· The courses emphasize cultural, rather than diplomatic, military, political, or social history. However, other kinds of history ought to provide context for a focus on the cultural. The courses contextualize cultural creations within a historical continuity; chronological and geographical perspectives are mainstays of the courses. Cultural artifacts (e.g., poems, operas, paintings, temples) should reside in a course's foreground.
· Instructors should find occasions and material to relate Western to non-Western cultures; the courses are to be Western-oriented but global in scope.
· History, literature, philosophy, performing and visual arts should all be considered.
· The courses are designed to inculcate critical thinking, primarily through the study of primary materials.
· The courses are to be writing- and reading-intensive. They are therefore to operate under the assumption that writing is a mode of thought, a means of clarification, and they are to include a multi-staged research paper (at least three stages--see a possible model for this project here), that is, a multisourced and analytical research paper, and exam essays; in-class writing is an option, as are other writing assignments.
· There will be at least two exams, one of them a final exam, each including essay writing.
· Some group work should be encouraged in the course, possibly with several individual projects as outcomes (i.e., a group might work together on a broadly related set of topics but each group member would produce an individual report, paper, or website).
· The courses ought to include some oral reporting; for example, the documented paper project might well include an oral report.
· The courses are to culminate in a portfolio of student work. Teachers will engage in group readings of student research papers.
· There is a common text for each respective course.
For
Hum 211 the text will be a customized version of Janetta Rebold Benton,
and Robert Di Yanni, Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the
Humanities, Custom Vol.. I Package (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
/
Prentice Hall, 2005), a special version of the normal first volume,
specifically
designed for NJIT (ISBN 053646281x
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