Welcome to Flight Culture and the Human Experience!

We’re thrilled you’ve chosen us to meet your edutainment needs!

In preparation for departure on our learning adventure we’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the many features you’ll encounter here on the FCHE website.

Please click on the links below to watch two important videos regarding the content and structure of this fully online course.

The first video, “Onboard Orientation and Safety Information,” is an overview of the “nuts and bolts” of this course, including: navigating the website; accessing course materials; required (and optional) assignments and other features unique to “Flight Culture and the Human Experience.”

The second video, “Flight Culture in Historical Perspective,” is an introduction to the broad themes and subjects that we’ll address in this course. You’ll learn about the universality of flying motifs in human cultures across time and place with particular emphasis on the meanings associated with the two most common symbols of flight: wings and birds.  The lecture concludes with a short discussion of aviation’s contributions to the contemporary world and the differing approaches historians have used to make sense out of the aeronautical past.

Once you’ve watched both videos, you’ll have an opportunity to take a short quiz (or, “Flight Test”) over the materials presented in this opening unit. Although this quiz does not count toward your course grade, completing it will give you a chance to determine how well you understood and retained the information presented in the two videos. No less important, it will give you an opportunity to test pilot the way quizzes are administered in “Flight Culture and the Human Experience.”