HUM1025 — Introduction to Global Humanities
HUM 1025 - Introduction to Global Humanities HUM 1025 - Introduction to Global Humanities Hours/Week: Lecture 4 Course Description: This course provides an introduction to the humanities through a global lens by thematically exploring relationships, interactions, and connections between human expressions and human cultures throughout time and geographies, with a particular emphasis on non-western cultures. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the class engages in an analysis of what it means to be human, and the projects humans enact when representing our stories and values by drawing on a myriad of analytical and creative texts, such as in visual art, sculpture, performance, music, dance, philosophy, religion, mythology, film, theater, literature, poetry, fashion, architecture, histories, anthropology, law, religion, popular culture, digital texts, and more. Topics include: humanhood, origin stories, death, immortality, ethics, love, justice, identity, power, and community-building. Note: Attendance at a museum, art gallery, play and/or concert will be required. MnTC Goals Goals 6 & 8 Major Content 1: The Humanities and Humanhood 2. Human Origin Stories: Creation Myths 3. Power and Immortality in Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia & Egypt 4. The Philosophies of Religions and the Religions of Philosophies 5. The Melodrama of Love and Lyrics 6. The Art of Justice, Protest, and Revolution 7. National Cinemas/National Identites: Nollywood & Bollywood 8. Museums: Preservation & T