2 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 0220CULTURAL CRITIQUE THROUGH FILM
This course is an introduction to the study of popular film as both a prescription for and expression of cultural mores and norms of behavior within society. Students are encouraged to become active observers, as opposed to passive spectators, of Hollywood films that both reflect and generate culture within the United States. This course first looks at the way organized religion is portrayed in film, particularly Islam and Christian Fundamentalism. Secondly, students will critique the compulsory heterosexuality, female body image, and conventional notions of beauty in Disney animated films. Students will also evaluate the way racism, sexism, and classism are either perpetuated or challenged by popular Hollywood films. Finally, students will develop the skills to write critically about the cultural impact of select films.
This Turbo looks at new ways to understand a central fact of American history—Immigration. The course focuses on current issues in immigration to the United States and encompasses selected aspects of 19th and 20th century immigration. Through a combination of readings, discussion, and film, the course seeks to establish the history, politics, and sociology of immigration to the United States with emphasis placed on immigration as an active process within the larger event of global migrations. Students can examine the impact of race, ethnicity, and gender on this process, and discuss and write about how the political, social, economic, and religious factors, to varying degrees, effected both immigration from the homeland and immigrant acceptance in America.
