HUM203

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Current Issues in the Humanities

Humanities College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

HUM

Course Number

203

Status

Active

Course Attributes

BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, BINT: GenEd-Breadth/Interdisciplinar, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, ENHU: Minor-Humanities Elective, NHUM: Minor-Humanities, WRIT: GenEd-Writing Intensive

Course Short Title

Current Issues/Humanities

Course Long Title

Current Issues in the Humanities

Course Description

A multidisciplinary introduction to ideas, forms, values, and forces that affect our lives in such fields as anthropology, art, classics, history, literature, music, philosophy, religion and allied areas of study. Each half-semester offering of the course presents a topic in contemporary cultures as represented in materials from a variety of disciplines. Topics have included "What Is/Was Postmodernism?", "Politics and the Humanities", "Globalism and the Humanities", "Crossing-Disciplines: Science and the Humanities", "The Body: Materiality and Metaphor", "Freedom", and "The Family"

Min

2

Repeatable

-

Course Restrictions

-

Equivalent Course(s)

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