Humanities

Faculty

Program Director: Professor Lerner (Music)

The Western Tradition, First Year

The Western Tradition, Second Year
Directors: Professor Ingram (English) and Professor Lerner (Music)

Faculty Affiliated with the Humanities Program
Professors: Berkey (History), Churchill (English), Denham (German Studies), Dietz (History), Ewington (Russian Studies), Gay (Educational Studies), Henke (German Studies), Ingram (English), Kietrys (Hispanic Studies), Lerner (Music), Ligo (Art), Munger (Psychology), Neumann (Classics), Parker (English), Rigger (Political Science), Robb (Philosophy), Serebrennikov (Art), S. Smith (Art), Snyder (Religion), Tilburg (History)
Associate Professors: Griffith (Philosophy), Guasco (History), Wills (Religion)
Assistant Professors: Gonzalez (Hispanic Studies), Utkin (Russian Studies)

Overview

The Humanities Program began in 1962 with a two-year course that surveyed significant texts from the Western tradition. In 2016-17, the direct descendant of that course (The Western Tradition, HUM 150, 151, 250, 251) will conclude and its successor (Connections & Conflicts in the Humanities, HUM 101 & 103) will be offered for the first time. Both courses blend large lectures and small discussion sections. Humanities courses encourage and reward clear thinking, speaking, and writing.

Requirements: The Western Tradition

Students who complete any single course satisfy the requirement in Liberal Studies. Students who complete all four satisfy the requirements in Historical Thought, Literary Studies, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives, and Liberal Studies. Students who complete HUM 150 and HUM 151W satisfy the WRI requirement.

Requirements: Connections & Conflicts in the Humanities

Students who complete HUM 101 satisfy the requirements in Liberal Studies. Students who complete HUM 103 satisfy two requirements: Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric; and Historical Thought. Students who complete both HUM 101 and HUM 103 satisfy the WRI requirement.