AP HUMA 4425 6.00 Worlds Within, Worlds Without: The "Self" in Qing Prose and Poetry

This course explores the concept of self as it is expressed through the works of major writers and poets in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

AP HUMA 4155 3.00 The "Victory" of the Body in 20th Century Western Culture

This course examines how the body, in contrast to the soul or mind, was "redeemed" after 1900 so as to make it the immanent source of new values that transformed a range of social attitudes.

AP HUMA 4151 3.00 Imagination and Reality: Don Quixote in Literature, Film and Art.

This course examines the nature and function of the imagination and its relationship to reality through an analysis of the highly influential "first modern novel," Don Quixote, and subsequent representations of Don Quixote in literature, film and art. Course credit exclusion: AP/SP 4350 6.00.

AP HUMA 4105 6.00 The Rhetorical Tradition: Persuasion and Eloquence

This course examines rhetoric and its social function from the classical cultures of Greece and Rome to our own time. Topics include the technical handbooks; oratory; rhetoric in literature; philosophy and rhetoric; and the role of rhetoric in modern life.

AP HUMA 3110 6.00 Roman Culture and Society

Examines literature, art and architecture in its social and cultural context within a specified period of Roman history. The course may focus on either the late Republic, the ages of Augustus, Nero or the Trajan.

AP HUMA 3108 6.00 Ancient Greek and Roman Comic Drama

This course explores the evolving tradition of ancient Greek and Roman comic drama from later fifth-century BCE Athens to the early second-century Roman Republic, studying the works of the playwrights Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence, their influence on the development of the Western Canon, selected topics in Greek and Roman social and cultural history, and […]

AP HUMA 3107 6.00 Roman Republican Literature

This course surveys the literature and culture of the Roman Republic, 509 - 31 BCE. Beginning with the material and cultural record of pre-historical Rome in the 7th to 3rd centuries, this course examines the song and performance culture of Early Rome. The course then considers the fusion of Greek and Italian elements that laid […]

AP HUMA 3021 6.00 Exegesis in Select Philosophical Texts

In this course we examine the relationships among two sets of discourses: philosophy, religion, and literature, on the one hand; faith, reason, and atheism, on the other hand.  We do so in order to assess the thesis that the apparently disparate approaches taken by these discourses to conceiving the breadth and diversity of human expression […]

AP HUMA 2830 6.00 The Founders of Christianity

An introduction to the literature and history of the early Christian communities in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome. The varieties of early Christian thought and practice are examined in terms of their religious, cultural and political contexts.

AP HUMA 1915 9.00 Animals and the Imagination

Animals preoccupy the human imagination, because the animal-human relationship embodies conceptions of nature and culture, our humanity and our societies. This course introduces students to the fascinating range of representations of animals and animality, drawing from many disciplinary traditions and exploring the connections between historical and contemporary examples.