Student Resources
Student Resources
This area is reserved for current students to access material used in class such as lectures, powerpoints, and examples of assignments.
Click on the links below to download items to your computer or phone.
Announcements
Check back here for video announcements that pertain to your course. I teach 3-5 different topics throughout the term. Sometimes the videos apply to all students, sometimes just to certain classes.
I will post the latest videos below. If you want to see an archive of the video, click here.
Valencia College:
- Introduction to Humanities Textbook: Landmarks in Humanities PDF
Powerpoint Presentations
These are raw Powerpoint Slides that may have animation. The files might be quite large. Click on the blue link that will take you to a Google Drive file for download.
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- What are the Humanities?: Examine the many different aspects of the Humanities
- Primary Sources: Learn how to use your Critical Thinking to analyze objects and information
- Afrika: Heritage, Prehistory, Slave Trade, Customs, and Islam Knowledge
- Prehistory: Transformation from Paleolithic to the Neolithic Community. Discussion about Indigenous vs Native.
- Abrahamic Western Religions: What are the difference between the faiths?
- Logical Fallacies: Can you spot an irrational argument?
- Plato's Objective Knowledge: Can Plato's Allegory of the Cave help us understand knowledge?
- Understanding Myths: Symbols, Creation, and Destruction Myths
- The Middle Ages: Brief slide set containing Social Structure, Caste System, Black Plague, Dante's Hell, Altar Pieces, and Gregorian Chants
- The Renaissance: Explores the transitional period between the Dark Ages and Age of Reason
- The Romantics; The spirit of Liberty and Revolution, as well as the Sublime
- The Age of Reason; Ethical Theories, Civil Disobedience, and the Enlightenment
- Morality and Horror: Explore patterns within horror movies throughout time.
- Free Will and Existentialism: Examine issues pertaining to the Will and Essence
- Fin De Siecle & Sublime: Moral and Authoritative belief systems are pushed to the point of extinction
- Surrealism: Explore the absurdity of our reality through various artistic movements
Mini Video Lectures
Click here to watch a few videos on various topics within the Humanities field.
- Age of Reason: Part I: Intro (8mins)
- Age of Romanticism: Liberty (7mins)
- Canvas LMS Learning Tutorial (11mins)
- Extra Credit: Heritage (11mins)
- Extra Credit: Renaissance Recreator Summer Term 2019
- Extra Credit: Tribal Chants
- Fin De Siecle: Over of the time (2 mins)
- Humanities Overview: an overview of the topics discussed in class (11 mins)
- Primary Sources and Analyzing Information (4 mins)
- Fayetteville Technical Community College:
Mini Video Lectures
Click here to watch a few videos on various topics within the Humanities field.
- The Challenges to Strategic Thinking (4:36mins)
- Field Dependent Learning Style (4 mins)
- High Direction Learning Style (4:37 mins)
- Logical Fallacies: Part I (4:16mins)
- The Skill of Evaluation: Cognitive Standard (4:28m)
- The Skill of Induction: Patterns (5:31m)
- The Skill of Grouping: Classification Scheme (6:00m)
- The Skill of Patterning: Synthesis (7:00m)
- The Skill of Abstracting: Component & Umbrella Sentences (4:41m)
- The Skill of Persuasive Speech: The Lead Hook Sentence (5:30m)
Hopkinsville Community College:
Mini Video Lectures: Click here to watch a few videos on various topics within the Humanities field.
- Textbook: A Little History of Philosophy (link to online PDF)
- Branches of Philosophy: Explore the basics of the field
- Presocratics and Knowledge: 10min video about the Presocratics and Knowledge
- Plato's Objective Knowledge: Can Plato's Allegory of the Cave help us understand knowledge?
- Project Examples: Occasionally, extra credit assignments allow students to explore philosophy out in the real world. Here are a few of those times.