HUM

3 Credits course for Humanities and Entrepreneurship

Subject

HUM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

3 Credits course for Humanities and Entrepreneurship

Subject

HUM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Subject

HUM

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

4 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits This interdisciplinary course examines work from the standpoints of cultural history and organizational behavior. We will explore work as a marker of identity, work as a cultural construct, and work as an ideological and structural apparatus. The course will be organized around weekly film viewings and readings. The films will frame our exploration of work and serve both as cultural artifacts that represent American ideologies and case studies of particular work situations and perspectives. The readings will offer a range of theoretical and historical views from a variety of disciplines: cultural an film history, organizational behavior, economics, management theory, sociology, and others. Among the questions the course will address are: • To what extent does what we do professionally define who we are? • What, if anything, do we expect of our jobs beyond a paycheck? • What, if anything, do our jobs expect of us beyond our skill and time? • What is the difference between work as a job, a career and a calling? • How do American ideologies conflate professional achievement with success? • In what ways are some organizational structures more conducive than others to contentment at work? • What does it mean to opt out of or strive not to work? • What is the past, present and future of work in

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

4 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits This advanced liberal arts elective investigates what it might mean to live a ‘good life’, and how these interpretations might contribute to your own discoveries and thinking as you head out into the ‘real world’ beyond Babson. Rather than a philosophy or psychology or self- help course (although all of this is intertwined), this course is based around how writers and filmmakers and other creative thinkers have tried to explore this enduring focus of human inquiry. Through a wide range d of literature, film, podcasts, and other media, we will examine differing efforts to perceive and live out a ‘good life.’ How can we define and measure happiness, and whether that should even be our ultimate goal? How important are extrinsic rewards like achievement and money compared to more internal ones like relationships and human connection? How do we avoid being overwhelmed by the news of the world and instead to create stories that matter and move us to positive action? Where can we find value in odysseys and unexpected detours? What is the meaning of work and its relationship to play? How can we better approach mortality and loss? And how can we grasp the simultaneous individuality and immensity of the human condition in ways that strive to make ourselves and the world better? Together, we will wrangle with these and other ongoing life questions.

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Prerequisite

Any combination of 2 ILA (HSS, LTA, CSP,

4 Advanced Liberal Arts credits What is trauma and how does it impact individuals and societies? The word comes to us from the Greek “wound,” and so it has come to mean a lasting injury made by a violent or startling event that penetrates a person’s psychic boundary system. The difference between a wound and a traumatic wound is that the latter does not heal; rather, it results in post-traumatic stress, which in turn creates cycles of repetition of uncannily similar events until the event has been “worked through.” While the term is largely attributed to Sigmund Freud’s 19th and early 20th century work, in fact many of his sources came from classical Greek texts, meaning the concept and experience of trauma have been around for centuries. In the past, knowledge about trauma came predominantly from psychoanalysis; to a lesser extent, literary theory has explored how cultural texts reflect phenomena related to trauma such as repetition, disruptions of time and temporality, and fragmented points of view. Post-Traumatic Stress was a chronic, cyclical dis-ease with devastating consequences. In the past decade, however, neuroscientists have exponentially advanced our understanding of trauma and its relation to our bodies, not just our minds, and theorists have shown how trauma is also a cultural phenomenon, transmitted from one generation to the next. Most importantly, this new research also shows proven pathways to transformation and healing—pathways that also correspond to collective movements for healing our world. Starting with Freud’s foundational work and the classical texts that inspired him, we will study how cultural texts have represented both traumatic stress and methods for its healing. From there, we move quickly to study new developments in the understanding of trauma and post- traumatic stress, including methods of healing and transcending traumatic repetition that have gained traction in broader change-making contexts. We will conclude our study by exploring the concept of Transformational Literacy operating at the MIT Presencing Institute, and how the notion of collective trauma invites collective healing responses as together we bring “the emergent future” into being. arts (HSS, LTA, CSP) Credits 4 Babson College Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Prerequisite

Any Combination of 2 Intermediate liberal

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Subject

HUM

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

4 Advanced Liberal Arts (Elective Abroad) Credits This course explores postmodern culture as a strange obsession with the future. Thus, we will use the captivating cityscape of Dubai—its unparalleled architecture, its accelerated movement and fragmented spatial organization, the provocative visual design behind its many tourist sites—in order to track crucial ideas of simulation, virtuality, and the spectacle in our postmodern era. Moreover, we will navigate contemporary works of literature, philosophy, film, and architecture while making several excursions into Dubai as a constructed cultural zone of the Middle East. Ultimately, this rare immersion in perhaps the most futuristic place on earth will provide us a dynamic outlook on how postmodern culture blurs the boundaries of reality itself. LVA, HSS, CSP, LTA in any combination) and admission into the course Credits 4 Babson College Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027

Subject

HUM

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Prerequisite

3 Intermediate liberal arts courses (CVA,

Subject

HUM

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalogs.babson.edu

Subject

HUM

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalogs.babson.edu