The Western Humanities Information Center: Feature Summary


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The Western Humanities, 7/e

Roy T. Matthews, MICHIGAN STATE U-EAST LANSING
Dewitt E. Platt, MICHIGAN STATE U-EAST LANSING
Thomas F.X. Noble, University of Notre Dame

Feature Summary

Historical coverage: more extensive than in any other humanities book, provides an interpretive context for the humanities and balanced treatment of history and culture, and focus on the cultural legacy of each period.
A Humanities Primer: How to Understand the Arts: at the beginning of the text introduces readers to different ways to appreciate each of the major forms of art--literature, music and visual art--and offers tools to help students to better understand how to move beyond their initial reactions to artworks towards a more informed understanding.
"Encounter" features in every chapter highlight cultural interchanges between the West and other societies, to include one in every chapter. Questions at the end of each essay, entitled Learning from the Encounter, help students understand the historical and cultural significance of these meetings.
"Slices of Life" essays showcase human voices from each historical period. These excerpts from primary source documents are designed to bring history to life for the reader. They each respond to a particular theme or issue and feature a rich variety of voices. Critical thinking questions-- Interpreting this Slice of Life--end each essay, to assist students in understanding each speaker and his/her perspective on the historic and cultural event.
Learning Through Maps features encourage students to develop geographical skills by performing map exercises and answering map-related questions.
Extensive Art Program, consisting of more than 550 illustrations--more than 450 of them in color--accompanied by extended captions, as well as diagrams and line drawings, offers additional visual explication and thus brings the Western humanities into focus.
Maps and timelines throughout the text, orient students chronologically and geographically.
Music discussions provide coverage of 23 musical works, functioning as brief Listening Guides for students using the accompanying audio CD-ROM.

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