AP/HUMA 2230 6.0 Music in Human Experience

Introduction to emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and symbolic uses of music through case studies of individual cultures, including consideration of social, political, and historical settings.

AP/HUMA 2225 6.0 Technology, Change and the Future

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.

AP/HUMA 2105 6.0 Roman Literature and Culture

An introduction to Roman literature and culture, circa 200 BC to AD 200. Emphasis is placed on the literature, art and architecture of the Romans and on the impact of Roman culture on those peoples under Roman rule.

AP/HUMA 1910 9.0 Science and the Humanities: Nature and Human Nature

This course investigates how scientific thinking about the place of human beings in nature involves humanistic thinking about the place of nature in being human. Course credit exclusion: AP/HIST 2810 6.00.

AP/HUMA 1909 6.0 Techno-Science and Popular Culture

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 […]

AP/HUMA 1900 9.00 Introduction to Traditional and Popular Culture

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 […]

AP/HUMA 1880 6.0 The Jewish Experience, Civilization and Culture

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 […]

AP/HUMA 1870 6.0 The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the Arts

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.

AP/HUMA 1855 9.0 Buddhism and Asian Cultures

This course introduces students to the diversity of Buddhist ideas and practices in Asia. Exploring Buddhism as a living tradition, the course focuses on the impact and interpretation of Buddhism in historical and contemporary cultures. The course develops a background in basic Buddhist philosophy in order to explore its broader cultural impact in literature, art, […]

AP/HUMA 1844 6.0 Muslim Travel Narratives: Journeys through the Muslim World

This course explores the ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity of the Muslim world through the travelogues and memoirs of Muslim scholars, pilgrims, envoys and adventurers, who traversed its domains from the tenth century to the present. It problematizes essentialist perceptions of "the Muslim world" as an undifferentiated and monolithic entity, and proposes a dynamic view […]