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      • Offered 2022-23
        • HUMS 021, Six Pretty Good Heroes
        • HUMS 022, Six Pretty Good Biographers
        • HUMS 023, Six Pretty Good Visions
        • HUMS 027, Six Pretty Good Selves
        • HUMS 029, Medicine and the Humanities: Certainty and Unknowing
        • HUMS 059, Why the Sublime? Or, The Meaning and Value of Transcendence through Theory, Poetry, and Art
        • HUMS 060, Novel Novels
        • HUMS 065, Education and the Life Worth Living
        • HUMS 073, Classical Storytelling in the Modern World
        • HUMS 075, Mastering the Art of Watercolor
        • HUMS 096, Collecting History: Treasures of Yale
      • Archive
        • HUMS 005, The Ancient Egyptian Empire of the New Kingdom
        • HUMS 024, Six Pretty Good Poems
        • HUMS 025, Six Pretty Good Buildings
        • HUMS 026, Six Pretty Good Journeys
        • HUMS 035, The American Death Penalty
        • HUMS 066, The Crown
        • HUMS 069, Dismantling Narratives of Empire
        • HUMS 070, Self and Other
        • HUMS 092, Divine Law in Historical Perspective
        • HUMS 095, Certain Uncertainties: Literature, Physics, Philosophy
        • Truth and Post-Truth (Spring 2021)
        • Intellectual Circles (Fall)
        • Six Pretty Good Books, HUMS 82a (Fall)
        • Two Cultures: Science and Humanities (Fall)
        • Fantasy in Literature and Film (Spring)
    • Humanities Major
      • Major Requirements
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    • Special Courses
      • Featured Courses
        • Offered Fall 2022
          • HUMS 115, Purposes of College Education
          • HUMS 127, Tragedy in the European Literary Tradition
          • HUMS 128, From Gilgamesh to Persepolis
          • HUMS 139, Western Philosophy in Four Operas 1600-1900
          • HUMS 180, Dante in Translation
          • HUMS 193, Screening the Past
          • HUMS 195, Thinking Literature in German Modernism
          • HUMS 199, American Romanticism: Emerson to Ashbery
          • HUMS 211, Fate and Chance in Art and Experience
          • HUMS 229, Latin American Languages of Liberation: The Long Sixties
          • HUMS 233, Classics of the Arabic-Islamic World
          • HUMS 245, Poets and their Papers
          • HUMS 253, Poetry and Faith
          • HUMS 255, Tolstoy's War and Peace
          • HUMS 261, The Making of a Political Novel: Acts of Censorship and the Novel
          • HUMS 263, Thucydides
          • HUMS 270, The Chinese Tradition
          • HUMS 274, The Education of Princes: Medieval Advice Literature of Rulership and Counsel
          • HUMS 275, Literatures of the Plague
          • HUMS 276, Non-Cynical Social Thought
          • HUMS 279, Democracy and the French Revolution
          • HUMS 284, The Tale of Genji
          • HUMS 323, Truth and Sedition
          • HUMS 327, The Victorian Political Novel
          • HUMS 331, Adapting to the Stage
          • HUMS 336, Culture and Human Evolution
          • HUMS 339, European Intellectual History Since Nietzsche
          • HUMS 358, Modernist Paris and Moscow
          • HUMS 375, Greek Tragedy and Psychoanalysis
          • HUMS 381, Jazz in America 1900-1960
          • HUMS 391, The Bible in German-Jewish Modernist Literature
          • HUMS 430, Thought Experiments
          • HUMS 480, The Mortality of the Soul: From Aristotle to Heidegger
        • Archive
          • HUMS 116, Contexts of College Education
          • HUMS 130, How to Read
          • HUMS 136, Writing the Gift: Creativity and Exchange
          • HUMS 133, The Bible
          • HUMS 140, The Hero in Ancient Near East
          • HUMS 134, The Multicultural Middle Ages
          • HUMS 144, The Roman Republic
          • HUMS 175, Reading the Russian Revolution
          • HUMS 179, Shakespeare's Political Plays
          • HUMS 184, Writing and Reading Biography
          • HUMS 185, Writing about Contemporary Figurative Art
          • HUMS 192, Intellectuals and Power in Europe
          • HUMS 200, Medieval Songlines
          • HUMS 201, The Modern French Novel
          • HUMS 205, Boundaries of the Body in Law and Literature
          • HUMS 206, The Arabian Nights, Then and Now
          • HUMS 208, Poe and Kafka
          • HUMS 209, The Poetry of Wordsworth and Shelley
          • HUMS 210, Women in the Middle Ages
          • HUMS 211, Beauty and the Good Life
          • HUMS 212, Mystical Poetry of Judaism and Islam
          • HUMS 213, Global Shakespeares
          • HUMS 214, Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
          • HUMS 215, The Poetry of Vision: East and West
          • HUMS 216, Democracy and Race in America
          • HUMS 217, Classical Storytelling in the Modern World
          • HUMS 218, Storytelling and Contemporary TV
          • HUMS 219, Biomedical Futures and Michael Crichton's Monsters
          • HUMS 220, Collecting Nature
          • HUMS 222, Science and Narrative
          • HUMS 224, Hobbes and Galileo
          • HUMS 236, Goethe's Faust
          • HUMS 227, The Art of Dionysos
          • HUMS 228, Climate Change and the Humanities
          • HUMS 231, Poetic Influence from Shakespeare to the Twenty-First Century
          • HUMS 241, James Baldwin's American Scene
          • HUMS 241, Baseball as Grand Strategy
          • HUMS 242, Middle East in French Literature & Art
          • HUMS 247, Material Culture and Iconic Consciousness
          • HUMS 248, Monuments and Memorials: Shaping Historical Memory
