HUM 1020: INTRODUCTION TO THE HUMANITIES

Class Theme: Discovering and Understanding Your Worldview

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”—C.S. Lewis, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children”

“Unless the measuring rod is independent of the things measured, we can do no measuring.”—C.S. Lewis, “The Poison of Subjectivism”

“All people try to make sense of the rules of the world by developing ideas. These ideas flow in patterns, which we call worldviews. People’s worldviews lead them to value certain things, which lead to particular convictions governing their behavior. These convictions solidify into habits that affect the way they—and others—live.”—Jeff Myers, Understanding the Times

INSTRUCTOR:

Name: Professor Michael T. Jahosky

Contact Information: Office Number: 727-341-4276. Email: and MyCourses Email

Office Hours for Spring 2018:

Office Location: HS (Humanities Building, Gibbs Campus), Room 125

Mondays and Wednesdays: 830-930am, 2pm-5pm

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 830am-930am

Fridays: Digital Office Hours: 9am-1pm

Class Times and Locations for Spring 2018: All classes meet in TE 235

Section 5441: 930am

Section 5443: 11am

Section 6457: 2pm

Instructor Web Page:

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK & OTHER RESOURCE INFORMATION:

  1. ART OF BEING HUMAN
  2. PACKAGE COMPONENT|By JANARO
  1. EDITION: 11TH 17
  2. PUBLISHER: PEARSON
  3. ISBN: 9780134238739

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT:

Dean: Dr. Jonathan Steele

Office Location: Clearwater, Crossroads Building

Office Number: CL CR 154

Academic Chair: Nancy Smith

Office Location: Humanities Building, St. Pete Gibbs Campus

Office Number: HS 118

SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS:

If you wish to request accommodations as a student with a documented disability, please make an appointment with the Learning Specialist on campus. If you have a documented hearing loss, please contact the Program for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing at 791-2628. If you need assistance during an emergency classroom evacuation, please contact your campus learning specialist immediately about arrangements for your safety. The Office of Services for Students with Disabilities can be reached at 791-2628 or 791-2710 (CL), 341-4758 (SP/G), 394-6108 (SE)
712-5789 (TS) or 341-4532 (AC).

COURSE INFORMATION:

Course Description: This course provides an introduction to interdisciplinary humanities by focusing on various topics, relationships, and themes of human expression from a global perspective. Topics may include Music, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Religion, Philosophy, Dance, Theater, Literature, and Film. Using global examples, this course examines the relationship between the visual, performing, and literary arts and their social, historical, and cultural contexts. This course is intended to broaden and establish an appreciation of the arts and ideas. It is representative of western and non-western cultures, races, religions, and genders, introducing students to a global approach to the humanities. This course satisfies the Enhanced World View requirement. 47 contact hours.

Syllabus Addendum:

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CLASS POLICIES:

  1. Late Work Policy: All students get 1 and only 1 chance to make up 1 missed assignment. Any late work that is the result of family, health, or work emergency requires signed paperwork to prove why you were unable to complete your work.
  2. Attendance Policy: Attendance in my class is mandatory. If you miss 6 or more unexcused classes prior to the “W” Deadline, you will be dropped from my class. If you miss 6 or more after the “W” deadline, you will drop a letter grade at the end of the semester.
  3. Classroom Etiquette: It is absolutely rude and distracting to get up during a professor’s lecture in a college or university class, as it interrupts both the lecturer and the student. I ask that if you have any special accommodations that you please let me know immediately on the first day, and I will understand. If you have a personal emergency and need to get up immediately, that will also be understood so long as you inform me at the end of class, but get all of your business done before class begins. Excessive trips out of class will result in being marked absent. If you do not honor this policy, I will ask you to leave.
  4. Voice Recorders: You are free to record audio—but not video—of my lectures, but they are my own intellectual property and Copyrighted; do not share this information with anyone or in any form. Pictures, unless otherwise stated by the professor, are strictly prohibited. This also includes camera pictures of notes or PowerPoints.
  5. Laptop/Tablet Policy/Cell Phone Policy: Front Row only for laptops or tablets for notetaking purposes only; no phones or other media devices are permitted during our class time in any way. Please consult the syllabus addendum on our website for more information; I am permitted by the college to ask you to leave for use of cell phone or other devices during class.
  6. Plagiarism is absolutely not tolerated. Any student caught plagiarizing will receive an automatic “0” after I speak with the student, and any other student involved will also receive a “0” for permitting this.
  7. Internet research for aiding in the completion of assignments is not permitted unless you have received my permission or unless you have cited it properly. This includes Google searches, Wikipedia, Encyclopedias, etc. Please utilize your textbook first.
  8. Student Syllabus Responsibility: Please consult the syllabus/Adventure Map frequently for information about readings, assignments, grading questions, policies, and due dates for assignments.
  9. Incorrectly Submitted Work: If you submit the wrong assignment or do not submit an assignment to its appropriate dropbox, you will receive a “0.” Please do not send me emailed work, as I will not accept it. Use your late work pass if you make this mistake.
  10. Technical Issues: Call the SPC Help Desk or try their new online chat feature—click on this link: for more assistance. If you have a serious technical issue and your problem was not that you waited until the last minute to submit an assignment, I will assess the situation privately with you. Take CLEAR screenshots or any error messages or issues that you have and document it before showing me.

