CCOG for HUM 203 Fall 2024
- 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. Prerequisites: WR 115, RD 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores.
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.
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