Frederick Community College HU 202-ONL 1 SPRING 2011
Class begins: Jan. 24	Class ends: May 13	Last Day to Withdraw: April 9

Instructor Information:
Name: Pamela D. King	Office: n/a
E-mail: pking@frederick.edu	Phone Number: 301-646-2811 (cell)
Contact Hours: email and by appointment for in-person meeting	Campus Mail Box #: 652

Course Information:
Credits: 3
On-campus Meetings: 0	On-campus Exams: One proctored exam in FCC testing center
Prerequisites: EN 50A & EN52 or ESL 95 & ESL 99	Co requisites: None

Course Description:

Humanities II: Culture and Human Experience (Renaissance to the Present) surveys Western culture through the study of art, music, literature and philosophy from the sixteenth century to the present.

Core Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course students will demonstrate

1. …a college-level communications skill by recognizing and describing major works of art from the Northern Renaissance to the Modern periods.

2...critical thinking skills by researching, analyzing, and critiquing these works in order to understand their meaning and significance.

3. …general knowledge and historical awareness by relating these artistic achievements to the cultural context of the history and philosophy of the time period.

4. …their ability to make informed and critical responses to the arts and to human values expressed in the arts by explaining the images, materials, and techniques used by artists to communicate their responses to human experience.

5. …their value of the emergence of multi-cultural society by acknowledging a plurality of cultural and personal values and by demonstrating respect for the right of others to express their viewpoints.

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Instructional Methods:

1. Assigned readings from the text and other sources.

2. Viewing works of art on museum websites.

3. Weekly written reports based on assigned readings.

4. Three written exam based on the readings and works of art.

5. Online discussions based on assigned questions.

6. Final internet research project and written report.

 How this is course organized:

The course is organized around the chronological periods of Western culture as covered by sequential chapters in the textbook. THIS IS NOT A SELF-PACED COURSE.

Text(s) and Course Materials:

Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition: The Early Modern World to the Present, Volume II, 6^th Edition, 2011. A CD comes with the book.

Progress Report:

By the end of the 6th week of the semester, you will have an opportunity to evaluate your progress in this course and decide if you need to make any adjustments (additional study, tutoring, conference with instructor) to assure your success in this course.

Evaluation Methods:
Tests / Papers / Projects / Participation	Point Value	Final Grade Scale
Weekly Reports (15 @ 20 points each) Online Discussions (3 @ 25 points each) Exams (3 @ 100 points each) Research report	300 75 300 100	675-775= A 575-674= B 475-574= C 400-474= D Below 400 = F
If the graded performance for online assignments differs significantly from the grade average for proctored assignments, the instructor reserves the right to administer additional tests.

Student Services

A variety of services are available to assist students in succeeding at FCC. Students can learn more about these services by visiting the Student Services web page: http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/index.aspx.

Students with disabilities who are in need of accommodations or who have questions related to disabilities services should contact the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) office at 301-846-2408. Students can learn more about these services by visiting the Services for Students with Disabilities web page: http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/disability.aspx.

Participation Policy:

This is NOT a self-paced course. Participation will be measured by the thoroughness and timely submission of all assignments when due.

(Use the following principles as a guide in formulating a participation policy for your course and then delete this text:

(1) The course level class participation policy is designed to support the learning process.

(2) The course level class participation policy is designed within the framework of one of the approved class formats such as online, hybrid or f2f classes.

(3) To maintain the highest quality of academic work, the course level class participation policy encourages and expects the student to participate fully in all course activities.

(4) In case of serious illness, emergency, religious holidays, or participation in official college functions, students remain responsible for completing the requirements of the course.

(5) If ‘Class Participation’ affects the grade of the student, the course syllabus identifies measurable units of class participation in course activities.

(6) If F2F participation components cannot be met due to serious illness, emergency, religious holidays, or participation in official college functions, the instructor may explore make-up opportunities in different class participation formats as warranted).

Email Policy:

With the exception of MOL students, all FCC students will receive and are expected to use their FCC email address for correspondence with faculty and staff at the college. Students can establish and access their FCC email accounts at https://myfcc.frederick.edu. Email is an instructional tool essential to student-instructor and student-student communication. In the Blackboard environment by default, your email address is available to all students in this course.

However, students are permitted to use email addresses of other students in this course only for the purpose and the duration of this course.

The instructor can be expected to respond to regular student email inquiries (grades, posted assignments, and tests excluded) within the time frame of 24 to 48 hours.

