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Making Meaning Interdisciplinary Humanities at UCG

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Humanities, a vast field…

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Humanities at UCG

A UCG Humanities major prepares for a master’s in:

Philosophy

Religious Studies

The Arts (Letteren)

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Humanities at UCG

Making Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Program

Four perspectives:

§  Investigating & Reporting §  Imagining & Creating

§  Values & Decision-making §  Analysis

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1. Investigating & Reporting

› We do not naïvely encounter the world that we inhabit. Instead, the world requires interpretation

› How do we make sense of, and subsequently describe, culture with the tools and objects at our disposal (signs, artefacts, language, media)?

›  The Investigating and Reporting track leads to a master’s program in the domains of History, Journalism, Media Studies, and Cultural Criticism

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2. Imagining & Creating › Meaning is never given or fixed; it is and must be

continuously (re)created

› How do we imagine possible futures, other minds, or alternative ways of living? How do we reflect upon our lives through imagination?

›  The Imagining and Creating track leads to a master’s program in the domains of the Arts History, Arts and Culture, and Media Studies

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3. Values & Decision-making

›  We are concerned with questions of how we can and should act, whether individually or as part of a group

›  Why should we be good? How should we be good? What are the extent of our obligations to others? How do we assess possible courses of action?

›  The Values and Decision-making track leads to a master’s program in the domains of International Relations and Organizations, Religious Studies, or Political Philosophy.

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4. Analysis

›  Undergirding these analyses is the structure of “meaning” itself: how images, concepts and thoughts come into being and are arranged

›  What does it mean to “mean” something? How do we analyse the relationships between signs, concepts, thoughts?

›  The Analysis track leads to a master’s program in the domains of Philosophy (Logic), Culture and Cognition, Semiotics, or Linguistics.

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Humanities at UCG

›  The UCG Humanities major consists of:

1. The UCG Methodology track and UCG Interdisciplinary projects 2. The Humanities Major modules 3. Minor modules

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Humanities at UCG

Humanities at UCG

UCG Core Curriculum

UCG Humanities

Major

Minor

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Humanities at UCG Investigatingandreporting ImaginingandCreating Valuesanddecision-making Analysis WorldLanguageprogram

ReflectingonModernity HowArtMakestheWorld FreedomandChoice FreedomandChoiceScienceatwork(incl.historyofscienceandsciencecommunication) Artivism:theArtsinSociety Scienceatwork(incl.historyofscienceandsciencecommunication)CultureandCognition(withSocialSciences) World Language: Spanish 2.5 ECTS);

CultureandCognition(withSocialSciences) CultureandCognition(withSocialSciences) MoralPsychologyandMeta-ethics(withFWB) FreedomandResponsibility(withFWB) World Language: Arabic (2,5 ECTS);DeepHistory DeepHistory World Language: Chinese (2,5 ECTS)

World Language : Russian (2,5 ECTS)World Language Dutch (2,5 ECTS)

KnowledgeisPower PoliticsofTheatre/TheatreofPolitics PoliticsofTheatre/TheatreofPolitics PhilosophyoftheHumanitiesStoriesthatShape(d)theWorld StoriesthatShape(d)theWorld KnowledgeisPower Reliability,UncertaintyandTrust World Language: Spanish 2.5 ECTS);

ReligionandPoliticsinContemporarySociety Imaginingthecity:architectureandurbanism ReligionandPoliticsinContemporarySociety LogicandArgumentation(withCore) World Language: Arabic (2,5 ECTS);CultureCriticism CultureCriticism CultureCriticism Society,CultureandComplexity(withSocialSciences)World Language: Chinese (2,5 ECTS)

ImaginingtheCity:architectureandurbanism Understandingbias(gender,ethnicity,class) StoriesthatShape(d)theWorld World Language : Russian (2,5 ECTS)StoriesthatShape(d)theWorld WorldLanguageDutch(2,5ECTS)

Linguistics (5 ECTS);CultureandSociety(withSocialSciences) Technology&Society SeeingSociety IntroductiontoSemioticsandLinguistics World Language: Spanish 2.5 ECTS);

MediaEthnography TheAudiovisualArtsToday MediaEthnography IntroductiontoPhilosophy World Language: Arabic (2,5 ECTS);History:BeautifulBodies SeeingSociety Ethics(withPPE) PoliticalPhilosophy World Language: Chinese (2,5 ECTS)

History:Technology&Society HumanGeography(withSocialSciences) PoliticalPhilosophy Ethics World Language : Russian (2,5 ECTS)HumanGeography(withSocialSciences) FromPainttoPixel CultureandSociety(withSocialSciences) World Language Dutch (2,5 ECTS)

SECOND YEAR 200 LEVEL ELECTIVES PROGRAM (MIN 35 ECTS)

FIRST YEAR 200 LEVEL ELECTIVES PROGRAM (MIN 20 ECTS)

MAJOR PROGRAM ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Choose min. 90 ECTS)

THIRD YEAR 300 LEVEL MANDATORY PROGRAM 15 ECTSBachelor thesis Arts and Humanities 10 ECTS

