Humanities Courses available in Bath this Fall
Beginning September 2 University College at Bath/Brunswick, located in the Midcoast Center for Higher Education at 9 Park Street in Bath, will offer several University of Maine at Augusta and University of Southern Maine humanities courses on-site. On-site courses are traditional classes with the instructor in the classroom.
Susan Stoddard teaches UMA’s ARH 105 History of Art and Architecture I on Thursdays from 1 to 3:45 p.m. Covered are techniques and trends in architecture, sculpture and painting as related to the history of art from prehistoric times through the Gothic period.
UMA’s ENG 102W Introduction to Literature runs on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Ellie Leo instructs this general introduction to literary genres – the essay, short story, novel, drama and poetry.
Polly Kaufman returns to teach two USM history courses. HTY 122I U.S. History: 1800 to 1900, a thematic treatment of the nineteenth-century United States and its peoples, is offered on Wednesdays from 4 to 6:30 p.m. “This course includes an in-depth discussion of the Civil War and a field trip to the Joshua Chamberlain Museum in Brunswick,” adds Kaufman. On Thursdays from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in HTY 394 American Women’s Lives Kaufman covers through autobiography, autobiographical fiction, essays, and biography, how American women defined themselves as they confronted some of the major social issues of 20th century American life.
Bob Baker will instruct UMA’s HUM 389 Science, Technology and Human Values on Thursdays from 1 to 3:45 p.m. The goal of this course is to increase scientific, technological, and ethical literacy by examining contemporary social, moral, and political issues in science, technology and society.
Taught by Stuart Gillespie on Tuesdays from 4 to 6:30 p.m., USM’s MUS 100G Music Appreciation and History, is a survey of music from the Gregorian chant to the modern times, covering musical practices of the renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary periods.
On Thursdays from 9 to 11:45 a.m. Bob Baker also teaches UMA’s PHI 250 Ethics, a critical study of metaethics, ethical theories, and contemporary moral issues.
A humanities course will be offered via two-way videoconferencing among selected centers. On Mondays from 1 to 3:45 p.m. Sanford Phippen teaches UMA’s DRA 265 The American Movie, an examination of the sources of American film making, its historical development, its impact on our culture and movies as a mirror of that culture.
For more information, including course descriptions and prerequisites, visit http://www.learn.maine.edu/pdf/fa08coursedescriptions.pdf.