Academic Integrity:

Work in this course is subject to the provisions of the FCC Code of Academic Integrity. Plagiarism in any form will not be tolerated. As a student, it is your job to practice academic honesty at ALL times. Make sure that all sources, particularly Internet sources, get proper credit for quotations, paraphrases, and ideas. More information about this and the Student Conduct Code are available at http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/studentpolicies.aspx

You must send your Academic Integrity Pledge to the instructor. The form is available at http://courses.frederick.edu/_utilities/regform.htm

Topical Outline (ONLINE COURSES)

Week	SUBJECT	CONTENT
Week 1 Jan. 24	Introduction	Intro to course content and website; what is Humanities and how do we talk about it?
Week 2 Jan. 31	Protest and Reform: The Waning of the Old Order	The Protestant Reformation; a new Bible; William Shakespeare. (Chpt.19 pp.1-35).
Week 3 Feb. 7	The Catholic Reformation and the Baroque Style.	Counter-Reformation in style and deed; the birth Mannerism; Opera is born. (Chpt.20 pp.38-59).
Week 4 Feb. 14	Absolute Power and Aristocratic Style. The Baroque in the Protestant North.	The Sun King of France, the Courts of Philip of Spain and Charles of England. (Chpt.21, pp.61-74).Absolutism, Anglicanism and architecture; Rembrandt and Bach (Chpt.22, pp.98-111).
Week 5 Feb. 21	The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning. The Limits of Reason.	See the world anew; 17^th –century Holland; Baroque instrumental music. (Chpt.23, pp.113-132). The Industrial Revolution and Transatlantic Slave Trade; Swift and Voltaire—Satire in Hogarth; the theories of Rousseau. (Chpt.25, pp.153-164; 167-170)
Week 6 Feb. 28	18^th Century Art, Music and Society. EXAM I: CHPTS. 19-26---Feb. 23-March 5 (EXCLUDES CHPTS. 21 & 22)	The influence of social class and culture; Rococo style in painting, architecture, and sculpture. International Classicism; the forms and instrumentation of classical symphony—Haydn, Mozart and the young Beethoven. (Chpt.26, pp.176-205).
Week 7 Mar. 7	The Romantic View of Nature	Darwin, the poetry of Nature and the Classical; Wordsworth and Keats; William Blake (Chpt.27, pp.210-219). Romantic landscapes of England and France; American Romanticism—Thoreau and Whitman; “The New World” landscape (pp.220-235).
March 14	SPRING BREAK
Week 8 Mar. 21	The Romantic Hero. The Romantic Style in Art and Music.	Napoleon as Hero, The Promethean Hero ; Frankenstein, Byron to Abolitionists. (Chpt.28, pp.237-256). Gros, Goya, Géricault and Delacroix; heroes in sculpture; the origins of “modern” music. (Chpt.29, pp.258-270; 271-272; 274-277).
Week 9 Mar. 28	Industry, Empire, and the Realist Style.	Social change and the theories of Marx and Engels; realism across Europe and America: Dickens, Twain, Zola, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy; realism in the visual arts and music, the influence of photography, Courbet, Millet, Daumier, Manet, Eakins, and Homer; “reality” comes to opera. (Chpt.30, pp.279-280; 284-318).
Week 10 April 4	The Move Toward Modernism. EXAM II: Chpts. 27-31---APRIL 6-16	Painting and sculpture in the late 19^th century: Impressionism and Degas and Rodin; Art Nouveau; Post-impressionism: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat and Cézanne. (Chpt.31, pp.324-339; pp.342-349).
APRIL 9	LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW
Week 11 April 11	The Modernist Assault.	Giants of the 20^th century: Picasso and Cubism, Matisse and Fauvism; Nonobjective work: the Russians and the Dutch; Frank Lloyd Wright; Modernity in architecture. A new sound and a new way to move: atonalism and modern dance. (Chpt.32, pp.358-379).
Week 12 April 18	The Freudian Revolution. Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Arts.	Kafka and Joyce; Expressionism, the Dadaists and Surrealists. (Chpt.33, pp.381-401). WWI--T.S. Eliot, Erich Maria Remarque, Max Ernst. The Great Depression in literature, painting and photography: Steinbeck, The Mexican Muralists, Lange. (Chpt.34, pp.405-423).
Week 13 April 25	The Quest for Meaning.	Existentialism to the Absurd; Expressionism in the visual arts: Bacon, DeKooning, Pollock, Rothko, and Giacometti; Realism lives on in sculpture; The Modernists and Minimalists—triumph in architecture: Van de Rohe, Saarinen. F.L. Wright and Buckminster Fuller. (Chpt.35, pp.429-446).
Week 14 May 2	Liberation and Equality.	The quest for racial equality, the Harlem Renaissance to MLK; W.C. Handy’s blues, Louis Armstrong’s jazz, Alvin Ailey’s dance company; the blossoming of feminism. (Chpt.36, pp.450-477).
Week 15 May 9	The Information Age. EXAM III: Chpts.32-37---May 11-13.	From book to screen, literature in the Information Age; Pop Art: Warhol, Johns, Oldenburg and Lichtenstein; Abstraction to Realism: from Nevelson to Hirst; Architecture spanning two centuries; Opera meets Rock, and vice versa; Dance never dies. (Chpt.37, pp.479-504).

Topical Outline (HYBRID COURSES)

Week	SUBJECT	ACTIVITY ONLINE	ON-CAMPUS ACTIVITY
Week 1
Week 2
	Official Make-up Dates

NOTE: Your instructor reserves the right to make changes to this outline as needed.