Valencia College: HUM1020
HUM1020: Syllabus & Course Calendar: Introduction to Humanities:
Spring 2025 (online) Coming Soon
Spring 2025 Courses
In-person Intro To Humanities Courses (Twice-Weekly)
HUM1020-23302, Jan 6 - Apr 27th, 16 weeks, Tuesday & Thursday 8:30 - 9:45 am West Campus
0 of 30 Available
Online Intro To Humanities Courses (Online)
HUM1020-23656,16 weeks: 0 of 30 Available
HUM1020-23735,16 weeks: 0 of 30 Available
HUM1020-25115,16 weeks: 0 of 30 Available
*Reserve classes do not launch until all other HUM1020 across Valencia College are full. Please check back at a later date.
Summer 2025 Courses: To Be Announced
Online Intro To Humanities Courses (Online)
HUM1020-33769, May 5th - July 28, 12 weeks, 30 of 30 Available
HUM1020-33770, May 5th - July 28, 12 weeks, 30 of 30 Available
HUM1020-33768, May 5th - July 28, 12 weeks, 30 of 30 Available
*Reserve classes do not launch until all other HUM1020 across Valencia College are full. Please check back later.
Fall 2025 Courses: To Be Announced
In-person Intro To Humanities Courses (Twice-Weekly)
Online Intro To Humanities Courses (Online)
*Reserve classes do not launch until all other HUM1020 across Valencia College are full. Please check back later.
Why bother with an Intro to Humanities Course?? Who cares?
Well, besides the fact Valencia makes it mandatory --- haha -- without Humanities -- you would lose every argument coming your way -- don't be basic.
The world is full of opinions who want to tell you what is right and wrong. They want to tell you their way is the best way. They want to tell you their version of the past, present, and future but have never listened to one narrative or story or even read their doctrine about their religions or ideas.
My job is to expose you to multiple perspectives and reasons behind cultural traditions and emphasize critical thinking and analysis.
You don't live in a bubble. Humanities sets time aside to explore fundamental questions about human existence, values, ethics, and identity.
Objectives to the Intro to Humanities Course:
A general introduction to Western Humanities courses attempts to answer many questions:
How did the Prehistoric Culture (Mesopotamia, Egyptians, and Aegeans) leave behind a legacy?
When did the Age of Faith (Judeo-Christian and Islam) dominate humanity?
How did the Medieval World survive the Black Plague? (Will we survive our COVID plague?
Was the Renaissance the first revelation in identity discovery and social norms?
Did the Scientific Revolution destroy the Age of Faith and birth the Age of Reason?
The Romantic Spirit and the Age of Revolution inspire a gender revolution?
Did the World Wars and Rise of Postmodernism change our understanding of central concepts of philosophy, architecture, music, religions, and art?
