8 courses with the subject HUM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HUM 100College Writing, Speaking & Listening For ESOL Students3
A study in the conventions of proper English in an academic setting for English Language Learners. This course will focus on the practices and expectations of college writing, reading, speaking, and listening. Content may include writing in a variety of academic modes, presentations, and strategies for listening and speaking in classroom discussion. This course may feature the study of a variety of disciplines, such as literature, fine arts, historical and cultural studies. A first year experience seminar, this course will also include strategies for college success. Completion of Level III ESOL or an equivalent, or permission of instructor required.
An interdisciplinary introduction to the world of ideas and the creative process. Films, slides, music, readings, and guest lectures give students an insight into explorations of the creative mind through the arts--literary, dramatic, musical, and visual.
Introduction to various forms of sign language and Deaf Culture. Topics include fundamental sign vocabulary, syntax, and grammar, as well as history of Deaf Culture and legal, ethical, educational, and cultural issues facing the Deaf.
An investigation of the people, politics, and prose of a critical era in American history. This course includes a study of the Civil Rights Movement, the New Feminism, and the war in Vietnam as well as the art, music, and literature of the period. In addition to books, films and other media are used to bring home the reality of the era. Membership in the Berkshire Honors Scholar program required.
A course designed to refine skills in the use of basic ASL sentence types. Pronominalization, classifiers, spatial references, pluralization, and temporal and distributional aspects are introduced. Students will study common communicative functions of the language such as the following: asking; requesting; providing clarification; and the giving and asking of directions. Information about the deaf community and culture will be included.
An exploration of film through the study of representative films from the perspectives of writer, director, and critic and through hands-on filmmaking projects. Emphasis is placed on the aesthetics of films, as well as their social, cultural and historic context.
