Class Options: Humanities Electives

Humanities electives are from the departments of Classics & Modern Languages, English, History, Philosophy or Theology. Your elective may not double-count with any other core requirement (except flagged courses -- Diversity, E/RS, Writing, Oral Communication or Quantitative Reasoning). This elective is very broad, and the list below is not exhaustive, but includes relevant courses offered in recent years:

• CLAS 120: From Homer to Plato
• CLAS 121: From Alexandra to Cleopatra
• CLAS 160: From Romulus to Octavian
• CLAS 161: From Augustus to Attila
• CLAS 170: Near Eastern Civilization I: Ancient Egypt and Nubia
• CLAS 171: Near Eastern Civilization II: Bible Lands
• CLAS 211: The Dead Sea Scrolls
• CLAS 217: Introduction to the Church Fathers
• CLAS 261: Greek Archeology
• CLAS 262: Roman Archaeology
• CLAS 241: Classical Mythology: Art
• CLAS 242: Classical Mythology: Literature
• EDCH 324: Children's Literature for Early Childhood
• EDCH 326: Children's Literature for Middle Childhood
• ENGL 124: Studies in Fiction
• ENGL 128: Studies in Black Literature
• ENGL 132: Studies in Women's Literature
• ENGL 221: Poetry
• ENGL 302: Modern Literary Theory
• ENGL 303: History of Literary Criticism
• ENGL 305: Professional Writing
• ENGL 309: Creative Writing: Poetry
• ENGL 310: Creative Writing: Fiction
• ENGL 318: Creative Writing: Nonfiction
• ENGL 320: Topics in Linguistics
• ENGL 321: History of the English Language
• ENGL 344: Major Black Writers of the World
• ENGL 352: African Literature
• ENGL 360: Women Writers
• ENGL 370: Writings by Sexual Minorities
• ENGL 375: Literature and the Arts in Ireland
• ENGL 414: Tolkein
• ENGL 425: Shakespeare
• ENGL 430: 17th Century Literature
• ENGL 441: 18th Century British Literature
• ENGL 460: Love, Sex, Gender: Victorian Poetry
• ENGL 470: Modern British Literature
• ENGL472: Modern Drama
• ENGL 480: American Renaissance: 1830-1865
• ENGL 483: Modern American Poetry
• ENGL 486: Contemporary American Fiction
• ENGL 489: American Minority Literature
• FREN 302: French Conversation
• FREN 438: The Nineteenth Century
• FREN 451: Twentieth Century French Theatre
• FREN 462: Paris and Parisians in Literature
• GERM 420: Introduction to German Literature
• GERM 461: German Culture Through Film
• GREK 202: Attic Tragedy
• GREK 311: History of Ancient Greece
• HIST 231: Transatlantic Slave Trade
• HIST 233: Women in American History
• HIST 243: Outdoor America
• HIST 300: Writing in Public
• HIST 308: Urban History, Geography and GIS
• HIST 309: Age of Big Business: 1885-1920
• HIST 333: Histories of American Childhood
• HIST 340: History of Mexico
• HIST 349: Korea: Past and Present
• HIST 382: Anti-Semitism: The Great Hatred
• HIST 387: Lenin to Putin: 20th Century Russia
• HIST 393: History of the Jesuits
• HIST 398: History of Agriculture
• HIST 408: Constructing the Public
• HIST 412: The American Dream
• HIST 482: Global History of Letter Writing
• LATN 211: Cicero: Orations
• LATN 212: Virgil: Aeneid
• LATN 231: Horace: Odes and Epodes
• LATN 341: Tacitus
• LATN 341: Latin Prose
• PHIL 300: Origins of Philosophy
• PHIL 305: Contemporary Philosophy
• PHIL 307: 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
• PHIL 309: Medieval Islamic Philosophy
• PHIL 311: Symbolic Logic
• PHIL 315: Philosophy of Religion
• PHIL 317: Philosophy of Human Nature
• PHIL 321: Business Ethics
• PHIL 323: Markets and Morals
• PHIL 329: Bioethics
• PHIL 338: Enlightenment and Revolution
• PHIL 339: Revolution and its Aftermath
• PHIL 340: Metaphysics
• PHIL 342: German Idealism
• PHIL 344: Chinese Philosophy
• PHIL 346: The Scottish Enlightenment
• PHIL 364: Modern Political Philosophy
• PHIL 372: John Locke
• PHIL 379: Nietzsche
• PHIL 388: Freud and Philosophy
• PHIL 391: Heidegger
• SPAN 300: Advanced Spanish
• SPAN 305: Readings in Spanish
• SPAN 309: Contemporary Issues in the Spanish Speaking World
• SPAN 310 Critical Approaches to Text and Cultural Analysis
• SPAN 328: Phonetics and Dialectology
• SPAN 350: Spanish Civilization
• SPAN 352: Latin American Traditions and Popular Culture
• SPAN 353: Introduction to Latin American Studies
• SPAN 358: Central America Society and Culture
• SPAN 370: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Criticism
• SPAN 439: 20th Century Spanish Literature
• SPAN 445: 20th Century Spanish-American Literature
• THEO 203: The Eastern Orthodox Church
• THEO 207: Jesus and Power
• THEO 209: The Christian Tradition I
• THEO 210: The Christian Tradition II
• THEO 211: The Dead Sea Scrolls
• THEO 214: Religion and Psychology
• THEO 217: Introduction to the Church Fathers
• THEO 218: Women in Early Christianity
• THEO 223: Sacraments Today
• THEO 228: Teresa Avila: Life and Works
• THEO 230: Church After Vatican II
• THEO 245: God, Creation and Ecology
• THEO 251: Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures
• THEO 252: Introduction to Christian Scriptures
• THEO 255: Old Testament Prophets
• THEO 256: Theologies of Food and Farm
• THEO 264: Synoptic Gospels
• THEO 265: Gospel of Mark
• THEO 285: The Historical Jesus
• THEO 290: Christian Doctrine Today
• THEO 303: Christian Ethics: Methods and Questions
• THEO 305: Sociology of Religion
• THEO 306: Liberation Issues and Theology
• THEO 311: Faith and Justice
• THEO 313: Christian Sexual Ethics
• THEO 322: Black Theology
• THEO 324: Religion and Hip Hop
• THEO 329: Judaism and Ritual
• THEO 333: The Bible on Film
• THEO 342: World Religions
• THEO 343: Dialogue Among World Religions
• THEO 345: The Challenge of Peace
• THEO 350: Saints: Origins to Internet
• THEO 353: The Holocaust
• THEO 355: Introduction to Islam
• THEO 358: Immigration Theology and Ethics
• THEO 359: Confucianism and Taoism
• THEO 364: Religion in an Age of Science
• THEO 368: Buddhism
• THEO 369: Science, Civilization and Sustainability
• THEO 386: Religion and Economics
• THEO 397: Religion, Culture and Human Rights
• THEO 404: Religion, Ethics and Professional Practice