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.

Video Lectures Applicable to all courses

How to Analyze Textual Sources (4 mins)

Valencia College:

Introduction to Humanities Textbook: Landmarks in Humanities PDF
Extra Credit: Renaissance Recreator Summer Term 2019
Extra Credit: Chants: Examples from other students
Course Orientation Guide

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.

Afrika: Heritage, Prehistory, Slave Trade, Customs, and Islam Knowledge
Prehistory: Transformation from Paleolithic to the Neolithic Community.
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

Mini Lectures

Age of Reason: Part I: Intro (8mins)
Age of Romanticism: Liberty (7mins)
Primary Sources and Analyzing Information (4 mins)

Fayetteville Technical Community College:

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:

Presocratics and Knowledge: 10min video about the Presocratics and Knowledge
Project Examples: Occasionally, extra credit assignments allow students to explore philosophy out in the real world. Here are a few of those times.

Lectures in PDF format: Lectures discussing philosophical topics discussed in class, i.e Dualism, Religion, Horror, Existentialism, Problem of Evil, etc