Humanities 5 - Revelle College

University of California, San DiegoRevelle College HumanitiesJohn Hoon Lee Hum 5Spring 2012Study GuidePlease bring 2 blue books to the exam. We may swap blue books so do not write yourname on your blue books.Part 1You will need to identify and state the significance of five (5) of eight terms, names, andquotations. 4 points each/20 points total.Note: IDs will come only from the terms that I wrote on the board before lecture (on theleft side). I promise that I will not ask anything written during lecture or on the rightside of the board. These, if you remember, were for reference or spelling purpose only.If you attended lecture, then you should already have a list of IDs.Part 2You will need to write short essays on three (3) of five questions. 10 points each/30points total.Note: Short Essays will be thematic based.Part 3You will need to write thesis-based essays on two (2) of the following three essayprompts. 50 points each/100 points total.Be prepared to answer all three of the following essay prompts. You should treat eachprompt as a regular essay topic. Read and take notes, develop a thesis, write an outline,and include convincing evidence to support your thesis. Essay will be graded on thesisand the defense of that argument - your ability to make a strong case with good defenseand examples. Remember to prepare all three essays, however, you will be asked towrite only two essays and the prompts on the final will be the professor’s choice.Note: You will be allowed to bring to the exam one standard sized paper with yournotes, thesis, outline, evidence, and whatever that makes you happy to write youressays (for Part 3 portion of the exam only). Yes, you may use the front and the back ofthe paper. Also, please include your name and your section teacher’s name on theupper right hand corner of this “cheat” sheet. You will need to turn this in to us at thebeginning of the exam, and you will get it back when you complete Parts 1 and 2 of theexam. Finally, your “cheat” sheet must be turned in with your Part 3 portion of theexam.

1. Way back in Humanities 3, our friend Niccolò Machiavelli told us that humans are“ungrateful, fickle, liars and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain” (ThePrince, p. 46). Is this true? Are we that despicable? What do our authors say who andwhat we are? What is the essence of our human nature? Using Beauvoir, Sartre, andany two authors from this course, write a thesis-based essay in which you compareand/or contrast your four authors’ views on the concept of human nature.2. In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud writes, “in whatever way we may definethe concept of civilization, it is a certain fact that all things with which we seek toprotect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering are partof that very civilization” (p. 58). What does it say about Western Civilization when itcauses so much suffering? What does it say when the very nature of civilizationconstrains us? What do our other authors from this course say about our WesternCivilization? Do they offer a vision of hope for the future? Using four authors fromthis course, write a thesis-based essay that compares and/or contrasts the authors’visions for the future of Western Civilization.3. The 1980 United States Rockefeller Commission on the Humanities described thehumanities in its report, The Humanities in American Life:Through the humanities we reflect on the fundamental question: What does itmean to be human? The humanities offer clues but never a complete answer.They reveal how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectualsense of a world in which irrationality, despair, loneliness, and death are asconspicuous as birth, friendship, hope, and reason.Analyzing and interpreting the texts of any four writers from this course, write a thesisbasedessay on the value of studying Humanities.