HUM-100-Q1561 Perspectives in the Humanities

Learning Goal: I’m working on a health & medical question and need guidance to help me learn.

Overview

This assignment explores questions about fundamental aspects of human culture and guides you to evaluate the larger human need to express.

Prompt

Consider the items below. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Identify a creator from the twentieth or twenty-first century who you think made an important contribution to art and culture in the form of cultural works that impacted society.
2. Describe one of the cultural works they created and the medium. Mediums can include dance, literature, sculpture, visual arts, architecture, music, performance, and so forth.
3. What questions about human culture does this work prompt?
4. What big questions do you think influenced the cultural work you selected? Consider addressing how this connects with the larger human need to express.

For example, if the creator you chose were John Lennon, you could identify one of his songs and discuss how the song relates to his social activism.