HUM 1161 - Humanities in the Modern to Postmodern World

1. Explain, through the use of examples, the following cultural studies concepts and principles associated with the late 19th century and 20th and 21st century world: modernism, surrealism, totalitarianism, Communism, feminism, “New Science,” existentialism, post-modernism, globalism, and information age.
2. Translate and articulate, in the student’s own words, concepts associated with late 19th century and 20th and 21st century thinkers such as Freud, Nietzsche, Lenin, Einstein, Sartre, King, and Woolf.
3. Identify and articulate, in the student’s own words, artistic expression associated with late 19th century and 20th and 21st century composers, artists, architects, and creative writers such as Kafka, Neruda, Picasso, Nijinsky, Stravinsky, Hitchcock, Dali, Kahlo, Bauhaus School, Wright, Pei, and Warhol.
4. Provide critical responses to primary sources.
5. Demonstrate an awareness of the scope of the social and intellectual revolution of beliefs and values associated with the late 19th century and the 20th and 21st century world.
6. Demonstrate an awareness of how primary sources studied not only create and reflect but also respond to the experience of Europe’s interaction with the non-Western world.
7. Formulate a discussion, both written and oral, which integrates any or all texts from the course into a personal response to the materials presented.
8. Analyze and discuss the emotional and intellectual messages embedded in the late 19th century and 20th and 21st century texts studied; connect and discuss how these messages continue to have influence on how the Western World defines and responds to the globe.
9. Analyze the formal elements of late 19th century and the 20th and 21st century texts - visual as well as verbal; connect and discuss how these formal elements may continue to be used by the Western World as a way to define and respond to the globe.
10. Exhibit an ability to present an opinion based on late 19th century and on 20th and 21st century texts rather than on the student’s own subjective opinion.

1. Survey of the creative legacy of the European intellectual and artistic output during the end of the 19th century and the 20th and 21st century.
2. Characteristics of the Modern World developed during the late 19th century and the 20th and 21st century such as artistic, philosophical, political, and scientific characteristics.
3. The late 19th century Western World and 20th and 21st century Western World’s interaction with the non-Western World.
4. Examination of how late 19th century beliefs, and 20th and 21st century beliefs, influence contemporary beliefs and values.