Course Materials for Mr. DeSormier


HUM 1020 Introduction to Humanities
  • Chapter 1: ORIGINS: The First Civilizations  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 2: CLASSICISM: The Greek Legacy  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 3: EMPIRE: The Power and Glory of Rome  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 4: REVELATION: The Flowering of World Religions  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 5: SYNTHESIS: The Rise of the West  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 6: CHRISTENDOM: Europe in the Age of Faith  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 7: REBIRTH: The Age of the Renaissance  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 8: REFORM: The Northern Renaissance and the Reformation  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 9: ENCOUNTER: Contact and the Clash of Cultures  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 10: BAROQUE: Piety and Extravagance  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 11: ENLIGHTMENT: Science and the New Learning  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 12: ROMANTICISM: Nature, Passion, and the Sublime  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 13: MATERIALISM: The Industrial Era and the Urban Scene  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 14: MODERNISM: The Assault on Tradition  (pdf)
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  • On-Line Writing Lab, Purdue University  (External Link)

  • Chapter 15: GLOBALISM: Information, Communication, and the Digital Revolution  (pdf)
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  • HUM 2220: Greek/Roman Humanities
    Study Guides

  • Online Writing Lab, Purdue University  (External Link)

  • Chapter 1 -- THE RISE OF CULTURE: From Forest to Farm  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 2 -- MESOPOTAMIA: Power and Social Order in the early Middle East  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 3 -- THE STABILITY OF ANCIENT EGYPT: Flood and Sun  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 4 -- THE AEGEAN WORLD AND THE RISE OF GREECE: Trade, War, and Victory  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 5 -- GOLDEN AGE ATHENS AND THE HELLENIC WORLD: The School of Hellas  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 6 -- ROME: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 7 -- OTHER EMPIRES: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty in China and India  (pdf)
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    HUM 2223: Late Roman and Medieval Humanities
  • Secrets of the Dead video questions  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 1 -- THE FLOWERING OF CHRISTIANITY: Faith and the Power of Belief in the Early First Milleni  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 2 -- THE RISE AND SPREAD OF ISLAM: A New Religion  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 3 -- FIEFDOM AND MONASTERY, PILGRIMAGE AND CRUSADE: The Early Medieval World in Europe  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 4 -- CENTERS OF CULTURE: Court and City in the Larger World  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 5 -- THE GOTHIC STYLE: Faith and Knowledge in an Age of Inquiry  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 6 -- SIENA AND FLORENCE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: Toward a New Humanism  (pdf)
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  • Online Writing Lab, Purdue University  (External Link)

  • The Labyrinth: outstanding medieval studies site  (External Link)

  • Central Florida Scottish Highland Games, Jan. 17-18  (External Link)

  • Bay Area Renaissance Festival, Spring 2015  (External Link)


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    HUM 2250: 20th Century Humanities
    Study guides

  • Online Writing Lab, Purdue University  (External Link)

  • Chapter 1 -- The Fin de Siecle: Toward the Modern  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 2 -- The Great War and Its Impact  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 3 -- The Era of Invention  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 4 -- New York, Skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Make It New  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 5 -- The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, Holocaust and Bomb  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 6 -- After the War: Existential Doubt, Artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 7 -- Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World  (pdf)
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  • Chapter 8 -- Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s  (pdf)
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    HUM 2310: Mythology
  • Study Guide 1: Chapter 1  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 2: Chapter 2  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 3: Part 2, Part 2A, Chapter 5  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 4: Chapters 8 and 9  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 5: Section 2B and Chapters 13 and 14  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 6: Section 3, Chapter 15  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 7: Chapters 16 and 17  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 8: Chapters 23, 26, 27  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 9: Part 4 and Chapter 28  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 10: Chapter 29 and Chapter 30  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 11: Section 5 and Chapter 34  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 12: Chapter 35  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 13: Part 6 and Chapter 36  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 14: Chapter 49  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 15: Part 7 and Chapter 42  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 16: Chapter 43  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 17: Chapter 44  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 18: Section 8 and Chapter 45  (pdf)
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  • Study Guide 19: Chapter 47  (pdf)
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