HU 145 Themes in the Humanities
A continuation of COM 122 with interdisciplinary emphasis. Through close reading of primary texts and analysis of visual and performing arts, Themes in the Humanities explores ideas central to the evolution of culture. The course is not restricted by period and is open to the full range of humanistic studies.
The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster
Speech Sounds, Octavia Butler
Desiree's Baby, Kate Chopin
Beyond Lies the Wub, Philip K. Dick
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
R. U. R., Karel Čapek
The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot
Poetry, Marianne Moore
Introduction to Poetry, Billy Collins
Dulce et Decorum est, Wilfred Owen
Borderlands, Suji Kwock Kim
To Live in the Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa
Bored, Margaret Atwood
The Day the Saucers Came, Neil Gaiman
I Am Waiting, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To a Locomotive in Winter, Walt Whitman
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas
Wild Geese, Mary Oliver
If--, Rudyard Kipling
The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats
One Art, Elizabeth Bishop
The Nose, Nikolai Gogol