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Summer II 2015 – ONLINE HUM. 101 COURSE SYLLABUS

July 6 – August 13, 2015

HUMANITIES 101: MODERN CULTURE AND THE ARTS

DIVISION: CHA Division, Harrisburg Area Community College

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Xiaoqing Zhu, Ph.D, Humanities and Art History. In addition to teaching

Humanities 101, I also teach Art 181 and Art 182: Art through the Ages I and II; Art 192: Art of Asia,

Humanities 201, World Mythology; Humanities 114: Chinese Culture and Art and Humanities 216:

Chinese Culture and Art Study Tour in China. I also occasionally take students to China on the China

Study Tour in the summer.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Office Location: Arts 121, Harrisburg campus (not in office in the summer)

Office Phone:

I will not be reached by my office telephone during the summer.

You can still call my office phone 717-780-2359 OR 1-800-221-

1300, extension 212359 and leave a message and phone number.

In case of emergency, the following is my cell number.

Cell Phone (in case of

emergency) 571-296-8670

Online Office Hours

I do not have fixed online office hours. But I am mostly on D2L

in the evenings during the summer. I do check D2L regularly

and my emails (usually I take Friday and Saturday off).

Email Address: [email protected]

Catalog Course Description: Broadens the students’ perception of and appreciation for the humanities

by exploring the contribution of the arts to the individual and to society. Emphasis is given to modern

developments in such areas as the visual, performing, literary, and environmental arts. Concepts basic to

a systematic understanding of the humanities in relation to everyday life are examined through a variety

of media and aesthetic experiences. (Core A and D).

Prerequisite Course(s) Required: Eligibility for enrollment into ENGL 101 or permission of Instructor

Text(s) Required: Fiero’s Landmarks in Humanities, 3rd Edition and Some PDF readings will be

assigned.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:

Describe the interrelationships of the arts in selected Western and non-Western cultures of the

modern world

Discuss the formal elements of the arts, the common bases of aesthetic judgment, and the chief

criteria by which the arts are judged in selected Western and non-Western cultures

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Describe the impact of cultural, historical, psychological, and/or philosophical forces on the arts

and contemporary understanding of the arts

Examine genres of both visual and performing arts in selected Western and non-Western cultures

Recognize the different characteristics of multiple genres through written or oral projects, critical

reviews, and/or exams.

System Requirements:

These are typical requirements of a computer system needed for online courses at HACC:

IBM Compatible Computer - Pentium class process (or better) with at least 64MB of

RAM (128 MB recommended), with Windows 95, 98, NT, or 2000, CD-ROM drive,

VGA compatible graphics, sound card and speakers, modem with a minimum speed of 56kbs (preferably

faster), and a telephone line (or cable modem).OR

Macintosh - Power Macintosh G3 processor, at least 64MB of RAM (128 MB

recommended), modem with a minimum speed of 56 kbs (preferably faster), and a telephone line (or

cable modem).

You will need an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and an email account.

Software Requirement:

Operating System: Windows 95 or above; MAC OS 8.1 or above

Course Specific Software: Office 2000, ability to view PowerPoint images.

Methods of Evaluation

Your grade will be based on

1. Two Quizzes - Quiz will be posted starting Monday, 12:00 midnight and you have until Sunday

midnight of the same week to complete (No Make-up quiz, first quiz – 25 points, the second quiz will be

50 points)............75 points

2. Weekly Discussions - Discussions are usually posted Sunday by midnight and your response should be

posted by the weekend of the same week, Sunday

midnight.......................................…………………………….…..125points

3. Middle Term Exam (Week

Four) ...............……………….……………………...……...........................100 points

4. Final Written Project - On-site and Virtual Gallery/Museum

Report………………….………………...100 points

(You are asked to explore an official virtual site of an existing museum or gallery worldwide and write

comments on their sites and on their permanent collections and current exhibitions and compare to your

experience of visiting a local or a national gallery on site in person; ticket proof for the on-site gallery is

required and a detailed guideline will be posted)

*Quizzes and exams will be a combination of multiple choices, short answer, and picture identification

questions.

FINAL GRADE (Calculation Scale)

Total points 360-400 (Avg. 90-100) = A

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320-359 (Avg. 80-89) = B

280-319 (Avg. 70-79) = C

240-279 (Avg. 60-69) = D

Below 240 total points = F

TENTATIVE COURSE TIMETABLE*

Week Reading

Assignment Class Content Weekly Assignment

One

July 6

Landmarks – Chap.

