Archived Course Outlines (Fall 2008-Spring 2024)

Course Outlines for 2023-2024

Course outlines will be available in mid-August and posted as they become available.
Please refer to course descriptions and archived course outlines.

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Course Outlines 2022-2023

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Course Outlines 2021-2022

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Course Outlines for 2020-2021

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Course Outlines for 2019-2020

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Course Outlines for 2018-2019

First Year

Second Year

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Course Outlines for 2017-2018

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Fourth Year – Research Seminars

Course Outlines for 2016-2017

1000 Level

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

3000 Level

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

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

HUMS 2101 — Art from Antiquity to the Medieval World

HUMS 2102 — Modern European Art

Third Year

HUMS 3000 — Culture and Imagination

HUMS 3200 — European Literature

HUMS 3102 — Western Music 1000-1850 & HUMS 3103 — Western Music 1850-2000

Fourth Year

HUMS 4000 — Politics, Modernity & the Common Good

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: TheaetetusParmenidesSophistStatesman — 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

2008-09

  • HUMS 4901 — Aristotle’s Metaphysics — Gregory MacIsaac
  • HUMS 4902 — The Galileo Affair — W.R. Laird
  • HUMS 4903 — The Intellectual Origins of Liberal Capitalism — Geoffrey Kellow
  • HUMS 4904 — Tragedy — Andrew Wallace