AP/HUMA 1110 9.0 Greek and Biblical Traditions

The stories, symbols The stories, symbols and myths of Greek and Biblical literature have provided the basic images for Western society's interpretation of itself and its experience. An examination of Greek and Biblical traditions which inform personal and community life today.Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 1710 6.00.

AP/HUMA 1074 6.0 The Chinese Body in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Medicine, Food, and Footbinding

This course uses the Chinese body as an entry point into the richness and complexity of daily life as it was lived and experienced in Chinese history. It focuses on two preeminent concerns in Chinese civilization—health and food—and on one of the most mysterious, widely condemned, and little understood Chinese bodily practices—footbinding.

AP/HUMA 1010 3.0 Word Power: Building Essential English Vocabulary Using Latin and Greek Roots

This course is designed to teach students how to build their vocabulary systematically through the study of Latin and Greek elements in essential English words in a variety of fields and to learn how to use this knowledge in a practical way in their academic courses and later for the advancement of their chosen careers. […]

AP/HUMA 4907 3.00 Modernism Across the Arts

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.

AP/HUMA 4906 6.00 Propaganda and Culture

Investigates the employment of the created environment and other expressions of culture for propagandistic purposes, meant to advance privileged ideologies in politics, religion, and social interchange. Discusses examples chosen from different eras and communities, including modern and contemporary applications.

AP/HUMA 4903 6.00 Architecture and Social Change

Probes the complex relationship between architecture and social/cultural change in the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on specific architectural ""visions"" and their intended/unintended consequences. Course credit exclusion: AP/CLTR 4810 3.00.

AP/HUMA 4825 6.00 Diversity in Early Christianity

This course explores diversity in early Christian thought and practice by investigating groups traditionally viewed as "heretical". This will include analysis of the New Testament Apocrypha, Nag Hammadi writings, and the opponents attacked in canonical and heresiological literature. Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HUMA 4825 6.00.

AP/HUMA 4824 3.00 Imagining Anne Frank: The Girl, the Diary, the Afterlives

Analyzes Anne Frank's World War II diary from literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Examines the evolution of Frank and the diary as cultural icons by analyzing representations of Frank as a figure in literature, including novels, poems, films, theatre, exhibitions, memoirs, and other people's diaries, with an eye to personal, collective, and historical memory.

AP/HUMA 4816 6.00 Women In Islamic Literature

The course focuses on the representation of Muslim women in modern Islamic literatures (novel and short stories) and other forms of Islamic cultural production, such as photography and film. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 4816 3.00.

AP/HUMA 4815 6.00 Studies in Islamic Mysticism

The course examines the development of Islamic mystical tradition (Sufism) in reference to two issues: one, the development of Sufism as a form of social organization institutionalized in the tarîqa orders, and two, the employment of different themes and symbols in Sufi thought that seek to personalize religious experience through esoteric interpretations of the sacred […]