11 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.
Credits: One course in a four course sequence required for the Undergraduate Certificate in Liberal Arts. Focus is on major literary works that have formed western tradition. An interdisciplinary study approach to ancient literature.
Printed from: https://catalog.rhodes.edu/programs-study/liberal-arts-prison/undergraduate- certificate-liberal-arts
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Credits: Reflecting the interdisciplinary approach of the Search program, Humanities 106 is a travel-study experience that will explore the literature of the South, with a focus on the work of writers from Memphis, Mississippi, and Alabama and narratives set in this region. Over the course of a four-day journey through the landscapes of Southern fiction, we will situate these works in their global and historical context, with reference to the readings in Humanities 101, 102, and 201, and explore how these works of literature describe the experiences of people in this region with an emphasis how writers responded to the dynamics of place, ethnic and racial divides, and the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and segregation. This course will include visits to places of significance not only because of what transpired there but how they became part of the Southern literary legacy, such as Rowan Oak in Oxford, the Episcopal Rectory and Cutrer Mansion in Clarksdale, Eudora Welty’s house and garden in Jackson, the Monroe County Courthouse in Monroeville, and Tuskegee University. This course will feature readings and discussions both prior to and during the trip.
Credits: Humanities 107 is a travel-study experience that recognizes and acknowledges that the college sits on the historic homelands of various indigenous cultures including most recently the Chickasaw Nation. Reflecting the interdisciplinary approach of the Search program, the course will explore the indigenous cultures of the region that extends south from Memphis along the Mississippi River to the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians and east to Moundville, Alabama. In addition to visits to major archaeological sites, dating from the three major periods: archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods, the course will examine excerpts from accounts of European explorers and colonizers, including those of De Soto's expedition in 1541, De La Salle’s expedition in 1681-1682, and the term of Manuel Gayoso de Lemos as governor of the Natchez district from 1792 to 1796. Participants will also read and discuss accounts of the forced dislocation and removal of the Chickasaw from their homeland to Oklahoma in 1837-38. This course will feature readings and discussions both prior to and during the trip and meetings with representatives of the Chickasaw Nation.
314. The Modern Search for Justice. Fall or Spring. Where, according to the moderns, did classical search for justice go wrong? Why was a new beginning—why were new beginnings—for this search reasonable or necessary?
Credits: Building on the interdisciplinary Search sequence: Humanities 101, 102, and 201, this course will focus on the evolving concept of humanism from the earliest formulations in ancient Greece to the present. Within the context of a specific discipline such as literature, art, music, philosophy, and religion, or a constellation of humanistic disciplines, this course will introduce students to methods of humanistic inquiry both in theory and practice and explore ethical, economic, educational, and technical considerations related to the conservation, curation, availability, reproduction, and distribution of cultural artifacts.
Credits: This class will provide an introduction to the phenomenon of Mass Incarceration in the United States, a survey of critiques of the phenomenon from religious and non-religious perspectives, and field experience in the Rhodes Liberal Arts in Prison Program. Students will be encouraged to integrate academic and personal experience in ways that expand their understanding of the American legal and prison systems and help them clarify their views on Mass Incarceration and the role of higher education in prison.
Credits: This course is a survey of Rhodes College's history in Memphis between 1925 and 2025, with an emphasis on the ways that the college has influenced and been influenced by its location in Memphis and the Mid-South. Topics will include the college's relationship to the legacy of the Old South (Benjamin Palmer, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Shelby Foote, commemoration of Confederate soldiers), its affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (the Diehl Heresy Trial, the Bellingrath Trust, preparation of future clergy, academic chairs funded by local churches), its connections to Memphis music, its relationship to various local communities (African American, Hispanic, Jewish, Muslim), and its commitment to social activism (Kinney Program, Bonner Scholars, Ames Plantation, Zion Cemetery, Memphis public schools), among others.
Source: Rhodes College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
