HUM 1020: INTRODUCTION TO THE HUMANITIES

Class Theme: Thinking like a Philosopher/Discovering your Worldview

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”—C.S. Lewis

INSTRUCTOR:

Name: Professor Michael T. Jahosky

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

Office Hours/Instructor Availability:

Office Hours:

Mondays and Wednesdays: 830-930am, 1230pm-430pm

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 830am-930am, 1230pm-430pm

Fridays: Digital Office Hours: 12:00pm-2:00pm

Office Location: HS (Humanities Building) 125

Class Times and Locations for Fall 2017:

Mondays and Wednesdays and Tuesdays and Thursdays in TE 235

Section 5817: 930am-1045am, M/W

Section 8752: 11am-1215pm, Tu/Th

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: Each student gets 2 of what I call “Late Work Passes” per semester. To use them, please send me an email on MyCourses specifying what assignment you’re using it for and why. Once I’ve responded to you or spoken with you, you may turn the assignment into me as if it was not late in the first place, giving you the potential to earn 100 points still. Use them wisely.
  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

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), 50% 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. The STRs are documents located in MyCourses in the Course Content tab within the current module we are studying. Please don’t miss my class lectures; you don’t know when during a Unit I will begin to address the questions on the STR, so be diligent in coming to class. If you miss the notes to get the answers, please get with another student or me to get them and then make sure to word things in your own way when you complete the assignment. 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 dropboxes.

Chapter Quizzes (6): 20% of your final grade: There are sixtextbook quizzes throughout the semester. Each quiz evaluates your retention of the assigned textbook readings. I do not cover everything from the book in class, but I certainly try. I am happy to meet students in my office and in the library for tutoring over the summer upon request. The questions for these quizzes are based on the textbook, not my lectures.

These quizzes are online and open-note/book, but since they are timed at 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes), you will want to study beforehand!

Coffee and Philosophy with the Professor:, 10% of your final grade: This is an assignment which gives you the opportunity to interact with me directly in a one-on-one setting about our class material and conduct a sort of “interview” about “ultimate issues” in the Humanities. To earn a grade for this assignment, you must first schedule a day and time with me to meet me either in my office on campus or in the library where I have tutoring hours (room TBA). Please email me or meet with me before or after class to schedule our meeting, and I will write it in my planner—as you should, too. Next, I want you to type or write out 2 questions pertaining to philosophy and/or religion. An example of a deep philosophical question is—why do bad things happen to good people if God exists? Or, does God exist? What is truth? Or, you might want to ask me about a particular religion’s beliefs, or how two religions get along. Take some time to think deeply about issues you’ve always wondered about and come up with 2 great questions! Please feel free to make them personal questions that you’ve always wondered about! What is most important to you? What questions would help benefit you living your life with meaning the most? I will dialogue with you and inform you of your grade after we have finished speaking; and please submit your questions to me before you leave.

Aesthetic Experience Museum Assignment (1), 20% 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”

CLASS AND ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE:

Please consult the MyCourses Calendar online (or below) to see the due dates for your STR’s, Quizzes, and Museum Experience Assignment

UNIT I: Introduction to the Humanities/Thinking like a Philosopher: Weeks 1-4

Assigned Reading: Read Chapters 1 and 2 and pp. 334-343 (Chapter 12 “Happiness”)

STR#1: Thinking like a Philosopher due 9/8

Quiz #1: Chapter 1: August 27

Quiz #2: Chapter 2: September 10

UNIT II: The Visual and Performing Arts: Weeks 5-8

Assigned Reading: Read Chapters 5 and 7

Quiz #3: Chapter 5: September 24

Quiz #4: Chapter 7: October 8

STR #2: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling due 10/6

Museum Experience Project: Due October 6

UNIT III: Myth and Literature: Weeks 9-11

Assigned Reading: Read all of Chapter 3; Read Chapter 4, only pp. 63 and 81-82

Quiz #5: Chapter 3: October 29

STR #3: Breakfast in Narnia, Supper in the Shire: 11/3

UNIT IV: “Our Inconsolable Secret”: Religion and Morality, Weeks 12-16

Assigned Reading: Read Chapter 10 and Chapter 11, pp. 307-312, 317-323; 329-332

Coffee with the Professor due by the end of the 16th week!

STR #4: Christ Among the Sages: 12/1

Quiz #6 (Final): Chapter 10: due 12/3

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