Social Studies

Modernity and Global Cultures Honors

Course #2720XA

1 Credit- Required for Center students

36 Weeks

Description

  • Explore the human condition through literary, historical, cultural, and artistic expression with an emphasis on contemporary humanities 

  • Study modernism and post-modernism, genocide, social justice, gender, environmental and conceptual art, contemporary architecture, world film, globalization of cultures

  • Master skills in research, the Socratic method, presentation with the use of technology, use of contextual evidence, formulation of argument and reasoning

  • Develop additional skills in written and oral communication, aesthetic analysis and appreciation, cross-cultural awareness, self-guided learning, and community service leadership

  • Examine the themes: Freedom: Human Rights and Human Experience; Truth: Perception and Culture; Earth: World and Environment; and Future: Past, Present and Possibility