Expectations of Humanistic Studies

               

Humanistic Studies in general is about human and the culture inside of human itself as a social and plural society. However if we only limit that study on how human being should live, adapt, or just follow their culture as their ancient has done, humanistic will not increase as well. It’s just managing the human as individual. However in fact, the most complicated of human beings’ problems in daily life is how to know themselves in deep inside and how they behave in social culture. That’s why humanistic studies are so interesting to know in larger side and to guide us to overcome the problems in social life wisely.

My great expectation of learning this study is how I can challenge myself to understand the dynamic of society in groups that create a multiculturalism and able to analyze the concept of those cultures. By knowing that, we are as a part of human and its culture could appreciate to other cultures.

 Based on the module, the contents of Humanistic Studies that we will learn are about multiculturalism, the identity of the cultures, the form and the challenges. So that’s why this study is very interesting to learn. As a teacher candidate, we have to think critically and give a best solution of the problems that related to global culture issues. While we see the society error in appreciating, loving, and saving the neighbor cultures, actually we are faced to individual problem question. “Have you known your own culture?” that question will guide us to appreciate, love, and save the other cultures. Most of anti-culture persons don’t know their own culture as their identity as well. They only can judge towards the weakness things. However in fact, most of anti-culture persons are the educated persons. “But, why they do that negative thing? Don’t they learn how the diversity unites us?” That is why we need to study this course.

I expect by this course, I am able to analyze and apply about what we should do in the middle of various cultures to be wisdom in having a certain attitude and look outside the beauty or the uniquely of multiculturalism.

Hopefully this study will help the Sampoerna’s students especially and also society in general to understand how we live in culture. If we see in daily social problems, such as religion conflict, mass killing of a culture and the missing of good norms are caused of low teaching and learning to humanistic studies. Chopping wood and sea area destroying are also the daily problems because people recognize nature is not a part of their life. So, humanistic studies will teach us about inter-human relationship and environment-human relationship in a culture. Finally, we are not only being an educated person but also caring full person as a part of social culture.