Humanities External Degree (HUX)

Interdisciplinary study of the non-western world by focusing on some of the art, philosophy and music of China and Japan.

Offered Infrequent

Survey of the elements and historical implications of alienation. Examination of Hispanic and African American cultures.

Offered Fall, Infrequent

Survey of ancient and modern religious systems focusing upon general characteristics of religious belief.

Offered Spring

Offered Infrequent

Offered Infrequent

Offered Infrequent

Provides an overview of core ideas, research, and writing in the humanities. Traces the historical origins of humanistic ideals and examines the influence of these cultural ideals on human life across time, place and history.

Offered Fall

Provides a non-comprehensive overview of human culture, particularly literature, history, music and philosophy, with an emphasis on diverse cultural and national traditions as well as social justice and morality.

Offered Fall, Spring

Teaches students how to communicate in the humanities through academic writing that is supported by primary and secondary sources. Students will explore a variety of subjects, including art, gender, labor, music and race, to understand the humanities.

Offered Fall

Explores how historians use a variety of documents to understand human thought and behavior. Students analyze and contextualize documents, find sources for their own projects and draw conclusions about the human experience in relation to cohort theme.

Offered Fall

Examines key literary works across a range of genres. Uses various literary methodologies such as structuralism, Marxism, cultural studies and postcolonial theory to explore the multiple ways literature impacts humanity.

Offered Fall

Presents music as fundamental to human identity. Engaging hey works, students examine composers, popular movements, and music's rich meaning located through focused topics.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Special Topics course using nonstandard times and/or days to explore issues in the human behavior and attitudes. Repeatable course.

Offered Fall

Offers a philosophical examination of fundamental questions about being human, such as the good life, human nature, the mind/body relation, and the basis of personal identity. Specific attention will be devoted to the current cohort theme.

Offered Fall

How to recognize, appreciate and evaluate a variety of dramatic experiences. Requires extensive notebook of descriptions and analyses of five different types of theatrical performances. Three additional theatrical encounter descriptions and analyses required.

Offered Fall

Attendance and analysis of several concerts representing the general categories of symphonic, vocal and chamber music. Critical reviews required for each of four musical encounters. Reviews of two additional musical encounters required.

Offered Spring

Exploring the historical roots of one's own community. Requires papers (including photographs) involving descriptions and analyses of three different historical sites. Papers on two additional sites required.

Offered Summer

Watching and analyzing several films with special focus on the techniques and content of the medium. Requires extensive notebook of descriptions and analyses of five different film experiences. Three additional film experience descriptions and analyses required.

Offered Fall, Spring

Explores the theme of incarceration, including its historical roots, within advanced capitalist societies. We will study the writings of Foucault, Bentham, Gramsci, and other prominent commentators who focus critically on incarceration and living in a carceral society.

Offered Fall

Students will reflect on an array of media sources to more deeply and critically understand popular culture¿s engagement with criminality and the justice system and to think about popular culture as a possible resource for criminal justice reform.

Offered Fall

Covers the history of punishment in the United States from the 17th century through the present. Emphasizes historiography and the interconnection of different historical narratives and variables in creating the modern penal system.

Offered Fall

Explores the contemporary manifestations of discipline through an interrogation of the diffuse nature of power. The interdisciplinary humanities texts here offer a reflection on the origins of disciplinary relationality (between the state, sovereign, and subject) and how their evolving relations are revealed in technologies of surveillance and security.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

An in-depth study of transnational social justice oriented prisoner movements. All assigned texts are written by incarcerated or formerly incarcerated peoples. Students will consider systemic roots of carceral violence while studying how incarcerated peoples have resisted and strategized for abolition.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Modeled after the traditional Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies course, this course offers an intersectional analysis of the law, policing, incarceration, and their function in stifling marginalized people from building together.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Offers a historical perspective on the fluidity of criminalization and how it coalesces around specific bodies at different times to justify oppressive systems from colonization to gentrification.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Teases out the differences between liberal reform and abolition of prisons while exploring transformative justice, mutual aid, and how people are already working to eliminate the prison industrial complex.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

An interdisciplinary study of cities in the United States from 1880-1920s, with a focus on the history, literature, art, and social movements of the time period. Topics include poverty, housing, labor, and legal reform, and the start of urban planning.

Offered Fall

Explores the settler colonial and racial capitalist roots of the U.S. housing market. Students will explore historical and contemporary housing policies and practices, examine empirical data on communities, and imagine how we can build an equitable housing market.

Offered Fall

Critically assesses the role of urban planning in shaping communities. Students will examine how the regulation of the use of space impacts community formation and inequality, and how it can be used to create more equitable cities.

Offered Fall

The meaning of rationality from the perspectives of philosophy, history, literature, music, and art. Special emphasis on the possible differences between scientific and humanistic rationality.

Offered Summer

Interdisciplinary exploration of non-rational alternatives in modern culture, focusing on thenonlogical, the visionary, and the religious/mystical.

