Degree Requirements for Interdisciplinary Humanities Emphasis

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Requirements for the Interdisciplinary Humanities Emphasis

Completion of five units to include:

Five units chosen from a single pathway, two of which must be at the 300-level or above.
Students wishing to declare the IHE meet with the program director to discuss their educational goals and create a plan for completion of one of the pathways. This plan will be finalized in a signed contract to be filed with the IHE Director; further, the goals described in the contract will also be added to the student's ePortfolio at this time. Once filed, the contract will be reviewed periodically, and may be modified as needed.
By the end of their senior year, students pursuing the IHE submit to the program director a short essay that reflects on their progress in their chosen pathway and its relevance to their major(s), minor(s), or other programs of study through ePortfolio.

Notes

Because these pathways are not intended as substitutes for a minor or major, students may not count more than two units from any department or program towards a single pathway.
A maximum of two units from each major, minor, or program that a student plans to complete may count toward a pathway.
With permission of the program director, students may substitute one of the five required units with a relevant second semester, second year (or higher) language course, e.g., German 202, French 202, etc.
Courses in the IHE may not be taken as Pass/Fail.
A student must have a grade of C- or higher in all courses of the IHE.
Four out of the five required units must be taken on campus.

The Artist as Humanist

This pathway encourages students to engage with the interplay among creativity, creative processes, and humanistic concerns such as the representation of cultural values, exploration of identity, and inquiry into questions of meaning within the fields of visual and literary arts, theatre, and music. It fosters questions about the relationships between artists, aesthetic objects, and audiences. Courses in this pathway explore the following questions:

How do aesthetic objects or performances alter perceptions and communicate ideas, and how do they participate in larger social and political discourses?
What are the roles of sensations, emotions, and poetics in invoking form, conveying meaning, and fostering critical thinking?
How does the creative process itself contribute to the production of knowledge?

AFAM 205 Survey of African American Literature
AFAM 375 The Harlem Renaissance
ALC 205 Introduction to Asian Literature
ALC 320 Self and Society in Modern Japanese Literature
ALC 330 Writing the Margins in Contemporary Japanese Literature
ARTH 275 Studies in Western Art I: Ancient through Medieval Art
ARTH 276 Studies in Western Art II: Renaissance to Modern Art
ARTH 278 Survey of Asian Art
ARTH 302 The Art of Mexico and Mesoamerica
ARTH 325 The Cutting Edge: Art and Architecture Since 1900
ARTH 334 Early Italian Renaissance Art: From Giotto to Michelangelo
ARTH 365 Nineteenth Century Art and Architecture in Europe and the Americas
ARTH 367 Chinese Art
ARTH 368 Japanese Art
ARTH/ARTS 371 East Asian Calligraphy
ARTS 201/301 Drawing into Painting: A Contemporary Approach to the Figure Students may count either ARTS 201 or ARTS 301, but not both, towards this pathway
ARTS 202 The Printed Image
ARTS 251 Painting
ARTS 281 Beginning Printmaking: Relief and Intaglio
ARTS 282 Beginning Printmaking: Lithography and Screen Print
BUS 380 Entrepreneurial Mindset for the Arts
CONN 303 Art-Science: Inquiry into the Intersection of Art, Science, and Technology
CONN 305 Heroes and Rebels: Martial Arts Culture in China and Beyond
CONN 370 Rome: Sketchbooks and Space Studies
ENGL 212 The Craft of Literature
ENGL 227 Introduction to Writing Fiction
ENGL 228 Introduction to Writing Poetry
ENGL 229 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 240 Multimodal Composition
ENGL 245 Shakespeare: From Script to Stage
ENGL 378 Visual Rhetoric
ENGL 381 Major Authors
GLAM 231 Ancient Tragedy
GLAM 232 Ancient Comedy
HUM 290 Introduction to Cinema Studies
LAS 387 Art and Revolution in Latin America
MUS 123 Discovering Music
MUS 220 The Broadway Musical
MUS 221 Jazz History
MUS 223 Women in Music
MUS 225 Romanticism in Music
MUS 226 Twentieth-Century Music Through Film
MUS 233 Introduction to Historical Musicology
MUS 234 Introduction to Ethnomusicology
MUS 321 Music of South Asia
MUS 330 Opera: Based on a True Story
MUS 493 Special Topics in Historical Musicology African American Music in the Concert Hall OR Black Scholars
PHIL 353 Philosophy of Film and Performing Arts
PHIL 360 Aesthetics
THTR 200 The Theatrical Experience
THTR 215 Fundamentals of Acting
THTR 325 Playwriting

