HUMS 1110 - Origins of the Humanities

4.5 Credits

Students explore the origins of human culture, which emerged with Prehistory and the civilizations of Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, Bronze Age Greece, ancient China, and ancient India. Students discover the fine and performing arts, literature and myth, and religion and philosophy of these cultures.

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Recognize the medium, form, and function of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, poetry, religion, music, and dance of selected cultures in the early ancient world.
Compare and contrast cultures of the earliest civilizations.
Interpret the arts of the earliest civilizations in an historical, social, and global context.
Analyze the artistic expressions of the ancient world that transcend individual culture and time.

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