Course registration for Fall 2025 begins on April 16! Students 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.
These innovative courses are taught by faculty, scholars, and practitioners from across the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts. Grounded in interdisciplinary study, students have opportunities to engage with emerging fields of study and experiment with course structures and materials, both in and outside of the traditional classroom setting.
European Cultural Studies
Courses in the Program in European Cultural Studies (ECS) are open to students from all majors, with no pre-requisites. 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 301 / EPS 301 Rethinking European Culture in the Present
Florian Fuchs; Spyros Papapetros; Th, 1:30 – 4:20 pm
ECS 362 / MUS 362 / SPA 362 / COM 343 Opera: Culture and Politics
Rubén Gallo; M, 1:30 – 4:20 pm
ECS 489 / CHV 489 / ENV 489 Environmental Film Studies: Research Film Studio
Erika Kiss; M W 10:40 am – 12:00 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 280 / ENV 280 / CWR 280 The Literature of Fact: Reporting the Anthropocene
Carolyn Kormann; W, 1:30 – 4:20 pm
NEW! JRN 310 Reading and Writing about Mental Illness
Judith Warner; M W, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm
NEW! JRN 448 The Media and Social Issues: Challenging the Narrative on Race
Rozina Ali; M, 1:30 – 4:20 pm
JRN 449 International News: Migration Reporting
Deborah Amos; T, 1:30 – 4:20 pm
NEW! JRN 450 Audio Journalism: The Fundamentals of Podcasting
JoAnn DeLuna; M, 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 humanistic studies minor.
HUM 216 – HUM 217 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature and the Arts
Katie Chenoweth; Beatrice Kitzinger; Mirjam Kotwick; Simone Marchesi; D. Vance Smith; Louis Zweig; T W Th, 9:35 – 10:25 am
HUM 233 / EAS 233 / COM 233 East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations
Brian R. Steininger; Trenton W. Wilson; T Th, 1:20 – 2:40 pm
HUM 247 / NES 247 Near Eastern Humanities I: From Antiquity to Islam
Daniel J. Sheffield; Moulie Vidas; T Th, 10:40 – 11:30 am
NEW! HUM 302 / CHV 324 The Long Arc of Fascism
Shiri Pasternak; W, 1:20 – 4:10 pm
HUM 316 / COM 313 / ECS 374 / ITA 316 Women in European Cinema: Gender and the Politics of Culture
Maria A. DiBattista; Gaetana Marrone-Puglia; T, 1:30 – 4:20 pm
NEW! HUM 327 / MUS 327 / CGS 327 / PSY 328 Animal Music
Asif A. Ghazanfar; Gavin Steingo; T, 1:30 – 4:20 pm
HUM 335 / EAS 376 / HIS 334 A Global History of Monsters
Federico Marcon; M W, 2:25 – 3:15 pm
HUM 365 / PSY 365 Freud on the Psychological Foundations of the Mind
Susan L. Sugarman; T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 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
Christiane Fellbaum; M W, 9:35 – 10:25 am
LIN 215 / AMS 214 / GHP 315 American Deaf Culture
Noah Buchholz; M W, 9:35 – 10:25 am
LIN 260 / AFS 262 Languages of Africa
Staff; M W, 2:55 – 4:15 pm
LIN 301 Phonetics and Phonology
Florian Lionnet; M W, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm
LIN 302 Syntax
Staff; M W, 1:20 – 2:40 pm
LIN 315 / CLA 210 Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics
John T. Merrill; T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm
NEW! LIN 321 Prosody: Pitch and Rhythm in Spoken Language
Nicholas Rolle; T Th, 9:00 – 10:20 am
LIN 360 Linguistic Universals and Language Diversity
Rebecca Paterson; T Th, 1:20 – 2:40 pm
LIN 400 Junior Seminar
Nicholas Rolle; T Th, 2:55 – 4:15 pm
LIN 406 Advanced Morphology
Laura Kalin; M W, 2:55 – 4:15 pm
ASL courses
ASL 101 Beginner’s American Sign Language I
Allison Bloom; C01 M T W Th F, 8:30 – 9:20 am; C02 M T W Th F, 9:35 – 10:25 am; C03 M T W Th F, 12:15 – 1:05 pm; C04 M T W Th F, 1:20 – 2:10 pm
ASL 105 Intermediate American Sign Language
Peter S. Cook; C01 M T W Th, 8:30 – 9:20 am; C02 M T W Th, 9:35 – 10:25 am; C03 M T W Th, 12:15 – 1:05 pm
ASL 205 American Sign Language Literature
Allison Bloom; Noah Buchholz; M W F, 12:15 – 1:05 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 2025, students can enroll in several cross-listed courses, which fulfill requirements for the medieval studies minor. For a full list of cross-listed courses, visit the course offerings website
