Humanities Program Courses
Summer 2026 Course Offerings
Summer Session 1 2026: HUM-003, HUM-003R, HUM-004R, HUM-005, HUM-005R
Summer Session 2 2026: HUM-003R, HUM-004R, HUM-005, HUM-005R
*R designates a remote course offering. Lecture, discussion sections, and finals will be remote.
2026-27 Academic Year Course Offerings
Fall 2026: HUM-001, HUM-003, HUM-0100, HUM-088, REV-087
Winter 2027: HUM-001, HUM-002, HUM-004, HUM-0100, HUM-088
Spring 2027: HUM-002, HUM-005, HUM-0100, REV-087
Summer Session 1 2027: HUM-003, HUM-004, HUM-005
Summer Session 2 2027: HUM-003, HUM-004, HUM-005
Courses
HUM-001. The Ancient Mediterranean World
Texts from the Hebrew Bible and from Greek epic, history, drama, and philosophy in their cultural context.
HUM-002. Rome and the Medieval World
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-003. 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-004. 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-005. 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 transfer students’ critical reading and analytical writing skills through engagement with core texts in the humanities on a selected theme.