1 and chap. 3 (84-

88 on China)

Introduction:

Principles of Humanities

Origins: The First Civilizations Mesopotamian – Epic of

Gilgamesh

Ancient Egypt: The Book of the

Dead and Egyptian Canon

Origins: The First Civilizations • Ancient India and China

Landmarks 1-26

Discussion: What do you expect to

learn from this class?

Chapter One Four Discussions

Two

July 13

Landmarks – Chap.

2 and 3

Classicism – The Greek Legacy • The Greek gods and heroes

• The Athens of Pericles

• Classical Style Architecture: Athens

and Parthenon; Greek Sculptures: Archaic

and the Classical

The Hellenistic Age – Hellenistic Art

Roman Empire - The Power and Glory

of Rome • Roman Architecture – Pantheon

Landmarks Chap. 2: 29-47


Discussion on Iliad

Assign First Short Written

Architecture Report in dropbox

Landmarks Chap. 3

Quiz 1 – Ancient Civilizations and

Classical Greek and Roman

Three

July 20

Landmarks – Chap.

4, 5, and 6

Revelation: The Flowering of World

Religions (1300 BCE – 700 CE)

●The Byzantine Icons and

the Spread of Christianity

●The Islamic World (7th. Century)

Sufi Poetry

Islamic Prose

Islamic Architecture

● Buddhism

• Buddhist Iconography

Synthesis: The Rise of the West (350-

1100)

• The Early Medieval West

Asian World between 350-1100

Japan – The Birth of a Novel

China in Tang and Song

Christendom: Europe in the Age of

Faith (1000 – 1300)

Landmarks Chap. 4: 91-107, 109-

116, Chap. 6: 146


Discussions on Christianity and

Buddhism and Isl Landmarks

Chap. 5 up to p.133

Discussion on the Christian

Crusade

Landmarks Chap. 5: 128-130, 138-

140, 168-169.

Discussion on Asian Art

Landmarks Chap. 6 up to p. 165

Beyond the West: 166, 168-169

*Assign Second Short Written

Architecture Report in dropbox

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• Romanesque Architecture

Gothic Cathedrals

Beyond the West

Hindu God – Shiva Nataraja and

Hindu Temple – Khajuraho (ca.

1000)

China: Guanyin – Bodhisattvas

Four

July 27

Landmarks – Chap.

7 and 8

Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance,

1300-1600 Transition: Medieval to

Renaissance

The Arts of Transition: Giotto’s

New Realism

• Renaissance Humanism; Castiglione:

The Well-Rounded Person

Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance,

1300-1600 • The Italian Renaissance – the Medici

• The Printing Press

Early Renaissance Art (1400-1500):

• Architecture (Brunelleschi, Alberti, and

Bramante)

• Sculpture (Donatello, Pollaiuolo, and

Ghiberti)

• Painting: Botticelli and Masaccio High

Renaissance Art (1500-1550) –

Naturalism, Realism and Idealism

Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael

Michelangelo as a sculptor,

painter, and architect

High Renaissance Art (1500-

1550) in Venice - Giorgione and

Titian

Reform: The Northern Renaissance

and the Reformation (1400-1650)

• Renaissance and Protestant

Reformation

• Northern Art: Jan van Eyck, Bosch, and

Grünewald, Durer, Holbein, and Brueghel

• 16th. century Literature and Drama

--- William Shakespeare

Mid-Term Exam (Chap. 1-6)


Discussion on Renaissance Men





Landmarks Chap. 7: 207



Week Four Discussions on

Renaissance Art and Shakespeare

*Assign on site and virtual gallery

report guideline

Five

Aug. 3

Landmarks – Chap.

10 and 11

Baroque: Piety and Extravagance

(1500-1700)

• The Catholic Reformation and the

Italian Baroque

• Teresa’s Vision and Bernini’s

The Esctasy of Saint Teresa and

Bernini’s sculptures and St.

Peter’s Basilica

• Caravaggio and Gentileschi

Quiz 2: The Renaissance Art

(Chap 7 and 8)


Landmarks Chap.10: 270-276




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• Baroque Ceiling Painting

• Baroque Architecture: Bernini

and Borromini

• Northern Baroque – the Dutch

Golden Age:

• Rembrandt and Vermeer

The Aristocratic Baroque

• Versailles and Louise XIV in France

• Velázquez and Ruben – Painting

• Baroque Music:

• The Birth of Opera

• Handel, Bach, Vivaldi

• Instrumental Music

Enlightenment: Science and the New

Learning 1600-1800 The Visual Art • The Rococo Style and

Painting – Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard,

and Vigee-Lebrun

• Neoclassical Painting of David

• Neoclassical Architecture and Sculpture

in France and America

Music and Enlightenment 18

th. C. Classic Music - Birth of

Symphony Orchestra and Music of

Mozart (1756-1791)


Discussions on Baroque Music and

Art, and Counter-Reformation and

on Mozart and Beethoven

Six

Aug. 10

Landmarks – Chap.

