HUM 204 - Work and Culture: Image and Ethic

(3 credits)

45 lecture hours
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or appropriate ACCUPLACER scores
This interdisciplinary course is designed to introduce students to the relationships between technology and work, and how these relationships are reflected in the art, music, drama, and literature of a variety of Western and non-Western cultures. Students develop an understanding of how the introduction of technology, changed the distribution of labor, and, subsequently, work ethics and management/employee relationships as reflected in the fine and applied arts. Topics discussed include: the historical development of the division of labor (with an analysis of this division by race, gender, class, and ethnicity); the impact of automation on the redistribution of labor (from manufacturing to service industries) in the more industrialized countries; and work songs as a measure of the work ethic.