HUM 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frame Story, Postcolonialism
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HUM 2020 – DAY ONE
notes
why is it important to study the humanities?
• humanities: studying what it means to be human
• study human being experience beyond words
• thinking about what is communicated to human and what does each communication
mean and how is each experience communicated
• human history is this world
• critical thinking is about asking question
o best critical thinking in non-judgemental
• understand diverse human experience
why should we be critically assessing discipline of humanities?
• discipline of humanities is contingent of power among human beings
• focus on white, male perspective
• monolithic – uniform and powerful of a large group or organisation
what is theory?
• begin with observation, ask question (what are correlations between various
observations, construct a greater understanding of ourselves and our world), build a
theory
• frame questions – framing device – help to bring focus on what we are looking at
• based on observations
• not a singularity
o feminism – three waves (ongoing of 150 years)
▪ distinct theoretical frameworks
• idea and focus of oppression and inequality with women
o post-colonialism theory is plural within theories (more and more, complex
discourse)
• predict or make intelligent predictions based on observations about what could
happen if issues aren’t addressed
• conversation
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