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Mar 29, 2024
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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PY 288 - The Art of Being Human Credit Hours: 3
The Humanities are a set of disciplines that address human life. This Humanities capstone course will center around the fundamental questions- what does it mean to be a person and what is the meaning of life? The course will consider how the different disciplines of the Humanities approach these questions. With a philosophical foundation the course will address a collection of responses. The readings will cover some traditional philosophical texts, as well as fiction, music, art, drama/theatre, and the languages. The final capstone project will be developed over the course of the semester and may be presented in a variety of ways, e.g. short film, portfolio, thesis paper, dialogue, literature review, musical composition, monologue.
Course Outcomes Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- identify a criteria-based approach to questions about personhood and the meaning of life;
- analyze the methodological structure of the Humanities as it exists in a variety of disciplines;
- describe different academic approaches to questions about personhood and the meaning of life;
- demonstrate how humankind’s search for meaning is addressed by the Humanities disciplines, Philosophy, Music, Art, Drama/Theatre, and Languages;
- recognize what philosophy, music, art, drama/theatre and the languages have in common; and
- utilize a specific academic approach to demonstrate responses to the course’s two fundamental questions in the final capstone project.
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