Humanities
1500: Introduction to the Humanities
Class Materials
Schedule of Readings,
Exams, and Due Dates
Cultural Experience Report Portfolio Assignment
Lecture, Exam and Portfolio
Resources
Sample Cultural Experience Report Portfolio
Turnitin.com
sign-up instructions for H1500 B1 (9:30 – 10:45)
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sign-up instructions for H1500 D (2:00 – 3:15)
Exam 3
Links of
interest:
New Sounds: a show featuring
new classical, electronic, avant garde, unusual and world music (click
on archive—the second link from the
top on the right hand side of the page in the links menu—to see a full listing
of months with shows)
Jeem’s Top-100 Films of all
time
The Red-Hot Jazz Archive: a history of
jazz before 1930, with historical essays and embedded real audio links
Project Gutenberg: over
20,000 free electronic books from the greatest writers in the world
Check out the Iowa Review Web
to learn about and experience new forms of electronic literature
Read new forms of
online literature from the Electronic
Literature Collection
View thousands of
vintage educational, advertising, industrial and amateur films at the Prelinger Archives
Listen to free
radio shows from the golden age of radio on radiolovers and also (for a small fee)
on the digital deli
Listen to radio tales of the strange and
fantastic
See a play at Atlanta’s
famous Shakespeare Tavern
(highly recommended!)
Visit the newly
expanded High Museum in Atlanta
Visit the Cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta
in Grant Park, Atlanta, near the zoo. A cyclorama is a circular painting; you
sit in a theater inside the painting and the entire theater slowly spins to
show you the full sweep of the painting and attached diorama. The Atlanta
Cyclorama is the largest painting in the world (highly recommended!)
Read the medieval
morality play, Everyman
Learn about the Shia-Sunni
split in Islam from National Public Radio
Read about the astronomical
accuracy of Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey
Watch ecstatic Sufi dancing and trance Sufi dancing (to the music of
Mercan Dede)
Watch a Japanese
no play
Look
at the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral
Learn
about the medieval scholastic method of inquiry
Read
about modernist artist Joan Miró’s attack on traditional painting.
Learn
about the operatic singing style of bel canto
Read a classic work of American romanticism: Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”