HU211 Introduction to Humanities
Summer 2005
Term dates: June 6-July 29 2005
Instructor:Robert D. Young
Email: Robert.Young03@pirate.park.edu
Phone: 909-336-9621 o 619-225-0009
Fax: 909-494-7610
Address:  P.O.Box 3060 Lake Arrowhead, Ca 92352-3060

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Welcome! Introduction to Humanities is a course designed to guide you through a series of connected, overlapping, and inter-related explorations in the field of the Humanities. The course is arranged into areas of coverage meant to invigorate your sense of what it means to be human, enliven your inquisitive spirit relative to Humanities study, and illuminate the relationships among your life, the world, and patterns replicated among humans. Such rich, interdisciplinary patterns, loosely identified, form the areas of coverage for this course, which you will investigate through class discussions and “exploratory” writings. You will also work through stages of writing, research, peer response and revision, for a substantial project, which you will share late in the term.

Through this course of study and through multiple explorations grounded in manifestations of humanness, students will—we imagine—fulfill a substantial and thorough introduction to humanities, which will precipitate future transformations toward becoming “more fully human.”

Begin by reading through the course syllabus.  Next, proceed to the Course Content Menu to begin the coursework for week one.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

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Required text: Ways of Reading, Seventh Edition, Bartholomae and Petrosky, Eds., Bedford St. Martins. Order this book here: MBS Books Direct: Park University.

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Course Outline

HU211: Introduction to Humanities
	Begins	Ends
Week One	Monday, June 6	Sunday, June 12
Week Two	Monday, June 13	Sunday, June 19
Week Three	Monday, June 20	Sunday, June 26
Week Four	Monday, June 27	Sunday, July 3
Week Five	Monday, July 4	Sunday, July 10
Week Six	Monday, July 11	Sunday, July 17
Week Seven	Monday, July 18	Sunday, July 24
Week Eight	Monday, July 25	Sunday, July 29