HUM 2020: Encountering the Humanities

Course Page & Schedule

Part Two: The Basics: Succeeding as a Humanities Student

Week 3: Jan. 22, 24, 26
Week 4: Jan 29, 31, Feb. 2

How to Read: Experiencing the Humanities

• Reading and the Humanities
• Reading the Text (Witold Rybczynski, City Life)
• Descartes, Meditation 1

How to Write: Representing the Humanities

• Writing about Objects and Experiences in the Humanities: Responding, Interpreting, Evaluating
  • Knowing What You're Doing
  • The Writing Process in the Humanities
  • Van Gogh, Starry Night
  • Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night"
  • Van Gogh, Self Portrait
  • Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer"
    
    
• Writing about Questions in the Humanities
  • Questions on Cities
    
    
• Important Writing Tools:
  • Strunk and White, The Elements of Style
  • Citation Styles (UCF Library Links)
    • MLA

How to Listen and Look

• Listening
• Looking

How to Think: Reasoning in the Humanities

• Recognizing Reasoning
  • Means of Persuasion
  • Working With Claims
  • Justifying Claims
    • Ways to Justify Claims
  • Argument Structures
  • Argument Examples
    
    
• Assessing Arguments
  • Acceptability
    • Assessing Acceptability
  • Relevance
    • Assessing Relevance
  • Sufficiency of Grounds
    • Assessing Sufficiency of Grounds
  • ARG Conditions - Examples
    
    
• Language in Arguments
  • Language Use and Abuse
  • Putting It Together: Language + ARG Conditions
    • Arguments with Claims Identified
      
      
• Kinds of Arguments
  • Analogies
    • Examples of Analogies
  • Inductions and Generalizations
    
    
• The Context of Arguments
  • Belief Systems
    
    
• Resources on Thinking in the Humanities
  • The Reasoning Page

Using the Library

• Library Assignment