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Humanities Signature Course Archive

View the archive of past Humanities Signature Courses below.
    • Major Trends in Islamic Mysticism, Yousef Casewit
    • Hearing Popular Music, Jennifer Iverson
    • The Novel Prize in Literature, Françoise Meltzer
    • Ghosts and the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin
    • The Age of Innovation: Mesopotamian Writing through Objects, Susanne Paulus
    • Mesopotamian Law, Martha Roth
    • Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings, Ada Palmer
    • The Amazon: Literature, Culture, Environment, Victoria Saramago
    • Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth
    • Religion, Science, Naturalism: Is There a Problem?, Daniel Arnold
    • South Asian Sensoriums, Tyler Williams
    • Black in Colonial America: Three Women, SJ Zhang
    • Sonic Cultures of Japan, Michael Bourdaghs
    • Richer and Poorer: Income Inequality, Elaine Hadley
    • The History of Iraq in the 20th Century, Orit Bashkin
    • The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
    • Europe's Intellectual Transformations, Renaissance through Enlightenment, Ida Palmer
    • Opera Across Media, Martha Feldman and Anne Monique Pace
    • Metaphysics, Morbidity & Modernity: Mann's The Magic Mountain, David Wellbery
    • Languages of the Ancient World: Diversity and Survival, Sofía Torallas-Tovar
    • The Future, Bill Brown
    • American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari
    • Nabokov: Lolita, Malynne Sternstein
    • Critical Videogame Studies, Patrick Jagoda
    • Jewish Graphic Narrative: Between Memory and Caricature, Na'ama Rokem
    • Music and Mind, Lawrence Zbikowski
    • Major Trends in Islamic Mysticism, Yousef Casewit
    • Japanese Animation: The Making of a Global Media, Thomas Lamarre
    • Ethics in the Digital Age, Daniel Moerner
    • Self-Creation as a Literary and Philosophical Problem, Agnes Callard
    • Topics in EALC: Ghosts and the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin
    • Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings, Ada Palmer
    • Myth and Its Critics, Clifford Ando
    • Inventing Consciousness: Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Timothy Harrison
    • Eurovision, Philip Bohlman
    • Before Zodiac: Astronomy and Mathematics as Ancient Culture, John Wee
    • Opera Across Media, Catrin Dowd and Martha Feldman
    • Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth
    • South Asian Sensoriums, Tyler Williams
    • Deconstruction: Derrida and de Man, Haun Saussy
    • Augustus: Republic to Empire, Michele Lowrie
    • BIG: Monumental Buildings and Sculptures in the Past and Present, James Osborne
    • Did Climate Doom the Ancients?, Hervé Reculeau
    • The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
    • Making and Meaning in the American Musical, Thomas Christensen
    • Mesopotamian Law, Martha Roth
    • Nietzsche: Culture, Critique, Self-Transcendence, David Wellbery
    • Religious Autobiographies, Richard Rosengarten
    • Theater about Theater, John Muse
    • Witnessing Medieval Evil: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Observation, Benjamin Saltzman
    • The Amazon: Literature, Culture, Environment, Victoria Saramago
    • Critical Videogame Studies, Patrick Jagoda
    • Queering the American Family Drama, Leslie Danzig
    • Arab America, Ghenwa Hayek
    • Before the Zodiac: Astronomy and Mathematics as Ancient Culture, John Wee
    • Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth
    • From Dostoevsky To Samurai To Spaghetti Western: Adaptation And Akira Kurosawa, Olga Solovieva
    • Inventing Consciousness: Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Tim Harrison
    • The Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings, Ada Palmer
    • Media Wars, Jennifer Wild
    • Nabokov: Lolita, Malynne Sternstein
    • Opera Across Media, Martha Feldman
    • Religion, Science and Naturalism: Is There a Problem? Dan Arnold
    • South Asian Sensoriums, Tyler Williams
    • Topics in EALC: Ghosts and the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin
    • Truth, Chris Kennedy
    • The Age of Innovation - Famous Firsts 5,000 Years Ago, Susanne Paulus
    • American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari
    • The Declaration of Independence, Eric Slauter
    • Japanese Animation: The Making of a Global Media, Thomas Lamarre
    • Mesopotamian Law, Martha Roth
    • My Body, My Self: Asceticism and Subjectivity, Sarah Pierce-Taylor & Erin Walsh
    • Philosophy and Literature in India, Anand Venkatkrishnan
    • Some Versions of Apocalypse, Mark Miller
    • Black in Colonial America: Three Women
    • Ethics in the Digital Age
    • Europe's Intellectual Transformations, Renaissance through Enlightenment
    • Everyday Maoism: Revolution, Daily Life, and Material Culture in Socialist China
    • History of Iraq in the 20th Century
    • The Language of Deception and Humor
    • Media & Power in the Age of Putin & Trump
    • The World's a Stage: Performance in Politics, Culture, and Everyday Life
    • The Amazon: Culture, History, Environment, Victoria Saramago
    • The American Classics, Eric Slauter
