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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
DUS & Info Session
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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
HUMS 403, Simone Weil
HUMS 405, William Blake
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
HUMS 410, Nineteenth Century Historical Narrative
The Work of Art in The Age of Revolt
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
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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
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Erin Townsend
Erin Townsend
Senior Administrative Assistant, Humanities Program