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2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Humanities Courses
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Humanities
Humanities
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HUM 101 - Humanities I: The Ancient Greek World 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
A foundation for further study in the liberal arts, developing skills of critical reading, writing, and imaginative thinking through the study of selected works from ancient Greece. Readings include Homeric epic, tragic drama, Platonic dialogues, Thucydides’ History and Aristotle’s Poetics.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff -
HUM 102 - Humanities II: Roman and Early Christian Culture 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Major works of Roman and early Christian culture, exploring private and public paths to happiness from Cicero’s ideal commonwealth to the City of God. Readings include Virgil’s Aeneid, Stoic and Epicurean philosophy, satire and drama, Christian scripture, St. Augustine, and Boethius. Emphasis on close reading, discussion, and short essay assignments.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff -
HUM 140 - Medieval and Renaissance Culture: 1100–1650 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: SST 140 . This interdisciplinary course explores European culture and the social and political forces that shaped it between 1100 and 1650, paying special attention to feudalism and the Crusades, the intellectual efflorescence of the 12th and 13th centuries, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the advent of the Scientific Revolution. In our exploration of medieval and Renaissance culture we will draw on art, science, literature, political theory, philosophy and theology, music, the writings of mystics, and advice manuals for heads of households and would-be courtiers.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff -
HUM 200 - Creative Careers: Learning from Alumni
See SST 200 .
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HUM 251 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 251 . This course takes a theoretical approach to canonical and contemporary children’s literature. Content is variable, but may include The Young Adult Problem Novel, Dystopian Fiction for the Young Adult Reader, and Constructions of Race, Slavery, Class and Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: A course in English or another course in literature.
Note: Foreign language available in Russian or French.
Instructor: Staff
Special Topics-Fall
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HUM 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: An Introduction to Museum Studies 4 credits (Fall)
See ARH 195-01 .
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HUM 295-01 - Special Topic: Generational Memory in Rural Iowa 4 credits (Fall)
Due to expanded life expectancies, changing experiences of age have become prominent in our daily life. The generational concept is useful to understand social change: What exactly is change, and how does it work from one generation to the other other in respect to values, life style, routines, etc? The aim of the course is to examine these questions in theory and at the same time conduct practical research collecting interviews with people from different families/family generations living in rural Iowa. Taught in English.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Sparaschuh
Special Topics-Spring
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HUM 295-01 - Special Topic: Journal Publishing: Discovering Diversity 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: SST 295-01 . This course will involve students in all steps in producing the Spring 2019 issue of Rootstalk: A Prairie Journal of Culture, Science, and the Arts. This semester a specific goal is to involve students, faculty editors, staff advisors and alumni mentors in an effort to further develop the journal as a tool for reaching out to the full diversity of populations in our region, and for the development of content for future issues.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Andelson, Staff -
HUM 295-02 - Special Topic: Tolerance and Intolerance: What is Enlightenment Today? 4 credits (Spring)
Contemporary Europe faces ongoing manifestations of intolerance in the form religious extremism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and outbreaks of violence against people of different beliefs and cultures. The present moment recalls for many the long history of religious and racial intolerance in Europe from the time of the Reformation to the demands for tolerance issues during the Enlightenment. This course examines the long history of and present of intolerance and its challenges to Enlightenment ideals of tolerance, rational debate, and human rights. This course includes travel over summer break. Students will be required to pay a $400 participation fee (most other required travel expenses will be covered). This fee will be added to the student tuition bill and is due by the first day of classes. If payment of this fee causes you financial concern, please contact Gretchen Zimmermann in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost for attendance.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing. Prerequisite or co-requisite: FRN 222 or GRM 222 .
Instructor: Harrison, Reynolds
Special Topic - Fall and Spring
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HUM 295-02 & 03 - Special Topic: Dis/Unity and Difference 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Difference is a reality of community life-as is disagreement about how to respond. Does focusing on unity paper over difference? Does focusing on disunity undermine the possibility of solidarity? We will explore such questions through Center for the Humanities programming, including the work of visiting scholars, film screenings, and select performances. Topics may include (but will likely not be limited to) race, religion, public health, and national identity.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Section -02 in the fall. Section - 03 in the spring. S/D/F only
Instructor: Roberts
Variable Topics- Spring
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GLS 251-01 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature 4 credits (Spring)
See HUM 251-01 .
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