Humanistic Approaches

(one unit)

A course to develop an understanding of how humans have addressed fundamental questions of existence, identity, and values and to develop an appreciation of these issues of intellectual and cultural experience. This course should be taken during the first three years.

AFAM 101, Introduction to African American Studies
ASIA 350, Tibet - Real, Imagined, and Perceived
CLSC 210, Greek Mythology
CLSC 211, History of Ancient Greece
CLSC 212, Ancient Rome
CLSC 222, Greco-Roman World
CLSC 225, Gender and Identity in Greece and Rome
CLSC 230, The Classical Tradition
CLSC 231, Greek and Roman Epic: Genre and Meaning
COMM 291, Film Culture
CSOC 200, Cultural Anthropology
CSOC 215, Race and Ethnic Relations
ENGL 205, Biography / Autobiography
ENGL 226, Survey of Literature by Women
ENGL 230, Literature of the Human Experience
ENGL 236, Literature and the Quest for Personal Identity
ENGL 239, Loss and Renewal: American Voices, American Identity
ENGL 255, Introduction to Shakespeare
FL 205, Survey of East Asian Literature
FL 305, Modern French Theatre: From Cocteau to Beckett
FL 310, Premodern Japanese Literature
FL 320, Modern Japanese Literature
GNDR 201, Introduction to Gender and Feminist Studies
HIST 101, Roots of the Western Experience
HIST 102A, Western Civilization: The Rise of the Modern State
HIST 102B, Western Civilization: 1650-1990
HIST 152, American Experiences I: Origins to 1877
HIST 153, American Experiences II: 1877 to Present
HIST 231, Britain and Britishness: The Making of the First Industrial Nation
HIST 245, Chinese Civilization
HIST 247, The Forging of the Japanese Tradition
HIST 254, African American Voices - A Survey of African American History
HIST 280, Colonial Latin America
HIST 281, Modern Latin America
HIST 371, American Intellectual History to 1865
HON 211, Literature and the Construction of the Self
HUM 201, The Arts, Ideas, and Society: Western Tradition
HUM 206, The Classics of Russian Literature
HUM 210, Power and Culture in Periclean Athens and Augustan Rome
LAS 100, Introduction to Latin American Studies
PHIL 101, Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 215, Ancient Philosophy
REL 101, Introduction to the Study of World Religions
REL 102, Jesus and the Jesus Traditions
REL 108, Yoga and the Ascetic Imperative
REL 200, History and Literature of Ancient Israel
REL 204, Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
REL 210, Comparative Christianities
REL 233, Japanese Religious Traditions
REL 234, Chinese Religious Traditions
REL 265, Thinking Ethically
REL 365, Antisemitism and the Holocaust
STS 201, Science, Technology, and Society I: Antiquity to 1800
STS 202, Science, Technology, and Society II: Since 1800