Course Syllabus
Welcome to the Humanities Core in Fall 2021! This is the shared Canvas site for the following courses (click the course titles to see the syllabi):
HumCore classes meet twice a week. Every Wednesday you will meet in a collaborative conversation with the other students and faculty from all three of the HumCore courses listed above. Every Monday you will focus on a text or object selected by your professor, whose syllabus will lead you through the specific area or question named in your course title (e.g. "Looking for the Way (Dao) in East Asia"). This is the schedule for the Wednesday Collaborative Conversations - which will be in 260-113.
Week 1: Origins, History, Tradition: Flood Stories from the Middle East and China
Week 2: Origins, History, Tradition: Herodotus, Sima Qian.
Week 3: Nature, Ecology, Civilization: Laozi, Gilgamesh.
Week 4: Nature, Ecology, Civilization: Thucydides, Mencius
Week 5: Self, Community, Society: Antigone, Job
Week 6: Self, Community, Society: Compassion in Du Fu, and in The Book of Ruth
Week 7: Self, Community, Society: Song of Songs, Ovid
Week 8: Writing, Media, Memory: Written and Oral Torah/ Law, Cicero
Week 9: Writing, Media, Memory: Chinese calligraphy, Hebrew Sofer Stam, Arabic calligraphy
Week 10: Ideas without borders.
Email Humanities Core Director Alexander Key with any questions.