Spring 2026 Core Seminars

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

HUMS 4104, British Writing in the Era of Tyrannies 1914-1961 (Modernities); HUMS 4111, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (Modernities); HUMS 4124, Hobbes and Galileo: Materialism and the Emergence of Modernity (Modernities); HUMS 4167, Futurism: Reconstructing the Universe (Modernities).

HUMS 2315, Word and Image: Illustration through the Ages (Interpretations); HUMS 4301, The Story of the Stone (Interpretations); HUMS 4308, W. B. Yeats and His Worlds (Interpretations); HUMS 4320, The Waste Land (Interpretations).

HUMS 1270, Tragedy in the European Literary Tradition (Traditions); HUMS 1320, Epic in the European Literary Tradition (Traditions); HUMS 2280, Imitation and Originality in Japanese Literature (Traditions); HUMS 2545, Odyssean Receptions: A Journey Through the History of Literature and Film (Traditions); HUMS 4550, Tyranny and Anti-Tyranny (Traditions).

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