5-2 Project Draft: Understanding Our Identity Through Humanities

Overview

At this stage, you have learned how creative works are components of the humanities, how diverse perspectives add value to works, how bias and assumptions can influence how you view creative works, and the importance of empathy. For this assignment, you will reflect on how individuals make sense of their identities through the humanities. You will consider the visual arts, the literary arts, and the performing arts, and you will describe the relationship between the humanities and self-identity.

Directions

You will continue to use the Project Template that you began in Module Two for this assignment. For your Module Two project proposal, you drafted the first two components of Part One of your project on questions 1 and 2 of the template. In Module Four, you analyzed two creative works and completed Parts One and Two of the template. Now, for this assignment, you will draft Part Three of the project using Part Three of the template.

Part Three: Identity and the Humanities

In this section, you will reflect on how the humanities influence understanding of self-identity. Specifically, you must address the following:

1. Humanities and Self-Identity: Describe the relationship between the humanities and self-identity.
   1. How do creative works impact the way people view themselves?
   2. How has a specific reading or creative work in this course challenged your own understanding of your identity?
2. Sociocultural Factors: Describe sociocultural factors that influence identity construction.
   1. How do sociocultural factors such as ethnicity, race, religion, and sexuality influence one’s identity?
   2. Think of a moment when your identity was shaped by a factor such as race, religion, gender, economic class, or nationality. What course material helped you understand this moment more clearly? How did it change how you viewed that moment?
3. Different Humanities Subject Areas: Explain how different humanities subject areas can be used to understand one’s identity.
   1. Choose two different humanities subject areas (literary, visual, and performing arts) and explain how each helped you consider your own identity.
4. Self-Concept: Explain how diverse perspectives influence self-concept.
   1. Consider examples of diverse perspectives discussed in this course. Which perspective in the course was most different from your own? Why?
   2. Choose one to three examples or creators with views other than your own who you have learned about in this course. What did you learn from those different perspectives that showed you some aspect of your own self-concept?