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") // Yale University Open Main Navigation Close Main Navigation Search this site The Humanities ProgramPeople Executive Committee Associated Faculty Postdoctoral Fellows Staff Events Pathways for Students First-Year Offerings Currently Offered HUMS 021, Six Pretty Good Heroes HUMS 029, Medicine and the Humanities: Certainty and Unknowing HUMS 060, Novel Novels HUMS 065, Education and the Life Worth Living HUMS 073, Classical Storytelling in the Modern World HUMS 096, Collecting History: Treasures of Yale HUMS 040, Bob Dylan As A Way Of Life HUMS 019: Six Pretty Good Forgeries HUMS 020: Six Pretty Good Dogs HUMS 033: Six Pretty Good Knights HUMS 034: Six Pretty Good Thought Experiments Archive HUMS 005, The Ancient Egyptian Empire of the New Kingdom HUMS 022, Six Pretty Good Biographers HUMS 024, Six Pretty Good Poems HUMS 023, Six Pretty Good Visions HUMS 025, Six Pretty Good Buildings HUMS 026, Six Pretty Good Journeys HUMS 027, Six Pretty Good Selves HUMS 035, The American Death Penalty HUMS 059, Why the Sublime? Or, The Meaning and Value of Transcendence through Theory, Poetry, and Art HUMS 066, The Crown HUMS 069, Dismantling Narratives of Empire HUMS 070, Self and Other HUMS 092, Divine Law in Historical Perspective HUMS 075, Mastering the Art of Watercolor HUMS 095, Certain Uncertainties: Literature, Physics, Philosophy HUMS 091, Truth and Post-Truth HUMS 071, Intellectual Circles HUMS 028, Six Pretty Good Books HUMS 094, The Two Cultures: Science and Humanities HUMS 083, Fantasy in Literature and Film Humanities Major Major Requirements DUS & Info Session Frequently Asked Questions Special Courses Featured Courses Offered Fall 2022 HUMS 115, Purposes of College Education HUMS 127, Tragedy in the European Literary Tradition HUMS 128, From Gilgamesh to Persepolis HUMS 139, Western Philosophy in Four Operas 1600-1900 HUMS 180, Dante in Translation HUMS 193, Screening the Past HUMS 195, Thinking Literature in German Modernism HUMS 199, American Romanticism: Emerson to Ashbery HUMS 211, Fate and Chance in Art and Experience HUMS 229, Latin American Languages of Liberation: The Long Sixties HUMS 233, Classics of the Arabic-Islamic World HUMS 245, Poets and their Papers HUMS 253, Poetry and Faith HUMS 255, Tolstoy’s War and Peace HUMS 261, The Making of a Political Novel: Acts of Censorship and the Novel HUMS 263, Thucydides HUMS 270, The Chinese Tradition HUMS 274, The Education of Princes: Medieval Advice Literature of Rulership and Counsel HUMS 275, Literatures of the Plague HUMS 276, Non-Cynical Social Thought HUMS 279, Democracy and the French Revolution HUMS 284, The Tale of Genji HUMS 323, Truth and Sedition HUMS 327, The Victorian Political Novel HUMS 331, Adapting to the Stage HUMS 336, Culture and Human Evolution HUMS 339, European Intellectual History Since Nietzsche HUMS 358, Modernist Paris and Moscow HUMS 375, Greek Tragedy and Psychoanalysis HUMS 381, Jazz in America 1900-1960 HUMS 391, The Bible in German-Jewish Modernist Literature HUMS 430, Thought Experiments HUMS 480, The Mortality of the Soul: From Aristotle to Heidegger Archive HUMS 116, Contexts of College Education HUMS 130, How to Read HUMS 136, Writing the Gift: Creativity and Exchange HUMS 133, The Bible HUMS 140, The Hero in Ancient Near East HUMS 134, The Multicultural Middle Ages HUMS 144, The Roman Republic HUMS 175, Reading the Russian Revolution HUMS 179, Shakespeare’s Political Plays HUMS 184, Writing and Reading Biography HUMS 185, Writing about Contemporary Figurative Art HUMS 192, Intellectuals and Power in Europe HUMS 200, Medieval Songlines HUMS 201, The Modern French Novel HUMS 205, Boundaries of the Body in Law and Literature HUMS 206, The Arabian Nights, Then and Now HUMS 208, Poe and Kafka HUMS 209, The Poetry of Wordsworth and Shelley HUMS 210, Women in the Middle Ages HUMS 211, Beauty and the Good Life HUMS 212, Mystical Poetry of Judaism and Islam HUMS 213, Global Shakespeares HUMS 214, Introduction to Chinese Philosophy HUMS 215, The Poetry