Humanities

Curriculum Description
In Humanities, students have the opportunity to shape an integrated, interdisciplinary program of study in art, philosophy, theology, literature, and history. In the course of their studies they will come to appreciate the distinct ways in which each discipline seeks to know and reflect the world in which we live. At the same time they will examine and evaluate the enduring insights of these disciplines in an effort to answer for their own lives the abiding private and public questions no person should escape or avoid.

Faculty Advisor:
Francis J. Ambrosio, Ph.D.

Format
In addition to the 13 required core and writing courses, 16 courses must be taken from the following Humanities curriculum. Of these, students must work with their advisor to establish the appropriate distribution of required and human values courses.

COURSES

Alienation and Self-Identity American Literature and the American Idea (Human Values) American Religious Voices: Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James (Human Values) Aquinas and Kant on Faith (Human Values) Art and Ethics: Current Controversies in the Liberal Arts (Human Values) Art and Terrorism (Human Values) Art, Creativity, and Gender Art, Creativity, and the Sacred Art, Culture, and Values Artists as Biographers Artists as Genius Artists as Rebels and Martyrs Artists as Revolutionaries Arthur Miller: An Ethical Study (Human Values) Augustine's Confessions Beyond Sojourner Truth Buddhist Religious Thought (Human Values) Catholic Identity and American Culture (Human Values) Christology: Jesus in History and Today (Human Values) Church and State in the Western World: From Augustine to Jerry Falwell (Human Values) Cinema and American Values (Human Values) Classic and Romantic: Styles and Values in Western Culture Classics in the Catholic Tradition (Human Values) Collaboration and Resistance in World War II (Human Values) Critiques of Religion Dante: The Journey to Freedom (Human Values) Detective Fiction and Cultural Values (Human Values) Eastern Orthodox Christianity: History and Theology (Human Values) Economics, Ethics, and the Government (Human Values) English Renaissance Literature and Culture Ethics of Paul's Epistles (Human Values) Ethics of the Hebrew Prophets (Human Values) Evolution, Ethics, and Culture (Human Values) Existentialism: The Search for Meaning (Human Values) Existentialism and Religion (Human Values) Favored or Fallen: Images of Women from the Scripture (Human Values) Feminist Theology (Human Values) Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Trust: The Demands of Justice, the Price of Dignity (Human Values) Fragmentation and Reintegration Freedom and Slavery in American History (Human Values) Gandhi's India (Human Values) Gender and Sexuality How Religions Work: The Theory of Religion Introduction to Islam (Human Values) Introduction to the Literature of Mysticism (Human Values) Kant's Aesthetics (Human Values) Kierkegaard: Freedom and the Self Law and Literature Law, Family, and Society in Ancient Rome Literature in the Modern World Mark Twain's America: Society in Crisis Marriage, Movies and Philosophy Mortals and Immortals: Ancient Greek Myths (HV Core) Nietzsche and the Transvaluation of Values Novel and Nation: Fiction in Contemporary Ireland Of Constant Sorrow: Greek Tragedy and Its Context Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Western Intellectual Tradition Perfecting America: Society, War, and Culture, 1830 - 1900 Philosophical Perspectives on Gender and Feminism Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the Family (Human Values) Photography and Literature: Images of Change in American Culture (Human Values) Pilgrimage, Travel, and Tourism (Human Values) Plato and the Greek Imagination: Myth, Drama, Philosophy (Human Values) Pursuing the Tao: Chinese Religions and Philosophy (Human Values) Race, Class, Gender, and Religion (Human Values) Reading Irish America Religion and Conflict Religion, Violence, and Liberation (Human Values) Religions of the Ancient Near East (Human Values) Responsibility, "Luck," and Self-Respect: The Human Condition (Human Values) Roman Heroes and Villains Sex, Lies, and Theology: Theology after Freud Slavery and Abolition from the Bronze Age to the American Civil War (Human Values) Slavery and Roman Culture (Human Values) Spartacus, Slave Revolts, and Political Ideology (Human Values) Sports and Society in Greco-Roman Antiquity The Age of Alexander the Great The American Revolution: Ideas in Rebellion The Art and Vision of Dante and Shakespeare (HV Core) The Art of Biblical Literature (Human Values) The Art of the Memoir The Artist in the Community (Human Values) The Bible and Social Justice (Human Values) The Book of Genesis: Literature, Ethics, Theology (Human Values) The Changing Role for Creative American Women The Consequences of Pragmatism: Law, Education and Politics The Emergence of Western Political Philosophy The Ethics of Aristotle and Kant (HV Core) The Ethics of Excellence (Human Values) The Fiction of William Faulkner: Being at Home The Founding Era: The Great Debate (HV Core) The Gods in Greek and Roman Literature (HV Core) The Gospels: Society and Ethics (Human Values) The Martyr and the Warrior: Religion and Violence (Human Values) The Medieval Synthesis: Art and Religion in the Middle Ages (Human Values) The Mortal Hero: Ancient Epic Poetry (HV Core) The Myth of the Hero (HV Core) The New British Theatre The Period of the American Civil War The Plays of William Shakespeare: Texts and Performance The Russian Medieval World (980-1698) The Scientific Worldview The Study of Romantic Love in Real Life, the Popular Culture, and Ancient Literature The World of Thomas Jefferson Themes from Greek and Roman Drama Theological Implications of the Holocaust (Human Values) Theological Issues in 20th and 21st-Century Fiction (Human Values) Theology and Imagination (Human Values) Theology and Literature (Human Values)