HUM 2271 - Heritage of the Western World: Renaissance and Reformation
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
In this course, students will study, in historical context, the literature and art produced during the Renaissance and Reformation that has proved of enduring value or influence in molding contemporary culture. Works will be read either in their entirety or in part (e.g., Christine de Pisan’s Book of the City of Ladies, Pico’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, More’s Utopia, Luther’s Address, Shakespeare). Art and architecture of the period will also be considered, as well as cross-cultural encounters between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s) fulfilled: Goal 06B: The Humanities and Fine Arts, Goal 08: Global Perspective
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Explain and give examples of the following cultural studies’ concepts and principles associated with the Renaissance: humanism, renaissance, reformation, counter-reformation, Renaissance science and technology, exploration and discovery, rise of capitalism, and sovereign powers.
- Translate and articulate, in the student’s own words, concepts associated with such Renaissance thinkers as Boccaccio, Petrarch, Mirandola, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Vasari, Cellini, Erasmus, More, Montaigne, Rabelais, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Luther, Calvin, St. Ignatius, Leonardo da Vince, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
- Identify and articulate, in the student’s own words, such artistic expressions associated with the renaissance world as: the madrigal, linear perspective, renaissance portraits, northern renaissance art, heroic idealism, the sonnet, and tragedy.
- Identify and describe, in the student’s own words, a variety of civilizations in existence throughout the globe during the European renaissance.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the scope and impact of the rise of science, the rise of capitalism, the rise of navigation and colonization, and the reformation.
- Read, view, and/or listen to and then critically respond to primary sources.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the scope of the intellectual and social revolution in beliefs and values associated with the Renaissance.
- Respond to primary sources created in Africa and the Americas, as well as primary sources created in Europe in response to interaction with the non-European world.
- Formulate a discussion, both written and oral, which integrates any or all texts from the course into a personal response to the materials presented.
- Analyze and discuss the emotional and intellectual messages embedded in renaissance texts studied; connect and discuss how these messages continue to have influence on how the Western World defines and responds to the globe.
- Understand and be able to discuss the implicit and explicit symbolism common to the Renaissance world; connect and discuss how this symbolism continues to be used by the Western World as a way to define and respond to the globe.
- Identify, analyze, and discuss how the formal elements of Renaissance texts - visual as well as verbal - relate to one another.
- Exhibit an ability to present an opinion based on Renaissance texts rather than popular cultural notions of the Renaissance world.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Survey of the creative legacy of the Renaissance
- Major characteristics of the Renaissance World
- Examination of the informing Renaissance ideas, images, templates, and sounds which the Western Hemisphere shares with Europe
- Response of the Renaissance World to global influences, particularly from America and Africa
- Examination of how the Renaissance has contributed to the student’s own beliefs and America’s beliefs and values
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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