of Vision: East and West HUMS 216, Democracy and Race in America HUMS 217, Classical Storytelling in the Modern World HUMS 218, Storytelling and Contemporary TV HUMS 219, Biomedical Futures and Michael Crichton’s Monsters HUMS 220, Collecting Nature HUMS 222, Science and Narrative HUMS 224, Hobbes and Galileo HUMS 236, Goethe’s Faust HUMS 227, The Art of Dionysos HUMS 228, Climate Change and the Humanities HUMS 231, Poetic Influence from Shakespeare to the Twenty-First Century HUMS 241, James Baldwin’s American Scene HUMS 241, Baseball as Grand Strategy HUMS 242, Middle East in French Literature & Art HUMS 247, Material Culture and Iconic Consciousness HUMS 248, Monuments and Memorials: Shaping Historical Memory HUMS 251, Rewriting Ancient Greek Classics in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction HUMS 252, Poetry and Objects HUMS 254, Literature and Philosophy, Revolution to Romanticism HUMS 264, Imagining the Body Politic HUMS 267, Anti-Semitism in American History HUMS 287, The Theory and Practice of Resistance HUMS 291, The Real and the Virtual in Literature and Film HUMS 295, Trials of Uncertainty HUMS 302, Demogoguery and Democracy HUMS 304, Women in Greek Political Thought HUMS 305, Sages of the Ancient World HUMS 313, Philosophy of Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe HUMS 316, World Order in Liberal Arts HUMS 317, The Death Sentence HUMS 318, War and its Literature HUMS 320, Representations of the Underworld HUMS 322, German Novels After 1945 HUMS 340, The Detective Story HUMS 348, Literature and Film of World War II HUMS 359, Cinema and Physics HUMS 360, Nostalgia Epidemic and Cure HUMS 361, Game of Thrones and the Theory of Sovereignty HUMS 367, Heimito von Doderer’s The Strudlhof Steps HUMS 368, Alienation, Reconciliation from Hegel to the Ecological Rift HUMS 370, Fictions of the Harlem Vogue: Novels, Short Stories, and Novellas of the Harlem Renaissance” HUMS 371, The Picturebook: Euro-American and Japanese Traditions HUMS 372, Critique and Crisis HUMS 374, Greed and Its Discontents: From Aristotle to the Present HUMS 377, Nature Poetry, from the Classics to Climate Change HUMS 379, Media of Migration HUMS 380, The Bible as a Literature HUMS 382, Nature and Human Nature HUMS 385, The Deep: Representations of the Sea HUMS 412, Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere HUMS 414, Georg Büchner’s Revolutions HUMS 416, The Crisis of Liberalism HUMS 427, The Practice of Literary Translation HUMS 428, Advanced Literary Translation HUMS 443, Medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims HUMS 452, Translating Dante HUMS 454, Interpreting Film Masterpieces HUMS 463, Critical Theories of Science and Religion HUMS 465, Art and Philosophy Core Seminars Currently Offered HUMS 172: George Eliot’s Middlemarch HUMS 225: Karl Marx’s Capital HUMS 265, Reading Ulysses: Modernist Classic and Postcolonial Epic HUMS 269, Interpretations: Poetry and Ethics Amidst Imperial Collapse HUMS 296, Interpretations: Thomas Hobbes’ "Leviathan" HUMS 330, Interpretations: Heidegger’s Being and Time HUMS 382, Modernities: Nature and Human Nature HUMS 422: Early Film Theory and Modernity HUMS 426, Modernities: Scared to Death HUMS 445: The Aesthetics of Adaptation HUMS 467: Hart Crane Interpretations Seminars Modernities Seminars Franke|Shulman Seminars Currently Offered Franke Seminar: Mass Incarceration in the Soviet Union and the United States Shulman Seminar: Metaphysics Meets Cognitive Science Archive Special Admissions HUMS 411, Life Worth Living Alumni, Careers and Futures Alumni Profiles C. Wallace DeWitt ’03 Christopher Angel ’93 Daria Martin ’95 Jason Weinberger ’96, MusM ’97 Josh Spanogle ’93 Margaret Litvin ’95 Matthew Shaffer ’10 Sasha Grutman ’89 Virginia Waldrop ’12 For Alumni Fall Festival of Seminars Humanities in Action HUMS in New Haven Citizens Thinkers Writers Whitney Humanities Center Directed Studies Welcome News Fall 2024 Core Courses April 16, 2024 The Humanities Program is excited to announce seven core seminars for the...