Capstone course Arts and Humanities PROVIDED at UCG 5 ECTS: Future(s) of Humanity

THIRD YEAR 300 LEVEL ELECTIVES PROGRAM (MIN 20 ECTS)Elective Research Project Arts and Humanities (added to Bachelor thesis, max 5 ECTS)

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Humanities at UCG: Year 1 §  Culture and Society (with Social Sciences) §  Media Ethnography §  History: Beautiful Bodies §  History: Technology & Society §  Human Geography (with Social Sciences) §  The Audiovisual Arts Today §  Seeing Society §  From Paint to Pixel §  Seeing Society §  Ethics (with PPE) §  Political Philosophy §  Introduction to Semiotics and Linguistics §  Introduction to Philosophy

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Humanities at UCG: Year 2 and 3 §  Knowledge is Power §  Stories that Shape(d) the World §  Religion and Politics in Contemporary Society §  Culture Criticism §  Imagining the City: architecture and urbanism §  Politics of Theatre / Theatre of Politics §  Understanding bias (gender, ethnicity, class) §  Philosophy of the Humanities §  Reliability, Uncertainty and Trust §  Logic and Argumentation (with Core) §  Society, Culture and Complexity (with Social Sciences)

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Humanities at UCG: Year 2 and 3 (cont’d) §  Reflecting on Modernity §  Science at work (incl. history of science and science

communication) §  Culture and Cognition (with Social Sciences) §  Deep History §  How Art Makes the World §  ‘Artivism’: the Arts in Society §  Freedom and Choice §  Moral Psychology and Meta-ethics (with FWB) §  Freedom and Responsibility (with FWB)

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Humanities at UCG: Year 3

§  Capstone course Humanities: Future(s) of Humanity

§  Bachelor thesis Arts and Humanities

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Humanities at UCG Investigatingandreporting ImaginingandCreating Valuesanddecision-making Analysis WorldLanguageprogram

ReflectingonModernity HowArtMakestheWorld FreedomandChoice FreedomandChoiceScienceatwork(incl.historyofscienceandsciencecommunication) Artivism:theArtsinSociety Scienceatwork(incl.historyofscienceandsciencecommunication)CultureandCognition(withSocialSciences) World Language: Spanish 2.5 ECTS);

CultureandCognition(withSocialSciences) CultureandCognition(withSocialSciences) MoralPsychologyandMeta-ethics(withFWB) FreedomandResponsibility(withFWB) World Language: Arabic (2,5 ECTS);DeepHistory DeepHistory World Language: Chinese (2,5 ECTS)

World Language : Russian (2,5 ECTS)World Language Dutch (2,5 ECTS)

KnowledgeisPower PoliticsofTheatre/TheatreofPolitics PoliticsofTheatre/TheatreofPolitics PhilosophyoftheHumanitiesStoriesthatShape(d)theWorld StoriesthatShape(d)theWorld KnowledgeisPower Reliability,UncertaintyandTrust World Language: Spanish 2.5 ECTS);

ReligionandPoliticsinContemporarySociety Imaginingthecity:architectureandurbanism ReligionandPoliticsinContemporarySociety LogicandArgumentation(withCore) World Language: Arabic (2,5 ECTS);CultureCriticism CultureCriticism CultureCriticism Society,CultureandComplexity(withSocialSciences)World Language: Chinese (2,5 ECTS)

ImaginingtheCity:architectureandurbanism Understandingbias(gender,ethnicity,class) StoriesthatShape(d)theWorld World Language : Russian (2,5 ECTS)StoriesthatShape(d)theWorld WorldLanguageDutch(2,5ECTS)

Linguistics (5 ECTS);CultureandSociety(withSocialSciences) Technology&Society SeeingSociety IntroductiontoSemioticsandLinguistics World Language: Spanish 2.5 ECTS);

MediaEthnography TheAudiovisualArtsToday MediaEthnography IntroductiontoPhilosophy World Language: Arabic (2,5 ECTS);History:BeautifulBodies SeeingSociety Ethics(withPPE) PoliticalPhilosophy World Language: Chinese (2,5 ECTS)

History:Technology&Society HumanGeography(withSocialSciences) PoliticalPhilosophy Ethics World Language : Russian (2,5 ECTS)HumanGeography(withSocialSciences) FromPainttoPixel CultureandSociety(withSocialSciences) World Language Dutch (2,5 ECTS)

SECOND YEAR 200 LEVEL ELECTIVES PROGRAM (MIN 35 ECTS)

FIRST YEAR 200 LEVEL ELECTIVES PROGRAM (MIN 20 ECTS)

MAJOR PROGRAM ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Choose min. 90 ECTS)

THIRD YEAR 300 LEVEL MANDATORY PROGRAM 15 ECTSBachelor thesis Arts and Humanities 10 ECTS

Capstone course Arts and Humanities PROVIDED at UCG 5 ECTS: Future(s) of Humanity

THIRD YEAR 300 LEVEL ELECTIVES PROGRAM (MIN 20 ECTS)Elective Research Project Arts and Humanities (added to Bachelor thesis, max 5 ECTS)

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Humanities Major

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