Required Class Materials, Assignments, and Grading:

REQUIRED CLASS MATERIALS:

1.Working computer (or access with Student ID on campus to a computer) and consistent, reliable internet connection

2. Pens/Pencils; 1 red pen, 1 blue or black pen

3. A notebook to take notes

4. Class textbook

5. Class Syllabus (print and read from MyCourses on first day)

Special Topic Reflections (STR’s), 40% of your final grade (4): There are four Units in this class. In each Unit, I will give a lecture series on a specific topic that begins in and then transcends your class textbook. To do well on these assignments and to learn the answers to the questions on each STR, you must be in class physically, listening, and taking notes. Feel free to use a tape recorder if that helps, and the PowerPoints will, when they are finished, be posted online for your use. Some of the STR questions require you to review the PowerPoint at home and do the work there. Look for the “IC” (In class) and “AH” (At Home) acronym on your STR’s and do the questions “AH” at home please. That means that some of the questions on these assignments will be explicitly answered in class and others will be answered by you at home using the PowerPoint lectures and textbook.

The STRs are documents located in MyCourses in the Course Content tab within the current module we are studying.

Regurgitating my PowerPoint or lecture notes or notes taken from another student will be noticed and you will not be given credit.These assignments are typed and submitted online in drop-boxes.

Philosopher’s Café (Participation/Attendance; 5 discussions): 10% of your final grade: At the beginning of the semester, I will divide you into groups which you will then sit near the rest of the semester. The first time you meet with your group, please elect a Group Leader who is responsible, respectful, communicative, and dependable.

Group leaders will serve as the official representative of each group and be responsible for the following things: 1. Keeping track of group attendance (keep a record of who is present and who isn’t each time), 2. Keeping track of each group member’s participation and ability to stay on task in the group, 3. Assigning a participation grade on a 1-5 scale (1 being unacceptable and 5 being outstanding) based on each individual’s contribution to the group,4. Reporting to me group participation and attendance at the end of each class discussion. Grades are individual, not group grades.

To earn your grade, each student must be present on time, in class and actively participating within their group when I assign a class discussion prompt. The topics are listed at the bottom of this syllabus.

Group Discussion Rubric: Group leaders: Please make a note of each person’s score (out of 5) in your notebook so that you have an ongoing record of all discussion scores throughout the semester. Then, at the end of class, I ask that all group leaders bring me an index card with all the scores on them to submit to me for review.I will be walking around class during discussion evaluating each group as well. Finally, I will submit your individual discussion grade online. Group leaders must be honest and responsible with these scores, or they will risk failing the class for violating both my and SPC’s Academic Honesty policy.

Please evaluate each member of your group on a 1 to 5 scale, 5 being the best and 1 meaning needs drastic improvement. Use the following rubric to guide your evaluation: 1. Attendance (1 pt): Is the individual physically present? 2. Preparation (2 pts): Does the student seem to be doing the readings and reviewing the material at home on their own time? Are they aware of what we’re studying/reading/learning about? 3. Participation (2 pts): Has the individual contributed something worthwhile, on-topic, and relevant to the discussion prompt?

In-Class Quizzes (5): 30% of your final grade: There are 5quizzes throughout the semester. Each quiz evaluates your retention of the class lectures, which in turn follow the STR’s. To study for the quizzes, do the following: 1. Be in class! 2. Take good notes, 3. Study the PowerPoints for missed notes from class lectures, 4. Review the bold terms and other major ideas/topics from the STR assignments.

There will be 10 questions per quiz and I will administer the quizzes in class by projecting a Microsoft word document on the screen. All questions will be shown at once. Work at your own pace but all students will be given 15 minutes to complete the quiz. Please purchase 1 black pen and 1 red pen for the semester to use for your quizzes. You will complete your quiz in black ink and grade it in red.

After you have finished, please close your notebooks and wait for time. When we have all finished, we will grade the quiz together. To do this, please swap quizzes with a person next to you in your group. You will grade your neighbors and vice versa. Please grade the quizzes in red ink and then write the grade at the top of the page out of 100 (each question is 10 points), and then hand it back to its owner.

Group Leaders: Please make a note of each person’s score in your notebook before going home for the day. Lastly, at the end of class, I ask that all group leaders bring me an index card with all the scores on them to submit to me for review. Group leaders must be honest and responsible with these scores, or they will risk failing the class for violating both my and SPC’s Academic Honesty policy.

