Degree Requirements for Interdisciplinary Humanities Emphasis

Completion of five units to include:

1. Five units chosen from a single pathway, two of which must be at the 300-level or above.
2. 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.
3. 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

1. 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.
2. A maximum of two units from each major, minor, or program that a student plans to complete may count toward a pathway.
3. 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.
4. Courses in the IHE may not be taken as Credit/No Credit.
5. A student must have a grade of C- or higher in all courses of the IHE.
6. 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 Race and Culture in Ethnic Literature

AFAM 375 The Harlem Renaissance

AFAM 401 Narratives of Race

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

ASIA 305 Heroes and Rebels: Martial Arts Culture in China and Beyond

BUS 380 Entrepreneurial Mindset for the Arts

CONN 303 Art-Science: Inquiry into the Intersection of Art, Science, and Technology

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 238 Afrofuturism

ENGL 240 Digital Writing: Text, Image, and Sound

ENGL 245 Shakespeare: From Script to Stage

ENGL 378 Visual Rhetoric

ENGL 381 Major Authors

FREN 392 African Film

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 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 313 Directing

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

FREN 392 African Film

GLAM 323 Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome

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 Gender in Colonial Africa

LTS 300 Latina/o Literatures

LTS 375 Queer-Latinx: Art, Sex, and Belonging in America

MUS 221 Jazz History

MUS 223 Women in Music

MUS 234 Introduction to Ethnomusicology

PG/PHIL 390 Gender and Philosophy

REL 298 Reproductive Ethics

REL 303 Sexuality and Religion

REL 323 Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Societies

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

BIOE/REL 255 Pandemic Ethics, Laws, and Health Inequities

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 238 Afrofuturism

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 252 Monuments and Memory in US History

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 Latina/o Literatures

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 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 and Post-Imperial Conflict

PHIL 312 Latin American and Latinx Philosophy

PHIL 389 Race and Philosophy

REL 222 Antisemitism and Islamophobia

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 Race and Culture in Ethnic Literature

ALC 340 First Encounters: Japan and Europe in the 16th Century

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

FREN 392 African Film

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 252 Monuments and Memory in US History

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 The Global Renaissance, c.1300-1600

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/REL 255 Pandemic Ethics, Laws, and Health Inequities

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

ASIA 305 Heroes and Rebels: Martial Arts Culture in China and Beyond

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 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

FREN 392 African Film

GERM 300 German Cinema of the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism, 1919-1945

GERM 305 Culture in the Third Reich

GERM 350/350 From Rubble to New Reality: German Cinema after World War Two

GERM 470 Writing with Light: Literature and Photography

GLAM 231 Ancient Tragedy

HIST 113 Europe and the Mediterranean World, 1050-1650: A History in 100 Objects

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

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