Fall 2024 course registration begins on April 16! Undergraduates can enroll in a range of courses offered by the Humanities Council’s five undergraduate programs – European Cultural Studies, Humanistic Studies, Journalism, Linguistics, and Medieval Studies.
Grounded in interdisciplinary study, many of these innovative courses offer hands-on experience of material culture, often taking students outside the traditional classroom setting. Students can engage with emerging fields of study and learn from faculty, scholars, and practitioners from across the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences.
European Cultural Studies
Courses in the Program in European Cultural Studies are open to students from all majors, with no pre-requisites.
- EPS 302 / ECS 302 Landmarks of European Identity
Ute Mahnert; Th 1:30 – 4:20 pm - ECS 362 / MUS 362 / SPA 362 / COM 343 Opera: Culture and Politics
Rubén Gallo; T 1:30 – 4:20 pm - ECS 489 / CHV 489 / HUM 485 / ENV 489 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 minor.
- HUM 216 – HUM 217 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature and the Arts, History, Philosophy and Religion
Supratik Baralay; Barbara Graziosi; Benjamin Morison; Effie Rentzou; Esther Schor; Michael Wachtel (coordinator); Lecture T, W, Th 10:00-10:50 am; - HUM 233 / EAS 233 / COM 233 East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations
Antonin Ferré; Paize Keulemans; T, Th 11 am – 12:00 pm - HUM 247 / NES 247 Near Eastern Humanities I: From Antiquity to Islam
Johannes Haubold; Eve Krakowski; T Th 10:00 – 10:50 am - NEW! HUM 316 / COM 313 / ECS 374 / ITA 316 Women in European Cinema: Gender and the Politics of Culture
Maria DiBattista; Gaetana Marrone-Puglia; T, 1:30 – 4:20 pm - HUM 346 / ENG 256 / CDH 346 Introduction to Digital Humanities
Wouter Haverals; T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm - HUM 352 / ENG 252 / URB 352 / THR 360 Arts in the Invisible City: Race, Policy, Performance
D. Vance Smith; F, 1:30 – 4:20 pm - HUM 417 / ART 408 / CEE 415 / HLS 417 Historical Structures: Ancient Architecture’s Materials, Construction and Engineering
Branko Glisic; Samuel Holzman; M, 1:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! HUM 470 / COM 470 / HIS 287 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: Literature, History and Their Entanglements in the Western Tradition
Joel Lande; Yair Mintzker; 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 minor in journalism.
- NEW! JRN 260 The Media in America: Witnessing History
Eliza Griswold; T Th, 9:30 – 10:50 am - JRN 445 Investigative Journalism: In-depth Reporting
Joe Stephens; T, 1:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! JRN 448 The Media and Social Issues: Reporting from the Margins
May Jeong; W, 1:30 – 4:20 pm - JRN 449 International News: Migration Reporting
Deborah Amos; M, 1:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! JRN 453 The Challenges Covering an Increasingly Diverse Multicultural Nation
Ron Allen; W, 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 minor or an independent major in the Program in Linguistics.
- LIN 201 / CGS 205 Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Christiane Fellbaum; M, W 10:00-10:50 am - LIN 210 / CLA 210 Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Staff; T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm - LIN 215 / AMS 214 / GHP 315 American Deaf Culture
Noah Buchholz; M W, 10:00 am – 10:50 am - LIN 250 Language in Its Contexts
Staff; M W, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm - LIN 260 / AFS 262 Languages of Africa
Staff; T Th, 1:30 – 2:50 pm - LIN 301 Phonetics and Phonology
Florian Lionnet; M W, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm - LIN 302 Syntax
Staff; T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm - LIN 360 Linguistic Universals and Language Diversity
Staff; M W, 3:00 – 4:20 pm - LIN 400 Junior Seminar
Florian Lionnet; M, W 3:00 pm-4:20 pm
ASL courses
- ASL 101 Beginner’s American Sign Language I
Staff; C01 M, T, W, Th, F 9:00 – 9:50 am; C02 M, T, W, Th, F 10:00 – 10:50 am; C03 M, T, W, Th, F 12:30 – 1:20 pm; C04 M, T, W, Th, F 12:30 – 1:20 pm - ASL 105 Intermediate American Sign Language
Staff; C01 M, T, W, Th 9:00 – 9:50 am; C02 M, T, W, Th 10:00 – 10:50 am; C03 M, T, W, Th 11:00 – 11:50 am; C04 M, T, W, Th 12:30 – 1:20 pm - NEW! ASL 208 Medical Discourse in American Sign Language
Noah Buchholz; 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. In fall 2024, students can enroll in several cross-listed courses, which fulfill requirements for the medieval studies minor. For a full listing of cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website.