          • HUMS 251, Rewriting Ancient Greek Classics in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
          • HUMS 252, Poetry and Objects
          • HUMS 254, Literature and Philosophy, Revolution to Romanticism
          • HUMS 264, Imagining the Body Politic
          • HUMS 267, Anti-Semitism in American History
          • HUMS 287, The Theory and Practice of Resistance
          • HUMS 291, The Real and the Virtual in Literature and Film
          • HUMS 295, Trials of Uncertainty
          • HUMS 302, Demogoguery and Democracy
          • HUMS 304, Women in Greek Political Thought
          • HUMS 305, Sages of the Ancient World
          • HUMS 313, Philosophy of Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe
          • HUMS 316, World Order in Liberal Arts
          • HUMS 317, The Death Sentence
          • HUMS 318, War and its Literature
          • HUMS 320, Representations of the Underworld
          • HUMS 322, German Novels After 1945
          • HUMS 340, The Detective Story
          • HUMS 348, Literature and Film of World War II
          • HUMS 359, Cinema and Physics
          • HUMS 360, Nostalgia Epidemic and Cure
          • HUMS 361, Game of Thrones and the Theory of Sovereignty
          • HUMS 367, Heimito von Doderer's The Strudlhof Steps
          • HUMS 368, Alienation, Reconciliation from Hegel to the Ecological Rift
          • HUMS 370, Fictions of the Harlem Vogue: Novels, Short Stories, and Novellas of the “Harlem Renaissance”
          • HUMS 371, The Picturebook: Euro-American and Japanese Traditions
          • HUMS 372, Critique and Crisis
          • HUMS 374, Greed and Its Discontents: From Aristotle to the Present
          • HUMS 377, Nature Poetry, from the Classics to Climate Change
          • HUMS 379, Media of Migration
          • HUMS 380, The Bible as a Literature
          • HUMS 382, Nature and Human Nature
          • HUMS 385, The Deep: Representations of the Sea
          • HUMS 412, Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere
          • HUMS 414, Georg Büchner's Revolutions
          • HUMS 416, The Crisis of Liberalism
          • HUMS 427, The Practice of Literary Translation
          • HUMS 428, Advanced Literary Translation
          • HUMS 443, Medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims
          • HUMS 452, Translating Dante
          • HUMS 454, Interpreting Film Masterpieces
          • HUMS 463, Critical Theories of Science and Religion
          • HUMS 465, Art and Philosophy
      • Core Seminars
        • Currently Offered
          • HUMS 224, Modernities: Hobbes and Galileo
          • HUMS 267, Interpretations: Moby-Dick
          • HUMS 297, Modernities: Modern Liberty
          • HUMS 355, Interpretations: Baudelaire
          • HUMS 420, Modernities: The Waste Land
        • Interpretations Seminars
          • HUMS 206, The Arabian Nights
          • HUMS 212, Interpretations - Plato
          • HUMS 223, Interpretations - Claude McKay
          • HUMS 319, John Ashbery's Poetry
          • HUMS 346, Nietzsche's Zarathustra
          • HUMS 356 - Interpretations: Emily Dickinson
          • HUMS 366, Interpretations - Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables"
          • HUMS 378, Interpretations: Sainte-Chapelle
          • HUMS 401, The Dream of the Red Chamber
          • HUMS 403, Shakespeare’s Tempest
          • HUMS 405, The Parthenon
          • HUMS 407, Mann’s Doctor Faustus
          • HUMS 409, Interpretations - Remembrance of Things Past
          • HUMS 413, Montaigne's Essays
          • HUMS 415, Chartres Cathedral
        • Modernities Seminars
          • HUMS 192, Modernities - Intellectuals and Power in Europe
          • HUMS 199, Modernities - American Romanticism: Emerson to Ashbery
          • HUMS 237, Modernities - Past and present in fiction since 1789
          • HUMS 244, Modernities - Love, Marriage, Family: A Psychological Study through the Arts
          • HUMS 246, Modernities - Early Modern Media
          • HUMS 288, Modernity and the Crisis of Value
          • HUMS 290, The Modern Novel in Brazil and Japan
          • HUMS 313, Philosophy of Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe
          • HUMS 349, Identity in Modern Thought
          • HUMS 352, American Imagination From the Gilded Age to the Cold War
          • HUMS 355, The Politics of Emotion and Sensibility
          • HUMS 363, Modernities - Machiavelli and Machiavellianism
          • HUMS 369, Modernities: Maimonides and Postmodernism
          • HUMS 404, Literature in the Era of Tyrannies 1919-1960
          • HUMS 410, Nineteenth-Century Historical Narratives
      • Franke|Shulman Seminars
        • Currently Offered
          • Franke Seminar: Mass Incarceration in the Soviet Union and the United States
          • Shulman Seminar: Metaphysics Meets Cognitive Science
        • Archive
      • Special Admissions
        • HUMS 411, Life Worth Living
    • Alumni, Careers and Futures
      • Alumni Profiles
        • C. Wallace DeWitt ’03
        • Christopher Angel ’93
        • Daria Martin ’95
        • Jason Weinberger ’96, MusM ’97
        • Josh Spanogle ’93
        • Margaret Litvin ’95
        • Matthew Shaffer '10
        • Sasha Grutman ’89
        • Virginia Waldrop '12
      • For Alumni
      • Fall Festival of Seminars
      • Humanities in Action
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    • Whitney Humanities Center
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