art: AH2 3 Credits
Introduces film terminology and narrative techniques to explore how film conveys meaning and to study the relationships among film form, content, and audience reception. This course emphasizes active viewing, discussion, and critical analysis of films from different cultures and eras. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
(Contact hours – 45)

HUM 115 / HUM 1015 – World Mythology – GT-AH2 3 Credits
Introduces an interdisciplinary approach to world mythology. The course illustrates and connects common themes in mythology to world religion, philosophy, art, literature, music, and contemporary culture using various interpretive methods. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
(Contact hours – 45)

HUM 121 / HUM 1021 – Humanities: Early Civilizations – GT-AH2 3 Credits
Introduces the interdisciplinary study of ideas that have defined cultures through a survey of the visual, performing, and literary arts, emphasizing connections among diverse cultures, including European and non-European, from the prehistoric to the early medieval era. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
(Contact hours – 45)

HUM 122 / HUM 1022 – Humanities: Medieval to Modern – GT-AH2 3 Credits
Introduces the interdisciplinary study of ideas that have defined cultures through a survey of the visual, performing, and literary arts, emphasizing connections among global cultures from the medieval to the early modern era. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
(Contact hours – 45)

HUM 123 / HUM 1023 – Humanities: Modern World: GT-AH2 3 Credits
Introduces the interdisciplinary study of ideas that have defined cultures through a survey of the visual, performing, and literary arts, emphasizing connections among global cultures from the European Enlightenment to the postmodern era. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
(Contact hours – 45)

HUM 163 / HUM 1063 – Film Criticism 3 Credits
Considers different approaches to film criticism, including the journalist, humanist, auteurist, genre, social science, historical, and ideological/theoretical approaches. Students will view and analyze films applying each of the critical approaches through class discussion and other assignments.
(Contact hours – 45)

HUM 220 / HUM 1020 – History of Rock and Roll 3 Credits
Teaches students to read about, write about, and discuss the social history of that very broad term, “rock and roll”. We explore important themes in American (and British) social and cultural history through the study of popular music, as well as to examine how popular and critical tastes are reflections of artistic, cultural, sexual, economic and ideological sensibilities at the time of its production. In order to fully understand what the culture of ¿rock¿ is all about, we critically analyze the influence of technology, ideology, class, gender, and race on various genres of music ¿ jazz, country, rhythm and blues, techno, heavy metal, and hip hop. We also examine how rock and roll influenced (and is influenced by) other arts, particularly literature and film. Emphasis is placed on understanding the social and cultural contexts of the various music forms rather than on a rigorous understanding of the musical forms themselves.
(Contact hours – 45)