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Salamander Breiter
Instructor/Chair of the Humanities
De Anza College
21250 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014
Office: F21s
Phone: (408) 864 - 5561
E-mail: breitersal@fhda.edu
Courses Offered:
Humanities 1: Creative Minds
Interdisciplinary discussion identifying and exploring origins, structures, motivations, processes and barriers in creativity within historical, cultural, political and personal contexts. Emphasis is placed on challenging social assumptions, promoting positive social change and encouraging self-discovery.
Humanities 6: Popular Culture
The methods of humanities applied to the study of popular culture---that dimension of culture, which is created and sustained by mass media and techniques of mass production, marketing and distribution. The disciplines traditionally subsumed under the humanities (including history, philosophy, and literary, aesthetic and social criticism) applied to the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of the artifacts or "texts" of popular culture - including the products of popular entertainment, television, film, animation, comics, video games, music, fads, fashion, news media, magazines, advertising and propaganda, and contemporary art forms.
Humanities 16: Arts, Ideas and Values
This course is an introduction to visual culture studies. We will explore the manner in which American social constructions of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, social class and globalization shape and are shaped by visual mediums. Special emphasis will placed on visual art as a tool for social change.
Humanities 18: History as Mystery
Interdisciplinary discussion identifying and exploring fundamental Western cultural, aesthetic, scientific and spiritual principles and placing them within a historical and cross-cultural perspective. The relationship between the past, the present, and the future will frame a critical analysis of the nature of truth and knowledge in the West. Emphasis is placed on challenging assumptions regarding Western worldview and establishing links between historical precedents and working solutions to contemporary social issues.
Anthropology 2: Cultural Anthropology
The anthropological approach to the study of human behavior from a cross-cultural, comparative perspective. An exploration into the languages, economics, sociopolitical systems, religions and worldviews of diverse world cultures. An assessment of the dynamics of culture change and the future prospects for humanity.
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