    • BIG: Monumental Buildings and Sculptures in the Past and Present, James Osborne
    • Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth
    • Civil War Literature, Michèle Lowrie
    • The Eurovision Song Contest, Philip Bohlman
    • The Jewish Graphic Novel, Na'ama Rokem
    • Listening to Movies, Berthold Hoeckner
    • Richer and Poorer: Income Inequality, Elaine Hadley
    • Roman Law, Clifford Ando
    • Versailles: Art, Power, Resistance and the Sun King's Palace, Larry Norman
    • Vienna Around 1900 and the Making of the 20th Century, Ingrid Christian
    • Witnessing Medieval Evil: Literature, Art and the Politics of Observation, Ben Saltzman
    • American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari
    • Literature and the Financial Crisis of 2008, Ken Warren
    • Ancient Drama, Modern Theory, Sarah Nooter
    • Code Making, Code Breaking, Chris Kennedy
    • Critical Videogame Studies, Patrick Jagoda
    • The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
    • Major Trends in Islamic Mysticism, Yousef Casewit
    • Markets Before Capitalism, Alain Bresson
    • Music and Mind, Larry Zbikowski
    • Opera Across Media, Martha Feldman
    • Religious Autobiography, Richard Rosengarten
    • The Rise of the Global New Right, Leah Feldman
    • Witnessing War, Rachel Galvin
    • The Age of Innovation: Famous Firsts 5,000 Years Ago, Susanne Paulus
    • Before the Zodiac: Astronomy and Mathematics as Ancient Culture, John Wee
    • Eurovision Song Contest, Phillip Bohlman
    • History of the Present, Kathleen Belew
    • Inventing Consciousness: Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Timothy Harrison
    • Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings, Ada Palmer
    • Listening to Movies, Berthold Hoeckner
    • Memory and Identity in French Literature: Proust to the Present, Alison James
    • Myth and Its Critics, Clifford Ando
    • Reforming Religious Media: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, Christopher Wild
    • Self-Creation as a Philosophical and Literary Problem, Agnes Callard
    • Thinking with Race in Medieval England, Julie Orlemanski
    • The Underground: Alienation, Mobilization, Resistance, Robert Bird
    • Versailles: Art, Power, Resistance and the Sun King's Palace, Larry Norman
    • American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari
    • The Declaration of Independence, Eric Slauter
    • Europe's Intellectual Transformations, Renaissance Through Enlightenment, Ada Palmer
    • The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
    • Making and Meaning in the American Musical, Thomas Christensen
    • Media and Power in the Age of Putin and Trump, William Nickell
    • Mesopotamian Law, Martha Roth
    • The Rise of the Global New Right, Leah Feldman
    • Some Versions of Apocalypse, Mark Miller
    • Censorship, Information Control, and Revolutions in Information Technology from the Printing Press to Internet, Adrian Johns and Ada Palmer
    • Climate Change in Literature, Art, and Film, Benjamin Morgan
    • Critical Videogame Studies, Patrick Jagoda
    • Everyday Maoism: Work, Daily Life, and Material Culture in Socialist China, Jacob Eyferth
    • Ghosts & the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin
    • Truth, Chris Kennedy
    • Arab America, Ghenwa Hayek
    • Grimm's Fairy Tales and the Construction of Childhood, Christopher Wild
    • Introduction to the Middle East, Fred Donner
    • Listening to Movies, Berthold Hoeckner
    • Making and Meaning in the American Musical, Thomas Christensen
    • Nabokov: Lolita, Malynne Sternstein
    • Roman Law, Clifford Ando
    • Theater About Theater, John Muse
    • American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari
    • The Discovery of Egypt in the Age of European Enlightenment and its Aftermath, Nadine Moeller
    • The History of Iraq in the 20th Century, Orit Bashkin
    • History of Skepticism, Ada Palmer
    • The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
    • Media and Power in the Age of Putin and Trump, William Nickell
    • Mesopotamian Law, Martha T. Roth
    • Nietzsche: Culture, Critique, Self-Transcendence, David E. Wellbery
    • Psychoanalytic Thought: Freud and Lacan, Françoise Meltzer
    • Richer & Poorer: Income Inequality, Elaine Hadley
    • The Underground: Alienation, Mobilization, Resistance, Robert Bird
    • Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present, Stuart McManus and Ada Palmer
    • Code Making/Code Breaking, Chris Kennedy
    • The First Great Transformation: The Economies of the Ancient World, Alain Bresson
    • The Nuclear Age, Deborah Nelson
    • Big: Monumental Buildings and Sculptures in the Past and Present, James F. Osborne
    • Ghosts and the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin
    • Introduction to the Middle East, Fred M. Donner
    • Japanese History Through Film and Other Texts, James Ketelaar
    • Making and Meaning in the American Musical, Thomas Christensen
    • Richer & Poorer: Income Inequality, Elaine Hadley
    • Science and Aesthetics, Robert J. Richards
    • Self-Creation as a Literary and Philosophical Problem, Agnes Callard
    • Truth, Chris Kennedy