I feel like I have definitely changed a lot over the two course period. I feel that I know a lot more about art and music of different cultures. However, I’m somewhat happy that I somehow made it through. I think what resonated with me the most is how you can find connections between so many things. I didn’t realize that some of the non-Western cultures were similar to Western culture. Also I never realized that literature, art and music of one culture could all be related until this class. I think it will help me move forward in live, I feel like I can compare things in a new way than I could before. It also gives me a perspective on some things that I never knew about. For me personally I thought that the new assessment sheets were a bit on the heavy side compared to the essay assessment from Humanities 2001. Although the assessment sheets were shorter, they were more comprehensive, like we had to know everything about almost every culture studied. In some respects I get it because it tests us on everything we went over, on the other I talked with other Humanities 2002 students which wrote essays instead which seems a bit more reasonable. I think that you might want to consider shortening the midterm assessments from four to two. I think that you could add more practice with connections. As for the grading of tests from individual professors I think that they should use examples of which period concepts are in the piece they talk about. The period concepts were more evident in the music and literature than the art pieces. I also felt that although the art was interesting I didn’t remember much about it afterwords, and didn’t have much to go on for the period concepts part of the tests. Overall it was a somewhat enjoyable thrill ride from finding connections and remembering everything.
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