This class provides a unique angle to a traditional English class. Through investigating what it means to be human, we have learnt more about race and ethnicity, education, and other topics that are vital to our society. The freedom to create provided in many of the assignments is also a unique aspect of this class.
Over the summer, I read Walden as a part of the Humanities summer assignment. After this assignment, I worked with a group (Isha Nagireddy, Rishab Nair, Hartej Anand, and I) to highlight the impossibility of this form of isolation today, and the hypocrisy of his lifestyle. The work closed with a descent into madness as I delivered the Bean Rap, an ode to Thoreau’s dearest beans. To the right is the script to our skit.
One of the greatest aspects of Humanities is the creative reign given to us to create meaningful works. One example of this is the satire assignment, in which we worked in pairs to create satires, which are essays that use humor, often to the extreme, to depict flaws in society or humanity. I worked with Nicholas Giza to write about a solution to people blowing their leaves into the road in order to highlight the issues involved with the “out of sight, out of mind” mindset in our society, which affects so many of our world issues today.