How is studying the humanities beneficial to you as a person and as a professional? Why does thinking and writing about history require a different approach than we’re accustomed to?
DQ1 APPROACHING THE HUMANITIES
How is studying the humanities beneficial to you as a person and as a professional? Why does thinking and writing about history require a different approach than we’re accustomed to? What are some of the conventions (the rules and expectations) of thinking and writing about history?
Use key details from the lesson and reading for this week to help support your response.
In addition, here are some extra resources to get you started.
Approaching History Questions (Links to an external site.)
A Brief Guide to Writing the History Paper
DQ2 EARLY EASTERN MORAL SYSTEMS
The Chinese moral order (much like that of the Greeks) “depended not upon divine decree or authority, but instead upon the people’s own right actions” (Sayre, 2016, p. 106). Please discuss the development of China’s religious texts from Chapter 3: Empire: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty in Rome, China, and India. What were the main ideals expressed in these texts?
As part of your response, consider the development of Hinduism and Buddhism in India from Chapter 3. Were these religions based upon divine decree or on people’s own actions? What were some of the important premises of Indian religions?
Be sure to provide specific examples from the reading to help develop your response (and use the flipbook below to point you in the right direction!).
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 2 Discussion
DQ1 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Last week, you discussed two of the five major world religions: Hinduism and Buddhism. This week, you will examine the rise, spread, and development of the remaining three in particular: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Please review this week’s lesson, Chapter 4: The Flowering of Religion in the textbook, and the video demonstrating how religion spread around the world before answering the following questions.
How the 5 Major World Religions Spread (Links to an external site.)
Of the five major world religions, which are monotheistic and which are polytheistic? Why? What part of their origin stories render them monotheistic or polytheistic?
What are the primary teachings of each of the world religions?
How did each of these religions influence the others as they were developing?
DQ2 Capellanus and Courtly Love
In Chapter 5 of your textbook as well as in this week’s lesson, you began reading about the medieval period (also referred to as the Middle Ages or the Dark Ages). To get started, briefly discuss the feudal system of medieval Europe. Then, conduct a bit of research on Andreas Capellanus’s The Art of Courtly Love before you read the assigned section (see Chapter 5, pages 32–33, “What Persons Are Fit for Love” at https://sirmykel.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/the-art-of-courtly-love-andreas-cappelanus.pdf.
In Capellanus’s view, who is fit for love? Why or why not? How is this text based on the class system deeply ingrained within the feudal system?
Be sure to use specific examples from the lesson and text to help support your claims, and remember from last week that although we should not judge old texts against modern standards, we do need understand what ideas authors such as Capellanus present.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 3 Discussion
DQ1 GOTHICISM, NATURALISM, AND HUMANISM
How did Gothicism and naturalism in the late medieval period lead to the defining characteristic of the Renaissance—humanism? Consider the ideas explored in both Chapters 6 and Chapter 7 as you plan your response and include specific examples from the reading to help develop your response.
DQ2 RENAISSANCE ART ANALYSIS – RENAISSANCE TEAM 2
This week, your goal is to help one another create a narrated presentation discussing a Renaissance painting or sculpture. You’ll be divided into groups. In each group discussion, please begin by reading the section in the lesson on art, watching the art tutorial, and then helping one another discuss the components of visual art. Then choose a painting or sculpture by an artist discussed in Chapter 7: The Renaissance: Florence, Rome, and Venice in the textbook and talk about the historical context, as well as the artist’s life. Your task by the end of the week is to create a 3-minute video or narrated slide show that unpacks the techniques used by your artist and potential meanings of the painting. Please post your video or presentation here by the end of the week, and carefully use APA formatting to help with any research you wish to integrate.
Please make sure you review the assignment for the week as it contains more detail, and as always, please review the grading rubric and use it as your checklist to complete before submitting your assignment.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 4 Discussion
DQ1 THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION AND ART
This week, you’re reading Chapter 8: Renaissance and Reformation in the North, which is about the Protestant Reformation in Europe and the ripple effect this event had in art and religion. What were the events leading up to the Reformation, and how did the Reformation affect religious art? Please provide examples and post pictures of the visual arts you’re discussing.
DQ2 SPANISH COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS
We’ve spent a great deal of time discussing the events of Europe the last few weeks. Now it is time to turn our attention to other parts of the world and how the European invasion and colonization affected these regions. In Chapter 9 of your textbook and in the week’s lesson, you’re reading about how increased contact between the continents had lasting effects on the world. Please discuss the impact of European contact with both the Americas and Mogul India.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 5 Discussion
DQ1 ART AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
In your textbook reading this week (Chapters 10 and 11), you’ll be reading about the Scientific Revolution, as well as looking at several styles of art. Please begin by discussing the Scientific Revolution. What was it? How did it begin? What came out of it? Then, focus your discussion on how the Scientific Revolution influenced the art of the period (please make sure you provide examples and insert images so the class can see what you’re discussing). As part of your response, discuss the role of this intellectual movement in art.
DQ2 ABSOLUTISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Religious and monarchical absolutism were the hallmarks of the periods you’re reading about this week. What is absolutism? How did the social theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau call absolutism into question? Remember to use concrete examples from the reading for the week to help support your response.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 6 Discussion
DQ1 NEOCLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM
Neoclassicism and romanticism are two movements in art that overlap in Europe. Please read about each in Chapter 12: The Age of Revolution and discuss the time frame, defining characteristics, and ideology of each. Please provide lots of visual examples so the class can better understand what you’re talking about. Feel free to create a Kaltura Media Gallery video to really explain your ideas about the works that emerged from these two important movements.
DQ2 COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY
This week, you’ll be studying more about powerful nations, such as Britain and France, colonizing other parts of the world. You’ll also be reading some hard things about slavery as part of trade and colonization. Let’s begin with discussing William Blake’s engraving, Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows (page 394 of your textbook). Who was William Blake? What was he doing at the time that he was inspired to create this engraving? How did colonialism, industry, and trade contribute to the slave trade?
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 7 Discussion
DQ1 POST-IMPRESSIONIST ART
Last week, you read about Impressionism as breaking dramatic new grounds in the visual arts (Chapter 13: The Working Class and the Bourgeoisie). This week, please discuss the role of post-Impressionism in modern art from Chapter 14: The Modernist World. Who were the post-Impressionists? How did they differ from the Impressionists? What movements did they break into and why?
DQ2 THE WORLD WARS
As you’ve been reading, World War 1 (1914–1918) and World War II (1940–1945) both changed the world and the arts irrevocably. What were the economic and psychological afteraffects of each war? Discussing one war at a time, please discuss the effects that each war had on a country and its art.
Here are some examples to get you started.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 8 Discussion
LOOKING AHEAD
Whew! What a whirlwind this 8 weeks has been. To have made it this far, you’ve had to work very hard and been willing to think about new ideas and new cultures.
What was the most meaningful thing to you that we studied?
How will you carry what you’ve learned here to your places of business and future careers?
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 1 Assignment
REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT: THE NATURE OF TRUTH
Please read the excerpt from Plato’s The Republic called “The Allegory of the Cave” (the link is available in this week’s readings), as well as the section in your textbook on Greek philosophy (Chapter 2, pp. 64–67 “Philosophy and the Polis” through “Plato’s Republic and Idealism”). Using what you’ve learned in these excerpts as well as in this week’s lesson about philosophy, please use the questions in the Reflection Assignment Sheet to help you decide what you think Plato was arguing about independent thought and how we can trust what we know to be truth.
This two-page essay should be submitted in APA format, avoid plagiarism, and offer some insight into what you’ve learned! Please refer to the Week 1 Reflection Assignment Sheet (Links to an external site.) to answer the prewriting questions and then to compose your essay.
Video: Here is a resource to help you start delving into Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” (Book VII of The Republic):
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Week 1 Reflection Assignment: The Search for Truth
Please answer these prewriting questions in complete sentences (the more you write, the better your ideas will be for the essay portion!):
Why do the prisoners in the cave mistake appearance for reality?
Why is it so painful for the freed prisoner to venture first past the fire and then out into the sunlight? Is the pain worth it? Why?
