Humanities Program 1 HUM 111. Introduction to Humanities, Honors. 3 Hours HL GE21/ Humanities Program GE3H / H. An introduction to the humanities as a division of learning and to interdisciplinary study in the humanities. Topics include the history and Why study Humanities? role of the humanities in a liberal education; perspectives and methods in Integrated learning in humanities fosters broad cultural understanding by the humanities; the humanities and human diversity; and interdisciplinary exploring the connections among diverse areas of knowledge. Studying approaches to understanding and interpreting texts. Prerequisite: humanities allows students to examine key issues relating to human Membership in the University Honors Program. LEC. experiences and the human condition from a variety of perspectives, HUM 112. Exploring The Human Condition: _____. 3 Hours GE11 / H. including philosophy, history, religion, literature, art, and language. This is a special topics course that provides an interdisciplinary Such study provides excellent preparation for 21st century careers by exploration of human experience through the study of specific themes, preparing students to take part in the world around them, equipping them periods or genres. Through reading and discussion of primary sources for success in many fields, including business, medicine, law, marketing, and scholarly texts, students will examine issues central to the human sales, and social services. condition, be introduced to the methods that disciplines in the humanities use to analyze them, and learn the skills of close reading, critical analysis, Undergraduate Programs and the interpretation of evidence. Assignments require students to Courses for Nonmajors analyze source material, synthesize information, solve problems and construct arguments to support conclusions. LEC. All HUM courses are open to nonmajors.HUM 204, HUM 205, HUM 206, HUM 114. Western Civilization I Honors. 3 Hours AE42/GE11/GE21 / and PCS 120 are recommended to nonmajors for fulfilling KU CORE H. Goal 1.1 (Critical Thinking).HUM 110 and HUM 204 are recommended A program of study using readings and writing to explore and understand for fulfilling KU CORE Goal 2.1 (Written Communication). HUM 110, the record of Western Civilization from the ancient world through the HUM 206, HUM 150, HUM 304, HUM 308, HUM 312, and HUM 430 are early modern period. This is a writing intensive and writing instructive recommended for fulfilling KU CORE Goal 3 (Breadth of Knowledge). course designed to expand critical thinking and global awareness through HUM 204, HUM 205, HUM 302, HUM 430, HUM 435, HUM 505, and the medium of composition practice. Prerequisite: Membership in the HUM 600 are recommended for fulfilling KU CORE Goal 4.2 (Culture and University Honors Program or permission of the department. LEC. Diversity). HUM 115. Western Civilization II Honors. 3 Hours AE42/GE11 / H. Humanities Programs A program of study emphasizing the reading and discussion of some of the influential writings and ideas that have shaped the intellectual and Students have unusual freedom to select courses from a variety of cultural heritage of the Western world. Western Civilization II includes departments. They can create integrated interdisciplinary programs and readings from the modern period. Prerequisite: Membership in the work closely with a faculty advisor. Majors may choose a track in global University Honors Program or permission of department. LEC. humanities or peace and conflict studies. Depending on the track, majors may focus on a particular era or culture in Eastern or Western civilization, HUM 125. Introduction to Medical Humanities. 3 Hours H. such as the Italian Renaissance or China during the Ming dynasty, from An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of medical humanities, which an interdisciplinary perspective. Or they may examine a theme or issue considers the relationship between medicine and humanistic thought. that cuts across disciplinary lines, such as classicism versus romanticism Students analyze the role of medicine in a variety of genres, while or ideas of war and peace. considering the growing importance of narrative and artistic expression in the medical profession. Topics may include: the objectification of the The Graduate Certificate program in Peace & Conflict Studies is designed body, ageism, art and self-expression as medical care, and the impact of to provide students with a focused program of study in the subject race, class, and culture on definitions of "illness", "health", and "beauty". area and certification of the completion of the program on the graduate LEC. transcript. Enrollment in the program will be open to students admitted HUM 133. Technology and the Individual. 3 Hours GE11 / H. to a regular KU graduate program or to non-degreeseeking graduate This course focuses on the complex relationship among technological status. A Graduate Certificate in Peace & Conflict Studies should be of change, increasing social complexity, and the individual from the interest and value to students across a broad range of humanistic and Paleolithic Era to the so-called Computer Revolution, with a particular socialscientific disciplines, especially in such fields as the international emphasis on Europe and the United States. Through the study of area studies programs, History, International Studies, Political Science, foundational texts in the history of technology and dystopian fiction, and Religious Studies. The certificate will enhance the credentials of students will analyze a range of technologies from stone tools to students seeking careers in government service both civil and military, smartphones to better understand the social, cultural, and economic nongovernmental organizations, international business, law, and teaching. forces that underlie technological change and how to critically evaluate Courses assumptions about the nature of that change. LEC. HUM 140. Introduction to World Literature. 3 Hours GE21 / H. HUM 110. Introduction to Humanities. 3 Hours HL GE21/GE3H / H. This course provides an introduction to the field of world literature as an An introduction to the humanities as a division of learning and to approach to critical reading and writing about literary works in a global interdisciplinary study in the humanities. Topics include the history and context. Topics may include: what constitutes literature; challenges to role of the humanities in a liberal education, perspectives and methods in reading works across time or within different cultural traditions; reading the humanities, the humanities and human diversity, and interdisciplinary works in translation; history of writing technologies and canon formation; approaches to understanding and interpreting texts. LEC. literature and market forces; and the literature of global encounters and exchanges. This is a writing intensive and writing instructive course 2 Humanities Program designed to expand critical thinking and global awareness through the HUM 304. World Literature I. 3 Hours HL GE3H / H. medium of composition practice. LEC. The study of great books in English translation from antiquity through the HUM 150. Civilizations and the Individual. 3 Hours HL GE3H / H. fifteenth century from two or more national literatures. LEC. Introduction to perennial themes that define human experience through HUM 308. World Literature II. 3 Hours HL GE3H / H. reading and discussion of primary texts. Topics may include the nature of The study of great books in English translation from the sixteenth, humanity; nature and the supernatural; the individual and the state. LEC. seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries from two or more HUM 175. Kansas Environment and Culture. 3 Hours GE11 / H. national literatures. LEC. An introduction to the inhabitants of Kansas and their experiences of the HUM 312. World Literature III. 3 Hours HL GE3H / H. unique landscapes found within the state. Through the use of sources The study of great books in English translation in the modern period (late such as letters, autobiographies, novels, art, architecture and film, this nineteenth and twentieth centuries) from two or more national literatures. course explores how Kansas environments have shaped and been LEC. shaped by the humans that occupy them, and why Kansas has had a HUM 320. Being Human in the Workplace. 3 Hours AE51 / H. powerful hold on the American imagination. LEC. A study of what it means to be human and humane in the workplace. HUM 177. First Year Seminar: _____. 3 Hours GE11 / U. Topics include the concepts of work, the worker, and the workplace; A limited-enrollment, seminar course for first-time freshmen, addressing workers' rights; issues of discrimination; business ethics; privacy and current issues in Humanities. Course is designed to meet the critical confidentiality; bullying; whistle blowing; workplace environment. LEC. thinking learning outcome of the KU Core. First-Year Seminar topics HUM 325. Theory and Method in Interdisciplinary Studies in the are coordinated and approved by the Office of First-Year Experience. Humanities. 3 Hours H. Prerequisite: First-time freshman status. LEC. An introduction to recent cultural theory and interdisciplinary methods HUM 204. Western Civilization I. 3 Hours AE42/GE11/GE21 / H. used across the humanities and qualitative social sciences. Includes A program of study using readings and writing to explore and understand examination of traditional views of the humanities and its implicit