{"id":11,"date":"2014-01-14T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/bhum\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2023-07-11T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T14:02:19","slug":"will-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/","title":{"rendered":"What you will study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our Great Books Curriculum<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">You will study the world&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"College Reading List\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Great Books<\/a>\u00a0through a sequence of four Core Courses and a number of Complementary Courses. These courses\u00a0move from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and they move from Religion, to Philosophy, to Literature, to International Re<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">lations<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"width: 10%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 30%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 30%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 30%;\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td>Year<\/td>\n<td>Historical Period<\/td>\n<td>Themes<\/td>\n<td>Core Course<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>First<\/td>\n<td>Pre-History to the Ancient World<\/td>\n<td>Religion &amp; Myth<\/td>\n<td>HUMS 1000 \u2014 Myth &amp;\u00a0Symbol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Second<\/td>\n<td>Antiquity to the Middle Ages<\/td>\n<td>Philosophy &amp;\u00a0Theology<\/td>\n<td>HUMS 2000 \u2014 Reason &amp;\u00a0Revelation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Third<\/td>\n<td>Renaissance to Enlightenment<\/td>\n<td>Literature &amp;\u00a0Culture<\/td>\n<td>HUMS 3000 \u2014 Culture &amp;\u00a0Imagination<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fourth<\/td>\n<td>19th Century to the Present<\/td>\n<td>Politics &amp;\u00a0History<\/td>\n<td>HUMS 4000 \u2014 Politics, Modernity &amp;\u00a0the Common Good<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Core Courses<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1589 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lecture.jpg\" alt=\"what - lecture\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lecture.jpg 500w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lecture-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lecture-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lecture-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lecture-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Each year students take a core course taught by two Humanities professors, which\u00a0includes lectures and small discussion groups of 15-20 students, run by one of the professors.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/archived-course-outlines\/#HUMS1000\">HUMS 1000 \u2014\u00a0MYTH\u00a0&amp; SYMBOL<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Pre-History to the Ancient World<\/h3>\n<p>Students explore the earliest human attempts to understand our place in the cosmos, by reading some of the world\u2019s oldest religious texts and myths and discussing\u00a0the themes of mortality, morality, cosmogony, sacrifice, and sacred and profane love. Students read both Western and Eastern texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the\u00a0<em>Bhagavad Gita<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>Tao Te Ching<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"slideme\"><dl class=\"slideme__list\"><dt class=\"slideme__term\"><a href=\"#slideme-hums-1000-book-list\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"slideme-hums-1000-book-list\" class=\"slideme__heading slideme__trigger\">HUMS 1000 Book List<\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"slideme__description\" id=\"slideme-hums-1000-book-list\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Enuma Elish<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Hebrew Bible\n<ul>\n<li>Genesis<\/li>\n<li>Exodus<\/li>\n<li>Deuteronomy<\/li>\n<li>Joshua<\/li>\n<li>Judges<\/li>\n<li>I &amp; II Samuel<\/li>\n<li>I &amp; II Kings<\/li>\n<li>Job<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs<\/li>\n<li>Ecclesiastes<\/li>\n<li>Song of Songs<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah<\/li>\n<li>Jeremiah<\/li>\n<li>Ezekiel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hesiod,\u00a0<em>The Theogony<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rig Veda<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Upanishads<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bhagavad Gita<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Krishna Bhakti<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Gita Govinda<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Buddhacarita<\/em>\u00a0(Life of the Buddha)<\/li>\n<li>Confucius,\u00a0<em>The Analects<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Tao Te Ching<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/dd><dl><\/div>\n<p><strong>HUMS 1000 Professors<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/religion\/people\/shawna-dolansky\/\">Shawna Dolansky<\/a> \u2014 Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible<br \/>\n<a title=\"Noel Salmond\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=359\">Noel Salmond<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Eastern religions<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/archived-course-outlines\/#HUMS2000\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">HUMS 2000 \u2014\u00a0<\/span>REASON &amp; REVELATION<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>The Ancient World to the Middle Ages<\/h3>\n<p>Students wrestle with concepts drawn from the two great intellectual traditions of the West, the philosophies drawn from Plato and Aristotle and the faiths descended from Abraham, and discuss themes such as wisdom and love, the nature of enquiry, and the limits and possibilities of human reason.