Humanities (HUM)
HUM 100 Selected Topics: Humanities (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
HUM 141 Computing Culture: Technology and the Humanities
Computing Culture: Technology and the Humanities (3 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
¿Computing Culture¿ grounds the digital humanities integrated learning major by providing students with an overview of debates, skills, and approaches central to a critical, humanistic engagement with digital technology and culture.
Shared Competencies: Critical and Creative Thinking; Communication Skills; Information Literacy and Technological Agility
HUM 145 Introduction to Health Humanities (3 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
This course introduces students to the humanistic dimensions of health, disease, and healing. Students will engage in interdisciplinary inquiry and learn the origins, topics, and theories of the Health Humanities.
HUM 200 Selected Topics (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
HUM 270 Experience Credit (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Repeatable
HUM 280 International Course (1-12 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Repeatable
HUM 290 Independent Study (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Repeatable
HUM 300 Selected Topics (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
HUM 301 Upper Class Forum (0 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
HUM 304 The Other China: Ethnic Minorities and Development (2 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Offered only in Beijing. Examination of the impact of globalization and development on China's culturally diverse peoples, natural environment and animal habitats through onsite visits to tribal villages, water projects and nature preserves in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in Southwest China.
HUM 311 Community Writing: Photography & Literacy (3 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Cross-listed with WRT 311
This course partners with SU Art Museum's PAL Project to bring University students into local public schools and community centers to offer training in visual rhetoric and multimodal composition, including photography and writing, and to work with youth to develop projects that explore issues of identity, culture, and community.
HUM 321 Christians, Jews and Muslims (3 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Offered only in Madrid. Key historic encounters between the three versions of monotheism, with reference to the richness of past cultural and religious legacy rooted in the Mediterranean region.
Shared Competencies: Communication Skills
HUM 345 Patients, Providers, and Health Humanities (3 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Applies patient and practitioner approaches to health equity and health advocacy through transdisciplinary health humanities lenses.
Prereq: WRT 205
HUM 380 International Course (1-12 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Repeatable
HUM 390 Independent Study (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Exploration of a problem, or problems in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted to the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Repeatable
HUM 400 Selected Topics (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
HUM 404 'AZAHAR' The Islamic Conquest and the Christian Reconquest (2 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Thirteen day interdisciplinary seminar. Lectures in situ. Artistic, historical, cultural monuments of Cordoba, Sevilla, Granada and Toledo or Salamanca. Theological, philosophical and historical thought as to recreate the artistic and cultural climate of medieval al-Andalus/Spain.
HUM 420 Studies in Renaissance Cultural History (3-4 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Topics in literature, fine arts, and religion between 1300 and 1600 in Italy, France, and England. Topics to be determined by the faculty.
Repeatable
HUM 441 Digital Humanities Capstone (3 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Practical, hands-on experience with a project that engages students' knowledge of the digital humanities.
Advisory recommendation Prereq: HUM 141
Shared Competencies: Critical and Creative Thinking; Information Literacy and Technological Agility
HUM 445 Health Humanities Capstone (3 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Completion of a capstone project under the supervision of a faculty member.
HUM 470 Experience Credit (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
Repeatable
HUM 480 International Course (1-12 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Repeatable
HUM 482 Azahar: Interfaith Relations in Spain (711-1492) (3 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Offered only in Madrid. This traveling seminar explores the interweaving of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures during the Middle Ages, the resulting tensions, and the lasting cultural and social impacts on present-day Spain and the modern world.
Shared Competencies: Communication Skills
HUM 490 Independent Study (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Repeatable
HUM 500 Selected Topics (1-6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester
Repeatable
HUM 501 Humanism and the Arts in Renaissance Italy (6 Credits)
Arts & Sciences
Interdisciplinary seminar on the interdependence of thought, art, and letters in Renaissance Italy and their dependence on social, political, religious, and cultural conditions. Given in Italy. Extensive field trips. Lectures and readings in English.