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HUMN 1001��Forms of Narrative: An��Introduction to Humanities
Annje Wiese

Introduces students to forms of narrative from different historical, geographical, and cultural contexts in different media in order to explore how narrative, as cognitive tool and form of representation, functions as a means of understanding human experience. Students learn to analyze and interpret narratives and improve critical thinking, the practice of close reading, and written and verbal communication. Serves to introduce students to the types of questions and methods of interpretation encountered in Humanities.

HUMN 1002 Visualizing Culture: An��Introduction to Humanities
Audrey Burba and TBA

How do we see, what do we consider worth looking at, how does this shape culture? What do visual media do to/for us and how do we endow them with meaning? This class probes such questions using a range of visual media including visual art, film, music videos, and social media. With the help of theoretical, scholarly, and popular sources, students analyze examples of visual culture and articulate their responses to the issues raised.

HUMN 1003 Conflictions in History: Civilization and Culture: An��Introduction to Humanities
Andrew Gilbert

Introduces students to concepts of culture, history, and civilization as sites of conflict across different historical times and geographical locations. Course materials address political and artistic questions that intersect across different ages through their different histories and guiding concepts. Students will learn to read and understand critical, historical, political, and artistic works. Emphasis will be placed on developing critical thinking, close reading, and the ability to articulate and develop issues in writing and verbally.

HUMN 2000��Methods and Approaches to Humanities
Annje Wiese

Provides a transition from the introductory courses to the upper-division courses.��The goal of this course is to introduce Humanities majors and minors to a rich range of interdisciplinary interpretive strategies and theories and to apply those strategies to a broad selection of cultural products. The “methods and approaches” in the course title points toward this process: we will look at different methods of interpretation and different ways that particular lenses or theories might inform our acts of interpretation. By taking this course, you will gain an understanding of some of the key developments and perspectives that inform studies in the Humanities and you will put those methods and theories into practice.��Approved for A&S��Gen. Ed. distribution: Arts and Humanities.

HUMN 2092 Creating Meaning: Writing in Humanities
Annje Wiese

This course will approach writing as a vital tool for making sense of experience and will explore how to harness the power of human creativity and expression to address complex issues in our world today. The interdisciplinary course material will help us to discover the importance of originality, voice, and form for creating meaning. This course will prepare you for writing in the Humanities Program, the College of Arts and Sciences, and beyond. Approved for A&S��Gen. Ed. distribution: Lower-division Writing.

HUMN 3092 Studies: Modern Poetry
David Ferris

Explores the literary and critical significance of lyric poetry in the modern age. Begins with the modern turn of poetry in Romanticism, in particular, Wordsworth and Shelley, then works through the poetry of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Dickinson, Yeats, Hughes, Celan, Bachmann, Bishop, Sexton, Attridge, Adonis, and Hill. ��Will also include critical material on the concept of “modern” poetry.

HUMN 3092 Studies: Capturing Sound
Matthew Peattie

This course examines how musicians and writers have attempted to describe the sonic, aesthetic, and affective aspects of sound, with an emphasis on notation, writing, and visual representations of sound. We will consider how musical sound has been translated into images, signs, and symbols, as well as how music and its effects have been described in literary and theoretical texts. Examples will range from the earliest records of music writing in the Western tradition through to graphic notations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course will also consider literary, theoretical, and scientific texts from Ovid and Augustine through to the present day, focusing on how organized sound is captured in language.

HUMN 3092 Studies: The Podcast: Applied Humanities
Andrew Gilbert

THE PODCAST is a class which critically engages podcasting as a form of media and also produces a public-facing podcast orbiting topics in the Humanities chosen by the students. Throughout the semester, the class will be analyzing various and popular formats which engender applications of the Humanities within culture and society. THE PODCAST will also produce several episodes of a podcast to be published on major podcasting apps in order to put into practice the critical skills gained throughout the students’ academic career at CU. Students will bring to their episodes unique perspectives and passions that hopefully spark curiosity and engagement within our communities.

HUMN 3200��Fictions of Illness: Modern Medicine and the Literary Imagination
Audrey Burba

Examines the ways in which the rise of modern medicine fueled the literary imagination with a new focus, new patterns of perception and potent metaphors. Through a study of various works of fiction, critical theory and medical history, the course traces how medical discoveries and the increasing professionalization of medicine manifested itself in modern literature.

HUMN 3210 Narrative
Annje Wiese��

This course will examine narrative as a central form of representation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by analyzing the effects of form on how we understand and represent our world. Two questions will guide this examination: “what kind of relation (if any) is there between narratives and reality (or ‘life’)?” (posed by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan); and, “what kind of notion of reality authorizes construction of a narrative account of reality?” (posed by Hayden White). With the aid of different theories of narrative, we will attempt to answer these questions by closely analyzing how narrative form represents and informs perception and experience. Over the course of the semester we will analyze works of fiction to see how narrative functions and we will look at narrative as a way of organizing thought that applies to interdisciplinary contexts including pop culture, art, identity studies, medicine, and law.

HUMN 3240 Tragedy
David Ferris

In this course we will examine theories of tragedy (Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche) and apply those theories, in order to examine their potential efficacy, to various works of art. After a careful examination of Greek tragedy, beginning with Aeschylus and Sophocles and concluding with Euripides’ last play on The Bacchae, the only extant tragedy which deals with Dionysus and the “birth of tragedy,” we will examine the survival of tragedy in 19-th and 20th century works of art—specifically, the works of the William Butler Yeats, Ibsen (Hedda Gabler), Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), and Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire).

HUMN 4006 Game Studies
Andrew Gilbert

Game Studies introduces basic media literacy by exploring the aesthetic and cultural principles behind the use and creation of one of (if not the) largest cultural forms of modern media. As 60% of all Americans play video games daily, and the industry itself surpasses cinema as the global games market reached 148.8 billion, it is wise for us to be able to read and critique such a massive part of our culture. This class will explore the specific theories associated with the media of gaming as well as dive deeply into several aspects unique to gaming (the avatar, the Dungeons and Dragons live stream, etc.).

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