HUM& 101 — Introduction to Humanities
An introduction to the humanities through a review of some of the major developments in human culture around the globe. Taking the culture of Original Peoples of the West Coast as our point of departure, students will analyze how societies express their ideas through a number of aspects, which may include art, literature, music, architecture, mythology, cinema, and philosophy, identity patterns between such cultureal expressions and consider some of the underlying assumptions about the way societies are formed and run, and whose stories are given voices and how. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically, the course will focus on developing the conceptual tools to understand cultural phenomena critically.