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HUM-1324: Introductory Humanities: The Modern World

Description: The shifts in thought and values during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the global imagination, including issues of commerce, scientific inquiry, industrialization, nationalism, war, labor, gender, class differences, race, and the beginnings of postmodernity. Emphasis on interpretive and analytic skills in terms of reading, discussing, and writing about the interrelationships among the arts, literature, philosophy, history, religion, and science, and their contributions toward shaping the values and aspirations of the age, including global contexts and Asian cultures.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 89

Average GPA: 3.31 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 41.28%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.73%

Constance J Roberts201642.8%38.6%13.8%0.8%2.9%1.1%3.1812
Seth J Bartee201462.6%22.6%12.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%3.394
Barbara J Reeves201346.3%43.1%7.4%1.9%1.2%0.2%3.2929
Muhammed Shah Shajahan202472.6%14.7%8.6%1.9%2.2%0.0%3.543
Souza De Souza Aline R Soares202461.8%23.0%9.7%2.5%0.8%2.2%3.476
Zachariah W Wheeler201974.0%9.2%6.8%8.1%0.0%1.9%3.492
Alexandra L Briggs202084.5%12.2%1.3%0.0%1.3%0.7%3.775
Jennifer J Henderson200942.3%44.7%6.0%3.3%3.7%0.0%3.188
Michael B Saffle201831.4%52.8%7.5%1.9%5.0%1.3%3.025
Beuren Grayson C Van201735.2%39.9%12.6%4.3%4.6%3.3%2.973
Lynette F Moyer200532.5%35.6%22.4%5.4%4.1%0.0%2.853
Sarah E Plummer201996.9%2.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.7%3.944
Suchitra Samanta200641.8%44.0%4.1%4.0%6.1%0.0%3.113
Ian I Odonnell201790.9%9.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.931
Jordan Hill201442.9%40.0%11.5%0.0%2.8%2.9%3.241

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