28 courses with the subject HUM, 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.
World Language level 1 3-4 World Language level 2 3-4 General Education Course 3 General Education Course 3 15-16 15-16
This 3-credit General Humanities (GH) course with an International Cultures (IL) designate offers an introduction to transformative texts from around the world. Students will learn foundational knowledge from various disciplines in the humanities and arts, while developing basic interpretive, close-reading, writing, communication, and critical-thinking skills. This first course of the Keystone sequence engages students with core texts and arts-based materials from antiquity to the modern era, offering a roadmap of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives within which to contextualize interpretation. Students will read texts from a variety of humanities disciplines alongside appropriate historical context to learn how ideas transformed, and were transformed, by social, economic, political, and historical events and institutions. The course supports open dialogue and critical engagement among students and faculty, to promote curiosity, reflexivity, and mindfulness, while cultivating the spirit of life-long learning. Students will learn about the value of the humanities and the arts in the context of its historical, sociopolitical, cultural, and global contributions. Student engagement will focus on close textual analysis, critical thinking, and synthesis skills with an emphasis on promoting excellence in written communication through a variety of written assignments designed to prepare students for the oral communication skills expected in our increasingly high-tech, global economy.
& Practical Perspectives
This course is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, historical, and contemporary examination of myth as it appears in the visual arts, literature, and film. Each iteration of the course covers myths in the arts of at least several of the following cultures-Greek and Roman, Celtic, Norse, European, Egyptian, Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Pacific, African, and Native American. The course is thematic and intercultural, for example in the way myths are told in historical cultures and then retold and transformed in art, literature, and films in later cultures. Thus, the course considers in what ways myths are reconceived and altered when they appear in later cultures and in different media within the arts. The course is not a survey of world mythologies, but an interdisciplinary examination of myths and mythic themes and images in the arts (such as painting and film) and literature, with an emphasis on the interpretations and transformative processes applicable to myths as they are (sometimes radically) altered and embodied in art forms that may be far removed in time, place, and meaning from the original contexts of the myths themselves. The course is intended to familiarize students with the ways that different cultures have interpreted the world in which they live-how cultures created their own explanations for phenomena they could not understand, and how contemporary culture gives new life to older myths. The course examines such questions as the meanings of myths as represented in the arts, the various purposes of myths in the arts, such as the functions of creation myths and myths of the hero; theories of how myths originate; and ways that myths have been analyzed, interpreted, and adapted in other cultures through the arts. Students learn to compare and contrast myths in the arts, discuss common elements in myths in the arts, and to interpret the meaning of the myths both within the cultural and historical context in which they were created and the ways they are reinterpreted in later cultures in the arts.
General Education Course 3 Select course in first 3 subfield (1) 15-16 15
PHIL 150N
/Maximum of 9 Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in-depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Select course in first 3 Select course in first 3 subfield (1) subfield (1) Select course in second 3 Select course in second 3 subfield (2) subfield (2) General Education Couse 3 BA Degree required course 3 BA Degree required course 3 Select additional course in 3 specific area or in support of a minor 15 15
Undergraduate - The Pennsylvania State University 2026-2027 2605 Select course in first 3 Select course in second 3 subfield (1) subfield (2) Select additional course in 3 BA Degree required course 3 specific area or in support of a minor Select additional course in 3 Select additional course in 3 specific area or in support of specific area or in support of a minor a minor BA Degree required course 3 Elective 3 15 15 Total Credits 120-123 * Course requires a grade of C or better for the major ‡ Course requires a grade of C or better for General Education # Course is an Entrance to Major requirement † Course satisfies General Education and degree requirement Select course in first subfield, (1) for the subfield of history and global cultures, select from HIST, CMLIT, SPAN (all courses with those prefixes), CAS 271 COMM 350, ENGL 486, ENGL 488, INTST 100; for the subfield of performing and visual arts and art history, select from ART, ART H, INART, MUSIC, THEA (all courses with those prefixes), COMM 215, COMM 241, COMM 242, COMM 250; for the subfield of philosophy and religious studies: select from PHIL, RL ST (all courses with those prefixes) for the subfield of literature and writing, select from ENGL, CMLIT (all courses with those prefixes), COMM 230W, COMM 260W, COMM 332, COMM 346, COMM 474. Select course in second subfield (2), for the subfield of history and global cultures, select from HIST, CMLIT, SPAN (all courses with those prefixes), CAS 271, COMM 350, ENGL 486, ENGL 488, INTST 100; for the subfield of performing and visual arts and art history, select from ART, ART H, INART, MUSIC THEA (all courses with those prefixes), COMM 215, COMM 241, COMM 242, COMM 250; for the subfield of philosophy and religious studies: select from PHIL, RL ST (all courses with those prefixes) for the subfield of literature and writing, select from ENGL, CMLIT (all courses with those prefixes), COMM 230W, COMM 260W, COMM 332, COMM 346, COMM 474. Select HUM required course (3), select from HUM 150, HUM 311, HUM 410, HUM 430, HUM 453, HUM 460, HUM 461, HUM 491, HUM 494, HUM 495, HUM 496, HUM 497 or HUM 499. University Requirements and General Education Notes: US and IL are abbreviations used to designate courses that satisfy Cultural Diversity Requirements (United States and International Cultures). W, M, X, and Y are the suffixes at the end of a course number used to designate courses that satisfy University Writing Across the Curriculum requirement. General Education includes Foundations (GWS and GQ), Knowledge Domains (GHW, GN, GA, GH, GS) and Integrative Studies (Inter-domain) requirements. N or Q (Honors) is the suffix at the end of a course number used to help identify an Inter-domain course, but the inter-domain attribute is used to fill audit requirements. Foundations courses (GWS and GQ) require a grade of 'C' or better. Bachelor of Arts Requirements:
Study of art, literature, film, and other creative genres to illustrate the interrelationships between creative expression and cultural practices.
/Maximum of 9 Analysis of a group of related ideas in art, music, literature, and/or philosophy. (May be repeated for credit.)
/Maximum of 9 Interdisciplinary studies dealing with selected periods of world culture. (May be repeated for credit.)
/Maximum of 12 Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
/Maximum of 6 Supervised internship for undergraduate or graduate Humanities majors in state offices, educational institutions, arts agencies, community organizations, or humanities councils.
/Maximum of 18 Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
/Maximum of 9 Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Supporting Courses and Related Areas Select 12 credits in one of the four following areas and 9 credits in a second area: History and Global Cultures HIST, CMLIT, and SPAN courses
Study of the methods and materials of scholarship, use of reference tools, evaluation of evidence, and writing of research papers.
/Maximum of 9 A seminar focusing on typical methods and approaches of a single discipline within the humanities.
Philosophical investigation into the nature of art, aesthetic experience, artistic meaning, criticism, grounds for judgment, and history of aesthetic theory.
/Maximum of 9 A seminar focusing on selected periods or artists in two or more disciplines within the humanities.
/Maximum of 9 Study of methods, issues, and selected topics in the history of thought, social values, and creative expression.
Teaching humanities courses in a two-year college under a faculty supervisor, who will direct, criticize, and evaluate the intern.
The study and practice of conducting interdisciplinary research and of investigating and supporting inter-art analogies.
/Maximum of 6 An original scholarly master's paper or creative production initiated by the student, supervised by an appropriate professor, and judged by a committee.
/Maximum of 3 Continuing seminars which consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
/Maximum of 9 Creative projects, including nonthesis research, that are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
/Maximum of 9 Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or semester.
Source: Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
