WGU C100 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES
The Classical Period 500 BCE- 500 CE - Answer -Themes: balance, truth/reason,
democracy/republic, polytheism, humanism
Great thinkers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—engaged in pursuit of truth through logic
and reason.
Poetry:
The Odyssey-Homer
A Lament for Adonis-Sappho
Theater:
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
Aristophanes- Lysistrata
Music:
"First Delphic Hymn to Apollo" is the earliest surviving fragment of notated music from
anywhere in the Western world.
The Middle Ages - Answer -religion, deference to god, crusades, pacifism, humility,
feudalism, chivalry
The Renaissance Period - Answer -rebirth of classicism, humanism, rationalism,
scientific expansion, university system, individualism, self-fashioning
The Baroque Period - Answer -counter-reformation, divine right, absolutism,
commonwealth, unification of the arts, world as a stage
The Neoclassical Period - Answer -skepticism, rationalism, empiricism, order, deism,
classicism
The Romantic Period - Answer -nationalism, exoticism, revolution, heroism, passion,
individualism, nature
The Realist Period - Answer -Darwinism, industrialization, individualism, age of doubt
Humanities - Answer -The study of what it is to be human. Not from a biological sense
but from a cultural sense.
The study of of what humans believe and why, along with what we have believed in the
past and even what we might believe in the future.
, Functions of humanities: to help us learn to think critically and creatively about the
human experience. To seek to understand what humans believe and why
What is the value of studying the Humanities in a university setting? - Answer -A
consideration of literature, art, music, dance, film and philosophy offers practical, social,
and aesthetic benefits to students.
Exploring the continuing questions addressed by men and women throughout the ages
through the vehicle of the arts should deepen and enrich our current existence.
Theme - Answer -Unifying ideas that are repeated or developed throughout a literary or
artistic work.
Examples: Loyalty, Friendship, Heroism, Love, Good vs Evil, Fighting for what you
believe in,
Universal themes. What are the two most common? - Answer -Love
The Hero
Eros - Answer -erotic love
Agape - Answer -platonic love
Humanism - Answer -The study of the creative and intellectual contributions of all
human cultures and as an ethical system that emphasizes human reason, values and
the scientific method.
This consideration and examination began in the early Renaissance with the study of
Greek and Roman civilizations, which were extolled as the pinnacle of human
achievement.
Myths - Answer -Traditional stories of a people or culture that serve to explain some
natural phenomenon, the origin of humanity, or customs or religious rites. These myths
often offer practical and spiritual wisdom in addition to providing entertainment.
Beauty - Answer -Those qualities that give pleasure to the senses.
Aesthetic Experience - Answer -Taking "simple joy" in something
Archetype - Answer -Age-old models by which we comprehend human experience. The
concepts of heroes, scapegoats, and heaven are examples of concepts that have been
passed down through generations and have become part of our cultural subconscious.
Music - Answer -An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental
or human voices in a structured and continuous manner.
The Classical Period 500 BCE- 500 CE - Answer -Themes: balance, truth/reason,
democracy/republic, polytheism, humanism
Great thinkers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—engaged in pursuit of truth through logic
and reason.
Poetry:
The Odyssey-Homer
A Lament for Adonis-Sappho
Theater:
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
Aristophanes- Lysistrata
Music:
"First Delphic Hymn to Apollo" is the earliest surviving fragment of notated music from
anywhere in the Western world.
The Middle Ages - Answer -religion, deference to god, crusades, pacifism, humility,
feudalism, chivalry
The Renaissance Period - Answer -rebirth of classicism, humanism, rationalism,
scientific expansion, university system, individualism, self-fashioning
The Baroque Period - Answer -counter-reformation, divine right, absolutism,
commonwealth, unification of the arts, world as a stage
The Neoclassical Period - Answer -skepticism, rationalism, empiricism, order, deism,
classicism
The Romantic Period - Answer -nationalism, exoticism, revolution, heroism, passion,
individualism, nature
The Realist Period - Answer -Darwinism, industrialization, individualism, age of doubt
Humanities - Answer -The study of what it is to be human. Not from a biological sense
but from a cultural sense.
The study of of what humans believe and why, along with what we have believed in the
past and even what we might believe in the future.
, Functions of humanities: to help us learn to think critically and creatively about the
human experience. To seek to understand what humans believe and why
What is the value of studying the Humanities in a university setting? - Answer -A
consideration of literature, art, music, dance, film and philosophy offers practical, social,
and aesthetic benefits to students.
Exploring the continuing questions addressed by men and women throughout the ages
through the vehicle of the arts should deepen and enrich our current existence.
Theme - Answer -Unifying ideas that are repeated or developed throughout a literary or
artistic work.
Examples: Loyalty, Friendship, Heroism, Love, Good vs Evil, Fighting for what you
believe in,
Universal themes. What are the two most common? - Answer -Love
The Hero
Eros - Answer -erotic love
Agape - Answer -platonic love
Humanism - Answer -The study of the creative and intellectual contributions of all
human cultures and as an ethical system that emphasizes human reason, values and
the scientific method.
This consideration and examination began in the early Renaissance with the study of
Greek and Roman civilizations, which were extolled as the pinnacle of human
achievement.
Myths - Answer -Traditional stories of a people or culture that serve to explain some
natural phenomenon, the origin of humanity, or customs or religious rites. These myths
often offer practical and spiritual wisdom in addition to providing entertainment.
Beauty - Answer -Those qualities that give pleasure to the senses.
Aesthetic Experience - Answer -Taking "simple joy" in something
Archetype - Answer -Age-old models by which we comprehend human experience. The
concepts of heroes, scapegoats, and heaven are examples of concepts that have been
passed down through generations and have become part of our cultural subconscious.
Music - Answer -An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental
or human voices in a structured and continuous manner.
