HUM 205 The Classical Roots of Western Literature (See COM 205)
HUM 206 Masterworks of European Literature (See COM 206)
HUM 209 Thinking Translation: Language Transfer and Cultural Communication (See TRA 200)
HUM 210 Foundations of Psychological Thought (See PSY 210)
HUM 212 Classical Mythology (See CLA 212)
HUM 213 The Lucid Black and Proud Musicology of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka (See LCA 213)
HUM 215 Corruption, Conversion, Change: Philosophies and Fictions of Transformation (See CLA 215)
HUM 216 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature and the Arts Fall
LA
This course, taken simultaneously with 217, forms the first part of an intensive, four-course (216-219) interdisciplinary introduction to Western culture. Part I extends from antiquity to the Middle Ages. These courses bring together students and several faculty members to discuss key texts, events, and artifacts of European civilization. Readings and discussions are complemented by films, concerts, museum visits, guest lectures, and other special events. Students enroll in both 216 and 217. Three lectures, two discussion sessions.
Instructed by: M. Vidas, D. Heller-Roazen, B. Kitzinger
HUM 217 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: History, Philosophy, and Religion Fall
HA
In combination with 216, this is the first part of a year-long interdisciplinary sequence exploring Western culture. Students enroll in both 216 and 217. All meetings are listed under 216.
Instructed by: J. Lahiri, B. Graziosi, M. Delvaux
HUM 218 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II: Literature and the Arts Spring
LA
This course, taken simultaneously with 219, forms the second part of an intensive, four-course (216-219) interdisciplinary introduction to Western culture. Part II extends from the Renaissance to the modern period. These courses bring together students and several faculty members to discuss key texts, events, and artifacts of European civilization. Readings and discussions are complemented by films, concerts, museum visits, and other special events. Students enroll in both 218 and 219.
Instructed by: M. Vidas, M. Kronfeld, E. Schor
HUM 219 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II: History, Philosophy, and Religion Spring
EC
In combination with 218, this is the second half of a year-long interdisciplinary sequence exploring Western culture from the 15th to the 20th centuries. All meetings are listed under 218.
Instructed by: Z. Chaudhary, Y. Mintzker, C. Mangone
HUM 222 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion (See REL 222)
HUM 227 The Worlds of the Middle Ages (See MED 227)
HUM 229 Great Books in Buddhism (See REL 229)
HUM 233 East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations (also
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EM
An introduction to the literature, art, religion, and philosophy of China, Japan, and Korea from antiquity to ca. 1400. Readings are focused on primary texts in translation and complemented by museum visits, films, and other materials from the visual arts. The lecturers include faculty members from East Asian studies, comparative literature, art and archaeology, and religion. Students are encouraged to enroll in HUM 234 in the spring, which continues the course from ca. 1400 into the 20th century. Instructed by: B. Steininger, M. Kern
HUM 234 East Asian Humanities II: Traditions and Transformations (also
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EM
An introduction to the literary, philosophical, religious, and artistic traditions of East Asia. Readings are focused on primary texts in translation. Lectures and discussions are accompanied by films, concerts, and museum visits. Lecturers include faculty members from East Asian studies, comparative literature, art and archaeology, and religion. Instructed by: E. Huang, F. Prichard
HUM 236 The University: Its History and Purpose (See REL 233)
HUM 239 Introduction to African Literature and Film (See COM 239)
HUM 240 Medical Anthropology (See ANT 240)
HUM 242 Greek Tragedy from Ancient Athens to Ferguson (See CLA 242)
HUM 247 Near Eastern Humanities I: From Antiquity to Islam (also ) Fall
EM
This course focuses on the Near East from antiquity to the early centuries of Islam, introducing the most important works of literature, politics, ethics, aesthetics, religion, and science from the region. We ask how, why, and to what ends the Near East sustained such a long period of high humanistic achievement, from Pharaonic Egypt to Islamic Iran, which in turn formed the basis of the high culture of the following millennium. Instructed by: D. Sheffield, J. Haubold
HUM 249A The Science of Roman History (See CLA 247A)
HUM 249B The Science of Roman History (See CLA 247B)
HUM 251 Identity in the Spanish-Speaking World (See SPA 250)
HUM 252 Narrating Pandemics Now (See SPA 252)
HUM 253 Pompeii (See CLA 250)
HUM 297 Transformative Questions in Biology (See STC 297)
HUM 300 Urban Studies Research Seminar (See URB 300)
HUM 301 Topics in German Drama and Theater (See GER 301)
HUM 304 Plato's Republic (See PHI 305)
HUM 307 The Irish Oral Tradition (See MUS 307)
HUM 309 Political Philosophy (See PHI 309)
HUM 312 The Literature of Medieval Europe (See COM 310)
HUM 313 Christians and Incarceration (See REL 308)
HUM 314 Topics in Global Race and Ethnicity (See AAS 303)
HUM 316 Social Philosophy (See PHI 316)
HUM 317 Dance in Education: Dance/Theater Pedagogy (See DAN 316)
HUM 318 Environmental Conflicts and Indigenous Media (See ENV 318)
HUM 324 Topics in Ancient History (See CLA 326)
HUM 325 The Confessional Self (See FRE 325)
HUM 326 Philosophy of Art (See PHI 326)
HUM 330 Migration, Religion, and Literature: From Genesis to Toni Morrison (See REL 330)
HUM 332 Who Owns This Sentence? Copyright Culture from the Romantic Era to the Age of the Internet (See COM 332)
HUM 334 Race in France (See FRE 334)
HUM 335 A Global History of Monsters (also
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CDHA
This class analyzes how different cultures imagine monsters and how these representations changed over time to perform different social functions. As negative objectifications of fundamental social structures and conceptions, monsters are a key to understand the culture that engendered them. This course has three goals: it familiarizes students with the semiotics of monsters worldwide; it teaches analytical techniques exportable to other topics and fields; it proposes interpretive strategies of "reading culture" comparatively beyond the stereotype of "the West and the Rest." Instructed by: F. Marcon
HUM 336 The Prado Museum: A Virtual Tour of Spain (See SPA 336)
HUM 337 Styles of Literature and Science in 18th- and 19th-Century Europe (See FRE 337)
HUM 338 Poetries of Resistance (See COM 335)
HUM 339 Topics in American Statesmanship (See POL 332)
HUM 341 What is Vernacular Filmmaking? - Rhetoric for Cinema Studies (See COM 341)
HUM 345 Art and Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (See ART 345)
HUM 346 Introduction to Digital Humanities (also ) Spring
LA
Have you ever wondered how to measure the complexity of a literary text? What if you could map the personal connections in a Jane Austen novel or a Shakespeare play? Have you had an intuition that you haven't been able to follow because processing the information was too intimidating? If so, the digital humanities can help you. This course will explore the large and exciting field of digital humanities. You'll learn how to read and understand texts using DH methods and will start your own DH project. Instructed by: Staff
HUM 348 Race and the Inhumanities (See CLA 342)
HUM 349 The Artist at Work (See ART 349)
HUM 351 Archive Writing (See COM 350)
HUM 353 Uyghur History: A Survey (See EAS 353)
HUM 356 Folk Music Revival (See MUS 355)
HUM 357 The Human Comedy of Anton Chekhov Off and On Stage (In English Translation) (See SLA 357)
HUM 358 Democracy and Education (See FRE 348)
HUM 359 Sappho: Her Work and Influence from 600 BCE to the Present (See CLA 357)
HUM 360 The Eagle and the Dragon: Comparing Ancient Rome and Han Empire (See CLA 360)
HUM 364 Love and Justice (See REL 364)
HUM 365 Freud on the Psychological Foundations of the Mind (also ) Fall
EC
Freud is approached as a systematic thinker dedicated to discovering the basic principles of human mental life. For Freud, these basic principles concern what impels human thought and behavior. What moves us to think and act? What is it to think and act? Emphasis is placed on the close study and critical analysis of texts, with particular attention to the underlying structure of the arguments. Two 90-minute classes. Instructed by: S. Sugarman
HUM 367 Kierkegaard Everywhere (See PHI 367)
HUM 368 Literature and Medicine (See SLA 368)
HUM 369 Beyond Crisis Contemporary Greece in Context (See COM 369)
HUM 371 Topics in Comparative Literature (See COM 370)
HUM 372 Love and Violence through Words: Modern Chinese Literature in the Age of Revolution (See EAS 371)
HUM 373 Modern China (See EAS 373)
HUM 374 Afterlives of the Iliad (See COM 374)
HUM 378 South Asian Migrations (See URB 378)
HUM 383 The Black Metropolis (See FRE 383)
HUM 384 Museums, Archives, and Audiences in Modern Spain (See SPA 382)
HUM 385 Mapping Gentrification (See URB 385)
HUM 390 The Bible as Literature (See ENG 390)
HUM 400 Translation, Migration, Culture (See TRA 400)
HUM 406 Ethics in Archaeology (See ART 402)
HUM 409 Topics in Drama (See ENG 409)
HUM 414 Fear and France (See FRE 414)
HUM 416 Reading the Landscapes of Colonial Latin America (See LAS 416)
HUM 421 Venice and the Mediterranean World (See HIS 421)
HUM 426 Exposure: The Storied Landscape of Bears Ears National Monument and America's Public Lands (See ENV 426)
HUM 432 Art and Music in the Middle Ages (See MUS 432)
HUM 433 Fashioning the Self, Rendering Others: Literary and Visual Portraiture, 18th C to the Present (See ENG 432)
HUM 437 Law After Rome (See HIS 437)
HUM 445 Between Desire and Disgust: Victorian Beauty in the Pre-Raphaelite and Aestheticist Traditions (See ENG 445)
HUM 448 Early Modern Amsterdam: Tolerant Eminence and the Arts (See ENG 448)
HUM 449 Making Sense of the City (See ARC 449)
HUM 450 Empathy and Alienation: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture (also
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HALA
In 19- and 20-c. debates that crossed borders among disciplines including psychology, sociology, anthropology, art history, philosophy, and political theory, empathy and alienation emerged as key terms to describe relations among human beings, works of art, and commodities. This seminar addresses the dynamics of empathy and alienation across a range of discourses and artifacts in European culture. Our explorations of how relationships between empathy and alienation were variously conceptualized in psychological aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and critical theory will aim to open up new perspectives on recent debates about identity and affect. Instructed by: B. Doherty, S. Papapetros
HUM 452 Global Publishing: Translation, Media, Migration (See COM 450)
HUM 456 New Orleans at 300: Invention & Reinvention in an American City (See HIS 456)
HUM 457 Ways of Knowing: Philosophy and Literature (See COM 457)
HUM 470 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (also
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LA
This team-taught seminar examines texts, objects, periods and themes from an interdisciplinary perspective. Although designed to be the capstone course for students pursuing a certificate in Humanistic Studies, it is open to other students if space is available. The specific topic varies each year depending on the focus of the faculty team. Instructed by: D. Feeney, W. Heller
HUM 471 Abraham Lincoln and America, 1809-1865 (See HIS 470)
HUM 476 The Vikings: History and Archaeology (See ART 478)