Overview

The KCTC catalog describes this class as follows:
===// Introduces students to at least five disciplines in the humanities, such as art, literature, dance, drama cinema, philosophy, music, architecture, religion, and mythology. Explores distinctions and relationships between the disciplines// through study of their basic methods, //themes, and forms.//===

You can see from this description that the course involves two components:
 * introduction to humanities disciplines
 * introduction to the methods of study employed in humanities disciplines.

To reflect these needs, I have developed seven different themes that we will investigate, both to understand the content of a specific humanities discipline and to explore how different methods are employed. In this class we will examine the following seven themes by learning to apply humanities methodologies.

A note on content:
Most humanities textbooks sold in the US explore the humanities as a function of Ancient Greek through European Renaissance materials. Since we are Americans, I prefer to explore humanities as these relate to American history, culture and society. For this reason, the content of the humanities we will examine is Latin American, both because these materials are American (and so influence our culture significantly) and because we can learn about ourselves by contrasting our own history, culture and society with those nearest to us.
 * 1) Introduction (week 1)
 * 2) Mythology (week 2 and week 3)
 * 3) Narrative (week 4 and week 5)
 * 4) Poetry (week 6 and week 7)
 * 5) Cinema (week 8 and week 9) ( Week 10 is Spring Break)
 * 6) Music (week 11 and week 12)
 * 7) Art (week 13 and week 14)
 * 8) Ritual/Sacred (week 15 and week 16)

For these same themes you will also complete web quests as part of your course assessment.