HUM Midterm Exam. Pool Questions and
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the meaning of the Humanities, including the various sub-disciplines within it, and its relationship to
Liberal Arts - ✔✔-*humanities*: the study of th
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HUM Midterm Exam. Pool Questions and
answers, rated A. Verified
the meaning of the Humanities, including the various sub-disciplines within it, and its relationship to
Liberal Arts - ✔✔-*humanities*: the study of the myriad ways in which people, from every period of
history and from every corner of the globe, process and document the human experience
liberal arts: they are the cornerstone of the liberal arts
- *sub-disciplines*: humanities, social sciences, anthropology, sociology, psychology, history
Various approaches to studying the Humanities - ✔✔-1. *history of humanity and culture*
-Learning about key events, intellectual and
artistic movements, and other valuable works
in the development of human culture
2. *wisdom and cultivation of humanity*
-Examining the "great" creative and intellectual
works to develop deeper insights into how we
have come to believe and be as we presently
are, as above, but also to use these works to
nourish our humanity and grow wiser
-Involves wrestling with key questions and
compelling, competing answers in order to
reach greater understanding of our own
individual and cultural ideals
3. *social construction and power*
-Critically examining the influence revered
trends, movements, creative and intellectual
works have shaped contemporary culture and
its power relations
-Asks how particular works benefited some
while detrimentally impacting others
critical thinking
reasoning
experience
inference
background beliefs
The value of art, uses of history and philosophy, as per the School of Life videos (see links at end of study
guide) - ✔✔--keeps us hopeful
-makes us less lonely
-rebalances us
-helps us to appreciate things
-propaganda for what really matters
Benton and DiYanni's discussion of the various aspects of the humanities including art (for example, how
does color play a role in painting; varied uses of art throughout history) - ✔✔-"the humanities represent
the most significant and vital of human accomplishments- they reflect our achievements from the
beginning of human life in prehistory."
"The humanities represent the most significant and vital of human accomplishments--they reflect our
achievements from the beginning of human life in prehistory. Included are the most important
developments in the history of civilization: various forms of art--painting, sculpture, and architecture;
the emergence of literature, drama, and music; the creation of philosophies and religions that have
modeled the thoughts and actions of countless people worldwide; and the historical study of these
occurrences."
In what ways can we "actively engage" or participate in the humanities, according to Richard Jewell -
✔✔--See a play, concert, or dance.
-Attend an art or sculpture exhibition.
-Go to an historical museum.
-Describe one's own philosophy of life.
-Create a work of art.
-Study the basis of other world religions.
-Experience a foreign culture for a day.
-Write about such experiences before and after.
-Discuss such experiences with each other.
-Compare, compare.
In what ways do we experience the humanities, as per Benton and DiYanii - ✔✔-Art and architecture,
literature and history, philosophy and religion, film and photography, theater and music and dance
The humanities extend our experiences. They
broaden our perspective, deepen our
understanding, stimulate our imagination,
reward our study, and satisfy our longings.
They amaze and astonish. They counsel and
console. They enlarge and enrich our lives
through making us, finally, more fully and
more deeply human
-we experience the humanities through art, dance, history, religion, philosophy , literature, film, drama,'
Noam Chomsky's view on reading and books including electronic books - ✔✔-[Electronic books] have
advantages. You have half a dozen
books you can read on an airplane trip. On the other hand, when I read a book I care about, I want to
make comments in the margins, I want to underline things. I want to make notes on the flyleaf.
Otherwise I don't even know what to go
back to. You can't do that the same way with an electronic book. Words just pass into your eyes. Maybe
they don't even stay in your brain....
Value of the humanities as per Mark Edmundson, David Behling, Judith Butler, and Martha Nussbaum -
✔✔-in short: it is important to know what we want to express and why, and the humanities gives us the
capacity to do this.
Carol Becker's view of art in relation to research; bell hooks' understanding of the significance and
meaning of imagination - ✔✔--Carol Becker's: artists engage in a type of irreverent and unorthodox
research that refuses conventional "deliverables" measured by traditional data-driven matrices. Yet
artists' unquantifiable results are essential to the w
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