The Humanities Program

Author(s):  
Kathleen Jasonides ◽  
Janet Karvouniaris ◽  
Amalia Zavacopoulou

Innovative since its inception, the ACS Honors Humanities program has a long history of more than 40 years as an interdisciplinary team-taught course that examines essential questions through literature, visual and performing arts, philosophy and history. This innovative approach has continued to motivate successive teaching teams to modify and enhance a program that challenges students academically, utilizing the best possible resources and taking advantage of new technology. The program consists of two year-long, completely integrated i2Flex ACS Athens Honors diploma courses and three i2Flex 20-week enrichment courses accessible to students anywhere. This chapter presents two case studies which explain the transformation of the Honors Humanities course from Face to Face to i2Flex. The authors describe and present examples of how they redesigned the courses. They present data on student feedback and findings regarding the benefits and challenges of adopting the i2Flex methodology for this program. This chapter is intended as a reference for teachers, teachers in training and professionals who train teachers.

Author(s):  
Kathleen Jasonides ◽  
Janet Karvouniaris ◽  
Amalia Zavacopoulou

Innovative since its inception, the ACS Honors Humanities program has a long history of more than 40 years as an interdisciplinary team-taught course that examines essential questions through literature, visual and performing arts, philosophy and history.  This innovative approach has continued to motivate successive teaching teams to modify and enhance a program that challenges students academically, utilizing the best possible resources and taking advantage of new technology. In this article, we present one in-depth case study where we explain how we transformed the Honors Humanities course from Face To Face to i2Flex. We will describe and present examples of how we redesigned the course format and presentation, learning activities and assessment. We present data on student feedback and our findings regarding the benefits and challenges of adopting the i2Flex methodology for this course.


Author(s):  
Kathleen Jasonides ◽  
Janet Karvouniaris ◽  
Amalia Zavacopoulou

Innovative since its inception, the ACS Honors Humanities program has a long history of more than 40 years as an interdisciplinary team-taught course that examines essential questions through literature, visual and performing arts, philosophy and history.  This innovative approach has continued to motivate successive teaching teams to modify and enhance a program that challenges students academically, utilizing the best possible resources and taking advantage of new technology. In this article, we present one in-depth case study where we explain how we transformed the Honors Humanities course from Face To Face to i2Flex. We will describe and present examples of how we redesigned the course format and presentation, learning activities and assessment. We present data on student feedback and our findings regarding the benefits and challenges of adopting the i2Flex methodology for this course.


M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but also on the two collections of Declamations which were attributed to him in late Antiquity. The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to present Quintilian’s Institutio as a key treatise in the history of Graeco-Roman rhetoric and its influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education, from late Antiquity until the present day. It contains chapters on Quintilian’s educational programme, his concepts and classifications of rhetoric, his discussion of the five canons of rhetoric, his style, his views on literary criticism, declamation, and the relationship between rhetoric and law, and the importance of the visual and performing arts in his work. His huge legacy is presented in successive chapters devoted to Quintilian in late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, Northern Europe during the Renaissance, Europe from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, and the United States of America. There are also chapters devoted to the biographical tradition, the history of printed editions, and modern assessments of Quintilian. The twenty-one authors of the chapters represent a wide range of expertise and scholarly traditions and thus offer a unique mixture of current approaches to Quintilian from a multidisciplinary perspective.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Nicholeen DeGrasse-Johnson ◽  
Christopher A. Walker

Presented as a retrospective dialogue between the two co-authors, this essay highlights the history of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), and the Visual and Performing Arts School of Dance, Edna Manley College (EMCVPA). The essay traces the post-independence evolution of modern dance in Jamaica. Furthermore, it examines the intersections, the respective roles, functions and contributions of the two major institutions which have shaped Jamaica’s distinctive, modern dance teaching and public performances. By concentrating on their lived experiences, the co-authors explore themes of identity, educational modern dance’s history and philosophies, and Jamaican dance’s cultural and aesthetic dimensions. Finally, the essay invites a reimagining of the Caribbean contemporary dance which values folk, traditional and popular dance as sources for art and scholarship.