Challenging Inequality, Leading Social Change: Issues of Gender

This pathway encourages students to evaluate the ways in which understandings of sex and gender have informed and intersected with institutions and hierarchies across time and space, through an exploration of a variety of disciplinary lenses and genres. Courses within this pathway explore the following general questions from different cultural, historic, or geographical perspectives:

How do cultures understand and/or conceptualize gender?
How do those understandings intersect with political, cultural, and social institutions? How do they shape the lived experiences of individuals and groups? How have dominant ideas and practices around gender been challenged, and what implications might those challenges have today?
How do different disciplines explore, conceptualize, and/or evaluate concepts of sex/gender?

AFAM 305 Black Fictions and Feminisms
AFAM 355 African American Women in American History
CLJ/REL 307 Prisons, Gender and Education
ENGL 346 Jane Eyre and its Afterlives
ENGL 365 Gender and Sexualities
ENGL 379 Special Topics in Theory
FREN 340 Francophone Women Writers
FREN 391 African Women Writers
GLAM 323 Sex and Gender in Classical Antiquity
GQS 201 Introduction to Gender, Queer, and Feminist Studies
GQS/REL 215 Religion and Queer Politics
GQS 310 Let's Talk about Sex
GQS 340 Feminist and Queer Methodologies
HIST 305 Women and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
HIST 349 Women of East Asia
HIST 392 Men and Women in Colonial Africa
LTS 300/SPAN 309 Literaturx Latinx
LTS 375 Queer-Latinx: Art, Sex, and Belonging in America
MUS 221 Jazz History
MUS 223 Women in Music
MUS 234 Introduction to Ethnomusicology
MUS 333 Western and World Music Since 1914
PG/PHIL 390 Gender and Philosophy
REL 303 Sexuality and Religion
SOAN 102 Introduction to Anthropology

Challenging Inequality, Leading Social Change: Issues of Race and Ethnicity

This pathway allows students to explore how race and ethnicity have influenced the construction of individual and collective identities, and to better understand the marginalization of individuals and groups, as well as strategies of resistance to oppression. Courses within this pathway explore the following general questions from different cultural, historic, or geographical perspectives:

How have race and ethnicity shaped individual and collective identities?
What forms of resistance have been undertaken by communities marginalized on the basis of race and/or ethnicity?
What is the relationship between race and ethnicity, and how do the two vary across different regional and historical contexts?

