I 3 hours credit Transformations of myth through time presents an introduction to the myths that pervade the art, literature, and culture of both ancient and modern civilizations. Humanities II 3 hours credit Humanities through the arts, with Maya Angelou, is a survey of the human condition as seen through film, drama, music, literature, painting, sculpture, and architecture, with an emphasis on the history, techniques, meaning, and evaluation of individual works of western art. This interdisciplinary course explores and analyzes the rhetorical, critical, and functional aspects of film and theater as visual, performance, and literary genres.
Students learn to read the basic signs, syntax, and structures of dramatic and cinematic language.
Each dimension is presented in a series of video tapes. Focus is on the interrelatedness among the six dimensions and how people live their lives in a religiously pluralistic society. The major world religions studied are Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.