Archived Course Outlines (Fall 2008-Spring 2023)
All HUMS Courses (other than HUMS 1500) are restricted to students admitted into the Bachelor of Humanities Program.
Please click on the course number and then the academic year to download the course outline in PDF format.
Course Outlines 2022-2023
1000 Level Courses
2000 Level Courses
3000 Level Courses
4000 Level Courses
Course Outlines 2021-2022
1000 Level Courses
2000 Level Courses
3000 Level Courses
4000 Level Courses
Course Outlines for 2020-2021
1000 Level Courses
2000 Level Courses
3000 Level Courses
4000 Level Courses
Course Outlines for 2019-2020
1000 Level Courses
2000 Level Courses
3000 Level Courses
4000 Level Courses
Course Outlines for 2018-2019
First Year
Second Year
Third Year
Course Outlines for 2017-2018
1000 Level
2000 Level
3000 Level
4000 Level
Fourth Year – Research Seminars
- HUMS 4902A Research Seminar: Renaissance to Enlightenment-Spinoza’s Ethics (F)
- HUMS 4902A Research Seminar: Renaissance to Enlightenment-Tudor Queens: Sex, Power and Writing in the Lives of Katherine Parr, Elizabeth I, and Mary Queen of Scots(W)
- HUMS 4904A Research Seminar: Non-Western Traditions-The Philosophy of Avicenna (W)
Course Outlines for 2016-2017
1000 Level
- HUMS 1000 Myth and Symbol (F/W) Winter 2017 Schedule
- HUMS 1005 Early Human Cultures Resource Page (W)
- RELI 1731 Varieties of Religious Experience (W)
- HUMS 1200 Humanities and Classical Civilization (F)
HUMS 1500 Introduction to Humanities — Five Books that Changed the World (W). Note: Open to students in the Bachelor of Arts program. B.Hum students may not take this course. *Not offered F/W 2016-2017.
2000 Level
- CLCV 2008 Greek and Roman Epic (F)
- CLCV 2010 Greek and Roman Drama (W)
- HUMS 2000 Reason and Revelation (F/W)
- RELI 2710 Maccabees to Muhammad (F/W)
- HUMS 2101 Art from Antiquity to the Medieval World (F)
- HUMS 2102 Modern European Art (W)
3000 Level
- HUMS 3000 Culture and Imagination (F/W) Winter schedule of lectures
- HUMS 3200 European Literature (F/W) Course Objectives
- HUMS 3102 Western Music 1000-1850 (F)
- HUMS 3103 Western Music 1850-2000 (W)
4000 Level
- HUMS 4000 Politics, Modernity and the Common Good (F/W)
- HUMS 4103 Science in the Modern World (W)
- HUMS 4104 Modern Intellectual History (F)
Fourth Year – Research Seminars
- HUMS 4902A Research Seminar: Renaissance to Enlightenment-Spinoza’s Ethics (F)
- HUMS 4902A Research Seminar: Renaissance to Enlightenment-Tudor Queens: Sex, Power and Writing in the Lives of Katherine Parr, Elizabeth I, and Mary Queen of Scots(W)
- HUMS 4904A Research Seminar: Non-Western Traditions-The Philosophy of Avicenna (W)
First Year
HUMS 1000 — Myth and Symbol
HUMS 1005 — Early Human Cultures
RELI 1731 — Varieties of Religious Experience
HUMS 1200 — Humanities and Classical Civilisation
CLCV 2008 — Greek and Roman Epic
- 2015-16
- 2014-2015
- 2013-14 (first year offered)
CLCV 2010 — Greek and Roman Drama
HUMS 1500 — Introduction to Humanities — Five Books that Changed the World
Second Year
HUMS 2000 — Reason and Revelation
RELI 2710 — Maccabees to Muhammad
- 2015-16
- 2014-2015
- 2013-14 Winter Term
- 2012-13
- 2011-12
- 2010-11
- 2009-10
- 2008-09
HUMS 2101 — Art from Antiquity to the Medieval World
HUMS 2102 — Modern European Art
Third Year
HUMS 3000 — Culture and Imagination
- 2015-16
- 2014-15
- 2013-14
- 2012-13
- 2011-12 (Supplement)
- 2010-11
- 2009-10 (Supplement)
- 2008-09 (Supplement)
HUMS 3200 — European Literature
HUMS 3102 — Western Music 1000-1850 & HUMS 3103 — Western Music 1850-2000
- HUMS 3102 Fall 2015
- HUMS 3103 Winter 2016
- HUMS 3102 Fall 2014
- HUMS 3103 Winter 2015
- HUMS 3102 Fall 2013
- HUMS 3103 Winter 2014
- 2012-13
- 2011-12
- 2010-11
- 2009-10
- 2008-09
Fourth Year
HUMS 4000 — Politics, Modernity & the Common Good
- 2015-16
- 2014-201 Full Outline Fall 2014 Detailed Outline
Winter 2015 Detailed Outline - 2013-14 (Winter Term)
- 2011-12
- 2010-11 (Supplement) (Winter Term)
- 2009-10
- 2008-09 (Winter Term)
HUMS 4103 — Science in the Modern World
HUMS 4104 — Modern Intellectual History
Fourth Year – Research Seminars
2015-2016
2014-2015
- HUMS 4901 The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas — Erik Stephenson
- HUMS 4902 Studies in Renaissance Literature On the Paradoxes of Human Nature: Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies and The Discomposure of a Genre— Donald Beecher
2013-14
- HUMS 4901 Utopian USA: A Survey of the Utopian Impulse Within American Culture — Brian Greenspan
- HUMS 4903 Witchcraft, Crime & Social Disorder in Early Modern England — David Dean
2012-13
- HUMS 4901 — Plato’s Later Dialogues: Theaetetus, Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman — Gregory MacIsaac
HUMS 4903 — Revolutions in Romantic Literature — Paul Keen
HUMS 4904 — The History of Satan — Kimberly Stratton
2011-12
- HUMS 4901 — Saints and Pilgrims — John Osborne
- HUMS 4904 — Being and Imagination in Medieval Thought: The Metaphysics of Ibn Arabi — Mohammed Rustom
2010-11
- HUMS 4901 — The History of Satan — Kimberly Stratton
- HUMS 4902 — The School of Sentiments: Emile and the Theory of Moral Sentiments — Geoffrey Kellow
- HUMS 4903 — The Galileo Affair — W.R. Laird
- HUMS 4904 — Mahatma Gandhi Across Cultures — Noel Salmond
2009-10
- HUMS 4901 — The History of Satan — Kimberly Stratton
- HUMS 4903 — Justice and the Public Good in the Literature of Renaissance England — Donald Beecher
- HUMS 4904 — Plato’s Theaetetus — Gregory MacIsaac