Why might some prisoners, having been exposed to the outside world, choose to return to their shackled lives in the cave?
Why might the remaining prisoners kill the prisoner who returns to free them?
Take your answers to these questions and apply them to life and truth today. Are there any metaphorical “prisoners” in modern life?
The Assignment: Now that you have a deeper understanding of the text, please write a two-page essay on the topic How Can We Trust What We Think We Know? Use examples from the “Allegory of the Cave” to support your answer. Please write your essay below and submit your answers to the prewriting questions as well as the essay in one Word document to Canvas.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 2 Assignment
Reflection Assignment Virtual Field Trip
This week, you’ve been reading about the birth and evolution of several major world religions.
For your assignment, you will take a virtual field trip to view the medieval collections of your choice of an online museum.
For this assignment, please review what you learned last week on how to approach history and the humanities. Make sure you’ve spent a bit of time in this week’s lesson and in Chapters 4 and 5 of the textbook.
Visit the online museum of your choice.
Please restrict your search to Africa and Asia between the years 0–1000 AD.
Produce a two-page reflection assignment (see description below).
For your reflection assignment for this week, please select one primary example from the archive and address the following in a two-page reflection assignment.
Explain how the artifact you chose relates to the origins and spread of religion or culture during the medieval period.
In order to be able to really make a strong statement about what you think your artifact means, please go back to the Week 1 Lesson and review the questions historians ask about artifacts. Then, answer the following questions, using your answers to support your ideas about your artifact.
Describe the example you have selected and provide the specific URL and the image.
Explain the origins and context of the example.
Include examples from the textbook this week that help develop your analysis of the work and its context (make connections between some artifacts described in your textbook and the one you chose from the online museum).
You may do outside research, as well, but please use the DeVry Library as much as possible to find compelling sources about your artifact.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 3 Assignment
Over the last 2 weeks, you’ve been delving into philosophy, the nature of truth, historical context, and how artifacts reflect their historical context. This week, we’ll be adding to that knowledge with art theory and composition as you examine a painting or a sculpture.
This week, your goal is to help one another create a narrated presentation discussing a Renaissance painting or sculpture. You’ll be divided into groups and have a graded group discussion (worth 20 points, so please make sure that your contribution is evident!) to work in to develop your plan.
Please begin by reading the section in the lesson on art, watching the art tutorial, and then helping one another discuss the components of visual art (line, color, composition, etc.).
Then choose a painting or sculpture by an artist discussed in Chapter 7: The Renaissance: Florence, Rome, and Venice in the textbook. Please choose an artifact that was not extensively discussed in the chapter for this project.
Then talk about the following.
Historical context: What was going on in this time and place in history? Politically? Religiously? Economically? Socially?
The artist’s life: What consistent themes show up in the artist’s work? What are her or his areas of interest? What other works is the artist well-known for and why?
The artist’s technique: How was your artist affected by the artistic movements of the day? Does his or her art reflect any of the characteristics of an artistic movement? Why or why not? What techniques does your artist use?
Your task by the end of the week is to create a 5- to 7-minute video or narrated slide show that unpacks the techniques used by your artist and explains your group’s interpretation of the artifact. Your interpretation is the critical aspect of this project—it’s like the thesis statement that holds the project together. Answering the above questions will help your group make a solid interpretation.
Please post your video or presentation here by the end of the week, and carefully use APA formatting to help with any research you wish to integrate. Please make sure you include a reference slide or submit a reference page with a video.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 4 Assignment
REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT EXPERIENCING THEATER
Plays are meant to be performed rather than read. The purpose of dramatic arts often extends far beyond the words written on a page—staging, lighting, costumes intonation, expression, and audience experience are all part of the experience of a theatrical production. To help develop your understanding of Othello and the cultural role of the dramatic arts, you will view a production of the play this week and write a two-page reflection to explain your viewing experience. Please make sure you review the Assignment Connection portion of this week’s lesson, as it will provide some additional help.
Below, please find two adaptations of Othello.
Otelo (Links to an external site.) (Spanish version)
Othello (Links to an external site.)
