The Humanities Council will offer 30 courses in Spring 2023 to undergraduate students, including 15 new offerings. The Council is the academic home to several undergraduate certificate programs, including European Cultural Studies, Humanistic Studies, Journalism, Linguistics, and Medieval Studies.
European Cultural Studies
Courses in the Program in European Cultural Studies are open to students from all majors, with no pre-requisites.
- NEW! ECS 362/ MUS 362/ SPA 362/ COM 343 Opera Culture and Politics
Rubén Gallo; M 1:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! ECS 393/ AAS 394/ FRE 394 Reading the French Caribbean: The Postcolonial Literature of Martinique and Guadeloupe
Thomas A. Trezise; Th 1:30 – 4:20 pm - ECS 326 /FRE 326 Versailles and the World
Volker Schröder; T, Th 11:00 am – 12:20 pm - ECS 331 /HIS 430 /COM 317 Communication and the Arts: The Battle of the Books: Culture Wars in Early Modern Europe
Anthony T. Grafton; T 1:30 – 4:20 pm - ECS 389/ CHV 389 / HUM 389 / ENV 389 Environmental Film Studies: Research Film Studio
Erika A. Kiss; W 1:30 – 4:20 pm
For more information and cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website.
Humanistic Studies
The Program in Humanistic Studies offers courses that are broad based, interdisciplinary, and often team-taught. They have no prerequisites and fulfill requirements toward the interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies certificate.
- HUM 218 – HUM 219 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II: Literature and the Arts, History, Philosophy and Religion
Yair Mintzker (coordinator); Katie Chenoweth; Joel Lande; Sarah McGrath; Simon Morrison; Bailey Sincox; Lecture M, T, W 10:00-10:50 am; Precept T, Th 1:30-2:50 or 3:00-4:20 pm
- HUM 248 / NES 248 Near Eastern Humanities II: Medieval to Modern Thought and Culture
Lara Harb; T, Th 11:00 am – 12:20 pm
- HUM 307 / ENG 277: Literature as Data
Brian Kernighan, Meredith Martin; W 1:30-4:20 pm
- NEW! HUM 339 / REL 398 / URB 339 Religion and the City
Babak Manouchehrifar; M 1:30–4:20 pm
- NEW! HUM 402 / MED 403 / HIS 457 Making the Viking Age
Matthew Delvaux; T 1:30-4:20 pm
- HUM 412 / CLA 417 / HIS 475 / HLS 406 Digging for the Past: Archaeology from Ancient Greece to Modern America
Anthony Grafton, Suzanne Marchand; W 1:30-4:20 pm
- NEW! HUM 423 / COM 465 / TRA 423 / FRE 423 Poetry and War: Translating the Untranslatable
Sandra Bermann; W 1:30–4:20 pm
- NEW! HUM 470 / CLA 470 / REL 470 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: Justice then and now
Joshua Billings, Moulie Vidas; T 1:30-4:20 pm
For more information and cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website.
Journalism
The Program in Journalism offers popular seminars that draw on the world’s most distinguished journalists as faculty. Courses are open to students of all concentrations, have no prerequisites, and fulfill requirements toward the undergraduate certificate in journalism.
- NEW! JRN 240 / CWR 240 Creative Non-Fiction: The Act of Immersion: Reporting Deeply on the Lives of Others
Andrea Elliot; Th 1:20 – 4:20 pm
- NEW! JRN 441 / GSS 442 The McGraw Seminar in Writing: Telling Stories of Economic Inequality
Pallavi Gogoi; W 1:30 – 4:20 pm
- NEW! JRN 445 Investigative Journalism: Data-driven Reporting
Neil Bedi; T 1:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! JRN 448 / AAS 448 Writing about Racial Justice in the United States
Channing Joseph; Th 1:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! JRN 449 / LAS 439 International News: Covering Conflict, Human Rights and Displacement Beyond the Front Lines
Nadja Drost; T 1:30 – 4:20 pm
For more information and cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website.
Linguistics
Undergraduate students are invited to pursue a certificate or an independent concentration in the Program in Linguistics.
- LIN 201 /CGS 205 Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Byron Ahn; M, W 10:00-10:50 am
- LIN 205 /TRA 205 A Survey of American Sign Language
Noah Buchholz; M, W11:00-11:50 am
- NEW! LIN 219 Writing Systems and Orthographic Processing
Nikita Bezrukov; M, W 11:00 am-12:20 pm
- LIN 250 Language in Its Contexts
Laura Kalin; T, Th 11:00 am-12:20 pm
- LIN 260 /AFS 262 Languages of Africa
Florian Lionnet; M, W 11:00 am-12:20 pm
- LIN 302 Syntax
Byron Ahn; M, W 3:00 pm-4:20 pm
- LIN 303 Linguistic Semantics
Alexander Göbel; T, Th 11:00 am-12:20 pm
- LIN 308 /TRA 303 Bilingualism
Christiane Fellbaum; T, Th 3:00 pm-4:20
- NEW! LIN 318 Structure of Lithuanian
Milena Šereikaitė; T, Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm - LIN 355 Field Methods in Linguistics
Florian Lionnet; M, W, F 1:30 pm-2:20 pm
- NEW! LIN 406 Advanced Morphology
Laura Kalin; T, Th 3:00 pm-4:20 pm
ASL courses
- ASL 102 Beginner’s American Sign Language II
Daniel Maier; C01 M, T, W, Th, F 9:00 am-9:50 am, C02 M, T, W, Th, F 12:30 pm-1:20 pm
- NEW! ASL 107: Advanced American Sign Language
Noah Buchholz; C01 M, W, F 9:00 am- 9:50 am; C02 M, W, F 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm
For more information and cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website.
Medieval Studies
The Program in Medieval Studies allows students to pursue concentrated interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages to earn an undergraduate certificate.
In spring 2023, students can enroll in several cross-listed courses, which fulfill requirements for the certificate program. For a full listing of cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website.
