Humanities
Courses
For course descriptions not found in the 2006-2007 General Catalog,
please contact the department for more information.
Lower-Division
1. The Foundations of Western Civilization: Israel and Greece (6) Texts
from the Hebrew Bible and from Greek epic, history, drama, and philosophy
in their cultural context. Revelle students must take course for letter
grade. Prerequisite: satisfaction of the Subject A requirement. (W)
2. Rome, Christianity, and the Middle Ages (6) The
Roman Empire, the Christian transformation of the classical world in
late antiquity, and the rise of a European culture during the Middle
Ages. Representative texts from Latin authors, early Christian literature,
the Germanic tradition, and the high Middle Ages. Revelle students must
take course for letter grade. Prerequisite: satisfaction of the Subject
A requirement. (S)
3. Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern Europe (4) The
revival of classical culture and values and the reaction against medieval
ideas concerning the place of human beings in the world. The Protestant
Reformation and its intellectual and political consequences. The philosophical
background to the scientific revolution. Revelle students must take
course for letter grade. Prerequisite: satisfaction of the Subject
A requirement. (F)
4. Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution (16601848) (4) The
enlightenments revisions of traditional thought; the rise of classical
liberalism; the era of the first modern political revolutions; romantic
ideas of nature and human life. Revelle students must take course for
letter grade. Prerequisite: satisfaction of the Subject A requirement.
(W)
5. Modern Culture (1848present) (4) Challenges
to liberalism posed by such movements as socialism, imperialism, and
nationalism; the growth of new forms of self-expression and new conceptions
of individual psychology. Revelle students must take course for letter
grade. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the Subject A requirement. (S)
195. Methods of Teaching Humanities (4) An
introduction to teaching humanities. Students are required to attend
weekly discussions on methods of teaching humanities, and will teach
discussion sections of one of the humanities courses. Attendance at
lecture of the course in which the student is participating is required.
(P/NP grades only.) Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (W,S)
199. Special Studies (2-4) Individually
guided readings or projects in area of humanities not normally covered
in standard curriculum. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or
consent of instructor.
200. Seminar in the Humanities (4) Selected
topics in the history, literature, and thought of Mediterranean antiquity
and its successor-cultures. Emphasis on identifying both common themes
and cultural distinctiveness. Discussion of pedagogical approaches to
this material. Required of all graduate instructional assistants in
the humanities sequence. Prerequisite: graduate standing. (F)
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