Humanities
1500: Introduction to the Humanities
Cultural
Experiences from the Past to the Future
Class Materials:
Syllabus and Major Assignments
Schedule of Readings and Due Dates
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Lecture and Portfolio Resources:
Class Library Guide
Cultural Experience
Report Library
Guide
How to Write
Bibliography Entries in MLA Style
Sample Cultural
Experience Reports
Links of Interest:
Fall 2019 Humanities
Outsider Art Show
Spring 2020 Humanities
Outsider Art Show
Spring 2020 Humanities Poetry
Anthology
Find numerous works
of literature through Literature
Online via Galileo.
New Sounds: a show featuring
new classical, electronic, avant garde, unusual and world music (click on show archive—down a ways on the
right-hand side of the web page—to see a full listing of months with shows;
there are over 3000 shows that you can listen to)
The 2020 Guthman
New Musical Instrument Competition
The American Film Institute’s
list of the 100 Best Films of All Time
The Red-Hot Jazz Archive: a history of
jazz before 1930, with historical essays and embedded real audio links
Project Gutenberg: over
20,000 free electronic books from the greatest writers in the world
The Poetry Foundation: free poems
from the world’s leading poets
Free Speculative Fiction Online:
thousands of fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories from major authors
Baen.com: free
science fiction and fantasy
Tor.com: more free science fiction and fantasy
Read new forms of
online literature from the Electronic
Literature Collection
View thousands of
vintage educational, advertising, industrial and amateur films at the Prelinger
Archives
Listen to radio tales of the strange and
fantastic
See a play at
Atlanta’s famous Shakespeare Tavern
(highly recommended!)
Visit the High Museum in Atlanta
Tour museums
through the Google Art Project
Here is a fun
postmodernist exercise. An Italian artist has reimagined what the
great paintings of the Renaissance masters would look like if they conformed to
21st century ideals of beauty.
The true colors
of Ancient Greek art
How
Ancient Greek statues really looked
Classical
Renaissance sculptures dressed
as hipsters
Listen to Flannery
O’Connor read “A Good Man
is Hard to Find”
Virgil Abloh’s DJ set
Virgil Abloh’s exhibit at the High Museum
Kampaign’s video for “Virgil Abloh”
Virgil Abloh speaking
at Harvard
Haiku of Basho
Allora and Calzadilla at the 2011 Venice Biennale
See the Arecibo Observatory
Ted Chiang’s “The Great Silence”
Listen to Tayari Jones read from her novel, Silver Sparrow
NC Theater’s
production of Driving Miss Daisy
Highlights from the
original Broadway production of Parade
Listen to a
monologue from A Song for Coretta
The trailers for Paths of Glory, Spartacus, The Graduate, and Patton, and clips
from Rambling
Rose
The trailer for the
film version of James Dickey’s Deliverance
Dickey discusses and
reads his poem, “Cherrylog Road.”
Dickey reads “For the Last Wolverine”
and “Looking for the
Buckhead Boys”
A reading of Sidney
Lanier’s “Song of the
Chattahoochee”
David Bottoms at Poetry@Tech
Natasha Trethewey reads “Miscegenation,” “Incident,” and “Lunch Poems”
Mae
Jemison on the importance of Star Trek
Judith Ortiz Cofer reads “Who is the Alien?”
W.E.B Du Bois, Civil Rights Pioneer
Alice Walker reads
“Democratic Womanism”
Martin Luther King
Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”
speech
Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence”
speech
Brian Eno’s Music for Airports
Bach’s Mass in B Minor
An Introduction to Noh
Theater
Dogon Dance, Mali,
Africa
Science
Fiction Films
Scientific Romance: Things to Come
Pulp SF: Flash Gordon
Golden Age SF: Destination Moon
New Wave SF: Zardoz
Cyberpunk: “True Skin”
Post-Singularity SF: “Rogue
Farm”
Estrangement: “The Cave”
Cognition: “Einstein-Rosen”
Future history: Neil deGrasse
Tyson’s trailer for The Martian
The Romantic sublime: Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc”
The science fictional sublime: “Wanderers”
The science fictional grotesque: Tetsuo: The Iron
Man
More SF grotesque: John Carpenter’s The Thing
H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time”
The Lovecraftian short film “The Deep Ones”
Abiogenesis: a
post-singularity vision with a space-operatic, golden-age feel.
Renaissance: golden-age
visions of the technological sublime within an obscure new-wave narrative.
Robots of Brixton: a new-wave
mingling of robots and today’s British politics.
Sight: the near future
as cyberpunk, or a golden-age vision of everyday life the day after tomorrow?
The Awareness: a chilling tale
of AI.
Sundays: a lavishly
produced dystopia with a new-wave sense of alienation.
Tea
Time:
steampunk with grrrl power.
Butterflies and
Breakfast Cereal:
time travel gone askew (when doesn’t time travel go askew?).
“Pumzi”:
African Dystopic Afrofuturism.
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