Humanities (HUM)

HUM 300 Classical Humanities 3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
The course focuses upon Western culture in its attempt to interpret human experience and identity. The course examines basic human values as exemplified in the arts, philosophy and history. Emphasis is on the Greeks, the Romans, and the Judeo-Christian traditions up to the end of the Middle Ages.

HUM 310 Modern Humanities 3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
This course focuses upon Western culture in its attempt to interpret human experience and identity. The course examines basic human values as exemplified in the arts, philosophy, and history. Emphasis is on the Renaissance, the Baroque period, and the Modern age.

HUM 320 Asian Humanities 3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
This course examines basic human values as exemplified in the art, literature, music, philosophy, and history of the Far East from ancient times to the present. Emphasis is placed upon the relationship of the humanities to the historical developments, geographical features, and cultural contexts of India, China, and Japan. This course fulfills Folsom Lake College's Ethnic/Multicultural Studies requirement for the Associates Degree.

HUM 332 American Humanities 3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
This course examines ideas and values about the American experience by analyzing the literature, art, music, philosophy and history from the beginning of the twentieth-century to the present. The course draws upon the arts of African American, Native American, Asian American, Anglo and Latino cultures as avenues for understanding issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as they intersect with mainstream American values.

HUM 334 California Cultures 3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
Advisory: ENGWR 101 or eligibility for ENGWR 300
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
This course examines California cultural development in the arts, literature, music and philosophy of the early indigenous people through the Spanish, Mexican and Anglo presences of the 19th century. The course will inspect the development of values and the manifestation of those values in politics and culture today, including the contributions of immigrant groups to the social milieu of the 20th century. Field trips are required.

HUM 340 African American Humanities 3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
This course examines the African American experience in the United States from an historical and political perspective by experiencing and analyzing the arts and artistic expressions. The course draws upon music, art, literature and philosophy as avenues for understanding the influences and challenges to African American identity both historically and contemporarily.

HUM 495 Independent Studies in Humanities 1-3 Units
Prerequisite: None
Course Transferable to CSU
Hours: 18 hours LEC ; 54 hours LAB

HUM 499 Experimental Offering in Humanities .5-4 Units
Prerequisite: None
Course Transferable to CSU
Hours: 18 hours LEC ; 54 hours LAB

updated 08/09/10