This course examines ways in which the arts (literary, cinematic, theatrical, visual, and aural) develop key ideas that help shape a culture's system of beliefs. The ideas and themes under consideration vary with different versions of this course. Recent examples include the myth of the "rugged individual," the nature of the unconscious, the relationship between imitative behavior, rivalry, and violence, the quest for forbidden knowledge, the pursuit of flow states for peak performance, the "psychedelic renaissance."
Artistic and Humanistic Perspectives
Course UID
004923.1
Course Subject
Catalog Number
200
Long title
Homer to Hitchcock: the History of Ideas in the Arts