CINE 2005 - Form, Structure, and Narrative Analysis
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025
Analyzes the form and structure of narrative, experimental non-narrative, and documentary films. Familiarizes students with the general characteristics of the classic three-act structure, principles of adaptation, form and content of experimental films, structural approaches, and the basic formal, narrative, and rhetorical strategies of documentary filmmaking. Formerly FILM 2005.
FILM 2005 - Form, Structure, and Narrative Analysis
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2019
Analyzes the form and structure of narrative, experimental non-narrative, and documentary films. Familiarizes students with the general characteristics of the classic three-act structure, principles of adaptation, form and content of experimental films, structural approaches, and the basic formal, narrative, and rhetorical strategies of documentary filmmaking. Formerly FILM 2005.
HUMN 1002 - Visualizing Culture: An Introduction to Humanities
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Spring 2024
How do we see, what do we consider worth looking at, how does this shape culture? What do visual media do to/for us and how do we endow them with meaning? This class probes such questions using a range of visual media including visual art, film, music videos, and social media. With the help of theoretical, scholarly, and popular sources, students analyze examples of visual culture and articulate their responses to the issues raised.
HUMN 1003 - Conflicts in History: Civilization and Culture: An Introduction to Humanities
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Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Introduces students to concepts of culture, history, and civilization as sites of conflict across different historical times and geographical locations. Course materials address political and artistic questions that intersect across different ages through their different histories and guiding concepts. Students will learn to read and understand critical, historical, political, and artistic works. Emphasis will be placed on developing critical thinking, close reading, and the ability to articulate and develop issues in writing and verbally.
HUMN 1110 - Introduction to Humanities: Literature 1
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021
Introduces students to works from the major Western literary periods (Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque) from the 8th c. BC to the early 17th c. AD comparatively, i.e., outside their national literary boundaries. Theorizes interdisciplinary, genre studies, periodization, comparativism, thematology, hermeneutics, criticism, etc. May be taken separately from HUMN 1120.
HUMN 1120 - Introduction to Humanities: Literature 2
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Introduces students to works from the major Western literary periods (Baroque, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism) from the 17th- through the 20th-centuries comparatively, i.e., outside their national literary boundaries. Theorizes interdisciplinarity, genre studies, periodization, comparativism, thematology, hermeneutics, criticism.May be taken separately from HUMN 1110.
HUMN 2100 - Arts, Culture and Media
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
Promotes a better understanding of fundamental aesthetic and cultural issues by exploring competing definitions of art and culture. Sharpens critical and analytical abilities by asking students to read and compare different theories about arts, culture, media, and identity, and then to apply and assess those theories in relation to a selection of visual and verbal texts from a range of cultural and linguistic traditions.
HUMN 3092 - Studies in Humanities
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Spring 2026
Students should check with the department for specific semester offerings. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours, provided the specific offerings vary.
HUMN 3093 - Topics in Humanities
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022
Students should check with the department for specific semester offerings. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours, provided the specific offerings vary.
HUMN 3600 - Avatars: Studies in Contemporary Posthumanism
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Seeks to introduce students to the analysis of posthuman thought via the concept of the avatar within our digital cultures. Through an interdisciplinary approach to theory, art, and culture, students will become familiar with the discourse of both humanism and posthumanism as it relates to games, virtual spaces, and digital embodiments. Formerly offered as a special topics course.
HUMN 3660 - The Postmodern
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Spring 2018
Analyzes the cultural and critical practices as well as the thought that defines the postmodern period at the end of 20th century.
HUMN 4006 - Introduction to Game Studies
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Fall 2022 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024 / Summer 2025 / Fall 2025
Seeks to introduce students to the analysis, history, cultural impact, and critique of games both digital and analogue - the largest and fastest growing Media throughout the world. Through an interdisciplinary approach to theory, art, and culture, students will become familiar with the discourse of contemporary game studies and its cultural manifestations. Formerly offered as a special topics course.
HUMN 4135 - Art and Psychoanalysis
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Spring 2018
Explores psychoanalytic theory as it relates to our understanding of literature, film and other arts. After becoming familiar with some essential Freudian notions (repression, narcissism, ego/libido, dreamwork, etc.), students apply these ideas to works by several artists (e.g., Flaubert, James, Kafka, Hoffmann and Hitchcock).
HUMN 4170 - Fiction and Reality: Literature, Science, and Culture
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Spring 2018
Explores the significance of how one defines "fiction" and "reality". Begins by defining the core concepts and compares them with related terms. Lectures and discussions analyze the implications of these concepts from the perspective of a variety of disciplines and in the context of diverse issues in order to develop a critical awareness of them.