AFAM 101 Introduction to African American Studies
AFAM 305 Black Fictions and Feminisms
AFAM 310 African Diaspora Experience
AFAM/LTS 320 Race, Power, and Privilege
AFAM 346 African Americans and American Law
AFAM 360 The Art and Politics of the Civil Rights Era
AFAM/COMM 370 Communication and Diversity
AFAM 401 Narratives of Race
ALC 330 Writing the Margins in Contemporary Japanese Literature
CLJ/REL 307 Prisons, Gender and Education
COMM 347 Public Discourse
COMM 373 Critical Cultural Theory
CONN 318 Crime and Punishment
CONN 334 Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa and Beyond
ENGL 235 American Literature and Culture: Long Nineteenth Century
ENGL 236 American Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary
ENGL 237 American Literature and Culture: Beyond Borders
ENGL 242 Introduction to Native American Literature
ENGL 356 Bollywood Film
ENGL 361 South Asian Fiction
ENGL 362 Native American Literature
ENGL 363 African American Literature
ENGL 364 Asian American Literature
ENGL 366 Critical Whiteness Studies
FREN 260 Cultures of the Francophone World
FREN 330 Introduction to Francophone Literature
GLAM 322 Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient World
HIST 254 African American Voices: A Survey of African American History
HIST 281 Modern Latin America
HIST 360 Frontiers of Native America
HIST 367 Immigration in the U.S.
HIST 368 The Course of American Empire: The United States in the West and Pacific, 1776-1919
HIST 376 Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora
HIST 378 History of Latinx People in the United States
HIST 383 Borderlands: La Frontera: The U.S.-Mexico Border
HIST 391 Nelson Mandela and 20th Century South Africa
HIST 394 Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
LAS 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies
LTS 200 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
LTS 300/SPAN 309 Literaturx Latinx
LTS 375 Queer-Latinx: Art, Sex, and Belonging in America
MUS 221 Jazz History
MUS 222 Music of the World's Peoples
MUS 234 Introduction to Ethnomusicology
MUS 321 Music of South Asia
MUS 333 Western and World Music Since 1914
MUS 493 Special Topics in Historical Musicology African American Music in the Concert Hall OR Black Scholars
PG 339 The Politics of Empire
PG 384 Ethnic Politics
PHIL 312 Latin American and Latinx Philosophy
PHIL 389 Race and Philosophy
REL 270 Religion, Activism and Social Justice
REL 302 Ethics and the Other
SPAN 212 Introduction to Latin American Cultures
SPAN 301 Literature of the Americas
SPAN 306 Latin American Film
SPAN 308 Survey of Twentieth Century Latin-American/Latine Theatre
SPAN 311 Migration Narratives
THTR 250 World Theatre I: African Diaspora
THTR 252 World Theatre II: Asian Theatres
THTR 254 World Theatre III: Voices of the Americas

Empire, Colonialism, and Resistance

This pathway asks students to compare the processes of empire-building, the experiences of rulers and subject peoples, and challenges to imperial rule across global contexts and time periods. Students engage with a variety of disciplinary perspectives on central questions, including:

What has led peoples or nations to conquer and govern other peoples or nations? What political, institutional, or cultural structures have empires developed in the distant and recent past?
How is empire justified and explained to the conquerors and the conquered?
How have conquered peoples and/or colonized subjects responded to—accommodated, resisted, ignored, undermined—imperial or colonial powers and institutions?
How do the processes of empire-building, consolidation, and decline impact the political, social, and economic lives of ordinary people and elites?
How have post-colonial thinkers responded to the legacies of colonialism and empire? What are the legacies of empires in developing regional, transregional, and global interconnectedness in the past and present?

AFAM 205 Survey of African American Literature
ARTH 302 The Art of Mexico and Mesoamerica
ARTH 361 Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome
ARTH 367 Chinese Art
ASIA 344 Asia in Motion
CONN 322 Jihad, Islamism, and Colonial Legacies
CONN 333 Nations and Nationalism in Modern Europe
ENGL 242 Introduction to Native American Literature
ENGL 247 Introduction to Popular Genres
ENGL 361 South Asian Fiction
ENGL 362 Native American Literature
ENGL 382 Movements when topic is Irish Literary Revival
ENGL 431 Advanced Seminar in American Literature when topic is Frontier Mythologies, or Critical Whiteness Studies
FREN 260 Cultures of the Francophone World
FREN 330 Introduction to Francophone Literature
FREN 340 Francophone Women Writers
FREN 391 African Women Writers
GDS/IPE 211 Introduction to Global Development
GERM 305 Culture in the Third Reich
GERM 360 German Cultural History and Politics, 1871-Present
GERM 450 Contemporary Voices in German Literature and Film since 1989
GLAM 212 History of Ancient Rome
GLAM 330 Theories of Myth
HIST 103 History of Modern Europe, 1815 to the Present
HIST 224 Russia Since 1861
HIST 280 Colonial Latin America
HIST 281 Modern Latin America
HIST 291 Modern Africa
HIST 293 Early Africa to 1807
HIST 316 The British Empire
HIST 323 Politics and Societies in Post-Soviet Eurasia
HIST 325 Totalitarian Dictatorships in Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 344 Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution in China: 1800 to the Present
HIST 360 Frontiers of Native America
HIST 361 United States and the War in Vietnam
HIST 368 The Course of American Empire: The United States in the West and Pacific, 1776-1919
HIST 370 Nationalism and the Fall of Empire in Central Europe
HIST 382 Comparative Revolution in Twentieth Century Latin America
HIST 393 Missions and Christianity in Africa
HUM 368 A Precious Barbarism: Enlightenment, Ideology, and Colonialism
LTS 200 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
LTS 376 The Art of Mestizaje
MUS 321 Music of South Asia
PG 104 Introduction to Political Theory
PG 339 The Politics of Empire
PG 340 Democracy and the Ancient Greeks
PG 346 Race in the American Political Imagination
PG 347 Comparative Political Ideologies
PHIL 312 Latin American and Latinx Philosophy
REL 212 Global Islam
SOAN 316 Cultural Politics of Global Development
SPAN 212 Introduction to Latin American Cultures
STHS 344 Ecological Knowledge in Historical Perspective

