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Exposes students to works in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Students identify common themes in the arts, analyze works representing diverse perspectives, and investigate the political, social, and historical contexts of works. A broader understanding is encouraged through the exploration and synthesis of outside sources using research methods.

Beginning with African traditions and closing with a look at contemporary issues, this course will examine the cultural heritage of African Americans in relation to their language, literature, fine arts, music, religion and philosophy.

Provides a multicultural studies approach to the diversity, complexity and contradictions of the American ethnic experience as expressed in the arts and humanities.

Examines Latin America through the lens of the humanities. Students will explore the literature, film, music and art of Latin America and how it has been shaped by cultural and geographical diversity, domestic and international politics, religion, social structure, and economics. Team work and research skills will be developed.

A study of the Black American cultural movement of the late 1920's and early 1930's known as the Harlem Renaissance through examination of the history, politics, philosophy, literature, music, visual arts, dance and theatre of the movement within the American context.

Offering an examination of folklore, the class provides an academic study of multi-generational cultural stories which are handed down through a variety of modalities. Students will explore the ways folklore reflects and creates communal traditions, values, and beliefs.

A survey of Western cultural ideas and expressions from early Aegean civilization to the 5th century C.E. Topics include history, geography, culture, philosophy, religion, art, architecture, and literature of the Greco-Roman world.

A survey of Western cultural ideas and expressions from the Italian Renaissance to the 18th century. Topics include history, geography, culture, philosophy, religion, science, art, architecture, literature, and music from the 15th – 18th centuries.

This course examines various theories of popular culture and applies these theories to various aspects of American culture, such as mass media, sports, fashion, and cultural stereotypes.

This course offers students a broad multicultural understanding of the American Civil Rights Movement through the Humanities: art, film, photography, oral histories, literature, theater, and music of the reform era. The course highlights the experiences and impact of local activists and organizations through the arts, presenting the movement from a "ground-up" perspective rather than a "top-down" to enhance students' civic and multicultural literacy.

This course explores the relationship between the themes, major genres, and production of Hollywood cinema, and American social, political, and economic history from the early 1900s to the present.

World Cinema examines the films and film-making practices around the world. This class explores the production standards and cinema choices of film movements such as German Expressionism, Italian Neorealism, British Social Realism, The French New Wave, Parallel Cinema, 5th Generation Chinese film, Cinema Novo, and Third Cinema.

Survey of five influential world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Exploration of the basic tenets, origins and evolution of each religion; reflection on the influence they have had on history, culture, and the arts.