Fall 2026 Core Seminars

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We are delighted to announce our Fall 2026 Modernities, Interpretations, and Traditions core seminars:

Modernities

HUMS 1390: Western Philosophy in Four Operas

HUMS 4163: AI as Global Cultural Artifact

HUMS 4165: Culture and Artificial Intelligence

HUMS 4180: Vienna: Science, Art, and Politics

Interpretations

HUMS 1480: The Qur’an and its Interpreters

HUMS 2210: Plato

HUMS 4314: Dürer’s Bookish World

HUMS 4325: Karl Marx’s Capital

HUMS 4347: Wordsworth

HUMS 4363: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick

HUMS 4364: The World of Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables”

HUMS 4372: Middlemarch

Traditions

HUMS 1270: Tragedy in the European Literary Tradition

HUMS 1320: Epic in the European Literary Tradition

HUMS 2715: Hindu Worlds Through Narratives

HUMS 4527: The Chinese Tradition

You can find more information on these courses at our Core Seminars page