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Core Seminars
Practicum
Elective Elective Courses
Practicum (HUMA 5105)
Under the supervision of a faculty member and a placement supervisor, students will spend the equivalent of 100 hours (10 hours per week for 10 weeks) volunteering in a community organization chosen to illustrate, tangibly, the making and/or implementing of ethical or interpretive meaning. Assessment will be based on a structured reflection journal, a final formal report, a colloquium presentation, and an evalutation by the placement supervisor, as well as on participation in pre-practicum workshops.
Interpretation, Values and the Humanities (HUMA 5116)
Constituting one of the courses required of all students, IVH acts as a “bridge” course, fostering cognizance of the complexity of knowledge and of the potential contributions of other interpretations, methods, and disciplines. Though it involves students in analysis from various disciplinary perspectives, and in experience through case studies, its emphasis is to have students recognize the ways that varying approaches and experiences come together as we make, discover, or experience meaning. The IVH instructor in consultation with the instructors of the five electives proposed for the year will determine specific disciplinary perspectives and bodies of content to be considered. The “coming together” or “bridging” demonstrates how differing disciplines, methodological approaches and content issues share, and historically have shared, hermeneutical and ethical concerns within the Humanities. (sem 3)
Methods for Reading the World: Bibliography/Research Course (HUMA 5117)
This course will introduce students to a range of advanced research, analytical, and methodological skills requisite for graduate studies in the humanities, with attention to both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary study.
Hermeneutics (HUMA 5206)
This course will be a study of major works of the hermeneutical tradition including one or more taken from the philosophical, biblical and juridical streams. (3 cr.)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.
Interpretation and Moral Values (HUMA 5226)
This course considers the interplay of interpretation and moral values through an examination of select theories and cases. (3 cr.)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.
Cultural and Cross-Cultural Interpretations (HUMA 5236)
This course is designed to lead students into an exploration of cultural value systems and the interconnections between them. It includes in-depth studies of intercultural encounters in our world today. (3 cr.)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.
Environmental Humanities (HUMA 5256)
This course explores environmental questions from a humanities perspective. Topics include human and non-human histories, cultural meanings of environmental debate, environmental discourses, arts and literature on environment, and ecocriticism (3 cr)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.
Identity Formations (HUMA 5306)
This course considers how personal and social identities are formed and limited with reference to such factors as gender, race, disability, biology, technology, environment, religion, and nation.
(3 cr.)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.
Ethics, Rhetoric and Literature (HUMA 5316)
Incorporating readings in literature, ethics, language studies and the crossover areas among them, this course will explore the ethical dimension of literature and literary studies as an aspect of the nature of language. (3 cr.)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.
Past and Present Forms of Belief (HUMA 5376)
This course will examine old and contemporary forms of religious belief and consider related topics such as secularism, fundamentalism, modernity, post-modernity, New Age, and ‘East meets West’. (3 cr.)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.
Memory and Imagination (HUMA 5386)
This course will focus on the limits and possibilities of using memory to understand the past and/or imagining utopias for the future. Memory and imagination will be studied from various perspectives such as literature, philosophy and religion. (3 cr.)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.
Art, Thought, Society (HUMA 5406)
This course will take up the matter of what it means to understand arts. It includes topics such as the relationship between arts and thinking, arts and nature, and arts and society. (3 cr.)
This is an optional course in the program Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values.