What’s Your Worldview? Project: 10% of your final grade: You will be doing academic research and writing using the library to complete this assignment. All google-searches, non-academic websites, and Wikipedia uses will disqualify you from earning your grade. You must find a minimum of 2 academic sources and have them listed in MLA format in a Works Cited at the end of this paper. All citations in text will be MLA format as well (Jahosky, 28). The rest of the paper must be single-spaced, include a cover-page with title, and must be in Times New Roman size 12 font. The paper must be a minimum of 5 pages (remember, SINGLE spaced). No extra spaces between paragraphs to make it look like a longer paper.

For this assignment, you are being asked to research, discover, and then write about your worldview. You may already know what your worldview is, especially if you were raised in a religious environment, or perhaps a secular one (atheists, agnostics, etc). A great many of you will not, however. The assignment is the same for everyone despite your background.

Directions: In your 5 page minimum paper, please research, reflect, and then address the 5 ultimate questions we learned about during Unit I: 1. Origin, 2. Identity, 3. Meaning, 4. Morality, and 5. Destiny. Then, please look at the supplemental class PowerPoint which has information on all the world’s most popular worldviews in addition to doing your own research and then settle on which worldview you think you have. Next, please explain if and how your selected worldview holds up under the 4 worldview tests we learned about: 1. Test of Reason, 2. Test of Outer World, 3. Test of Inner World, 4. Reality Test. In conclusion, please explain whether your worldview is tenable, that is, if your theory of reality actually fits reality as it is consistently. If not, explain what course of action you will take to make changes in your life to do something about this. Remember this: With many worldviews, if we live happily, then we are not living consistently, and if we are living consistently, we are not living happily. Does this describe your chosen worldview? If so, what can be done to fix this in your life? If not, and you believe you are living happily and consistently, then how will you address doubts that arise in your worldview? Outside challenges from others? Explain!

Museum Experience Assignment (1), 10% of final grade: For this assignment you will physically attend an art museum and select a piece of art to write about. Then you will compare it to an artwork from our textbook and complete this worksheet (see below for directions). The worksheet which is described below in the instructions has been posted on the Course Content tab in MyCourses.

Aesthetic Experience Museum Assignment

  1. Choose an art museum near your location to visit that meets the following criteria:
  • The museum you attend must be an art museum, not a science museum or a children's museum.
  • The museum must provide a dated receipt or dated ticket.You must take a digital photograph of your dated receipt or dated ticket and insert it in the designated space provided below.
  • If you experience difficulty finding an art museum near your location, contact your instructor.
  • Tampa Museum of Art, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, the Dali Museum, Leepa-Ratner Museum, and the Ringling Museum are just a few examples.
  1. Visit your chosen art museum, and select a work of art. Suggestions:
  • The work can be a painting, sculpture, photograph, mixed media, or any other medium exhibited in the museum.
  • You may wish to take a copy of this worksheet with you to the museum in order to more carefully select a work of art.
  1. Complete the “Essay Header” section in the designated space provided below.
  2. Complete the “Art Work Information” section in the designated space provided below.
  3. Complete the 3 Prompts in the “Aesthetic Experience and Critical Analysis Essay” section in the designated space provided below. Respond to the prompts using the following guidelines:
  • Use full sentences and paragraphs in your responses.
  • Use and incorporate relevant and genre-specific vocabulary for each prompt. Definitions of relevant vocabulary are provided at the end of this document, in the online module resources, and in your textbook.
  • Your completed essay responses should be a total of at least 600 words (at least 200 words per response).
  1. Submit your completedMuseum Visit Aesthetic Experience Worksheet to the Aesthetic Experience and Critical Analysis Essay dropbox folder.

Grading Scale (Percentage Gradebook)—yes I will consider rounding up on .5%

100%-89.5%= “A

89.4%-79.5%= “B

79.4%-69.5%= “C

69.4%-59.5%= “D

59.4%-Below= “F”

SEMESTER OVERVIEW:

*Please check the St. Petersburg College Website Academic Calendar to see important dates and days/weeks off!*

UNIT I: Introduction to the Humanities and Humanities 101, Weeks 1-5

Assigned Reading: Read Chapters 1, 2, and the following pages: pp. 299-301, 307-312, 317-322, 329-332, 334-345, 377-378, 392, 412, 416, 428-447

Philosopher’s Café 1 and 2: End of Week 3 and 5

Quizzes 1 and 2: Administered at the end of Weeks3 and 5

STR #1:Humanities 101is due at the end of Week 5

UNIT II: “Our Inconsolable Secret”: Religion in the Humanities, Weeks 6-8 and 10

Assigned Reading: Read Chapter 10

Philosopher’s Café 3: End of Week 8

Quiz 3: Quiz administered at the end of Week 10.

STR #2: Christ Among the Sages due end of Week10

UNIT III:Mythology, Literature, and the Movies, Weeks 11-13

Assigned Reading: Read Chapters 3, 4, and 9

Philosopher’s Café 4: End of Week 13.

Quiz 4: Quiz administered at the end of Week 13.

STR #3: Myth in the Humanities due end of Week 13

What’s Your Worldview? Paper due end of Week 13

UNIT IV: Art Through the Ages, Weeks 14-16

Assigned Reading: Read Chapter 5 up to page 122