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plato-240x366.gif\" alt=\"Plato\" width=\"140\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Augustine-240x365.jpg\" alt=\"Augustine\" width=\"140\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dante.jpg\" alt=\"Dante\" width=\"138\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"slideme\"><dl class=\"slideme__list\"><dt class=\"slideme__term\"><a href=\"#slideme-hums-2000-book-list\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"slideme-hums-2000-book-list\" class=\"slideme__heading slideme__trigger\">HUMS 2000 Book List<\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"slideme__description\" id=\"slideme-hums-2000-book-list\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plato,\u00a0<em>Apology<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Plato,\u00a0<em>Meno<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Plato,\u00a0<em>Republic<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Aristotle,\u00a0<i>Categories<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Aristotle,\u00a0<em>Posterior Analytics<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Aristotle,\u00a0<em>Physics<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Aristotle,\u00a0<em>Metaphysics<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Aristotle,\u00a0<em>Ethics<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Plotinus,\u00a0<em>Enneads<\/em><\/li>\n<li>St. Augustine,\u00a0<em>Confessions<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Boethius,\u00a0<em>The Consolation of Philosophy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>St. Thomas Aquinas,\u00a0<em>Summa Theologiae<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dante,\u00a0<em>The Divine Comedy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/dd><dl><\/div>\n<p><strong>HUMS 2000 Professors<br \/>\n<\/strong><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Erik Stephenson\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=385\">Erik Stephenson<\/a>\u00a0\u2014<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy<br \/>\n<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Gregory MacIsaac\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=362\">Gregory MacIsaac<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Ancient Greek Philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/archived-course-outlines\/#HUMS3000\">HUMS 3000 \u2014\u00a0CULTURE &amp; IMAGINATION<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>The Renaissance to the Romantic Age<\/h3>\n<p>Students investigate the explosion of art and ideas during the Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, and Counter-Enlightenment. They examine the poems of Petrarch, the plays of Shakespeare, the portraits of Titian, and the economics of Adam Smith, and consider how aesthetics, politics, economics and religion inform one another.<\/p>\n<div class=\"slideme\"><dl class=\"slideme__list\"><dt class=\"slideme__term\"><a href=\"#slideme-hums-3000-book-list\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"slideme-hums-3000-book-list\" class=\"slideme__heading slideme__trigger\">HUMS 3000 Book List<\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"slideme__description\" id=\"slideme-hums-3000-book-list\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Petrarch, selected\u00a0<em>Letters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Petrarch,\u00a0<em>The Canzoniere<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Philip Sidney,\u00a0<em>A Defence of Poetry<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Machiavelli,\u00a0<em>The Prince<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Erasmus,\u00a0<em>The Education of a Christian Prince<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Martin Luther,\u00a0<em>Freedom of a Christian<\/em><\/li>\n<li>John Donne,\u00a0<em>Songs and Sonnets<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Shakespeare,\u00a0<em>Julius Caesar<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Shakespeare,\u00a0<em>The Tempest<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Karlstadt and Eck, A debate on religious images<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The paintings of Titian<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Barbon,\u00a0<em>A Discourse Of Trade<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Franklin,\u00a0<em>The Autobiography<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Adam Smith,\u00a0<em>The Wealth of Nations<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Selections from Addison and Steel&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Tatler\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Spectator<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Daniel Defoe,\u00a0<em>Robinson Crusoe<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Diderot,\u00a0<em>Rameau&#8217;s Nephew<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rousseau, &#8220;Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D&#8217;Alembert on the Theatre&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Goethe,\u00a0<em>The Sorrows of Young Werther<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mary Shelley,\u00a0<em>Frankenstein<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The American Declaration of Independence &amp; the Federalist Papers #10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/dd><dl><\/div>\n<p><strong>HUMS 3000 Professors<br \/>\n<\/strong><a title=\"Micheline White\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=365\">Micheline White<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Renaissance and Early Modern literature<br \/>\n<a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Geoffrey Kellow\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=378\">Geoffrey Kellow<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Enlightenment History and Political Theory.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/archived-course-outlines\/#HUMS4000\">HUMS 4000 \u2014\u00a0POLITICS, MODERNITY &amp; THE COMMON GOOD<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>The Nineteenth-Century to the Present<\/h3>\n<p>Students take a philosophical journey into the story of modernity and the emergence of a civilization founded on autonomy, independence, and freedom. Starting with the revolutionary politics of the nineteenth century, they consider the radical arguments of Marx, Hegel and Nietzsche and then examine the critiques of our time advanced by Hannah Arendt, Karl Polanyi and Michel Foucault.