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Director: Margaret Williamson
The following courses are offered by the Division of the Humanities.
Humanities 1 and 2 are intended for election by first-year students.
Humanities 2 may be elected to satisfy the First-Year Seminar requirement,
after completion of Humanities 1.
1. The Classical Tradition
06F, 07F: 12
Selected texts of Western literature from Homer to the twentieth century.
The course alternates between lectures and discussion sections, with emphasis
on student participation and essay writing. Readings may include: Homer,
The Iliad; Sophocles, Philoctetes; Chaucer, The Knight's
Tale; Shakespeare, Othello; Lafayette, Princesse de
Cleves; Beaumarchais, Marriage of Figaro; Freud, Dora;
and Kafka, Metamorphosis.
Enrollment restricted to 60 first-year students. Dist: LIT; WCult:
W. Edmondson, Fodor, Williamson.
2. The Classical Tradition
07W, 08W: 12
A continuation of Humanities 1. Readings may include: Genesis;
Homer, The Odyssey; Plato, Symposium; Dante,
Inferno; Christine de Pizan, The Book of The City of Ladies;
Keats, selections; Woolf, Mrs Dalloway; Faulkner, Absalom,
Absalom; and selected short stories by Alice Munro.
Prerequisite: Humanities 1, or the permission of the course director.
Students using Humanities 2 to satisfy the First-Year Seminar requirement must
have passed Humanities 1. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Brown, Tarnowski,
Williamson.
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