(1981, William Marshall version)
You may also find this short interview helpful:
Is Othello a Racist Play? (Links to an external site.)
For this assignment, you will view one of the above versions of Othello. You will also find this website (Links to an external site.) valuable in helping you understand how to analyze a play. Once you’ve gone through the website link and watched the play, please complete a reflection that addresses the following.
Identify the performance that you have selected and why you chose that performance.
Describe the staging, lighting, costumes, and characters of the performance. How do these match or revise the written version of the play?
What type of mood and tone does the performance create? How?
What parts of the play are easier to understand through performance? What are some details that stood out through the performance?
What does the performance suggest about the role of theater in contemporary culture? (Please write a strong paragraph that thoughtfully answers this question.)
Be sure to submit your assignment.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 5 Assignment
TIMELINE PROJECT PRESENTATION OUTLINE
This week you will begin your Timeline Project by producing a detailed outline that identifies the artifacts by period that you will investigate. Your outline should include the following.
An identified artifact for each period described in the Course Project Overview
The name, period, producer (if applicable), and image of each selected artifact
A quick three- to four-sentence analysis that explains the significance of the artifact to the specified period.
This will not only help you create the foundations for your Week 8 Timeline presentation but will also help you see how all of the pieces of this class fit together and give you an opportunity to demonstrate how much you have learned about being a student of history and the humanities. I hope you will take this opportunity to find some aspects of each period that interest you. You are not limited to the events and/or artifacts listed in your textbook. The sky is the limit!
In Week 5, you will prepare the first five elements listed in the Periods to Discuss.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 6 Assignment
ART PRODUCTION
This week you will use your reading for the week as a point of departure to create your own artistic production to present to the class in a narrated PowerPoint.
DIRECTIONS
Complete the reading for this week.
Select one of the visual art pieces from the chapter or the time periods discussed in your chapter to use as a point of inspiration.
Create an art piece inspired by your selected art piece.
Write a one-page reflection about the relationship between your art production and the inspiration piece.
FOR YOUR INSPIRATION PIECE
Record the title, artist, year, and place of origin.
Explain the context and artistic movement.
FOR YOUR ART PRODUCTION
Methods: Paint, watercolor, pencil, crayon, marker, collage, sculpture
NO COMPUTER-GENERATED PIECES
Provide a title.
Explain the narrative of your piece and the connection to the inspiration.
FOR YOUR PRESENTATION
Provide an introduction.
Explain and show your inspiration piece.
Describe and show your art piece.
Explain the thematic connection between the two pieces.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 7 Assignment
REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT EXPERIENCING MUSIC
This week, your assignment is to explore the legacy of the black artist during the Harlem Renaissance in Harlem, New York. Please review the section in Chapter 14: The Modernist World on the Harlem Renaissance and then view these two videos on this movement in art, paying close attention to the sections on music. Then, you will need to choose one of the following artists to write about
History Brief: The Harlem Renaissance (Links to an external site.)
and Harlem Renaissance Music Playlist (Links to an external site.).
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Benny Goodman
Harry James
Glenn Miller
Tommy Dorsey
Count Basie
Artie Shaw
Ella Fitzgerald
Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday
Fats Waller
Jelly Roll Morton
Willie Smith
Once you’ve chosen a musician, please explore his or her music in depth. In two pages, discuss your artist’s role in the Harlem Renaissance and the humanities. Please refer to the Files section for an assignment sheet with questions to get you started as well as the grading rubric for the assignment.
HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities
Week 8 Assignment
TIMELINE PROJECT PRESENTATION
This week, you will complete the Timeline Project you began in Week 5 with the submission of your formal presentation. The point of this project is to help you see how all of the pieces of this class fit together and give you an opportunity to demonstrate how much you have learned about being a student of history and the humanities.
In Week 5, you prepared a list and outline of the artifacts you will analyze for each of the time periods listed. Using the feedback you have received from your Week 5 assignment and the guidelines in the Course Project Overview, you will prepare and deliver a 10–15 minute presentation to explore your timeline and analyze your artifacts.
Be sure to submit your assignment.
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