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Number		 Name Description
HUM-101 Art, Literature, Music I Presentation and analysis of artistic, musical, and literary works of ... Read More »
HUM-102 Art, Literature, Music II Presentation and analysis of artistic and literary works of Western Ci ... Read More »
HUM-105 Art History I A survey of the art of western civilization from prehistoric caves to ... Read More »
HUM-106 Art History II A survey of the art of Europe and America from the Renaissance to the ... Read More »
HUM-107 Non-Western Visual Culture and A survey (2300 BCE to 21st C.) of the artistic traditions from South a ... Read More »
HUM-110 Intro to Music Hst & Theory Topics in music history and theory, including notation, elements of mu ... Read More »
HUM-111 History of Music I A chronological survey of Western music from Gregorian chant to the de ... Read More »
HUM-112 History of Music II A chronological survey of Western music from Schubert to the present. ... Read More »
HUM-210 Music of the Twentieth Century The diversity of styles from Debussy through Stravinsky, Schoenberg, B ... Read More »
HUM-211 Music of the United States Survey from Colonial times to the present. Various attempts to create ... Read More »
HUM-221 History of Women in Music The history of music from the Middle Ages to the present presented in ... Read More »
HUM-223 World Music Selected topics in the folk and traditional music of Africa, the Near ... Read More »
HUM-225 Music Around Boston Representative concerts of chamber, orchestral, and vocal music. Intr ... Read More »
HUM-227 Jazz Evolution of jazz from blues and ragtime through Dixieland and the ava ... Read More »
HUM-229 Music History: Opera A comprehensive historical survey of opera focusing on the stylistic a ... Read More »
HUM-233 The Blues Selected topics dealing with the blues from its origins in various Sou ... Read More »
HUM-260 Studies in Biblical Narrative This course will examine selected stories from the Bible as a literary ... Read More »
HUM-304 Imperial Rome This course offers an introduction to the Golden Age of Roman culture ... Read More »
HUM-310 Modernism in Art A study of European painting and sculpture from around 1880 to 1940, i ... Read More »
HUM-316 Contemporary Art A study of European and American art since WWII, including Abstract Ex ... Read More »
HUM-321 Women, Art & Society This course covers women artists from the sixteenth century to the pre ... Read More »
HUM-335 Music of Mozart The life and music of Mozart studied in the context of his time and cu ... Read More »
HUM-336 Fifth Century Athens This course offers an introduction to the high classical period of Gre ... Read More »
HUM-337 Music of Beethoven The life and music of Beethoven studied in the context of his time and ... Read More »
HUM-338 Ancient Greece & Ancient Israe A survey of archaic thought from Greek myths of origin and Hebraic acc ... Read More »
HUM-339 Pagan Reason to Christian Reve A survey of the monumental transformation of the Christian Belief. Top ... Read More »
HUM-344 Islamic Spain: Art and Archit This course examines the Islamic influence in Spain through its art an ... Read More »
HUM-345 Art of India A chronological survey of South Asian art (2300 BCE - 1750 CE) includi ... Read More »
HUM-350 Modern Greek Literature in Eng A survey of Greek Writings from 1821 to the present. Short stories, po ... Read More »
HUM-401 Special Topic: Seminar in Art Topic will vary from year to year. ... Read More »
HUM-403 Seminar A seminar on topics of interest dealing with the interrelatedness of t ... Read More »
HUM-420 German Greens and Envtalism The rise of the Green Party, from its grass-roots beginnings to partic ... Read More »
HUM-501 Independent Study Students meet with a department member to pursue advanced studies in t ... Read More »
HUM-502 Honors Thesis A major research project completed under the supervision of a regular ... Read More »