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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Multidisciplinary exploration of relations of human beings to nature, and of scientific, economic, and political factors in current environmental concerns. Selected religious, classical, and philosophical texts; works of visual art; selected discussions of ecology and human responsibility. Also listed as HON 265.
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3.00 Credits
Study of major selected works of literature, mainly American; of the films which have been based upon them; and of the social and political context in which they were read and seen. Texts include novels, stories, and plays by such writers as Dreiser, Lewis, Warren, Steinbeck, Hellman, Harper Lee, Wright, and Walker. P-Junior standing.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Supervised independent research project on a topic related to Asia. Requires the approval of both the instructor and the coordinator of East Asian studies. May be repeated for credit, but no more than three hours may count toward East Asian studies.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of some of Italy's greatest postwar films, with special attention to issues and problems in Italian society as treated by major directors such as Fellini, DeSica, Rossellini, Antonioni, and Olmi.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of theories of fascism, with emphasis on Italy between 1919 and 1944 as understood through novels and films.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary investigation of translations and transformations of the Trojan legend from the Greeks through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present. Texts, studied in English translation, are by such authors as Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Chaucer, Racine, and Giraudoux.
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1.50 - 3.00 Credits
Study of aging in an interdisciplinary context, including the biological, psychological, neurobiological, cognitive, health status, and social, structural and demographic aspects of aging. P-POI.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Individual projects in the humanities which continue study begun in regular courses. By prearrangement.
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3.00 Credits
Inquiry into the nature and interrelationships of several approaches to man's experience, represented by the work of three such minds as Leonardo da Vinci, Dante, Klee, Lorenz, Confucius, Dostoevsky, Descartes, Goya, Mozart, Jefferson, and Bohr. Seminar discussion based on primary and secondary sources, including musical works and paintings. Written reports and a term paper required. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
A parallel course to HON 131, 132, concentrating on the work of a different set of figures such as Einstein, Galileo, Keynes, Pascal, Camus, Picasso, Ibsen, Stravinsky, Sophocles, and Bach. Offered in alternate years.
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