HUMN 225 - Nature and Culture

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100 with a grade of C or better

Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This introductory course examines the relationship between culture and nature through the humanistic disciplines of art and literature. The course will examine the ways cultural ideals and practices in literature and art simultaneously represent and shape our understanding of nature and, therefore, our relationship to it.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course: Students will:

show proficiency with the specialized vocabulary of the field and the significance of relevant historical contexts (measures the conventions of one area of the humanities);
develop an interpretation and / or argument in response to a text or texts (measures the conventions and methods of one area of the humanities).