<\/p>\n<div class=\"slideme\"><dl class=\"slideme__list\"><dt class=\"slideme__term\"><a href=\"#slideme-hums-4000-book-list\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"slideme-hums-4000-book-list\" class=\"slideme__heading slideme__trigger\">HUMS 4000 Book List<\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"slideme__description\" id=\"slideme-hums-4000-book-list\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plato,\u00a0<em>The Symposium<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hobbes,\u00a0<em>Leviathan<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rousseau,\u00a0<em>Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rousseau,<em>\u00a0Discourse on the Origin of Inequality<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rousseau,\u00a0<em>The Social Contract<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Burke,\u00a0<em>Reflections on the Revolution in France<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kant,\u00a0<em>The Metaphysics of Morals<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Schiller,\u00a0<em>Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hegel,\u00a0<em>The Philosophy of History<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hegel,\u00a0<em>The Phenomenology of Spirit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Marx,\u00a0<em>On the Jewish Question<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Marx,\u00a0<em>The Communist Manifesto<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nietzsche,\u00a0<em>The Birth of Tragedy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nietzsche,\u00a0<em>The Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nietzsche,\u00a0<em>Beyond Good and Evil<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Heidegger,\u00a0<em>An Introduction to Metaphysics<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Heidegger,\u00a0<em>The Origin of the Work of Art<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Heidegger,\u00a0<em>An Essay Concerning Technology<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Film: Leni Riefenstahl&#8217;s &#8220;Triumph of the Will&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Arendt,\u00a0<em>The Human Condition<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hedley Bull,\u00a0<em>The Anarchical Society<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Foucault,\u00a0<em>Discipline and Punish<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gandhi,\u00a0<em>Hind Swaraj<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Edward Said,\u00a0<em>Orientalism<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Salman Rushdie,\u00a0<em>Midnight&#8217;s Children: a Novel<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Charles Taylor,\u00a0<em>Modern Social Imaginaries<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/dd><dl><\/div>\n<p><strong>HUMS 4000 Professors<br \/>\n<\/strong><a title=\"Farhang Rajaee\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=150\">Farhang Rajaee<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Political theory and non-Western traditions, especially Modern Islamic political thought<br \/>\n<a title=\"Waller Newell\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=146\">Waller Newell<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Philosophy and political theory in the Ancient world; German Idealism; Contemporary Phenomenology.<\/p>\n<h2>Complementary Courses<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1759\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lute.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis and students and lute\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lute.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lute-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lute-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-lute-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In addition to the Core Courses, each year includes a carefully integrated set of courses that complement the Core Courses.<\/p>\n<h3>First Year Complementary Courses<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/archived-course-outlines\/#HUMS1200\">HUMS 1200 \u2014 Humanities and Classical Civilization<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The three great Greek and Roman epics: Homer&#8217;s Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil&#8217;s Aeneid, as well as a selection of literary and historical works from Greece and Rome. This course also includes detailed instruction on how to write a university-level paper.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/archived-course-outlines\/#CLCV2010\">CLCV 2010 \u2014 Greek and Roman Drama<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca; Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/archived-course-outlines\/#HUMS1005\">HUMS 1005 \u2014 Early Human Culture<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Cultural experiences of small scale societies, including kinship, rituals, magic, social structure, and subsistence.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/archived-course-outlines\/#RELI1731\">RELI 1731 \u2014 Varieties of Religious Experience<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The nature of religious experience and the ways in which such experiences are interpreted, including Shamanism and Mysticism.<\/p>\n<h3>Second\u00a0Year Complementary Courses<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/RELI_2710_Laabd_Fall2020_Winter2021.pdf\">RELI 2710 \u2014 Maccabees to Muhammad<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The early literature and history of the three great Abrahamic traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In particular key aspects of the social, literary, cultural, and intellectual development of these three interrelated traditions from approximately the Destruction of the Second Temple (1st cent. C.E.) to the Crusades (11th cent. C.E.).<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/course-syllabi\/\">HUMS 2101 &amp;\u00a02102 \u2014 Art from Antiquity to the Medieval World; Modern European Art<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>A survey of Western art and architecture from Antiquity to the contemporary world.