Department of Humanities — The Department

Humanities Courses

Humanities courses are offered through the CLA departments listed in parentheses after each course number.

Courses

HUMAN L220 (MDNLNG L220)
Hades, Heaven, and Hell

This team-taught, interdisciplinary course first explores Hades from Ovid to Cocteau. It then moves to heaven and hell to examine the Christian symbolism of good and evil, angels and devils, sin and redemption in European literature, film, and the arts.
Distribution I Area: Historical & Cultural Studies.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Bassaneseand Staff

HUMAN L240 (MDNLNG L240)
Images of War

This course examines the historical and cultural background, in literature and film that arose out of World Wars I and II, with a focus on the reading and analysis of classic war novels and poetry in Italian, German, Russian, Japanese and American literature.
Distribution I Area: Historical & Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Ms Burgin
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

HUMAN 271 (German)
The Literature of the Holocaust

An analysis of, primarily, the imaginative literature written about Jewish suffering and death under the Nazis. The course begins with a brief history of the Holocaust. On occasion the course includes a guest lecture as well as an interview with a survivor.
Distribution I Area: Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

HUMAN 275 (English)
The Literature of War: World War I to Vietnam

This course is an introductory survey of the literature of war in the twentieth century. It focuses mainly on the American experience, though readings also include British, German, and Vietnamese materials. Participants study the historical, cultural, and individual contexts of primarily fictional works.
Distribution I Area: Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Bowen

HUMAN 283 (English)
The Image of Women in Literature

Archetypes and stereotypes of women in works by such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Flaubert, Hawthorne, James, Ibsen, Chekhov, Hemingway, Faulkner, Mailer, and Lessing.
Distribution I Area: Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Dittma