HUM - Humanities Courses

HUM 118 Religion in American Culture
3 credits
HUM 118 investigates the various ways in which religion and American culture interact. The course begins with the religion of Native Americans, which existed in a pre-modern society where religion went unchallenged as the preeminent organizing principle, to our post-modern era, where religion competes with a multiplicity of other belief systems in a complex societal matrix. This course pays close attention to the sundry ways in which religion and American culture interface.

HUM 121 Humanities: Early Civilizations
3 credits
HUM 121 introduces students to the history of ideas   that have defined cultures through a study of the visual arts, literature, drama, music, and philosophy. It emphasizes connections among the arts, values, and diverse cultures, including European and non-European, from the Ancient world to 1000 C.E.

HUM 122 Humanities: From Medieval to Modern
3 credits
HUM 122 examines written texts, visual arts and musical compositions to analyze and reflect the evolution and confluence of cultures in Europe, Asia and the Americas from 800 C.E. to 1750.   Any two of the three Survey of Humanities courses equal a sequence.

HUM 123 Humanities: The Modern World
3 credits
HUM 123 examines the cultures of the 17th through the 20th centuries by focusing on the interrelationships of the arts, ideas, and history. Considers the influences of industrialism, scientific development, and non-European peoples.

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