<\/p>\n<h3>Third\u00a0Year Complementary Courses<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-3200A-Fall-2020-Course-Outline-Ian-Cameron.pdf\">HUMS 3200 \u2014 European Literature<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Major movements and works from Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy through Voltaire&#8217;s Candide. Themes include the New Humanism versus old Chivalry in the Renaissance and Baroque periods; the rise of the modern novel and drama; reason, nature, and the Enlightenment project.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-3102A-Fall-2020-Course-Outline-Alexis-Luko.pdf\">HUMS 3102 &amp; 3103 \u2014 Western Music 1000-1850; Western Music 1850-2000<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>A survey of the major musical genres and styles in Western music from medieval times to the 21st century.<\/p>\n<h3>Fourth\u00a0Year Complementary Courses<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4103A-Course-Outline-Winter-2020-James-Cheetham.pdf\">HUMS 4103 \u2014 Science in the Modern World<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>An introduction to the major scientific ideas of our time, such as Big Bang theory, molecular genetics, evolution, and atomic structure, as well as the impact of technology on society in areas\u00a0such as global warming, pollution, genetically modified foods, and viral infections.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4500A-Fall-2020-Course-Outline-Phillipe-Azzie-revised-Aug-24.pdf\">HUMS 4500 \u2014 Modern Intellectual History<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The intellectual history of the Canadian and American Foundings with a special emphasis on the role of political theory.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Seminars<\/h2>\n<p>In their final year, Bachelor of Humanities students hone their research skills by taking one or two special fourth-year Research Seminars, whose topics change each year.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/current-students\/course-syllabi\/\">2020-2021<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>2016-2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4902-Fall-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4902<\/a>:\u00a0\u2014 Spinoza\u2019s Ethics (F) \u2014 Erik Stephenson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4902-ENGL-4301-Course-Outline-Draft-Winter-2017-Micheline-White-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4902:<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Tudor Queens: Sex, Power and Writing in the Lives of Katherine Parr, Elizabeth I, and Mary Queen of Scots (W) \u2014 Micheline White<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4904A-Course-Outline-Winter-2017-Mohammed-Rustom-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4904<\/a>:\u00a0 \u2014 The Philosophy of Avicenna (W) \u2014 Mohammed Rustom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"slideme\"><dl class=\"slideme__list\"><dt class=\"slideme__term\"><a href=\"#slideme-past-research-seminar-topics\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"slideme-past-research-seminar-topics\" class=\"slideme__heading slideme__trigger\">Past Research Seminar Topics<\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"slideme__description\" id=\"slideme-past-research-seminar-topics\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><p><\/p>\n<h4>2015-2016<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4902A-Course-Outline-Fall-2015-Don-Beecher.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4902:\u00a0<\/a> \u2014 On the Paradoxes of Human Nature:\u00a0 Shakespeare&#8217;s Problem Comedies and the Discomposure of a Genre \u2014 Don Beecher<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4902-Course-Outline-Winter-2016-Kim-Stratton.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4902:<\/a> \u2014 The History of Satan \u2014 Kimberly Stratton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4903-Syllabus-Fall-2015-Noel-Salmond.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4903:<\/a> \u2014 Humanity in the Anthropocene:Nature, the Environment, and the Category of the \u2018Sacred\u2019 \u2014 Noel Salmond<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2014-2015<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4901A-Course-Outline-Winter-2015-Erik-Stephenson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4901<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas \u2014 Erik Stephenson<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4902 Course Outline Fall 2014 Beecher\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4902-Fall-2014-Beecher.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4902<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Studies in Renaissance Literature On the Paradoxes of Human Nature:\u00a0 Shakespeare\u2019s Problem Comedies and The Discomposure of a Genre\u2014 Donald Beecher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2013-14<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4901 Outline 13-14\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4901-Outline-13-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4901<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Utopian USA: A Survey of the Utopian Impulse Within American Culture \u2014 Brian Greenspan<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4903 Outline 13-14\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4903-Outline-13-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4903<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Witchcraft, Crime &amp; Social Disorder in Early Modern England \u2014 David Dean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2012-13<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4901 Outline 12-13\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4901-Outline-12-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4901<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Plato&#8217;s Later Dialogues:\u00a0<em>Theaetetus<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Parmenides<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Sophist<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Statesman \u2014\u00a0<\/em>Gregory MacIsaac<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4903 Outline 12-13\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4903-Outline-12-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4903<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Revolutions