12 and 13

The 19th

Century - Romantic Period

• The Romantic Era

• Romantic music and opera

The Late 19th Century Realism

Materialism: The Industrial Era and

the Urban Scene - The Global

Domination of the West: Industrialism,

Colonialism, and the New Imperialism

Literary Realism: Female Characters and

Female writers,

● Realism in Visual Arts

• Courbet and French Realist Painting

• Manet’s “Olympia.”



Discussion on Kate Chopin’s short

story: A Story of an Hour

Final Project - Gallery and

Virtual gallery report due August

10-13

* Emphasized chapters. In your readings, you should focus on these chapters for review.

* Major schedule changes to the syllabus will be announced to the class.

Discussion Deadline: Normally, your weekly course materials will be posted starting Monday of each

week and your response to our weekly discussion is due by Sunday midnight of the week. There is no

penalty if you happen to delay your posting for a few days in case of personal or technical difficulties.

However, if your posting delays more than a week after that Sunday, the professor reserves her right to

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reduce points for the related posting (On average, a late positing after two weeks maximum delay will be

graded two point down, and one more for each subsequent week after the first one-week grace period).

Discussion and Interaction: Students are encouraged to interact with other students and response to

other students’ discussions. For extra ten points (no more beyond ten points), each student can post a

minimum 5 content-based responses on the other students’ discussion throughout the session before the

final week, but it is not required. A content-based response must relate to the content/theme of the

discussion you are commenting. You can also raise questions and make suggestions, and any constructive

comments. Your comments and responses must be at least three sentences long (cannot be “I like your

discussion.”) and must relate to the content of the student’s discussion. Class interactions encourage

positive, constructive, and meaningful discussions. You should not respond for the sake of responding.

The student’s discussion must have inspired and intrigued you to respond and interact, in another words,

you have something meaningful to say and make a contribution to the class interactions.

Examinations: Your examinations will be a combination of multiple choice, short-answer (at the bottom

of each exam, and picture identification questions. Quiz is usually set for 25 minutes and exams are set

for sixty or 75 minutes.

Written Assignments: Your gallery final paper must be submitted via our class dropbox. Ten-points will

be reduced if your paper is turned in via email submission. Your paper must be submitted by the last date

of our class, Aug. 13. Five points will be deducted for each day the paper is late. Exceptions may be made

only based on your discussion with the instructor and she will make the decision at her discretion.

Make-up Policy: Generally, make-up exams and quizzes are NOT given. Both midterm and final quiz

are posted available for six days, students have a plenty of time to log on to complete the exam during a

time and on the day of his or her choosing during these six days. Under certain unexpected emergency

situations, exception maybe made. But students must email the professor immediately, and the professor

reserves her right to seek any written documentation for such an emergency situation, and she, at her

discretion, may allow or disallow a make-up based on each individual circumstance. This policy will be

carefully observed for the fairness to all students who take responsibility for their commitment to learning

and meeting class requirement.

Academic Policies

Instructors Attendance Policy

For HACC's general policy on attendance, please review HACC AP661 - Student Attendance. For this

class specifically, although students are encouraged to visit the class regularly and are expected to fulfill

the class participation requirement, there is no specific requirement as to how often the student must visit

the class. That is, students do not earn credit for just logging in to the class site. Largely your participation

is measured by your class discussions. If a student has not participated in class discussion by the end of

the first week of class, the student can be dropped from this class by the professor for no participation. As

long as the student has posted at least one response in the content discussion area in the class (posting in

other areas, such as self-introduction does not count), the student will remain on the class roster as a

current student until/unless he or she makes a formal request to be dropped from this class.

Email Communication and Office Hours: I do not have fixed online office hours. But I am mostly on

D2L and check my Hacc emails every day from Monday to Thursday during summer sessions. I will do

my best to return your emails as promptly as possible and at least within 48 hours. Emails will generally

not be answered on weekends. If there are unusual circumstances that prevent me from answering your

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emails in a timely manner, I will inform the class. If you encounter extremely unusual and unexpected

difficulty with the class, you can also reach me via my cell phone. However I would appreciate it is to be

the last resort when email contacts fail.

