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") //-- Skip to main content Yale University Open Main Navigation Close Main Navigation Search this site The Humanities Program About Us People Executive Committee Associated Faculty Postdoctoral Fellows Staff Events Pathways for Students First-Year Offerings Education and the Life Worth Living (Fall) Intellectual Circles (Fall) Mastering the Art of Watercolor (Fall) Six Pretty Good Books (Fall) Two Cultures: Science and Humanities (Fall) Fantasy in Literature and Film (Spring) Humanities Major Major Requirements DUS & Info Session FAQ Special Courses Featured Courses Boundaries of the Body in Law and Literature (Fall) Imagining the Body Politic (Fall) Intellectuals and Power in Europe (Fall) Interpreting Film Masterpieces (Fall) Storytelling and Contemporary TV (Fall) Trials of Uncertainty (Fall) Anti-Semitism in US History (Spring) Baseball as Grand Strategy (Spring) Beauty & The Good Life (Spring) Culture and Human Evolution (Spring) Death Sentence: When the State Kills (Spring) Poetry & Objects (Spring) Mystical Poetry of Judaism & Islam (Spring) The Theory and Practice of Resistance (Spring) War & Literature (Spring) World Order in Liberal Arts (Spring) Core Seminars Interpretations: Arabian Nights (Fall 2019) Interpretations: The Worlds of Chartres Cathedral (Fall 2019) Modernities: The Modern Novel in Brazil and Japan (Fall 2019) Modernity and the Crisis of Value (Spring 2020) Modernities: American Imagination From the Gilded Age to the Cold War (Spring 2020) Franke and Shulman Seminars Franke Seminar: The Secret Life of Radio (Fall 2019) Critical Theories of Science and Religion (Spring 2020) Special Admissions American Imagination: From the Puritans to the Civil War (Fall) Life Worth Living (Spring) Humanities in Rome Summer Program A walk through Rome Yale Humanities in Rome Testimonials 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 (Contact Form) Fall Festival of Seminars Registration Humanities in Action HIA 2019 Registration HUMS in New Haven Citizens Thinkers Writers Apply Online Application Mail-In Application Parent Signature Forms Transcript Request Forms In the News "Yale 'Citizens, Thinkers, Writers' program cited in Inside Higher Ed" 'Citizens, Thinkers, Writers' caps first year, preps for second Humanities in the Community launches new summer opportunity for New Haven high-schoolers Nominate Online Nomination Form Recommend Online Recommendation Form Mail-in Recommendation Form Join Us (Undergraduates) Link to Job Posting/Application Whitney Humanities Center Summer in Rome Directed Studies Welcome The Humanities Program brings world-class scholars and undergraduates together in pursuit of fundamental insights into the human condition as they arise in literature, the arts, history, philosophy and the sciences. More…. Events Interview with Anne Gardiner Perkins Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 4:00pm Whitney Humanities Center room 108 See map 53 Wall Street Anne Gardiner Perkins, class of ‘81, discusses her book Yale Needs Women . Special Guest: Sam Chauncey, Adviser to Yale President Kingman Brewster. Book Colloquium: Parliamentarism Friday, February 21, 2020 - 3:00pm Whitney Humanities Center room 208 See map 53 Wall Street A book colloquium on “Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber” by William Selinger (Lecturer in European History, 1700-1850 at UCL) and ”Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain” by Greg Conti (Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton). The Theology of Liberalism Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 4:00pm WHC 208 See map 53 Wall Street Eric Nelson discusses his book, “The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God.” Sponsored by the Elm Institute and the Yale Humanities Program. News Living Texts: Yasmine Seale February 18, 2020 Yasmine Seale discussed language and craft in the Thousand and One Nights. Living Texts: Preti Taneja February 18, 2020 Event time: Monday, February 17, 2020 - 4:30pm Location: Socialism, Catholicism, and Other Impieties February 4, 2020 On February 3, 2020, we were joined by Elizabeth Bruenig, opinion writer for the New York Times. More news... Official Yale College program and course information is found in the Yale College Programs of Study, available online. Yale Accessibility at Yale · Privacy policy Copyright © 2020 Yale University · All rights reserved Facebook Twitter Flickr iTunes YouTube...