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HUM 101: Introduction to the Humanities

Course Description:

The humanities attempts to understand the various dimensions of the human experience in all of its richness, complexity and diversity. Accordingly, as an introduction, this course shall examine a variety of texts drawn from drama, philosophy, political theory and history that address, each in its own way, the relationship of self and world.

Required Texts:

  • Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
  • Plato, Symposium
  • Machiavelli, The Prince
  • Rousseau, The Social Contract
  • Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • Marx, The Communist Manifesto
  • Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
  • Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth