Humanities Program Courses
2023-24 Academic Year Course Offerings
Fall 2023: HUM 1, HUM 3
Winter 2024: HUM 1, HUM 2, HUM 4
Spring 2024: HUM 2, HUM 5
Summer Session 1 2024: HUM 3, HUM 4, HUM 5
Summer Session 2 2024: HUM 3, HUM 4, HUM 5
Courses
HUM 1. The Foundations of Western Civilization: Israel and Greece
Texts from the Hebrew Bible and from Greek epic, history, drama, and philosophy in their cultural context.
HUM 2. Rome, Christianity, and the Middle Ages
The Roman Empire, the Christian transformation of the classical world in late antiquity, and the rise of a European culture during the Middle Ages. Representative texts from Latin authors, early Christian literature, the Germanic tradition, and the high Middle Ages.
HUM 3. Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern Europe
The revival of classical culture and values and the reaction against medieval ideas concerning the place of human beings in the world. The Protestant Reformation and its intellectual and political consequences. The philosophical background to the scientific revolution.
HUM 4. Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution
The Enlightenment’s revisions of traditional thought; the rise of classical liberalism; the era of the first modern political revolutions; Romantic ideas of nature and human life.
HUM 5. Modern Culture
Challenges to liberalism posed by such movements as socialism, imperialism, and nationalism; the growth of new forms of self-expression and new conceptions of individual psychology.
HUM 100. Advanced Topics in the Humanities
An upper-division course designed to strengthen students’ critical reading and analytical writing skills through engagement with core texts in the humanities on a selected theme.
