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4.00 Credits
The courses in the Western Humanities sequence offer rich possibilities for study. While the time frame for each course (Classical period, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment, Modernity) is a constant, the emphasis on specific themes and materials will be determined by the faculty who currently teach the course. Please check the course announcements each semester. Offered spring semester in even-numbered years.
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4.00 Credits
The courses in the Western Humanities sequence offer rich possibilities for study. While the time frame for each course (Classical period, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment) is a constant, the emphasis on specific themes and materials will be determined by the faculty who currently teach the course. Please check the course announcements each semester. Offered fall semester in even-numbered years.
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4.00 Credits
The courses in the Western Humanities sequence offer rich possibilities for study. While the time frame for each course (Classical period, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment, Modernity) is a constant, the emphasis on specific themes and materials will be determined by the faculty who currently teach the course. Please check the course announcements each semester. Offered spring semester in odd-numbered years. Each of these courses places two or more humanities disciplines in cross-cultural perspective. By examining humanities fields in a comparative, global manner, each team-taught course seeks further understanding of elements of Western, especially North American, cultural practices within the context of world culrtural practices. Literature, music, religion, history, anthropology, art, and other fields provide the material and the issues for this comparative study of the humanities. Taught by faculty from two different humanities disciplines.
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4.00 Credits
The courses in the Comparative Humanities group offer rich possibilities for study. While the cultural and geographical frame for each course is a constant (Islam/Middle East, Africa/African-American, Asia, Latin America) is a constant, the emphasis on specific themes and materials will be determined by the faculty who currently teach the course. Please check the course announcements each semester. Offered once every four years in the fall semester. Next offered fall 2007.
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4.00 Credits
The courses in the Comparative Humanities group offer rich possibilities for study. While the cultural and geographical frame for each course (Islam/Middle East, Africa/African-American, Asia, Latin America) is a constant, the emphasis on specific themes and materials will be determined by the faculty who currently teach the course. Please check the course announcements each semester. Offered once every four years in the fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
The courses in the Comparative Humanities group offer rich possibilities for study. While the cultural and geographical frame for each course (Islam/Middle East, Africa/African-American, Asia, Latin America) is constant, the emphasis on specific themes and materials will be determined by the faculty who currently teach the course. Please check the course announcements each semester. Offered once every four years in the fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
The courses in the Comparative Humanities group offer rich possibilities for study. While the cultural and geographical frame for each course (Islam/Middle East, Africa/African-American, Asia, Latin America) is a constant, the emphasis on specific themes and materials will be determined by the faculty currently teaching the course. Please check the course announcements each semester. Offered once every four years in the fall semester.
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2.00 Credits
A multidisciplinary introduction to ideas, forms, values, and forces that affect our lives in such fields as anthropology, art, classics, history, literature, music, philosophy, religion and allied areas of study. Each half-semester offering of the course presents a topic in contemporary cultures as represented in materials from a variety of disciplines. Topics have included "What Is/Was Postmodernism?", "Politics and the Humanities", "Globalism and the Humanities", "Crossing-Disciplines: Science and the Humanities", "The Body: Materiality and Metaphor", "Freedom", and "The Family". Course may be repeated. Offered first half of spring semester.
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the idea of exchange as the basis for all human interaction by comparing ideas about and principles of exchange through different disciplinary lenses: exchange in the arts (patronage, sales, publication, criticism), economics (barter and money economics, credit), anthropology (gift-giving, marriage, ritual) and linguistics (language per se) are all possible avenues of investigation and comparison. Offering to be determined. A series of four interdisciplinary introductions to the life of the humanities in the West. Each course presents its historical and cultural period through representative works from the fields of art, architecture, classics, history, literature, music, and philosophy. Surveying major ideas, forms, and forces in their historical and aesthetic contexts, the courses ask new questions of established works and broaden traditional canons. Team taught by faculty from two humanities disciplines.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
An independent investigation of a topic selected in conference with the instructor and approved by the department. Admission by petition to or upon invitation of a department. May be repeated for credit with a different department or in the same department with departmental approval. Registration for this course applies only if a department does not offer a departmental course in independent study. Projects not directly within the discipline of the instructor's department must receive approval from the Dean's Council. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required at time of registration.
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