Spring 2025 course registration begins on December 3! Students can enroll in a range of Spring 2025 courses offered by the Humanities Council’s five undergraduate programs – European Cultural Studies, Humanistic Studies, Journalism, Linguistics, and Medieval Studies.
With a strong grounding in interdisciplinary study, these innovative courses offer students the opportunity to engage with emerging fields of study and learn from faculty, scholars, and practitioners from across the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts. Many courses provide hands-on experience of material culture, both in and outside of the traditional classroom setting.
European Cultural Studies
Courses in the Program in European Cultural Studies are open to students from all majors, with no pre-requisites. For students in the Class of 2026 and beyond, these courses fulfill requirements toward the new minor in European Studies, jointly offered by ECS and the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society.
ECS 321 / SPA 333 / COM 389 Cultural Systems: Proust, Freud, Borges
Rubén Gallo; M, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
ECS 342 / ENG 349 / COM 352 Literature and Photography
Eduardo L. Cadava; W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
ECS 363 / FRE 348 / HUM 358 Democracy and Education
Göran Blix; T, 1:30 pm – 2:50 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 humanistic studies minor.
HUM 218 – HUM 219 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II: Literature and the Arts
Bridget Alsdorf, Michael D. Gordin, Dimitrios Halikias, Sarah E. McGrath, Esther H. Schor, Michael A. Wachtel; T W Th, 10:00 am – 10:50 am
HUM 234 / EAS 234 / COM 234 East Asian Humanities II: Traditions and Transformations
Ksenia Chizhova, Xiaoyu Xia; M W, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm
HUM 248 / NES 248 / HIS 248 Near Eastern Humanities II: Medieval to Modern Thought and Culture
Q-mars M. Haeri, Lara Harb; T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm
NEW! HUM 325 / EAS 325 / ENG 324 / COM 473 Nostalgia
Andrea Capra, Federico Marcon; Th, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
NEW! HUM 331 Power and the Professoriate
Afia Ofori-Mensa; Dan-el Padilla Peralta, TBD
HUM 340 / MTD 340 / AMS 440 / SOC 376 Musical Theatre and Fan Cultures
Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Stacy E. Wolf; W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
HUM 423 / COM 465 / TRA 423 / FRE 423 Poetry and War: Translating the Untranslatable
Sandra L. Bermann, Peter Makhlouf; W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
NEW! HUM 450 / GER 407 / ART 482 / ARC 450 Empathy and Alienation: Psychological Aesthetics and Cultural Politics
Brigid Doherty, Spyros Papapetros; M, 7:30 pm – 10:20 pm
NEW! HUM 470 / ECS 470 / CLA 470 / MUS 470 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: The Sound of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Andrew M. Feldherr, Wendy Heller; T Th, 3:00 pm – 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.
JRN 260 The Media in America: What to Read and Believe in the Digital Age
Joe Stephens; T, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
NEW! JRN 280 The Literature of Fact: Narrative Nonfiction
Eliza T. Griswold; W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
NEW! JRN 441 The McGraw Seminar in Writing: Writing People
Vinson Cunningham; Th, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
NEW! JRN 445 Investigative Journalism: Uncovering Corruption in the 2020s
Andrea Bernstein; W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
JRN 448 The Media and Social Issues: Covering Race & Identity in America
Channing G. Joseph; M, 1:30 pm – 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. Additionally, American Sign Language (ASL) courses offered by the program may be used to fulfill the University’s language requirement.
LIN 201 / CGS 205 Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Laura Kalin; M W, 10:00 am – 10:50 am
LIN 205 / TRA 205 A Survey of American Sign Language
Noah A. Buchholz; M W, 10:00 am – 10:50 am
LIN 303 Linguistic Semantics
Cal Howland; T Th, 7:30 pm – 8:50 pm
LIN 306 The Structure and Meaning of Words
Nicholas Rolle; M W, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm
LIN 308 / TRA 303 Bilingualism
Christiane D. Fellbaum; T Th, 3:00 pm – 4:20 pm
LIN 355 Field Methods in Linguistics
Rebecca D. Paterson; M W F, 1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
LIN 401 Advanced Phonology
John T. Merrill; T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm
LIN 412 Advanced Syntax
Milena Šereikaitė; T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm
ASL courses
ASL 102 Beginner’s American Sign Language II
Allison Bloom; M T W Th F, 10:00 am – 10:50 am
ASL 102 Beginner’s American Sign Language II
Allison Bloom; M T W Th F, 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm
ASL 107 Advanced American Sign Language
Peter S. Cook; M W F, 9:00 am – 9:50 am
ASL 107 Advanced American Sign Language
Peter S. Cook; M W F, 10:00 am – 10:50 am
ASL 107 Advanced American Sign Language
Peter S. Cook; M W F, 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm
ASL 206 Creativity and American Sign Language
Peter S. Cook; M W, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm
ASL 207 Deaf and Sign Language in Film
Noah A. 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. This Spring 2025 course is open to students from all majors and fulfills the introductory course requirement for the medieval studies minor.
MED 227 / HUM 227 / HIS 227 / HLS 227 The Worlds of the Middle Ages
William C. Jordan; M W, 10:00 am – 10:50 am
For more information and cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website.
