Course Catalogs

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.
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.
Prereq: WRT 105 or WRT 109 or ENL 211  
HUM 321  Christians, Jews and Muslims  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with REL 321, MES 321, JSP 321  
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  
Cross-listed with FLL 404, MES 404  
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  
HUM 445  Health Humanities Capstone  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Completion of a capstone project under the supervision of a faculty member.
Prereq: HUM 145 and (BIO 396 or PHI 396 or PHI 398 or PHI 593 or PHI 594 or REL 551 or REL 552)  
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  
Cross-listed with HST 482, MES 482  
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.