Humanities courses are designed to provide context, insight, and fresh perspectives for students pursuing the arts. Topics include writing, literature and film criticism.
This class is fully enrolled.
Through the study of some of the representative works from World Literature we will take a panoramic look at the development of Civilization from its earliest beginnings. Through creation myths, stories of epic battles, and stories of love, we will learn more about who we are as part of the … Read more
Start Date
06/03
Meeting Day
Mondays and Wednesdays
End Date
07/24
Faculty
Michael Hamburger
Time
9:30am–12:30pm
Credits
3
Why Novels Now? Create Your Own Long-Form Fiction, an LALW Summative Elective, is designed for upper-level students with an active interest in the longer forms of fiction, especially those who are completing the Creative Writing Minor. Why Novels Now? is a defense of the need for leisurely literature in our … Read more
Start Date
06/04
Meeting Day
Tue and Thu
End Date
08/15
Faculty
Lin Haire-Sargeant
Time
9am–1pm
Credits
3
This writing course focuses on skills for thinking and writing about artwork. Writing helps to develop the ability to reflect on creative processes. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach—crossing boundaries and integrating insights from visual art, writing, library science and other disciplines— for research. Students learn to tell the story … Read more
Start Date
06/04
Meeting Day
Tue, Wed, Thu
End Date
06/27
Faculty
Jeanette Luise Eberhardy
Time
9am–4pm
Credits
3
How might advertising be Art? How is it ideology? In this asynchronous course, we will use concepts and critical thinking strategies to study advertising and public relations as organizers and drivers of our cultural ideology. This online seminar course will include two sessions each week: One session will be made up of asynchronous assignments … Read more
Start Date
06/04
Meeting Day
Tuesdays and online
End Date
07/16
Faculty
Richard Murphy
Time
6pm–9pm
Credits
3
The course explores the art and composition of the graphic novel and examines its many sub-genres, from superhero tales to memoirs to manga. The textbook is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. Other texts include Watchmen, Contract With God, Sandman, Maus, and Persepolis. For the final project, students create and make preliminary sketches for an original graphic novel.
Start Date
06/10
Meeting Day
Mondays and Wednesdays
End Date
07/29
Faculty
Joshua Cohen
Time
1:30pm–4:30pm
Credits
3
An introduction to various genres of folklore and the methods of studying them. Students learn about how folklore exists or existed as a dynamic part of everyday life -aesthetically, behaviorally, politically, socially, and more. We consider such diverse forms of expressions as Indonesian Cinderella tales, Italian American festivals, Irish supernatural … Read more
Start Date
06/10
Meeting Day
End Date
07/19
Faculty
Timothy Correll
Time
–
Credits
3
This course treats the evolution of film music from silent movies until the present. It introduces students to musical syntax, the aesthetics of film music, and the means by which composers synchronize music and script to convey mood and render action vivid. Working chronologically, the course explores the increasing importance … Read more
Start Date
06/10
Meeting Day
Mon-Thu & Fri June 21
End Date
06/21
Faculty
Paul Bempéchat
Time
2pm–4pm
Credits
3
Speculative fiction is a field of storytelling in which imaginative scenarios are created to illuminate real-life questions and problems. It encompasses many genres including science fiction, gothic novels, plays, films, and even operas and graphic novels. The syllabus ranges from *Utopia* to *Frankenstein*, Octavia Butler’s *Parable of the Sower*, *Ursula … Read more
Start Date
06/11
Meeting Day
Tuesdays & Thursdays
End Date
07/30
Faculty
Joshua Cohen
Time
1:30pm–4:30pm
Credits
3
This course will trace how a dozen works and genres transformed the course of modern music, modern history, and society. The class will meet four times weekly for two hours and through a flexible combination of viewings, listenings, discussions, and directed study, students will achieve an in-depth understanding of these … Read more
Start Date
07/08
Meeting Day
Monday thru Thursday
End Date
07/18
Faculty
Paul Bempéchat
Time
2pm–4pm
Credits
3
In this course we will read poems by Sappho, Verlaine, and McKay. Sappho lived around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos in Greece. Her songs were popular then and continue to generate afterlives now, waning and gaining in popularity alongside changes in sensibilities with regard to sexuality. Paul Verlaine wrote … Read more
Start Date
07/08
Meeting Day
End Date
07/19
Faculty
Divya Menon
Time
–
Credits
3
Reflecting diverse but interrelated cultural traditions, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean films offer a fun and fascinating lens through which to view the development of postwar Asian society. The samurai film, Hong Kong action movies, and Japanese anime are some of the topics covered in following this development through a selection of … Read more
Start Date
07/29
Meeting Day
End Date
08/16
Faculty
Michael Hamburger
Time
Class meets online with 3 zoom meetings, 6-8pm, July 29, August 7 an 16.–
Credits
3
