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Section 01 CRN
20181 Tuesday, Thursday, 11:10 - 12:35 PM room H204
Number of Credits 3
Prerequisite ENG 110 or ENG 111
Instructor Douglas Anderson
Office 85 Humboldt, second floor at the end of
the hall
Hours Monday, Wednesday 11:30 - 12:30 Tuesday
Thursday 12:45 - 2
email anytime at hum300s12 at gmail.com
This course explores the role of the arts in society. Students will examine various arts within the humanities -- the literary, visual, and performing arts -- and analyze their functions and interrelationships within historical, political, and cultural contexts.
After completing this course, you will be better able to communicate with reflection, sensitivity, and intelligence about the arts in non-U.S. cultures because of your increased awareness of cultural diversity. Specifically, you will be better able to:
identify major literary, visual, and
performing artistic traditions and movements in world
history
define and apply major critical-theoretical
approaches to the arts: object, historical record, social
document, occasion for meditation or revolution
identify and explain formal
and thematic elements of the arts in
historical/political/cultural/technological context
articulate interrelationships
between various forms of art
interpret
(observe, analyze, explain)
artistic products orally and in writing
compare and contrast worldviews
of the art of various cultures
This course will provide a mix of lecture,
presentations, and hands-on activities.
The lectures will cover the countries, their cultures, world history, art criticism, arts analysis, world religions, and major political systems.
The presentations will demonstrate the variety of artistic expression in a dozen countries: Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, S. Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, India, Pakistan, China, S. Korea.
The hands-on
activities will expose students to a variety of traditional
forms of artistic expression in music, dance, and the visual arts.
There is no ink-on-paper textbook for this course. Each
student explores a separate country and shares with the other students
in presentations and on the course wiki.
Required Reading
Three web pages for you to read about your country:
The Wikipedia
entry for your country. For most of our countries, the Wikipedia has
supplementary articles focusing on aspects of the country, for example,
the music
of Mozambique.
At EveryCulture.com, the entry about your country will have some overlap with the Wikipedia entry, but it will cover many other aspects.
At Freedom House, you can learn more about the politics of your country, especially the recent events that may help with your current events timeline assignment.
This course web has material on it that would be in an ink-on-paper textbook. I will lecture on this material and you will take a test on it at the end of the semester:
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I try to engage each of you in an ongoing discussion of your learning. If you aren't getting enough feedback from me, ask for more. As you'll see, I'm big on formative feedback and Socratic questioning.
With your cooperation, this course can become a virtuous cycle of everyone doing the best they can instead of the too-often vicious cycle of how little you can get away with and still pass the course. Your writing and presentations will all be public, available to the whole class, and I have found that public exposure helps make the cycle more virtuous.
As with most humanities courses, the learning extends far beyond the classroom and involves changes that can't be adequately measured at the end of a three-month course, for example, "communicate with reflection, sensitivity, and intelligence". So your course grade will be based on things I can measure. Your attendance, especially when we are listening to and watching the art of other cultures. Your timely completion of assignments on the wiki. The quantity and quality of your written contributions. Your presentations. We will also have a couple of tests.
I expect you to participate in our physical classrooms and our digital classroom. At a minimum, you should:
come
to class
complete
all the assignments on
time
follow
all the links on the course
content pages
You will have a dozen or so assignments. The first one won't be graded, but on the table below, you'll see how much the rest will count toward your final course grade.
Note: I'm assuming that you will do all of the project's assignments as specified on the assignments page. If you don't do them all, you can't pass the course. If you don't do them on time, your grade will be lower than it would otherwise.
Your course grade will be based on the
following assignments. All the written work will be on the wiki. The
assignments are explained in more detail on the assignments page.
| assignment | total pts |
|---|---|
| 5 presentations (incl final) |
10
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| 5 wiki reports (incl final) |
25
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| 6 reflective pieces |
20
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| essay |
15
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| 2 tests |
30
|
| attendance | |
| timely completion of
work (L) |
|
| 101 |
attendance
0 absences, add 2 points to final grade
1 absence, add 1 point to final grade
2 or 3 absences, no change
4 or more absences for any reason, including athletics (see below),
subtract 2
points from final grade
for each absence
Clarification for
athletes.
This policy does not mean that you get to miss for athletics and on top
of that four more. I will count all your absences, including those
involving games and travel. So burn your four for athletics, don't miss
anything else, and you'll be ok.
timely completion
1 or 2 late, no change
3 or more late, subtract one point from final grade for each late
assignment and one more for each late week
In summary, if you come to all the classes and do all the assignments on time, you should get an A-. If you do some of them very well, perhaps an A. To the extent that you miss class or miss deadlines or partially complete assignments, you will get a B or lower. The bare minimum to pass is doing all the assignments and attending most of the classes.
Cutting-and-pasting
your assignments from web pages is easy to detect and will result in
your getting no credit for that assignment, so it's not worth doing.
Cutting-and-pasting without attribution is, in addition, plagiarism.
See the Academic Integrity policy below, which I will follow in
response to plagiarism after first giving you every chance to re-do the
assignment yourself.
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