Summer 2024 - HUM 101W D900
Introduction to Global Humanities (3)
Class Number: 3453
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
May 6 – Aug 2, 2024: Mon, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Surrey
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Instructor:
Niall Mackenzie
nma45@sfu.ca
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An introduction to issues and concepts central to the study of the humanities around the world. Through exposure to primary materials drawn from different periods, disciplines, and regions, students will become acquainted with a range of topics and ideas relating to the study of human values and human experience. Students with credit for HUM 101 may not take this course for further credit. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course has three broad purposes. First, to get students thinking about certain fundamental questions of moral intelligence, as those questions arise across a range of human relationships – with one’s family and friends, with society, with oneself and (for religious believers) with the divine. Second, to alert students to some of the diverse ways in which literary texts and other cultural artefacts can generate meaning. And third, to foster an understanding of canon-formation and the pursuit of humanistic knowledge as historically conditioned processes, in which we have a role to play as interpreters and continuators.
Grading
- Tutorial participation (including attendance) 10%
- Reading quizzes 15%
- Essay 1 (take-home) 15%
- Essay 2 (in class) 15%
- Multimedia project 20%
- Midterm exam 25%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Glyn Burgess, trans., The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics 1990)
ISBN: 9780140445329
Michael Frayn, Copenhagen (Anchor Books 2000)
ISBN: 9780385720793
RECOMMENDED READING:
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. by Tim Parks (Penguin Classics 2011)
ISBN: 9780141442259
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 Text) (Oxford World’s Classics 2020)
ISBN: 9780198840824
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html