Offered Fall

Interdisciplinary study of the nature of the creative act, including the following: the artist's vision of self; the defenses of personalism; notions of aesthetics and of symbolic thought.

Offered Infrequent

Exploration of the position of the individual in the classic and modern models of social and political organization; conservatism, liberalism, socialism, anarchism; study of the Utopian tradition; and study of aesthetic theories that connect the artist with society.

Offered Infrequent

Interdisciplinary examination of the non-western world by focusing on cultural characteristics of China and Japan.

Offered Infrequent

A survey of ancient and modern religious systems, focusing upon an exploration of the general characteristics of religious beliefs.

Offered Summer

An examination of values and morality in modern culture against a backdrop of seemingly amoral scientific and technological progress.

Offered Fall

Examination of representative major works by recent Nobel Laureates whose art epitomizes diverse cultural, literary, and social viewpoints. Authors include Mann, Pirandello, Camus, Kawabata, Solzhenitsyn, Neruda and Bellow.

Offered Spring, All terms

Exploration of the complex cultural development known as modern art by investigation of six major artistic movements: Cubism, Expressionism, Dada/Surrealism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art and Technological Art.

Offered Spring

Examination of modern scholarship on the Bible and its impact on Christianity; analysis of 3 types of Bible interpretation: Fundamentalism, liberalism and humanism.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: HUX 501 is recommended. Political and cultural history of the Arab World from the 7th century to the present. Consideration of historiographic problems such as the "Great Man," cycles, and the influence of ideas on events.

Offered Spring

Students will learn and use historical practicum skills, including the proper use of primary sources and secondary source texts, to improve their understanding, to create sound argument, and to communicate thoughtfully about the past.

Offered Fall

Examines and evaluates a range of philosophical arguments on the current HUX cohort theme, giving students an opportunity to develop coherent positions on such philosophical issues as the nature of human existence, knowledge, ethical responsibility and human flourishing.

Offered Fall

This course is designed to enable students to demonstrate the integration of knowledge from various fields in the Humanities. In addition, the course launches students into their larger communities and offers them a deeper knowledge about the connection between systems of oppression, incarceration, and societal re-entry. This course is taken in the student's final semester.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and program coordinator, via signed contract. Individually designed faculty-guided study of a topic in Literature, History, Philosophy, Music, Art, and Interdisciplinary topics. Repeatable for credit. A maximum of 9 units may be taken as Independent Study. No more than 6 units of Independent Study may be taken in one term.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and program coordinator, via signed contract. Individually designed faculty-guided study of a topic in Literature, History, Philosophy, Music, Art, and Interdisciplinary topics. Repeatable for credit. A maximum of 9 units may be taken as Independent Study. No more than 6 units of Independent Study may be taken in one term.

Offered Spring

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and program coordinator, via signed contract. Individually designed faculty-guided study of a topic in Literature, History, Philosophy, Music, Art, and Interdisciplinary topics. Repeatable for credit. A maximum of 9 units may be taken as Independent Study. No more than 6 units of Independent Study may be taken in one term.

Offered Spring, Summer

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and program coordinator, via signed contract. Individually designed faculty-guided study of a topic in Literature, History, Philosophy, Music, Art, and Interdisciplinary topics. Repeatable for credit. A maximum of 9 units may be taken as Independent Study. No more than 6 units of Independent Study may be taken in one term.

Offered Summer

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and program coordinator, via signed contract. Individually designed faculty-guided study of a topic in Literature, History, Philosophy, Music, Art, and Interdisciplinary topics. Repeatable for credit. A maximum of 9 units may be taken as Independent Study. No more than 6 units of Independent Study may be taken in one term.

Offered Spring, Summer

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and program coordinator, via signed contract. Individually designed faculty-guided study of a topic in Literature, History, Philosophy, Music, Art, and Interdisciplinary topics. Repeatable for credit. A maximum of 9 units may be taken as Independent Study. No more than 6 units of Independent Study may be taken in one term.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Consent of program coordinator. Concentrated study of a specialized area in the Humanities on a selected topic of particular interest to faculty and students.

Offered As needed

Prerequisites: Completion of Phases I and II; consent of instructor and program coordinator via signed contract. Required of all HUX M.A. students. Must be passed with grade of A-B before registering for Final Project (HUX 599).

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisites: Completion of Phases I and II; consent of instructor and program coordinator via signed contract. An individually planned project based on course work taken in the program and involving basic research in a single discipline or an interdisciplinary topic. Supervised Thesis (599A) or Creative Project (599B).

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisites: Completion of Phases I and II; consent of instructor and program coordinator via signed contract. An individually planned project based on course work taken in the program and involving basic research in a single discipline or an interdisciplinary topic. Supervised Thesis (599A) or Creative Project (599B).

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Graduate students who have completed their course work but not their thesis or project, or who have other requirements remaining for the completion of their degree, must maintain continuous attendance by enrolling in this course. May be taken only after Advancement to Candidacy and for a maximum of 3 times.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer