Major in General Humanities
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I. General Education Requirements (See Undergraduate Catalogue) --- 58 total semester hours

II. Courses for the Major. --- 34 total semester hours
 
       A.  Major Required Courses : 10 semester hours
 


GNHU 201  General Humanities I  (to 1400)  3 credits

GNHU 202  General Humanities II  (1400-1900) 3 credits

GNHU 499 Senior Humanities Seminar   (to 1400)  4 credits

       B. Major Electives: 24 semester hours
 

1. History. Two courses total, each one from a different one of the following three groups. Note: Students are encouraged to take additional courses beyond this mimium requirement, and in particular to acquire exposure to areas, periods and topics they have not studied. 


Earlier Western History

GNHU/ HIST 281 Greek Civilization

GNHUHIST 282 Roman Civilization

GNHU 283
 Women, Gender and Sexualilty in the Ancient World

HIST 322 Medieval European Civilization

GNHU/HIST 332
 Selected Topics in Ancient History

GNHU 361
 Selected Topics in Mediterranean Archaeology

GNHU 384
 Introduction to Roman Law

HIST 419
 Age of Renaissance 1350-1517




Later Western

HIST 204 The Second World War

SOCI 207
 Social Structure of American Society

HIST 212 Social History  of the United States

HIST 213 Economic History of the United States

HIST 214 Diplomatic History of the United States

HIST 215 Women In American History

HIST 217 History of Black Americans

HIST 218 Political History of the United States

HIST 219 Sport in History

HIST 221 Europe's conquest of the Americas 1415-1763

HIST 222 Economic History of Europe

HIST 225 The Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians

HIST 309 Feminist Ideas in Western Thought

POLS 309
 Urban Politics

HIST 310 Immigrant in American History

HIST 312 Historical Geography of hte United States

POLS 312
 Black Politics in America

HIST 315 War in History

POLS 316
 Contemporary Western European Politics

POLS 318
 The American Presidency

GNHU 320
 Select Topics in Interdisciplinary Humanities (where topic is appropriate.)

HIST 323 History of Russia to 1917

HIST 324 Russia since 1917

HIST 336
 Modern German History

HIST 327 History of France since 1789

HIST 328 Conflict in Modern Ireland

HIST 329  History of England to 1714

HIST 331 History of England 1714-1914

POLS 409
 Modern Political Thought

HIST 411 Intellectual History of the United States

HIST 415
 European Social History

HIST 420 The Reformation Era 1500-1650

HIST 422 Studies in Enlightenment History 

HIST 424 Diplomatic History of Europe 

HIST 426 The Nazi Third Reich 

HIST 427
 The Holocaust, 1939-1945

HIST 433 American Colonial History 1607-1763

HIST 434 American Revolution and the Early Republic 1763-1828 

HIST 435 The Union in Crisis 1820-1877

HIST 436 America in the Gilded Age 

HIST 437 American Society in the 20th Century 

HIST 438 American in the Sixties; The Crisis of Consensus Liberalism. 




Non-Western

HIST 108 Introduction to African Civilization 

HIST 109 Introduction to Islamic Civilization

HIST 114 Early Latin American Civilization 

HIST 115 History of Puerto Rico

HIST 116 Modern Latin American Civilization

HIST 128 Premodern Japan: A history of Japan to the Meiji Restoration

HIST 129 Modern Japan: A History of Japan from the Meiji through the Showa 

HIST 131 Introduction to Indian Civilization

HIST 132 Introduction to Chinese Civilization

HIST 133 Modern Chinese Civilization

POLS 204
 Government and Politics of Africa

POLS 206
 Government and Politics of China-Japan

HIST 223 Communist Revolution in China

GNHU 320
 Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Humanities (where topic is appropriate.)

HIST 330
 Chinese Social History Through Literature

HIST 333
 History of Brazil

HIST 334
 Women in the Muslim World: A History of Representation

HIST 406
 Government and Politics of the Middle East

HIST 416 Church and State in Latin America

HIST 430
 Revolutions in Latin American History

HIST 431
 Development of Indian Character and Culture

HIST 432
 Development of Chinese Characer and Culture

2. Philosophy and Religious Studies. You must chose one course from Philosophy and one course from Religious Studies.
 


Philosophy  - One Course required

PHIL 202
 Ethics and Business

PHIL 204
 Philosophical Issues in Biomedical Ethics

PHIL 206
 Philosophical Issues in Law and Justice

PHIL 210
 Ethics

PHIL 212 Social and Political Philosophy

PHIL 231 American Philosophy

PHIL 233 Contemporary Philosophers

PHIL 237 Asian Philosophy

PHIL 239 Existentialism

PHIL 260 Philosophies of Art

PHIL 262 Philosophies of Religion

PHIL 264
 Critical Reasoning and Arguments

PHIL 266
 Philosophy of Science

PHIL 270
 Philosophy of Mind

PHIL 271
 Philosophy of Sport

PHIL 280
 Philosophy of Cyberspace

PHIL 290 Fields of Philosophy, Selected Topics 

PHIL 295
 Periods and Movements. Selected Topics 

PHIL 297
 Periods and Movements. Selected Topics

POLS 307
 American Political Thought

PHIL 310 Knowledge, Belief and Truth

PHIL 312 Existence and Reality 

PHIL 314 Philosophy of Language

PHIL 316 Philosophy of Law

POLS 323
 American Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties

PHIL/LSLW 324
Legal Reasoning

PHIL 331 History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy

PHIL 333 History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy

PHIL 334
 Theoretical and Applied Ethics

PHIL 335 Nineteenth Century Philosophy

LSLW 360
 Rightes, Liberties and American Justice

PHIL 390     Fields of Philosophy: Selected Topics 

LSLW 391
 Women and Law

PHIL 395
 Periods and Movements: Selected Topics

PHIL 397
 Periods and Movements: Selected Topics

POLS 408
 Political Thought to Machiavelli

PHIL 424
 Seminar in Philosophy 




      Religion One Course Required

RELG 200 Old Testament: Genesis to Joshua

RELG 202 Old Testament: Joshua to Daniel

RELG 204 Jesus and the Gospels

RELG 206 Paul and the Early Church

RELG 210 Religions of the North American Indians 

RELG 212 Asian Religions 

RELG 213
 Buddhism

RELG 214
 Classical Texts of Asian Religions

RELG 215
 Hinduism

RELG 216
 Islamic Religious Traditions

RELG 217
 Taoism

RELG 218
 Death, Dying and the Afterlife

RELG 221 Religion and Culture

RELG 223 Religion in North America

RELG 225 Religion and Social Change

RELG 256
 Religion in Latin America

RELG 258
 Christian History and Thought

RELG 262 Philosophy of Religion 

RELG 263
 Religion and Psychology

RELG 267 Women in Religion

RELG 269 Death and Dying. Religious Perspectives 

RELG 273 The Holocaust: Religious Perspectives

RELG 300 Classics of Western Religous Thought 

RELG 301
 Contemporary Jewish Thought

RELG 326
 Theology

RELG 332
 Myth, Meaning and Self

RELG 350
 Selected Study in World Religions

RELG 355 Selected Study in Religion and Culture. 

RELG 357 Selected Study in Religious Issues

RELG 460 Seminar in World Religions

RELG 462 Seminar in Religious Texts

RELG 465 Seminar in Religion and Culture 

RELG 467 Seminar in Religious Issues

3. Literature . You must chose one course from Comparative Literature and one course from National Literature.



Comparative    Literature One course required

GNHU 217
 Reading Asian Cultures

ENLT 230
 Images of Muslim Women in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture

GNHU 252
 Roman Drama

GNHU 253
 Introduction to Greek Literature

GNHU 254
 Introduction to Roman Literature

ENGL 260
 Art of Poetry

ENGL 262
 Art of Fiction

ENGL 263
 Art of Drama

GNHU 273
 Epic Poetry in Classical Antiquity

ENLT 274
 Twentieth Century Literature of Immigration

GNHU 290
 Selected Topics in Greek and Roman Literature and Culture  (where  topic is appropriate)

GNHU/GRIN  293
 Russian Civilization and Culture

ENLT 315
 American Indian Themes

ENLT 316
 African, Asian and Caribbean Literature in English

GNHU 320
 Select Topics in Interdisciplinary Humanities

ENLT 349
 Contemporary Irish Literature

ENLT 366 African Myth and Literature

ENLT 367
 Contemporary African Literature

ENLT 372 Women Prose Writers 

ENLT 373 Literary Modernism 

ENLT 374    Contemporary European Drama 

ENLT 375 Modern Drama Ibsen to O'Neill

ENLT 376 Modern European Novel 

ENLT 377 Speculative Fiction: Fantasy 

ENLT 378
 Science Fiction

GNHU 385
 Greek Tragedy

ENID 398
 Autobiography

ENLT 464 Modern Poetry to T.S. Eliot 

ENLT 492 Seminar in Comparative Literature 

National Literature  One course required


ENGL 226 Literature of the American Renaissance 


ENGL 234 American Drama 


ENGL 238      Black Writers in the United States: A Survey 


ENGL 239      
Social Protest Literature in America


ENGL 240 English Literature I: Beginnings to 1660


ENGL 241 English Literature II: 1660 to Present


ENGL 247 The Augustan Age


ENGL 250 Special Topics in English or American Literature


ENGL 254 English Drama: Beginnings to 1642.


ENGL 256 English Novel to 1900.


ENGL 275
 Vietnam War and American Culture


ENGL 294 Woman Poets


ENGL 301
 The Novels of Toni Morrison


ENGL 324 American Poetry to 1940.


ENGL 325 American Poetry: World War II to the Present.


ENGL 326 Early American Literature


ENGL 336 American Literary Realism.


ENGL 337 Modern American Fiction


ENGL 338 Contemporary American Fiction.


ENGL 343 Milton


ENGL 344 Chaucer


ENGL 345 Middle English Literature.


ENGL 346 19th Century English Romantic Literature.


ENGL 347 Victorian Prose and Poetry.


ENGL 348 Renaissance Literature.


ENGL 353 Shakespeare: Comedies - Histories


ENGL 354 Shakespeare: Tragedies-Romances.


ENGL 364  Contemporary Poetry.


ENGL 401 Old English Language and Literature.


ENGL 444 17th Century English Poetry.


ENGL 446 Irish Renaissance: Period Literature.


ENGL 456 20th Century English Novel.


ENGL 493 Seminar in American Literature.


ENGL 494 Seminar in English Literature.

4. Art History    One Course



ARHS 215 Ancient Art.


ARHS 216 Renaissance Art in Italy. The Fifthteenth Century


ARHS 220 Art in Non-Western Societies.


ARHS 230
 History of the Print


ARHS 250 Modern Philosophies of Art


ARHS 275 Afro-American Art


ARHS 322 Early Christian-Byzantine Art.


ARHS 323 Medieval Art.


ARHS 324 Northern Renaissance Painting


ARHS 325 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Art.


ARHS 327 History of Oriental Art.


ARHS 328 Survey of Greek Art.


ARHS 329 American Art.


ARHS 332 Ancient Art of Europe.


ARHS 370
 History of Industrial Design


ARHS 450 Modern Architecture


ARHS 451 Contemporary Art.


ARHS 452 Renaissance Art in Italy: The Sixteenth Century


ARHS 455 Selected Probems in Art History.


ARHS 457 Pre-Columbian, Oceanic and African Art


ARHS 458 Traditional Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa.


ARHS 459 Art of the Nineteeth Century.


ARHS 469 Art of the Twentieth Century 


ARHS 477
 History of Photography


ARHS 485 Ancient Art in Tilay: Etruscan and Roman Art

5. Music History    One Course



MUGN 100 Introduction to Music.


MUGN 150 Influence of Afro-American Culture upon Music.


MUGN 160
 Introduction to Music in World Cultures


MUGN 209 Introduction to Jazz


MUGN 236
  History of Broadway


MUGN 250
  Rap and Rock as Cultural Phenomena


MUHS 361
Harry Partch -- Life & Works.

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