Panggung ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wagiono Sunarto

ABSTRACT The great epic of Mahabharata was created through a long period of time in the eastern Punyab region, India. The process of writing was initiated around 300 BC, and in 7 centuries the book was developed by many generations of writers until the final stage which consists of about 10.000 celokas in 18 parwas. After initial stages of development, the great epic continued to spread to other coun­ tries and regions, especially to cultures which were influenced by Hindu’s or Budha’s civilization, including Indonesia (Java, Bali, Lombok, and other regions). In Indonesia, the story was rewriten, reinterpreted and readapted over and over into many spreading cultures and eventually transformed into many forms of visual and performing arts. The long proccess of construction and reconstraction of the story and the characters was a very interesting cultural proccess which is still in progress in our time. The phenomena could be observed in the adaption of the story in the history of Indonesian Comic Books, particullary in the transformation of visual styles in some of modern comic book exam­ ples. This visual transformation reflects the change of cultural values and communication circum­ stances in particular time of history, which in turn change the world’s view of the creator in respons to, and relevant with the value changes of the society. Keywords: Visual transformation, Indonesian comic history   ABSTRAK Epik  besar  Mahabharata tercipta melalui jangka waktu yang  panjang di  bagian  timur wilayah Punyab, India. Proses penulisannya dimulai sekitar 300 SM, dan selama 7 abad buku tersebut dikembangkan oleh berbagai generasi penulis sampai pada tahap akhir yang terdiri atas sekitar 10.000 celoka dalam 18 parwa. Setelah tahap awal pengembangannya, epik besar tersebut terus menyebar ke negara-negara dan daerah-daerah lain, khususnya ke masyarakat yang dipengaruhi oleh kebudayaan Hindu atau Budha, termasuk Indone- sia (Jawa, Bali, Lombok, dan daerah lainnya). Di Indonesia, cerita tersebut ditulis ulang, ditafsirkan dan diadaptasi kembali ke berbagai budaya dan akhirnya ditransformasikan ke dalam berbagai bentuk seni visual dan pertunjukan. Proses konstruksi dan rekonstruksi yang panjang dari cerita dan karakter itu merupakan proses budaya yang sangat menarik yang masih berlangsung hingga masa kini. Fenomenanya dapat diamati melalui adaptasi dari kisah dalam sejarah Buku Komik Indonesia, khususnya pada transformasi gaya visual dalam beberapa contoh buku komik modern. Transformasi visual ini mencerminkan per- ubahan nilai-nilai budaya dan suasana komunikasi pada waktu tertentu dalam sejarah, yang pada gilirannya mengubah cara pandang respon kreator, serta relevan dengan per- ubahan nilai-nilai masyarakat. Kata kunci: transformasi visual, sejarah komik Indonesia


2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Angelyn Dries O.S.F.

The essay describes some holdings from five key mission archives in the United States, with the suggestion that mission archives can prove a valuable source to understand the intersection between mission and world Christianity and can raise questions about the relationship of one to the other, especially since the fulcrum of Christianity has shifted from Europe and North America to areas once considered “mission countries.” The sources hold a myriad of further research possibilities, that include the visual and performing arts in relation to inculturation; literature, the history of print, other media, and technology; the history of museums; maps, geography and perceptions of the world; economics/business; oral history, church history, Christianity in particular countries, the reception of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church in “Third World” churches; and, transoceanic networks with implications for local churches.


Author(s):  
James McElvenny

This chapter sets the scene for the case studies that follow in the rest of the book by characterising the ‘age of modernism’ and identifying problems relating to language and meaning that arose in this context. Emphasis is laid on the social and political issues that dominated the era, in particular the rapid developments in technology, which inspired both hope and fear, and the international political tensions that led to the two World Wars. The chapter also sketches the approach to historiography taken in the book, interdisciplinary history of ideas.


Author(s):  
Arunabh Ghosh

In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of one of the world's largest nations was committed to fundamentally reengineering its society and economy via socialist planning while having almost no reliable statistical data about their own country. This book is the history of efforts to resolve this “crisis in counting.” The book explores the choices made by political leaders, statisticians, academics, statistical workers, and even literary figures in attempts to know the nation through numbers. It shows that early reliance on Soviet-inspired methods of exhaustive enumeration became increasingly untenable in China by the mid-1950s. Unprecedented and unexpected exchanges with Indian statisticians followed, as the Chinese sought to learn about the then-exciting new technology of random sampling. These developments were overtaken by the tumult of the Great Leap Forward (1958–1961), when probabilistic and exhaustive methods were rejected and statistics was refashioned into an ethnographic enterprise. By acknowledging Soviet and Indian influences, the book not only revises existing models of Cold War science but also globalizes wider developments in the history of statistics and data. Anchored in debates about statistics and its relationship to state building, the book offers fresh perspectives on China's transition to socialism.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-126
Author(s):  
Birgit Schneider

The article discusses how current mediated conditions change nature perception from a media study perspective. The article is based on different case studies such as the current sensation of atmospheric change through sensible media attached to trees which get published via Twitter, the meteorologist Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory and the use of gutta percha derived from tropical trees for the production of cables in the history of telegraphy. For analysing the examples, the perspective of »media as environments« is flipped to »environments as media«, because this focus doesn’t approach media from a networked and technological perspective primarily but makes productive the elemental character of basic »media« like air, earth and water


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