Withdrawal Policy: It is the student's responsibility to withdraw from the class if you believe you cannot

continue with this class. If you wish to withdraw from the class with “W” (a “W” grade will not affect the

student’s GPA), you must contact me at [email protected] no later than Tuesday of the last week of classes

in the summer or Tuesday of the last week of classes before the final exam week during regular

semesters. So I will have time to submit necessary paperwork before the deadline set by the college. If

you receive some form of financial aid for your classes, you should consult with the financial aid

counselor first to discuss any financial implications of your withdrawal before you send your withdrawal

request to me. If the student simply stops participating in the course and does not send me an email

requesting for withdrawal, the student is likely to receive an F grade (which will affect the student’s GPA)

for the course. No showing in class does not guarantee a “W” grade at the end of the semester.

Instructor’s Academic Dishonesty policy

According to ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE 594, Academic dishonesty is defined as an intentional

act of deception in which a student seeks to claim credit for the work or effort of another person, or uses

unauthorized material or fabricated information in any academic work. It includes, but is not limited to:

1. Cheating – giving or receiving answers on assigned material; using materials or aids forbidden by

the instructor, unauthorized possession of examination

2. Plagiarism – offering someone else’s work, words, or ideas as one’s own or using material from

another source without acknowledgement.

3. Interference – interfering without permission with the work of another student either by

obtaining, changing, or destroying the work of another student

4. Buying or selling of term papers, homework, examinations, laboratory assignments, computer

programs, etc.

5. Falsifying of one’s own or another’s records

6. Knowingly assisting someone who engages in A – E above.

Penalties for students found to have committed academic dishonesty include but may not be limited to the

following:

1. Faculty may impose the following disciplinary actions within the context of a course,

a. lowering of a grade or failure for a particular assignment,

b. lowering of a grade, failure and/or dismissal from the course.

2. The Division Dean/Chief Branch Campus Administrator (CBCA) responsible for the student’s

curriculum may impose harsher measures within the context of the College such as,

a. disciplinary probation-may include a limitation on credits, mandatory repeat of a course, etc.

b. suspension from a curriculum.

3. The Division Dean/CBCA may recommend to the Chief Academic Officer (CAO) that the student

be suspended from the College.

4. The CAO may suspend the student from the College for a period of one semester or more.

*(If a student is found committed a plagiarism with a proof, the instructor reserves the right to fail

the student for the course – giving an F for the course grade)

Incomplete Grade Policy

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A grade of Incomplete may be assigned when a student is not able to complete the course requirements

due to extenuating circumstances. The Incomplete grade will be assigned only after a conference with the

instructor and after a serious need is determined. The “I” becomes an “F” if the work is not completed

before 8 weeks into the following semester.

EEOC/PHRC Syllabus Requirement

EEOC POLICY 005: It is the policy of Harrisburg Area Community College, in full accordance with the

law, not to discriminate in employment, student admissions, and student services on the basis of race,

color, religion, age, political affiliation or belief, gender, national origin, ancestry, disability, place of

birth, General Education Development Certification (GED), marital status, sexual orientation, gender

identity or expression, veteran status, genetic history/information, or any legally protected classification.

HACC recognizes its responsibility to promote the principles of equal opportunity for employment,

student admissions, and student services taking active steps to recruit minorities and women.

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (“PHRAct’) prohibits discrimination against prospective and

current students because of race, color, sex, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, handicap or

disability, record of a handicap or disability, perceived handicap or disability, relationship or association

with an individual with a handicap or disability, use of a guide or support animal, and/or handling or

training of support or guide animals.

The Pennsylvania Fair Educational Opportunities Act (“PFEOAct”) prohibits discrimination against

prospective and current students because of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, handicap

or disability, record of a handicap or disability, perceived handicap or disability, and a relationship or

association with an individual with a handicap or disability. Information about these laws may be

obtained by visiting the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission website at www.phrc.state.pa.us.

If an accommodation is needed, please contact the disability coordinator for your campus:

http://www.hacc.edu/StudentServices/DisabilityServices/Contact-Us.cfm

HACC Lebanon Campus & Virtual LearningDeborah Bybee([email protected]) 104R735 Cumberland St.Lebanon, PA 17042Phone: 717-270-6333

http://www.hacc.edu/StudentServices/DisabilityServices/Contact-Us.cfm

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