Home Page PCC > Academics > Areas of Study > Arts & Sciences > Arts & Humanities > Humanities > Syllabi > HUM 121 Outline

COURSE SYLLABUS

HUM 121 SURVEY OF HUMANITIES I

Return to the HUM 121 main page

8. COURSE OUTLINE
Tentative Schedule
I. Early Civilizations
1.1 Art
1.2 Religion
1.3 Political, Economic, Geographic Influences
1.4 Concepts
II. Classical Greece
2.1 Mythology
2.2 Drama
2.2.1 Development
2.2.2 Concept of tragedy
2.2.3 Relation to mythology
2.3 Philosophy:  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
2.4 Architectural orders:  Doric (Parthenon), Ionic and Corinthian
2.5 Sculpture
2.6 Period concepts
2.6.1

Humanism

2.6.2 Idealism (Plato's Forms and manifestation in sculpture)
2.6.3 Rationalism (perfect proportion)
2.6.4 Naturalism
III. Hellenistic Greece
3.1 Philosophy (See Roman)
3.2 Concepts:  contrast to Classical Greece
3.2.1 Emotionalism
3.2.2 Realism
3.2.3 Individualism
3.2.4 Empiricism
IV. Roman Culture
4.1 Sculpture as portraiture
4.2 Architectural innovation
4.2.1 Arch construction
4.2.2 Utilitarian
4.3 Literature
4.4 Philosophy
4.4.1 Epicureanism
4.4.2 Stoicism
4.5 Concepts
4.5.1 Greek derivation
4.5.2 Technological advances
4.5.3 Individualism
4.5.4 Concept of authority
4.5.5 Law
V.

Christian Eras

5.1 Architecture
5.2 Mosaics
5.3 Manuscript Illumination / spiritual emphasis
5.4 Music: Gregorian plain song (monophony)
5.5 Theatre- Quem Quaeritis Trope- Liturgical and secular drama
5.6 Period Concepts
5.61 Obedience to authority
5.62 Denial of the physical