The Humanities explores what it means to be human within a contemporary or historical context. The Humanities provide us with the broad frameworks within which enduring questions of existence, relationships, values, and aesthetics can be examined from multiple perspectives.
This course presents a skill-based approach to critical thinking and attention management as a way to explore and evaluate ideas in the digital era of high-speed information, hyper-connection, and mass distraction. Students will be grounded in critical thinking's basic formative skills of distinguishing fact and opinion, making inferences, detecting biases, and reasoning inductively and deductively, while simultaneously developing the observation, mindfulness, and attention skills necessary to counterbalance the current effects of omnipresent digital stimuli.
Provides a historical overview of American popular music, from the mid-19th to the turn of the 21st century, including folk, jazz, ragtime, blues, swing, show music, motion picture music, country, rock and roll, soul, heavy metal, pop, grunge, rap and Latin / African music. Students will be required to listen to music associated with these styles.
In addition to exploring textual elements such as narrative, characterization, plot and symbolism, film’s technical elements (mise-en-scène, cinematography, lighting, editing and sound) are considered. Emphasis is on film as both cultural artifact and institution.
Capture new insights into everything from poetry and paintings to business and politics. Humanities courses will open your world to different cultures, explore what goes into making a work of art and give perspective on how history is made.
For almost every major, whether associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree, Humanities credits are required. You can fulfill your Humanities and general education requirements at a fraction of the cost at JCCC, then transfer your credits to a four-year school.
Confessions of a Community College Dean. In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care. Title.
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) just issued two reports on the state of the Humanities at community colleges in the U.S. One looks at the proportion of students who major in humanities, and also at the percentage of overall courses taken that fall under what the reports call “HLA” (humanities and liberal arts -- a serious misnomer, ...
Part of the goal of Guided Pathways is to provide simple, clear, prescriptive routes to degrees. In practice, that often translates to reducing the number of choices provided for students. Instead of saying “take any one of the following ten courses,” it might reduce the options to two or even one.
Matt Reed. June 20, 2019. The Community College Research Center (CCRC) just issued two reports on the state of the Humanities at community colleges in the U.S. One looks at the proportion of students who major in humanities, and also at the percentage of overall courses taken that fall under what the reports call “HLA” ...
Studying humanities will give you a broad foundation built on a wealth of knowledge. The skills you will develop include: 1 Communication 2 Information Management 3 Personal Development 4 Quantitative Reasoning 5 Cultural Awareness 6 Responsibility and Accountability
Personal Development — Identify and continually develop one's aptitudes and abilities in pursuit of goals. Responsibility and Accountability — Employ personal and social accountability, recognize ethical issues, practice ethical behavior, and balance personal freedom with the interest of the community.
One of the key goals of the survey was to determine how many students in community colleges are touched by the humanities.
The survey also showed that high school students account for approximately 10 percent of students who take courses in the humanities at community colleges, though the share varied widely by discipline.
Another goal of the survey was to determine how many faculty members teach humanities courses for credit at community colleges.
The survey of humanities education in community colleges was a pilot project for the Humanities Indicators and follows two previous studies of humanities departments in four-year colleges and universities.
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Most careers in the humanities require advanced degrees. With a master’s degree in humanities or a related area (i.e. Comparative Religion or Art History), you will be qualified to teach at most community colleges. With a Ph.D., you will be qualified to teach at the university level.
Credits earned in Macomb’s humanities courses can be applied toward an associate degree at Macomb and will transfer to many colleges and universities in Michigan.
Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instructor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course's viability as a permanent offering.
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