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Humanities

This guide will assist students with resources and materials in the field of humanities

Textbooks

Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity 

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A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences 

A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.

Explorations: An Open Invitation To Biological Anthropology 

Anthropology is the study of humanity, in all its biological and cultural aspects, past and present. It is a four-field discipline comprised of biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology. The focus of this book is biological anthropology, which explores who we are from biological, evolutionary, and adaptive perspectives.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness 

produced through a collaborative publishing agreement between OpenStax and the Bill of Rights Institute. The course is designed to align with the curriculum guidelines for AP U.S. History from the College Board. The full list of authors and reviewers, with their affiliations, can be found in the Preface to the resource.

Linguistics for Teachers of English 

The primary goals of this text are to acquaint prospective teachers of English with certain aspects of the history, structure, and use of the English Language. Through considering the nature of the English language; how language and culture are interconnected as well as how it is acquired and how and why it changes, readers will come to a fuller understanding of sociolinguistics.

Genre in a Changing World 

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions and educational settings.

American Literature I 

This course is a survey of American Literature from 1650 through 1820. It covers Early American and Puritan Literature, Enlightenment Literature, and Romantic Literature. It teaches in the context of American History and introduces the student to literary criticism and research.

Art Appreciation 

This course is particularly focused on helping you develop visual literacy skills, but all the college courses you take are to some degree about information literacy. Visual literacy is really just a specialized type of information literacy. The skills you acquire in this course will help you become an effective researcher in other fields, as well.

Humanities 122 (Medieval to Modern History) OER Textbook 

Examines written texts, visual arts, and musical compositions to analyze and reflect the evolution and confluence of cultures in Europe, Asia, and the Americas from 800 C.E. to 1750 C.E.

Humanities - Early Civilizations OER Textbook (PPCC) 

This resource is the OER textbook created by the Humanities Department at Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC).It covers HUM 121 - Early Civilization, according to the learning objectives and common course numbering system at Colorado Community College System (CCCS).

Human Geography: An open textbook for Advanced Placement 

The purpose of AP Human Geography is to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice.

EXPERIENCING THE HUMANITIES 

What are the humanities? They are the fine arts, culture, and philosophy.

Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics 

We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others' behavior and choices.

Introduction to Philosophy: Logic 

Introduction to Philosophy: Logic provides students with the concepts and skills necessary to identify and evaluate arguments effectively.

Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind 

Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind surveys the central themes in philosophy of mind and places them in a historical and contemporary context intended to engage first-time readers in the field. It focuses on debates about the status and character of the mind and its seemingly subjective nature in an apparently more objective world.

Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion 

Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion introduces some of the major traditional arguments for and against the existence of God, as well as some less well-known, but thought-provoking arguments for the existence of God, and one of the most important new challenges to religious belief from the Cognitive Science of Religion.

Philosophical Thought across cultures and through the ages, 2nd Ed. 

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The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology 

This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Monographs at New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in NPP eBooks by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press.

Understanding Basic Music Theory 

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Anthropological Theory 

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EDSITEment! : the Best of the Humanities on the Web

Created and maintained by the federal government, this website provides easy access to free online resources from art & culture, history & social studies, literature & language arts, and world language.