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HUM - Humanities
  

HUM 103 - Humanities I: Our Cultural Heritage   (3 Credits)
   This course explores the cultural and intellectual roots of Western society through an integrated study of the humanities. As defined by the course, humanities encompasses man's search for meaning and expression; his journey to know and understand his world. Students will explore this definition on the historical, philosophical, literary, and aesthetic levels.

HUM 104 - Humanities II: Roots of the Modern World   (3 Credits)
   This course explores man's cultural and intellectual roots through an integrated study of the humanities. It traces the secular and scientific thought patterns of contemporary society by discovering and developing these ideas from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. The course develops the philosophical, historical, literary, and aesthetic themes of that period through selected readings, films, slides, and musical selections.

HUM 222 - Modern West Through Writers Eyes   (3 Credits)
  
The class focuses on the historical circumstances surrounding five of the major literary periods after the Middle Ages: Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. It aims to equip students with a general understanding of both western history after the Middle Ages and the path that has brought western culture - its literature, philosophy, and art - to its present state.