30 courses with the subject HUMN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableA multi-section course in the humanities that introduces students to the humanities world through use of latest tools and methods of analysis. Open to first-years and sophomores only.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Students will examine AI's foundations, historical development and how it mirrors and diverges from human cognition and learning. Through experimentation and reflection, they will explore the computational, ethical, environmental and societal impacts of AI while developing personal strategies to evaluate its capabilities and protect their own learning in an AI-obsessed world. We will learn by reflecting and doing. No Junior/Senior. Crosslisted as DATA 101.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3An introduction to the most significant works (literature, poetry, theatre, philosophy, religious texts) in the Western and Asian intellectual traditions, extending from ancient Mesopotamia and Greece through late medieval Europe and/or East Asia. Not open to students who have completed RESC 098 "Myth, Reason, Faith". Seniors by permission only.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An interdisciplinary study of art, music, literature, science and philosophy from the European Renaissance through the late 19th century. The student will learn to relate these works to one another, to non-Western cultures, and to contemporary experience. Not open to students who have taken ENLS 150.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explore the social and environmental histories of capitalism in Latin America and the US through literary, filmic and photographic representations of resource extraction. Environmental collapse is imminent, but many can't see it. Can the arts help us see our world differently so that we might forestall its worst effects? Crosslisted as LAMS 230.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3We are entering the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, in which technological advancements like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics are causing seismic societal shifts. In this course we will challenge ourselves to think critically and act ethically in this new age, drawing on works by cultural critics and producers to help us situate this moment in a long history of technological revolutions.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Focuses on recorded experiences of German-language writers, poets, playwrights and filmmakers outside geographical boundaries of German states from 18th-21st C. Introduces concepts of cross-cultural exchange, linguistic assimilation, artistic synthesis and critical analysis of the writer’s new cultural and linguistic context and the critical lens that is turned back on Germany. Crosslisted as GRMN 241.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Traces the development of "modernity" (and its discontents) by looking at selected interdisciplinary texts and documents - from philosophy, literature, psychology, film, art, and other related disciplinary fields - that reflect or directly address cultural transformation during the 20th century.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3An introduction to the history, theories, and development of the field of Translation Studies. Facility in one language other than English is strongly recommended. Crosslisted as EAST 205.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An introduction to Chinese thought, including: the major schools and thinkers of the classical age, Chinese Buddhist philosophy, early modern Neo-confucianism, and Chinese philosophy since the Communist Revolution of 1949. Crosslisted as EAST 266 and PHIL 266.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An introduction to the techniques and issues of data visualization for the humanities. Interdisciplinary and comparative study, using both theoretical study and concrete examples. Not open to students who have taken ANOP 270.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableComparative study investigating different cultures, historical epochs, narrative forms, media and traditions.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will trace the origins and development of the digital media products and practices that surround us in contemporary life. Although digital media are often represented as unprecedented and entirely "new," their growth follows patterns that were established in the industrial revolution and that this course will analyze. Crosslisted as ENFS 273.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3We define ourselves spatially. To be spatially literate we must develop a critical understanding of maps as political texts written by people from different cultures and designed to express different worldviews. Students will become digital cartographers: utilizing visualization, wayfinding, and gaming software to make and manipulate maps.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableThis course will focus on a specific theme, problem, topic, or set of issues in a comparative analysis (between different historical periods, media, nations, etc.) and/or in the digital humanities.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores antisemitism, yesterday and today, through a variety of texts and provides students with the opportunity to learn about the history of antisemitism in order to become more informed and critically aware of current instances of antisemitism. In English. Crosslisted as GRMN 279.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A comparative introduction to the major texts, schools and figures of Asian Buddhist traditions, including the early Discourses, the Abhidharma, the Mahayana Sutras, and the works of Nagarjuna, Santideva, Zhiyi, Dogen, and contemporary Engaged Buddhism. Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PHIL 280.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An interdisciplinary study of the intersections between the humanities and neuroscience in the history of thought and contemporary culture. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An examination of the transmission of Buddhism to the U.S., with focus on the literature and cultural impact of the writers of the Beat Generation. Prerequisites: RELI 200 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This seminar course critically investigates the utopian imagination as manifested in various influential texts throughout Asian and Western history, and considers the problems and possibilities of utopian thinking with regard to the present and future.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Seminar on American literature between 1770-1861 with an emphasis on psychoanalytic approaches to literary and cultural study. Authors may include Brown, Sansay, Poe, and Melville. Crosslisted as ENLS 306 and ENLS 606.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Build something meaningful. Design and produce an original digital humanities research project that addresses real questions in cultural heritage studies. Apply cutting-edge DH methods—from text analysis to spatial mapping—to uncover new insights. Collaborate, innovate and present professional-quality research. This course is a requirement for the DH minor. Prerequisites: HUMN 100, HUMN 270, ANOP 270 or HUMN 271, or instructor permission.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableIndividual project of study supervised by instructor. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as HUMN 619.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A cross-cultural and interdisciplinary examination of the signification of sexuality in literature, philosophy, scientific discourse, and the visual arts. Prerequisite: WMST 150 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as WMST 325.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This seminar explores and interweaves a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to apprehend eighteenth-century literature and culture (1660-1800). Focuses may include race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, postcolonialism, transnationalism, and environment. Crosslisted as ENLS 320 and ENLS 620.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course evaluates the vexed relationship between cultural and economic values by tracing the history of creativity, from the divine creator and artistic genius to the "creative destruction" of capitalist innovation that has given rise to the "creative class" and inspired creative economies—from coops to communes—that envision alternative alternative futures.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableA seminar in film and digital media studies. Topics may include the history of digital media, their relation to other media forms, the relations between critical reflection and media practice/production, and other relevant topics. Prerequisite: ENFS 130 or permission of the instructor.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Advanced seminar in the history, theory, and practice of translation, including investigation of the role of translation in intercultural communication and comparative studies. Facility in a language other than English is strongly recommended. Crosslisted as ENLS 362.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableA colloquium on issues arising from the writing of a scholarly thesis. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Independent study and research leading to the writing of a thesis as approved by the Honors Council. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