The Global Middle Ages

This pathway encourages students to take a comparative approach to studying different regions and cultures in the period from roughly 500 to 1500 C.E., an era in which virtually every part of the globe experienced significant political, intellectual, religious, social, and technological developments which continue to shape our world. Though encompassing a variety of regions and disciplinary approaches, courses in this pathway share a concern with larger questions about human experience and self-expression in these centuries, such as:

How can we give voice to a range of medieval perspectives?
To what extent were medieval societies inclusive and/or exclusionary?
How did various medieval cosmologies impact political institutions, social hierarchies, and aesthetic sensibilities?

ALC 310 Death and Desire in Pre-modern Japanese Literature
ARTH 275 Studies in Western Art I: Ancient through Medieval Art
ARTH 278 Survey of Asian Art
ARTH 334 Early Italian Renaissance Art: From Giotto to Michelangelo
ARTH 359 Islamic Art
ARTH 362 Art, Religion, and Power in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
ARTH 363 Faith and Power in the Art of the Medieval West: Seventh-Fourteenth Century
ENGL 231 Medieval and Renaissance Literature
ENGL 371 History of the English Language
ENGL 381 Major Authors Chaucer topic only
ENGL 383 Eras Dante, Chaucer, and the City topic only
ENGL 433 Advanced Seminar in Rhetoric and Literacies
GLAM 110 Before East and West
HIST 112 Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
HIST 113 Europe and the Mediterranean World, 1050-1650: A History in 100 Objects
HIST 230 England from the Romans to the Tudors
HIST 245 Chinese Civilization
HIST 293 Early Africa to 1807
HIST 304 Renaissance Europe
HIST 305 Women and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
HIST 307 The Crusades
HIST 314 War and Society in Premodern Europe
HON 206 The Arts of the Classical World and the Middle Ages Only for students enrolled in the Honors Program.
HUM 302 Mystics, Knights, and Pilgrims: The Medieval Quest
HUM 303 The Monstrous Middle Ages
HUM 330 Tao and Landscape Art
HUM 367 Word and Image
REL 204 Religions of the Book
REL 233 Japanese Religious Traditions
REL 310 Christianity and Law in the West
REL 350 Mysticism & Spirituality in Christianity
REL 363 Saints, Symbols, and Sacraments: History of Christian Traditions
STHS 201 Alchemy, Astronomy, and Medicine before 1700
THTR 371 Theatre History I: From the Origins of Theatre to the 17th Century

Science and Values

This pathway encourages students to evaluate and understand the sciences through a humanistic lens, and to consider questions such as:

How can the sciences be understood in their broader historical, social, and ethical contexts?
What is the relationship between science and values (in the past and the present)?
How were scientific methods and approaches developed and why?
How have claims about what is ’natural’ been used to defend or undermine value statements?

