Exploring Starts in Humanities and Arts

Catalog description

This course is about exploration. We will explore world cultures through the lenses and experiences offered by Humanities and the Arts. We will consider an array of academic disciplines and artistic forms as modes through which we can understand societies and cultures different from our own, and through which we can communicate with others and bridge cultural differences. This course, therefore, helps new students embrace college as a constant expansion of one?s horizons. It introduces new students to the full array of ways of knowing offered by the Humanities and the Arts. We will study world societies through cultural collections and artifacts; examine the effects of imperialism and colonialism; read, view, hear, and even create art; analyze cultural works and events that have changed culture and the course of history; learn how to adopt and evaluate various different approaches to understanding our world; understand how to realize our own, original voices in various art forms; and explore the affordances of different forms of creative expression, often through hands-on experimentation in those forms.