Course Descriptions

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Humanities Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
HUM 130 The Humanities: Major Works (3) Fall 2009
HUM 205 Asian Art History (3) Spring 2009
HUM 220 Values and Culture (3) Fall 2009
HUM 225 Values in American Life (3) Fall 2009
HUM 300 Junior Seminar Humanities Writing (3) Effective Spring 2010
HUM 301 Styles and Expressive Forms (3) Fall 2009
HUM 302 Theories and Methods in the Humanities (3) Spring 2009
HUM 303 Cultural Periods and Styles (3) Fall 2009
HUM 320 Music, Ideas, and Culture (3) Fall 2009
HUM 345 Humanism and Mysticism (3) Fall 2009
HUM 360 Styles of African Cultural Expression (3) Fall 2009
HUM 361 Cultural Expression in Islam (3) Fall 2009
HUM 366 India's Gandhi (3) Fall 2009
HUM 375 Biography of a City (3) Effective Spring 1980
HUM 375 Variable topics:
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Athens (3) Fall 2008
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Beijing (3) Fall 2007
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Berlin (3) Spring 2008
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Buenos Aires (3) Effective Spring 2009
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Chicago (3) Fall 2009
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Delhi (3) Spring 2007
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Florence (3) Effective Summer 2006
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Havana (3) Fall 2008
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Istanbul (3) Spring 2008
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: London (3) Spring 2005
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Los Angeles (3) Fall 2008
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Mexico City (3) Spring 2008
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Moscow (3) Spring 2009
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: New Orleans (3) Fall 2007
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: New York (3) Spring 2009
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Paris (3) Fall 2009
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Rio de Janeiro (3) Spring 2009
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: St. Petersburg (3) Effective Spring 2008
  HUM 375 Biography of a City: Tokyo (3) Fall 2009
HUM 376 San Francisco (3) Fall 2009
HUM 377 Jerusalem (3) Fall 2009
HUM 390 Images of Eroticism (3) Fall 2009
HUM 401 Classical Culture: Greece (3) Spring 2009
HUM 402 Classical Culture: Rome (3) Fall 2009
HUM 403 The Early Middle Ages (3) Spring 2009
HUM 404 The High Middle Ages (3) Fall 2009
HUM 405 Art, Literature, and Power in the Renaissance (3) Spring 2009
HUM 407 Romanticism and Impressionism (3) Spring 2009
HUM 410 The Modern Revolution (3) Spring 2009
HUM 413 Hannah Arendt (3) Spring 2006
HUM 415 Contemporary Culture (3) Fall 2009
HUM 425 Thought and Image: Humanities (3) Fall 2009
HUM 432 Nietzsche and Postmodernism (3) Fall 2008
HUM 434 Arendt and Heidegger (3) Fall 2009
HUM 445 German-Jewish Ferment 1920s-1950s (3) Spring 2005
HUM 450 California Culture (3) Fall 2009
HUM 455 Humanities of the Americas (3) Fall 2009
HUM 470 American Autobiography (3) Spring 2008
HUM 480 Thought and Culture in America to 1880 (3) Effective Summer 2009
HUM 481 Thought and Culture in America: 1880 to the Present (3) Effective Summer 2009
HUM 485 The Arts and American Culture (3) Fall 2009
HUM 490 American Images: Photography and Literature (3) Fall 2007
HUM 495 Architecture and American Life (3) Fall 2008
HUM 501 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (3) Spring 2009
HUM 507 Art of China (3) Fall 2007
HUM 510 Comparative Form and Culture (3) Fall 2009
HUM 520 North and South American Cultural Expression (3) Spring 2009
HUM 525 Asian Cultures (3) Effective Spring 1985
HUM 525 Variable topics:
  HUM 525 Culture of Taiwan (3) Fall 1988
HUM 526 Culture of Japan before 1850 (3) Fall 2009
HUM 527 Japan and Modernity (3) Spring 2009
HUM 530 Chinese Civilization (3) Fall 2009
HUM 531 Images of Modern China (3) Spring 2009
HUM 535 Classical South Asian Cultural Forms (3) Fall 2009
HUM 536 Modern South Asian Cultural Forms (3) Spring 2009
HUM 550 The Art of Autobiography (3) Spring 2009
HUM 550 The Art of Autobiography (3) Effective Fall 2006
HUM 690 Senior Seminar in the Humanities (3) Fall 2009
HUM 699 Special Study (1-4) Effective Spring 2006
HUM 699 Variable topics:
  HUM 699 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  HUM 699 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  HUM 699 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
  HUM 699 Special Study (4) Spring 2009
HUM 700 Introduction to Integrative Study (3) Fall 2009
HUM 701 Fine Arts in the Humanities (3) Fall 2009
HUM 702 Literature in the Humanities (3) Fall 2008
HUM 703 History in the Humanities (3) Spring 2009
HUM 704 Philosophy in the Humanities (3) Spring 2008
HUM 710 Seminar in European Forms and Culture (3) Spring 2009
HUM 711 Seminar in American Forms and Culture (3) Fall 2007
HUM 712 Seminar in African Forms and Culture (3) Spring 2006
HUM 713 Seminar in Asian Forms and Culture (3) Spring 2009
HUM 720 Humanistic Themes (3) Fall 2008
HUM 721 Culture and Style (3) Fall 2009
HUM 722 New Models in Humanistic Studies (3) Effective Spring 1991
HUM 723 Contemporary Humanistic Scholarship (3) Fall 2007
HUM 896 Directed Study of Humanistic Works (3) Fall 2009
HUM 898 Master's Thesis (3) Fall 2009
HUM 899 Special Study (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
HUM 899 Variable topics:
  HUM 899 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  HUM 899 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  HUM 899 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
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