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Las Positas College

Humanities

About the Program

Humanities is an interdisciplinary academic field that encourages students to critically examine a diverse, interconnected, and changing world and their own lives within it by exploring human creativity past and present. Courses in Humanities offer students a creative, historical, and philosophical immersion in a number of different but overlapping fields of study: painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, literature, film, dance, mythology, etc. In addition to practicing critical skills for analyzing various forms of art, Humanities students are encouraged to develop an appreciation for the value of arts and ideas in their own lives and in society as a whole.

The Humanities Program at LPC is in the Arts and Humanities Division. Humanities courses prepare those interested in majoring in Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, Cultural Studies, English, Art History, Film, Classical Studies, Philosophy, or Humanities for successful transfer to four-year institutions. All of our courses are transferable to CSUs and UCs.

 

Explore the arts, ideas, and beliefs that make us human!

Humanities

Elizabeth Wing Brooks

ewingbrooks@laspositascollege.edu

Degrees & Certificates

Humanities A.A. Degree

Humanities Certificate of Achievement

Courses

HUMN 2 Intro to Film Studies

HUMN 3 Intro to Humanities

HUMN 4 Global Cinema

HUMN 6 Nature and Culture

HUMN 10 American Arts and Ideas

HUMN 11 Culture and Arts I

HUMN 12 Culture and Arts II

HUMN 28 World Mythology