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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2017 through Summer 2021
- Course Number:
- HUM 203
- Course Title:
- Humanities & Technology: Future Directions
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Looks for ways in which technology can be applied in new, socially and ethically responsible forms. Recommended: Courses should be taken sequentially. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
After successful completion of HUM 203 students will be able to:
- Use critical thinking to analyze and evaluate how technology affects peoples, societies and nations and how it can be managed.
- Understand and appreciate how people from diverse cultural backgrounds create and interact with modern technological developments and forecast future technology.
- Demonstrate college-level communication skills by speaking, listening and writing clearly about current and future technology.
Integrative Learning
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
The SAC expects that instructors will assess student learning throughout the term using a variety of methods. The SAC encourages instructors to consider the following in determining the achievement of course outcomes:
- Analyze primary and secondary sources of information
- Individual or team oral dialogues
- Investigative papers that analyze historical topics or issues
- Assess how civilizations have changed over time
- Participation in, and contribution to, all large and small group discussions and activities
- Quizzes, exams, response papers, and exercises
- Evaluate different interpretations of past events and develop their own
- Associate past events to contemporary times
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes
- State formation: the rise and development of political entities
- The role of women
- Cultural continuity and change
- Acculturation
- Political and economic progress
- Developments in literature, art and music
- Conflict and cooperation
- Religions and philosophies
- Leadership
Concepts
- Revolution
- Religious pluralism (belief systems)
- Self-understanding (world views)
- The Diaspora
- Pan Africanism
- Leadership and statecraft
- Colonialism and imperialism
- Historical interpretation
- Resistance
Issues
- Domestic and commercial slavery
- Ethnicity, gender and socio-economic class
- Inter- and intra-ethnic cooperation and conflicts
- Impact of Christianity and Islam
- State-building and empire building
- Cultural evolution
- Colonialism and its impact
- Negritude and other aspects of cultural pride
- The symbiotic relationship between Europe and Africa
COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS
- Critical and creative thinking
- Evaluate interpretations of historical events
- Effective communication orally and in writing
- Analyze the causal relationship between two or more historical events
- Connect past and present events
- Problem posing
- Work collaboratively with others
- Clearly articulate thoughts in discussions and other activities
- Close reading of primary and secondary sources
- Select what is important from a large body of material