in Romantic Literature \u2014 Paul Keen<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4904 Outline 12-13\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4904-Outline-12-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4904<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 The History of Satan \u2014 Kimberly Stratton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">2011-12<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4901 Outline 11-12\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4901-Outline-11-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4901<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Saints and Pilgrims \u2014 John Osborne<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4904 Outline 11-12\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4904-Outline-11-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4904<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Being and Imagination in Medieval Thought: The Metaphysics of Ibn Arabi \u2014 Mohammed Rustom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">2010-11<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4901 Outline 10-11\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4901-Outline-10-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4901<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 The History of Satan \u2014 Kimberly Stratton<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4902 Outline 10-11\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4902-Outline-10-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4902<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 The School of Sentiments:\u00a0<em>Emile<\/em>\u00a0and the Theory of Moral Sentiments \u2014 Geoffrey Kellow<\/li>\n<li>HUMS 4903 \u2014 The Galileo Affair \u2014 W.R. Laird<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4904 Outline 10-11\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4904-Outline-10-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4904<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Mahatma Gandhi Across Cultures \u2014 Noel Salmond<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">2009-10<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4901 Outline 09-10\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4901-Outline-09-10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4901<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 The History of Satan \u2014 Kimberly Stratton<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4903 Outline 09-10\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4903-Outline-09-10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4903<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Justice and the Public Good in the Literature of Renaissance England \u2014 Donald Beecher<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4904 Outline 09-10\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4904-Outline-09-10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4904<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Plato&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Theaetetus<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Gregory MacIsaac<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">2008-09<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4901 Outline 08-09\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4901-Outline-08-09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4901<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Aristotle&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Metaphysics\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 Gregory MacIsaac<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HUMS 4902 Outline 08-09\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4902-Outline-08-09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4902<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 The Galileo Affair \u2014 W.R. Laird<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a title=\"HUMS 4903 Outline 08-09\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4903-Outline-08-09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4903<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 The Intellectual Origins of Liberal Capitalism \u2014 Geoffrey Kellow<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a title=\"HUMS 4904 Outline 08-09\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMS-4904-Outline-08-09.pdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUMS 4904<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Tragedy \u2014 Andrew Wallace<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/dd><dl><\/div>\n<h3>More about what you will study<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Books\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/books\/\">The Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Professors\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/professors\/\">The Professors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Degree streams\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/degree-streams\/\">Degree Streams<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Study abroad\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/study-abroad\/\">Study Abroad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Language requirement\" href=\"\">Language Requirement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"width: 5%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 45%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 45%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 5%;\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\" valign=\"middle\"><strong>\u2190<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"About the Bachelor of Humanities\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/\">About the Bachelor of Humanities<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"An ideal learning environment\" href=\"\">An ideal learning environment<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\" valign=\"middle\"><strong>\u2192<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Great Books Curriculum You will study the world&#8217;s\u00a0Great Books\u00a0through a sequence of four Core Courses and a number of Complementary Courses. 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