Archived Course Outlines
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 and archived course outlines.
1000 Level Courses
2000 Level Courses
3000 Level Courses
4000 Level Courses
Course Outlines 2022-2023
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3000 Level Courses
4000 Level Courses
Course Outlines 2021-2022
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4000 Level Courses
Course Outlines for 2020-2021
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Course Outlines for 2019-2020
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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
- Renaissance to Enlightenment-Spinoza’s Ethics (F)
- Renaissance to Enlightenment-Tudor Queens: Sex, Power and Writing in the Lives of Katherine Parr, Elizabeth I, and Mary Queen of Scots(W)
- : Non-Western Traditions-The Philosophy of Avicenna (W)
Course Outlines for 2016-2017
1000 Level
- Myth and Symbol (F/W)
- HUMS 1005 Early Human Cultures Resource Page (W)
- RELI 1731 Varieties of Religious Experience (W)
- 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)
- Reason and Revelation (F/W)
- RELI 2710 Maccabees to Muhammad (F/W)
- Art from Antiquity to the Medieval World (F)
- HUMS 2102 Modern European Art (W)
3000 Level
- Culture and Imagination (F/W)
- European Literature (F/W)
- Western Music 1000-1850 (F)
- Western Music 1850-2000 (W)
4000 Level
- Politics, Modernity and the Common Good (F/W)
- Science in the Modern World (W)
- Modern Intellectual History (F)
Fourth Year – Research Seminars
- Renaissance to Enlightenment-Spinoza’s Ethics (F)
- Renaissance to Enlightenment-Tudor Queens: Sex, Power and Writing in the Lives of Katherine Parr, Elizabeth I, and Mary Queen of Scots(W)
- : 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
- 2012-13
- 2011-12
- 2010-11
- 2009-10
- 2008-09
HUMS 1200 — Humanities and Classical Civilisation
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CLCV 2008 — Greek and Roman Epic
- 2015-16
- 2014-2015
- (first year offered)
CLCV 2010 — Greek and Roman Drama
- (first year offered)
HUMS 1500 — Introduction to Humanities — Five Books that Changed the World
- 2015-16
- (first year offered)
Second Year
HUMS 2000 — Reason and Revelation
- 2010-11
RELI 2710 — Maccabees to Muhammad
- 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
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HUMS 3200 — European Literature
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HUMS 3102 — Western Music 1000-1850 & HUMS 3103 — Western Music 1850-2000
Fourth Year
HUMS 4000 — Politics, Modernity & the Common Good
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HUMS 4103 — Science in the Modern World
HUMS 4104 — Modern Intellectual History
Fourth Year – Research Seminars
2015-2016
2014-2015
- The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas — Erik Stephenson
- Studies in Renaissance Literature On the Paradoxes of Human Nature: Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies and The Discomposure of a Genre— Donald Beecher
2013-14
- Utopian USA: A Survey of the Utopian Impulse Within American Culture — Brian Greenspan
- Witchcraft, Crime & Social Disorder in Early Modern England — David Dean
2012-13
- — Plato’s Later Dialogues: Theaetetus, Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman — Gregory MacIsaac
— Revolutions in Romantic Literature — Paul Keen
— The History of Satan — Kimberly Stratton
2011-12
- — Saints and Pilgrims — John Osborne
- — Being and Imagination in Medieval Thought: The Metaphysics of Ibn Arabi — Mohammed Rustom
2010-11
- — The History of Satan — Kimberly Stratton
- — The School of Sentiments: Emile and the Theory of Moral Sentiments — Geoffrey Kellow
- HUMS 4903 — The Galileo Affair — W.R. Laird
- — Mahatma Gandhi Across Cultures — Noel Salmond
2009-10
- — The History of Satan — Kimberly Stratton
- — Justice and the Public Good in the Literature of Renaissance England — Donald Beecher
- — Plato’s Theaetetus — Gregory MacIsaac
2008-09
- — Aristotle’s Metaphysics — Gregory MacIsaac
- — The Galileo Affair — W.R. Laird
- — The Intellectual Origins of Liberal Capitalism — Geoffrey Kellow
- — Tragedy — Andrew Wallace