For this assignment you will engage with the Humanities in your local area in some way, either through visiting a local cultural venue or interviewing someone who is a professional in the Humanities, such as a locally known artist, musician, author, or religious leader, or a director of an art museum or community arts center etc.
Please choose one of the options below. All visits and interviews must be done during the semester this class is being taken.
Note: If you are unable to attend a cultural venue for any reason (military obligations or location, disability, lack of transportation etc.) please contact your professor and get permission to do virtual visit. Then, only after you have permission, choose a virtual venue from this list of pre-vetted virtual experiences.
You are not permitted to use AI to fully create the paper this assignment since a machine cannot experience the world or people in it, write accurately about them and analyze t
he experience, though you can use AI as a tool to help you write about your experiences better.
Option #1 Visit
For this option, attend one venue from this list during the current semester. Please do not write about something from the past.
Art museum or sculpture garden.
Significant or notable architectural site (if there is explanatory material there to help you understand it).
Music concert.
Dance performance.
Theater play.
Poetry or book reading, author event, or spoken word performance.
Film festival or presentation of a film by an academic author or cinema expert.
Religious service, ceremony or ritual for a religion different from yours, if you practice (for instance, if you are a Baptist Christian, you should go to a Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or different denomination of ChristianityΒs (Catholic, Lutheran etc.) service).
Cultural festival or arts festival.
Other venues may be acceptable. Check with your instructor for approval beforehand.