Undergraduates can enroll in a range of courses offered by the Humanities Council in Spring 2024. These innovative courses offer students the opportunity to engage with emerging fiends of study, and learn from faculty, scholars and practitioners from across the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences.
The Council is the academic home to five unique 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 346 / CLA 346 / MUS 346 / COM 375 Performing Myth in Early Modern Europe
Wendy Heller; Th 1:30 – 4:20 pm - ECS 350 / HIS 354 Books and Their Readers
Anthony T. Grafton, T 1:30 – 4:20 pm - ECS 376 / ARC 376 / ART 386 The Body in Space: Art, Architecture, and Performance
Spyros Papapetros; T 11:00 am – 12:20 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 minor in humanistic studies.
- HUM 218 – HUM 219 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II: Literature and the Arts, History, Philosophy and Religion
Katie Chenoweth; Benjamin Conisbee Baer; Carolina Mangone; Simon Morrison; Bailey Sincox; Michael Wachtel; Lecture T, W, Th 10:00 – 10:50 am; Precept T, Th 1:30 – 2:50 pm or 3:00 – 4:20 pm - HUM 234 / EAS 234 / COM 234 East Asian Humanities II: Traditions and Transformations
Ksenia Chizhova; Xiaoyu Xia; M, W 1:30 – 2:50 pm - HUM 245 / CLA 246 / HLS 245 Creation Stories: Babylonian, Biblical and Greek Cosmogonies Compared
Johannes Haubold; Lecture T, Th 11:00 – 11:50 am; Precept T 1:30-2:20 pm or Th 1:30-2:20 pm - HUM 290 / REL 282 Jesus and Buddha
Jonathan Gold; Elaine Pagels; Lecture M, W 12:30 – 1:20 pm; Precept TBA - HUM 328 / ENG 270 / ART 396 Language to Be Looked At
Irene V. Small; M 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 - NEW! HUM 349 / STC 350 / COM 374 / CDH 349 Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence: Fiction, Technology, Storytelling
Andrea Capra; T, Th 3:00 – 4:20 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 - NEW! HUM 360 / SLA 362 / ART 363 / RES 363 Medicine, Literature, and the Visual Arts
Elena Fratto; Anna Arabindan Kesson; Lecture M, W 10:00 – 10:50 am; Precepts W 11:00 – 11:50 am or 12:30 – 1:20 pm or 3:30-4:20 pm, Th 10:00 – 10:50 am or 11:00 – 11:50 am or 12:30 – 1:20 pm or 3:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! HUM 372 / HIS 378 / MED 372 World Travelers in the Middle Ages
Matthew C. Delvaux; T, Th 1:30 – 2:50 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 240 / CWR 240 Creative Nonfiction: The Act of Immersion: Reporting Deeply on the Lives of Others
Andrea Elliott; Th 1:30 – 4:20 pm - JRN 260 The Media in America: What to Read and Believe in the Digital Age
Joe Stephens; W 1:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! JRN 445 Investigative Journalism: Open Source Reporting
Christiaan Triebert; M 1:30 – 4:20 pm - JRN 448 / AAS 448 The Media and Social Issues: Writing about Racial Justice in the United States
Channing G. Joseph; Th 1:30 – 4:20 pm - NEW! JRN 450 Audio Journalism: Building Stories and Soundscapes
Rund Abdelfatah; Th 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 concentration in the Program in Linguistics.
- LIN 201 / CGS 205 Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Byron T. Ahn; Lecture M, W 10:00 – 10:50 am; Precepts W 1:30 – 2:20 pm or 3:30 – 4:20 pm; Th 12:30 – 1:20 pm or 1:30 – 2:20 pm; F 10:00 – 10:50 am or 11:00 – 11:50 am - LIN 205 / TRA 205 A Survey of American Sign Language
Noah A. Buchholz; Lecture M, W 11:00 – 11:50 am; Precepts W 1:30 – 2:20 pm, F 11:00 – 11:50 am - LIN 210 / CLA 210 Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics
John T. Merrill; T, Th 11:00 am – 12:20 pm - LIN 250 Language in Its Contexts
Staff; T, Th 1:30 – 2:50 pm - LIN 301 Phonetics and Phonology
Florian Lionnet; M W 11:00 am – 12:20 pm - LIN 303 Linguistic Semantics
Alexander Göbel; T, Th 1:30 – 2:50 pm - LIN 308 / TRA 303 Bilingualism
Christiane D. Fellbaum; T, Th 3:00– 4:20 pm - LIN 355 Field Methods in Linguistics
Florian Lionnet; M, W 1:30 – 2:20 pm - LIN 406 Advanced Morphology
Milena Sereikaite; T, Th 3:00 – 4:20 pm - LIN 412 Advanced Syntax
Byron T. Ahn; M 1:30 – 4:20 pm
ASL courses
- ASL 102 Beginner’s American Sign Language II
Allison M. Bienas; Daniel W. Maier; C01 M T W Th F, 9:00 am – 9:50 am, C02 M T W Th F, 10:00 am – 10:50 am, C03 M T W Th F, 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm; C04 M T W Th F, 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm - ASL 107 Advanced American Sign Language
Allison M. Bienas; Noah A. Buchholz; Daniel W. Maier; C01 M, W, F 9:00 – 9:50 am, C02 M, W, F 11:00 – 11:50 am, C03 M, W, F 12:30 – 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 spring 2024, students can enroll in several cross-listed courses, which fulfill requirements for the medieval studies minor program of study. For a full listing of cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website.
