Humanities

2026–2027

90 courses

HUMS 0009Hell, Karma, and Pure Land: Death in Buddhism
HUMS 0125Love and Death in American Film
HUMS 0204Six Global Perspectives on Knights
HUMS 0213Six Global Perspectives on Cities
HUMS 0235Six Global Perspectives on The Voice
HUMS 0245Six Global Perspectives on Evil: Murder, Law, and True Crime in History
HUMS 0275Six Global Perspectives on Reality
HUMS 0299Six Global Perspectives Lab
HUMS 0350The American Death Penalty
HUMS 0360Jerusalem: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
HUMS 0456Heroes and Storytellers
HUMS 0650Education and the Life Worth Living
HUMS 0666Six Global Perspectives on Monsters
HUMS 0960Collecting History: "Treasures" of Yale
HUMS 1150Purposes of College Education
HUMS 1210Unequal: Dynamics of Power and Social Hierarchy in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
HUMS 1270Tragedy in the European Literary Tradition
HUMS 1280From Gilgamesh to Persepolis: Introduction to Near Eastern Literatures
HUMS 1300Fundamentals of Comparison
HUMS 1320Epic in the European Literary Tradition
HUMS 1390Western Philosophy in Four Operas 1600-1900
HUMS 1400The Hero in the Ancient Near East
HUMS 1480The Quran and its Interpreters
HUMS 1501Introduction to Film Studies
HUMS 1650Topics in Human Sexuality
HUMS 1685News and Fake News: From Print to Photography
HUMS 1740Writing from the Archive: Imagining the Real
HUMS 1750Reading the Russian Revolution
HUMS 1790Shakespeare's Political Plays
HUMS 1800Dante in Translation
HUMS 1810The Culture of Landscape in China
HUMS 1850Writing about Contemporary Figurative Art
HUMS 1900Cinema in the World
HUMS 1910Dangerous Women: Sirens, Sibyls, Poets and Singers from Sappho through Elena Ferrante
HUMS 1960The End of the World
HUMS 1996The Practice of Literary Translation
HUMS 2010The Modern French Novel
HUMS 2035Antisemitism and its opponents in the Muslim world
HUMS 2088Writing Literature: From Reading to Argument in Latin American Texts
HUMS 2140Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
HUMS 2151Rilke and Woolf, Prose or Poetry
HUMS 2210Plato
HUMS 2260The Global Scientific Revolution
HUMS 2330Classics of the Islamic World
HUMS 2410James Baldwin's American Scene
HUMS 2550Tolstoy's War and Peace TR
HUMS 2620Modernism and Domesticity
HUMS 2715Hindu Worlds Through Narratives
HUMS 2765Historiography (The Ends of History)
HUMS 2800What Matters Most
HUMS 3026Archives Into Drama
HUMS 3030What is the University?
HUMS 3085Phenomenology of Religion
HUMS 3304Ethnography & Journalism
HUMS 3312The Sound of Freedom: Seeing Contemporary South Africa Through Sound
HUMS 3379The Politics of Solitude
HUMS 3386The Dark Side of The Italian Renaissance: Sex, Scandals, and Secrets
HUMS 3411Life Worth Living
HUMS 3429Paul Celan
HUMS 3435Thought Experiments: Connecting Literature, Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
HUMS 3446Critical Data Visualization: History, Theory, and Practice
HUMS 3452Ecologies of Culture: Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
HUMS 3463Critical Theories of Science and Religion
HUMS 3730Order and Disorder
HUMS 3770Nature Poetry, from the Classics to Climate Change
HUMS 3800The Bible as a Literature
HUMS 3807The European Novel and Empire
HUMS 3850The Deep: Representations of the Sea
HUMS 3852Intelligence: Human, Animal, Artificial
HUMS 3937Antisemitic Visual Culture since the Middle Ages
HUMS 4144Love, Marriage, Family: A Psychological Study through the Arts
HUMS 4163AI as Global Cultural Artifact
HUMS 4165Culture and Artificial Intelligence
HUMS 4167Futurism: Reconstructing the Universe
HUMS 4180Vienna: Science, Art, and Politics
HUMS 4314Dürer's Bookish World
HUMS 4325Karl Marx's Capital
HUMS 4327Leonardo da Vinci on Nature. Art and Invention in the Renaissance
HUMS 4347Wordsworth
HUMS 4355Baudelaire