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Class Options: Humanities Electives

Humanities electives are from the departments of Classics, English, History, Philosophy or Theology. Your elective may not double-count with any other core requirement (except flagged courses--DCR, E/RS, writing, oral comm. or quant.). This elective is very broad, and the list below is not exhaustive, but includes relevant courses offered in recent years:

CLAS120: From Homer to Plato
CLAS121: From Alexandra to Cleopatra
CLAS160: From Romulus to Octavian
CLAS161: From Augustus to Attila
CLAS170: Near Eastern Civilization I: Ancient Egypt and Nubia
CLAS171: Near Eastern Civilization II: Bible Lands
CLAS211: The Dead Sea Scrolls
CLAS217: Introduction to the Church Fathers
CLAS261: Greek Archeology
CLAS262: Roman Archaeology
CLAS241: Classical Mythology: Art
CLAS242: Classical Mythology: Literature
EDCH324: Children's Literature for Early Childhood
EDCH326: Children's Literature for Middle Childhood
ENGL124: Studies in Fiction
ENGL128: Studies in Black Literature
ENGL132: Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL221: Poetry
ENGL302: Modern Literary Theory
ENGL303: History of Literary Criticism
ENGL305: Professional Writing
ENGL309: Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL310: Creative Writing: Fiction
ENGL318: Creative Writing: Nonfiction
ENGL320: Topics in Linguistics
ENGL321: History of the English Language
ENGL344: Major Black Writers of the World
ENGL352: African Literature
ENGL360: Women Writers
ENGL370: Writings by Sexual Minorities
ENGL375: Literature and the Arts in Ireland
ENGL414: Tolkein
ENGL425: Shakespeare
ENGL430: 17th Century Literature
ENGL441: 18th Century British Literature
ENGL460: Love, Sex, Gender: Victorian Poetry
ENGL470: Modern British Literature
ENGL472: Modern Drama
ENGL480: American Renaissance: 1830-1865
ENGL483: Modern American Poetry
ENGL486: Contemporary American Fiction
ENGL489: American Minority Literature
FREN302: French Conversation
FREN438: The Nineteenth Century
FREN451: Twentieth Century French Theatre
FREN462: Paris and Parisians in Literature
GERM420: Introduction to German Literature
GERM461: German Culture Through Film
GREK202: Attic Tragedy
GREK311: History of Ancient Greece
HIST231: Transatlantic Slave Trade
HIST233: Women in American History
HIST243: Outdoor America
HIST300: Writing in Public
HIST308: Urban History, Geography and GIS
HIST309: Age of Big Business: 1885-1920
HIST333: Histories of American Childhood
HIST340: History of Mexico
HIST349: Korea: Past and Present
HIST382: Anti-Semitism: The Great Hatred
HIST387: Lenin to Putin: 20th Century Russia
HIST393: History of the Jesuits
HIST398: History of Agriculture
HIST408: Constructing the Public
HIST412: The American Dream
HIST482: Global History of Letter Writing
LATN211: Cicero: Orations
LATN212: Virgil: Aenid
LATN231: Horace: Odes and Epodes
LATN341: Tacitus
LATN341: Latin Prose
PHIL300: Origins of Philosophy
PHIL305: Contemporary Philosophy
PHIL307: 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
PHIL309: Medieval Islamic Philosophy
PHIL311: Symbolic Logic
PHIL315: Philosophy of Religion
PHIL317: Philosophy of Human Nature
PHIL321: Business Ethics
PHIL323: Markets and Morals
PHIL329: Bioethics
PHIL338: Enlightenment and Revolution
PHIL339: Revolution and its Aftermath
PHIL340: Metaphysics
PHIL342: German Idealism
PHIL344: Chinese Philosophy
PHIL346: The Scottish Enlightenment
PHIL364: Modern Political Philosophy
PHIL372: John Locke
PHIL379: Nietzsche
PHIL388: Freud and Philosophy
PHIL391: Heidegger
SPAN300: Advanced Spanish
SPAN305: Readings in Spanish
SPAN309: Contemporary Issues in the Spanish Speaking World
SPAN310 Critical Approaches to Text and Cultural Analysis
SPAN328: Phonetics and Dialectology
SPAN350: Spanish Civilization
SPAN352: Latin American Traditions and Popular Culture
SPAN353: Introduction to Latin American Studies
SPAN358: Central America Society and Culture
SPAN370: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Criticism
SPAN439: 20th Century Spanish Literature
SPAN445: 20th Century Spanish-American Literature
THEO203: The Eastern Orthodox Church
THEO207: Jesus and Power
THEO209: The Christian Tradition I
THEO210: The Christian Tradition II
THEO211: The Dead Sea Scrolls
THEO214: Religion and Psychology
THEO217: Introduction to the Church Fathers
THEO218: Women in Early Christianity
THEO223: Sacraments Today
THEO228: Teresa Avila: Life and Works
THEO230: Church After Vatican II
THEO245: God, Creation and Ecology
THEO251: Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures
THEO252: Introduction to Christian Scriptures
THEO255: Old Testament Prophets
THEO256: Theologies of Food and Farm
THEO264: Synoptic Gospels
THEO265: Gospel of Mark
THEO285: The Historical Jesus
THEO290: Christian Doctrine Today
THEO303: Christian Ethics: Methods and Questions
THEO305: Sociology of Religion
THEO306: Liberation Issues and Theology
THEO311: Faith and Justice
THEO313: Christian Sexual Ethics
THEO322: Black Theology
THEO324: Religion and Hip Hop
THEO329: Judaism and Ritual
THEO333: The Bible on Film
THEO342: World Religions
THEO343: Dialogue Among World Religions
THEO345: The Challenge of Peace
THEO350: Saints: Origins to Internet
THEO353: The Holocaust
THEO355: Introduction to Islam
THEO358: Immigration Theology and Ethics
THEO359: Confucianism and Taoism
THEO364: Religion in an Age of Science
THEO368: Buddhism
THEO369: Science, Civilization and Sustainability
THEO386: Religion and Economics
THEO397: Religion, Culture and Human Rights
THEO404: Religion, Ethics and Professional Practice