Course surveys cultural accomplishments of Western civilization from its beginnings in Mesopotamia through the Middle Ages. Content includes visual arts, music, literature, theater, architecture, and philosophy studied in historical context.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites.Course fulfills the humanities and fine arts requirements.

Course surveys the great artistic and intellectual accomplishments of Western civilization from the Renaissance
through the 20th Century. Content includes visual arts, literature, drama, philosophy, architecture,
and music, explored from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites. Course fulfills the humanities and the fine arts requirements.

Course concentrates on culture and arts of the last 50 years, with focus on appreciation and critical evaluation of contemporary culture. Content provides interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, music,
drama, visual arts, architecture, TV, film, and cultural theory, as well as forces that influence the arts.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites. Course fulfills the humanities and fine arts requirements.

Note: Each instructor develops his or her own focus for HUM 122.
Please contact the instructor for information on the class focus and books.

Course provides a survey of the visual arts (painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and architecture) emphasizing how art transmits cultural traditions and aesthetic values. Content includes the historical, social and technological factors that contribute to understanding the function and meaning of works of art.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites. Course fulfills the fine arts requirement.

Course examines music through a basic stylistic survey. Content includes the vocabulary of sounds (rhythm, pitch, intensity and timbre), instruments and forms as illustrated by music from medieval times to the present.
Music of Western civilization emphasized and compared to music from other cultures.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites. Course fulfills the fine arts requirement.

Course surveys the musical, dramatic and stylistic development of music theater, from the year 1600 to the present.
Content includes selected major works of opera, operetta, musicals and ballet.
Focus is on the cultural framework that gives rise to these art forms.

Course focuses on the fundamental questions that human beings have always asked. Topics include a critical examination of theories about reality and truth, moral values and social justice, personal identity
and free will, aesthetic values, and systems of religious beliefs.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites. Course fulfills the humanities requirement..

Note: Each instructor develops his or her own focus for HUM 127.
Please contact the instructor for information on the class focus and books.

Des Plaines

Ananda Satya Spike

Section 004

TR

11:00am - 12:15 pm

RHC

Jon Benson

Course surveys dramatic art. Content includes components of acting, directing, stagecraft, makeup and other aspects of theatrical productions. This is not a performance course. Three credit hours.
No prerequisites. Course fulfills the fine arts requirement.

Course introduces architectural thought and practice from the Egyptians to the present.
Content includes philosophical and practical problems of providing habitable spaces for human beings.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites.

Course explores selected creative work done by women. Content includes literature, art, music, film, and philosophy may also explore women's creativity as manifested through shaping of community, domestic institutions,
and domestic arts. Focus may be either historical or contemporary.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites. Course fulfills the humanities and the fine arts requirements.

Course offers a survey of the historical development of film, emphasizing a study of films and innovations in film production that have had significant influence on film as an art form. Topics include basic film language, editing,
light, sound, and camera movement, and related topics.
Three credit hours. No prerequisites. Course fulfills the fine arts requirement.

Course introduces world music. Content includes musical performance, instruments, basic music theory,
and the cultural significance of music; several Asian, Middle Eastern, and African cultures will be considered.
Course fulfills the fine arts requirement.

Course offers an interdisciplinary and comparative survey of the intellectual and artistic achievements of several
Asian cultures. Content includes examination of literature, philosophy, visual art, music, and other performing arts.
Course fulfills the humanities and global studies requirements.

Course presents different modes of filmmaking. Content includes narrative, documentary, and animation; variety
of current critical methodologies for studying film, such as genre theory, authorship theory, star theory, national cinema, feminist film theory, and structuralist theory (hero studies). A must for any student considering a career
in the media. Three credits. No prerequisites. Course fulfills the fine arts requirement.