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HUM 103
INTRODUCTION TO FILM ART
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Studies the relationships among film’s stylistic systems, narrative systems and audience reception. Students view, discuss and critically analyze a variety of films which represent key historical and aesthetic periods as well as a variety of genres and themes. The course incorporates the vocabulary stylistic systems (for instance, cinematography, editing and art direction) and narrative systems (for instance, story structure and character motivation) as both relate to the kinds of meanings a film conveys.
HUM 110
INTRODUCTION TO THE FINE ARTS
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Introduces the basic elements and principles of the fine arts (art, music and theater).
HUM 117
CRITICAL THINKING
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Develops higher order thinking and reasoning skills. Students will apply these skills to a variety of academic disciplines, contemporary issues and their own life experiences.
HUM 121
HUMANITIES: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS: AH2
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test scores. Introduces students to the history of ideas that have defined cultures through a study of the visual arts, literature, drama, music, and philosophy. It emphasizes connections among the arts, values, and diverse cultures, including European and non-European, from the Ancient world to 1000 C.E. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2
HUM 122
HUMANITIES: MEDIEVAL TO MODERN: AH2
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test scores. Examines written texts, visual arts and musical compositions to analyze and reflect the evolution and confluence of cultures in Europe, Asia and the Americas from 800 C.E. to 1750 C.E. Any two of the three Survey of Humanities courses equal a sequence. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2
HUM 123
HUMANITIES: MODERN WORLD: AH2
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test scores. Examines the cultures of the 17th through the 20th centuries by focusing on the interrelationships of the arts, ideas, and history. Considers the influences of industrialism, scientific development and non-European peoples. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2
HUM 131
THE ARTS AND CULTURES OF MEXICO
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Introduces students, through visual arts, music, and literature to attitudes toward the sacred and toward power (political, economic, social, religious) held by various cultures in Mexico from the Pre-Hispanic era to the mid-twentieth century.
HUM 164
AMERICAN CINEMA
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Introduces film studies and surveys the American film industry as an art form, as an industry, and as a system of representation and communication. This course explores how Hollywood films work technically, aesthetically, and culturally to re-enforce and challenge America’s national self image.
HUM 237
HISPANIC ARTS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Examines the history, visual arts and permanency of the Hispanic culture of the American Southwest. Through the study of historical sequences, major artistic expressions dating from 1598 and aspects of literature of the contemporary Hispanic society students will gain an insight into the Hispanic cultural contributions to the Southwest.
HUM 238
SACRED IMAGES, SACRED SPACES: SOUTHWESTERN US
3 CR. (3L)
PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Examines the historical, social, geographical and cultural forces that influenced the design and presentation of sacred images in several Southwestern U.S. cultures. Students will study stylistic features of images in various media in relation to the sacred spaces where they are displayed or employed in rituals. |