Humanities and Fine Arts 101 - Traversing Differences: Local

This course focuses on themes that highlight issues of equity and social and environmental justice in the Americas, primarily the United States, from humanity's relationship to nature to its relationship to the socio-political forces and formations it constructs. A key focus of the course is to develop students' "cultural" and "information literacy" alongside the skills of close reading, textual analysis, oral and written communication, and critical thinking, by interrogating works that thematize the evolution of US cultural life, and its role in shaping social, economic, and political life in diverse historical and geographical contexts drawn from transformative writers and their texts from the past and the present. (Gen. Ed. AL, DU)