Humanities Outcomes

The first outcome that we met was “Students analyze, interpret, and appreciate emerging,
contemporary, and/or enduring works of the human imagination.” We met this outcome when we
watched the documentary of the community getting together to make the kids some instruments
out of trash because they didn’t have enough money. We also saw an example of this outcome in
chapter 17 of ​A People’s History of the United States​. Zinn put a couple of excerpts from poems
and journal entries of the black Americans in the 1950s describing what things were like and
how they felt. The black people used different things to get their emotions out because obviously
they couldn’t really do anything else back then.
The next outcome is “Students reflect on significant questions about the human condition
that emerge from multicultural and/or multilingual perspectives.” We see an example of this
outcome in the documentary “Foreigners in Our Own Land” because the Latin Americnas start
talking about how they felt when their land was being stripped away from them. Another
example is based on the same documentary from outcome 1 when the parents had expressed how
they wanted their children to have a better life than they did growing up.
Outcome number 3 is “Students examine cultural works within their global and/or local
social contexts, understanding the way in which questions of power impact a society’s cultural
expressions.” We see an example of this in the documentary “Precious Knowledge” when we see
the kids in a class that teaches them about where they come from and about the struggles they
face as people of color. This class did a lot for them and we know that because the rates of
graduation were higher than before. Another example of this outcome is how much influence the
government has regarding its people and what classes they belong in.
“Students communicate emotional and personal responses to cultural works” is the 4th
outcome that we looked at. Going back to the documentary with the homemade instruments that
we looked at, students start to connect themselves with what they watch or read. When someone
sees something that reminds them of something they’ve been through it makes them want to talk
about it and express emotion about how they feel when they resonate with it. Another example of
this is in ​A People’s History of the United States​ because although students can’t relate to the
direct slavery and discrimination that happened back then, we acan still relate to the blatant
 differences that are pushed on us the minute that we are born into the world.
The last outcome that we have is “Students integrate and apply the insights and
approaches gained from multiple disciplinary perspectives to the study of human experiences.”
We met this outcome by analyzing all of the perspectives of the people that were involved in a
certain situation. For example we looked at the perspectives of not only Christopher Columbus
but also the perspective of the Natives whose land he stole.