HNRS160D2

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This interdisciplinary honors course introduces students to the humanities in a contemporary context and explores the relationship of current 'public' works to those of the past. Students will examine and explore works produced throughout the history of Western culture, primarily literary works, with an emphasis on the active role humanistic endeavors play in contemporary culture. Students will read texts in a range of genres, but the key component of the course will be a significant encounter with current and public literature and the arts outside the classroom. To this end, each time the course is offered, the course materials will be linked to a particular significant public cultural experience; this might be a local theater production, a set of public readings, film(s), or even visual arts or architecture. The methodology for analyzing these works, however, will be humanistic; this is not a course in the practice of fine arts, but rather a humanistic reading of academic and public culture.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

GE - T1-TRAD (Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures), HNRS - HCRS (Honors Course)

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