In HUM-102, students explore the interaction between individuals and society as a framework for understanding cultural inquiry. Through the examination of the scientific, creative, cultural, and historical humanities, students develop a practice of reflexivity to describe conceptions of self, others, and systems and their interconnectedness. The course has no prerequisites.
Reflexivity as a genuine analytical practice
The course explicitly builds a practice of reflexivity — turning humanistic analysis back on the student's own conceptions of self and society — treating self-examination as a genuine skill developed through disciplined practice, not passive introspection.
Four humanities lenses on one central relationship
HUM-102 examines the self-society interaction through scientific, creative, cultural, and historical humanities lenses specifically, teaching students that this single relationship can be genuinely illuminated from several distinct disciplinary angles.
Key topics in HUM102
- The interaction between individuals and society
- Scientific, creative, cultural, and historical humanities
- Reflexivity as an analytical practice
- Conceptions of self and others
- Interconnected social systems
- Cultural inquiry frameworks
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- HUM-102's approach: Applying scientific, creative, cultural, and historical humanities lenses to the same self-society relationship
- Lesson: HUM-102 teaches that this multi-lens approach reveals dimensions of the self-society relationship that a single disciplinary angle would miss
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Understanding the interaction between self and society is genuinely different from applying that understanding to one's own conceptions of self, others, and the systems one participates in — reflexivity requires actively turning analytical tools inward, which is a skill developed through deliberate practice, not something that follows automatically from learning the theory. HUM-102 builds this practice explicitly because the course's real goal is developing students' capacity for genuine self-aware cultural analysis, not just theoretical knowledge about self and society.
Each of these lenses genuinely captures different aspects of how individuals and society shape each other — the scientific lens might reveal measurable behavioral patterns while the creative lens reveals expressive and symbolic dimensions — and no single lens captures the full complexity of this relationship. HUM-102 uses this multi-lens structure because it produces a genuinely richer and more complete understanding of self and society than any one disciplinary approach alone could provide.