AFAM 401 Narratives of Race
BIOE/PHIL 292 Basics of Bioethics
BIOE/REL 292 Basics of Bioethics
CONN 393 The Cognitive Foundations of Morality and Religion
ENGL 348 Illness and Narrative: Discourses of Disease
ENVR 326 People, Politics, and Parks
ENVR 335 Thinking About Biodiversity
ENVR 355 Sacred Ecology (0.25 units.)
HIST 364 American Environmental History
HON 212 Origins of the Modern World View Only for students enrolled in the Honors Program.
HUM 202 The Psychedelic Renaissance
PG/PHIL 390 Gender and Philosophy
PHIL 105 Neuroethics and Human Enhancement
PHIL 220 17th- and 18th-Century Philosophy
PHIL 230 Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 232 Philosophy of Science
PHIL 285 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 320 British Empiricism
PHIL 330 Epistemology
PHIL 336 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 389 Race and Philosophy
REL 298 Reproductive Ethics
REL 301 Consciousness and the Bourgeoisie
STHS 100 Apes, Angels, and Darwin
STHS 200 History of Modern Science and Technology Students may count either STS 201 or STS 202, but not both, towards this pathway.
STHS 201 Alchemy, Astronomy, and Medicine before 1700 Students may count either STS 201 or STS 202, but not both, towards this pathway.
STHS 330 Evolution and Society Since Darwin
STHS 333 Evolution and Ethics
STHS 340 Finding Order in Nature
STHS 344 Ecological Knowledge in Historical Perspective
STHS 366 Medicine in the United States: Historical Perspectives
STHS 370 Science and Religion in the United States: From Evolution to Climate Change
STHS 375 Science, Technology, and Politics

Visual Culture

This pathway allows students to engage critically with numerous manifestations of visual culture, including artifacts, images (from paintings to film), and built environments from various historical periods and diverse cultures. The pathway urges students to examine the role of visual practices in history, culture, and the forming of human subjectivity. Courses in this pathway explore questions such as:

How do objects, images, and built environments reflect or shape social, religious, and political values?
How may objects, images, and built environments foster the development of personal or group identities?

ALC 225 Visualized Fiction: Cinematic Adaptations of Traditional Chinese Literature
ARTH 275 Studies in Western Art I: Ancient through Medieval Art
ARTH 276 Studies in Western Art II: Renaissance to Modern Art
ARTH 278 Survey of Asian Art
ARTH 302 The Art of Mexico and Mesoamerica
ARTH 380 Museums and Curating in the 21st Century: History, Theory, and Practice
COMM 170 Introduction to Media Studies: Governmentality and Torture
COMM 372 Contemporary Media Culture: Deconstructing Disney
CONN 303 Art-Science: Inquiry into the Intersection of Art, Science, and Technology
CONN 305 Heroes and Rebels: Martial Arts Culture in China and Beyond
CONN 313 Biomimicry and Bioart
CONN 330 Finding Germany: Memory, History, and Identity in Berlin
CONN 375 The Art and Science of Color
CONN 480 Informed Seeing
ENGL/HUM 340 Film Genres
ENGL 356 Bollywood Film
ENGL 378 Visual Rhetoric
FREN 270 Conversational French and Film
GERM 300 German Cinema of the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism, 1919-1945
GERM 305 Culture in the Third Reich
GERM 350 From Rubble to New Reality: German Cinema after World War Two
GERM 470 Writing with Light: Literature and Photography
GLAM 231 Ancient Tragedy
HIST 381 Film and History: Latin America
HON 206 The Arts of the Classical World and the Middle Ages Only for students enrolled in the Honors Program.
HUM 290 Introduction to Cinema Studies
HUM 330 Tao and Landscape Art
HUM 367 Word and Image
LAS 387 Art and Revolution in Latin America
MUS 220 The Broadway Musical
PHIL 353 Philosophy of Film and Performing Arts
PHIL 360 Aesthetics
SOAN 308 Visual and Media Anthropology
SPAN 305 Spanish Film
SPAN 306 Latin American Film
SPAN 307 Modern Spanish Theater
SPAN 308 Survey of Twentieth Century Latin-American/Latine Theatre
SPAN 312 Visual Culture and Modernity in Latin America
THTR 200 The Theatrical Experience
THTR 371 Theatre History I: From the Origins of Theatre to the 17th Century
THTR 373 Theatre History II: 18th Century to the Present