Course Descriptions: Humanities

HMH 102 Medieval History
HML 102 Medieval Literature
History and literature from the beginning of the medieval period (ca. 300 CE to 1350 CE), with readings from Beowulf, the Song of Roland, medieval poets and dramatists, Dante, Chaucer, et. al.
Offered each spring; Not to be taken after LLE 220. 3 credits each.

HMH 201 Renaissance History
HML 201 Renaissance Literature
History and literature during the period of transition from medieval civilization to the modern world (ca. 1350 to 1750), with readings from Petrarch, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Racine, Moliere, Swift, et. al.
Offered each fall; Not to be taken after LLE 220. 3 credits each.

HMH 202 Modern World History
HML 202 Modern World Literature
History and literature from the French Revolution to the present, with readings from Wordsworth, Keats, Dostoyevsky, Ibsen, Kafka, Garcia Marquez, Chinua Achebe, et. al.
Offered each spring; Not to be taken after LLE 221. 3 credits each.

HIS 220-221 Survey of Modern History (annual)
A two semester survey of world and European History. The first semester covers the Renaissance through the Reformation and Scientific Revolution until the downfall of Napoleon. The second begins with political and intellectual currents in the nineteenth century, focuses on the two World Wars, and concludes with the contemporary world scene. 3 credits each.

HML 301 Literature of the Third World
(upon request)
Major twentieth-century writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, R.K. Narayan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Wole Soyinka, and Chinua Achebe, with emphasis on ways in which their works both sustain and criticize the Euopean literary tradition.
Prerequisite: 6 Humanities credits or department permission. 3 credits.

HML 323 Literature of the Self (annual)
Major literary texts that discuss the idea of the self--is it divided, multiple, or even non-existent?--by such writers as Lewis Caroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Franz Kafka, and Luigi Pirandello, as well as texts that reaffirm the idea of a unique individual self that grows with experience.
Prerequisite: 12 Humanities credits or departmental permission. 3 credits.

LLE 220-221 Survey of Modern Literature (annual)
A two semester survey of Modern literature from the classical through the modern eras. First semester readings include: Sophocles, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Moliere. Second semester readings include: the Romantic Poets, Ibsen, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Kafka, Melville, Faulkner, Beckett, and Camus. Not to be taken after HML 101, HML 102, HML 201, or HML 202.
Prerequisite: LLE 102 or exemption.
3 credits each.