COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES

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HUM 200 Issues in the Humanities (1-5, max. 15) I&S/VLPA
Topics and issues of current interest in the humanities and the study of the arts. Features numerous guest lecturers from the U.W. faculty together with distinguished visiting teachers, scholars, and artists.
Instructor Course Description: Beth E Kolko Elizabeth Rutledge Phillip S Thurtle

HUM 204 Special Topics: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (5, max. 25) VLPA/I&S
Focuses on interdisciplinary study in the humanities through the study of human thought, values, beliefs, creativity, and culture. Team-taught faculty from diverse disciplines, topic change quarterly, discussion sections, open to undergraduates. Continuation of Danz series. Offered: AWSp.

HUM 205 Religion, Violence, and Peace: Patterns Across Time and Tradition (5) I&S
Investigates the complex relationship between violence and peace in a variety of religious traditions. Examines case studies from the ancient Near East, medieval East Asia, and the contemporary West from the standpoint of lived experiences and contemporary theories derived from several academic disciplines. Offered: jointly with RELIG/NEAR E 205; W.

HUM 206 American Sabor/American Flavor: Latinos Shaping U.S. Popular Music (5) VLPA/I&S
Addresses problems of cultural representation that concern an increasingly visible and influential community in the United States. Highlights the roles of U.S. Latino musicians as interpreters of Latin American genres and their roles as innovators within genres normally considered indigenous to the United States.
Instructor Course Description: Michelle Habell-Pallan

HUM 207 Science and Its Critics (5) I&S Olson, Thurtle
Explores the basic claims of science and how they are commonly contested by diverse perspectives and institutions, including philosophy, religion, politics, and environmentalism, illuminating the paradoxical position of science as both culturally respected and suspected.

HUM 208 Violence, Myth, and Memory: Southeast Asia at the Crossroads of Modernity (5) VLPA/I&S
Built around films and readings. Explores ideas of violence, narrative, and global modernity in U.S. relations with Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Examines the ways these films evoke founding myths of Southeast Asian societies.

HUM 209 Ethics and Climate Change (5) I&S Gardiner, Wallace
Investigates the scientific and philosophical issues relevant to the problem of climate change, including the question of global warming, scientific uncertainty, environmental dilemmas, economic analyses, and the possible moral requirements of individuals regarding global and intergenerational issues.

HUM 210 Texts in Context (5, max. 15) I&S/VLPA
Links a single, major work from any medium, or a narrowly bounded group of closely related, smaller works, to the cultural, intellectual, and historical circumstances of its creation and interpretation. Emphasizes close-reading and careful writing.

HUM 211 Justice and Global Health (5) I&S Sparke, Taylor
Examines illness through a social and political framework within the context of global patterns of power and inequality. Draws upon ethical, anthropological, and economic approaches to global health. Explores how health relates to global phenomena like poverty, war, pharmaceuticals, and market-led development.

HUM 220 Themes in Time and Culture (5, max. 15) I&S/VLPA
Traces the articulation and development of a single overarching idea in different idioms, cultures and eras. Asks how, and if, notions that are fundamental to one era or culture find expression in other times and places. Emphasizes comparative analysis and careful writing.

HUM 411 Applications of Digital Technologies to Humanities Research (5) VLPA
Hands-on project-based approach to imaging, new media, text, databases, metadata and accessibility, rights management, and other issues central to contemporary humanities research. Offered: jointly with DXARTS 411.

HUM 498 Special Topics in the Humanities (1-6, max. 15) I&S/VLPA
Intensive research opportunity, for work on project of independent and/or original design in the cultural disciplines. Mentored by UW and visiting faculty in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences, by arrangement only. Offered: S
Instructor Course Description: Andrew Light Gary J Handwerk Lucy A. Jarosz Jose Alaniz Sandra M. Chait Theresa M Ronquillo

HUM 520 Seminar in Textual Theory (5)
Introduction to the theoretical perspectives that have shaped the emerging interdisciplinary field of Textual Studies. Included in curriculum of Textual Studies Program.

HUM 521 Seminar in Scribal Texts (5)
Relationship between oral and written texts and of the social and cultural systems which enable their production, transmission, and preservation. Included in curriculum of Textual Studies Program.

HUM 522 Seminar in Printed Texts (5)
Study of printing as a means of textual transmission in the ages of the hand press, machine press, and electronic press; of current theories of editing; and of preparing critical editions of printed texts.
Instructor Course Description: Thomas Frank Lockwood

HUM 523 Seminar in Hypertext and Textual Studies (5)
Several views of hypertext conceptually explored as a basis for research and evaluation of selected hypertext works. Includes initiating the construction of a World Wide Web hypertext of resources for the study of oral, graphical, hand-written, and printed texts. Included in curriculum of Textual Studies Program.

HUM 596 Humanities Research Seminar (1-5, max. 15)
Exploration of current research in the Humanities and the study of the arts. Offered by specially selected U.W. faculty and visiting scholars in the arts and humanities.
Instructor Course Description: Margaret Alison Wylie Benjamin Richard Gardner Judith A Howard Kathleen Woodward Marek K. Wieczorek Rebecca M Lemov Ronald Thomas Foster Zahid R Chaudhary

HUM 597 Special Topics in the Humanities (1-2, max. 10)
Offered by short-term visiting scholars at the leading edge of their fields, invited at the nomination of Humanities and Social Science faculty. Topics vary based on field of expertise. Credit no credit only.
Instructor Course Description: Renee Delong Matthew Sparke

HUM 598 Teachers as Scholars (1, max. 10)
Small-scale seminars on selected topics in the liberal arts, designed to renew and enhance the subject matter/field knowledge of practicing K-12 educators. Offered: AWSpS.

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES