Tracing the origins and histories of different Canadian religious communities, this course identifies and analyzes ways in which the religious reflects, shapes and embodies the social and cultural diversity of everyday life in Canada.
Introduction to emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and symbolic uses of music through case studies of individual cultures, including consideration of social, political, and historical settings.
Examines the role of consumer technologies, ranging from the automobile to the iPod in terms of how they affect the cultural landscapes of contemporary culture and society.
This course examines how science and technology are presented to a popular audience through many different forms of media. Our hopes and fears about contemporary techno-science, and how it is changing us and our culture, are explored through movies, plays, television programs, exhibitions and museums, popular science, and science fiction literature in the twentieth and […]
This course analyzes the form, meaning and content of traditional and popular levels of culture, and discusses the respective roles of each in the human environment. Its focus is on face-to-face oral human communication, as well as on communication carried out through the popular mass media. Note: This is an approved LA&PS General Education course […]
An examination of the interaction of Jews and gentiles in selected periods from antiquity through the 20th century. A case study in ethnic adaptation, the course seeks to understand how Jews sometimes adapted their lives to the world around them, and at other times withdrew into themselves, and how at certain times they exerted considerable […]
This course looks at selected passages from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and their interpretative reflection in the western artistic tradition, including pictorial/representational art, music, literature, and cinema.
An introduction to the study of Korean culture through a historical survey of literary, social, religious and political trends from ancient times to the present. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 2420 9.00 (prior to Fall 2014).
Examines literary, musical, and visual arts of the modernist period to explore why there is an inter and multidisciplinary impetus during the period and how such crossovers between and among different cultural forms contributes to the generation of new modes of artistic material.
Explores the contours of Christian-Muslim-Jewish co-existence in medieval Spain, focusing on religious and social themes. Topics include conversion, cross-traditional intellectual stimuli, sacred violence and positive images of the religious other.