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FDHUM 101 Humanities Foundations: The Heroic Journey -- Online

 

Credits: 3
Estimated Enrollment per Offering: 60 Students

 

Outcomes

  1. Students will develop sufficient understanding of the craftsmanship and context of literature, visual art, music, and film & theater to lay a foundation for a lifetime of arts enjoyment and fulfillment.
  2. Students will demonstrate proficiency in applying their understanding of the general principles of art to the analysis of specific works.
  3. Students will learn principles of aesthetic judgment.
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      • Students will explore the question of whether beauty is really in the eyes of the beholder (De gustibus non est disputandum) or can beauty be defined or found to possess certain qualities?
      • Students will seek to understand  the relationship between beauty, goodness, and truth?
      • Students will learn how can Dallin H. Oaks’ principles of good, better, and best apply to the arts.
      • Students will discover what characteristics constitute “great” works of art.
  4. Students will experience the arts by exploring the theme of the heroic journey through creation, fall, and redemption
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      • Students will encounter culture holistically, discovering interrelationships among historical events, philosophical movements, and social and religious concerns.
      • This cross-disciplinary approach to culture will help students develop critical thinking skills as they perceive how the arts emerge from a cultural context to give meaning and structure to the human experience.
  5. Through their engagement with great art, students will enjoy deep, meaningful, and powerful personal aesthetic experiences.
  6. Students will make connections between the cultural achievements of the past and their own search for meaning and fulfillment in life.
  7. Armed with an understanding of the nature of great art, students will act for themselves to “raise the bar” in their selection of music, literature, visual art, and films, and seek out art which inspires, elevates, and edifies rather being acted upon by that which merely entertains.  
  8. The knowledge and experiences students develop in the Humanities Foundations courses will become avenues of spiritual and intellectual fulfillment in their future encounters with the arts.

 

Description

The individual’s heroic journey through creation, fall and redemption, as represented in art, literature, music, architecture, and drama.

 

Required Materials

The Odyssey by Homer; Translated by Robert Fagles. ISBN: 978-0140268867

 

Course Tools

Under consideration by the development team

 

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