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IHUM 2: Epic Journeys, Modern Quests

First of a twoquarter sequence. Great religious, philosophical, and literary texts that have addressed timeless questions about human identity and the meaning of human life. Focus is on the epic tradition in the ancient and classical worlds. Compares conceptions of the afterlife. How traditions about the afterlife are created.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-2

IHUM 3: Epic Journeys, Modern Quests

Second of a two quarter sequence. Great religious, philosophical, and literary texts that have addressed timeless questions about human identity and the meaning of human life. Focus is on the transformations or abandonment of the epic tradition in modernity. Compares conceptions of the afterlife. How traditions about the afterlife are appropriated. The diminished importance of the dead and increased emphasis on the power of the living in literary genres.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-3

IHUM 4A: Mass Violence from Crusades to Genocides

First of a two quarter sequence. The evolution, varieties, causes, and logic of mass violence in premodern history; how mass violence shaped historical trends. What accounts for the persistence of mass violence in history? Do religions and ethnicity foment or restrain mass violence? Is there a common pattern of mass violence throughout the centuries? Geographic focus is Europe; comparisons with societies which the Europeans encountered such as the Aztec empire, the Islamic world, and the African colonies.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-2

IHUM 4B: Mass Violence from Crusades to Genocides

Second of a two quarter sequence. The evolution, varieties, causes, and logic of mass violence in modern history; how mass violence shaped historical trends. What accounts for the persistence of mass violence in history? Do religions, ethnicity, and modernity foment or restrain mass violence? Is there a common pattern of mass violence throughout the centuries? Geographic focus is Europe; comparisons with societies which the Europeans encountered such as the Aztec empire, the Islamic world, and the African colonies.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-3

IHUM 6A: World History of Science

Second of a two quarter sequence. The broad sweep of global science, from the Scientific Revolution throught recent triumphs in the physical and life sciences. The historicity of life and how science transforms and is transformed by human engagements with technology, religion, art, politics, and moral values.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-2

IHUM 6B: World History of Science

First of a two quarter sequence. The broad sweep of global science, from the prehistoric roots of the oldest known technologies through the Scientific Revolution. The historicity of life and how science transforms and is transformed by human engagements with technology, religion, art, politics, and moral values.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3, GER:IHUM-3

IHUM 7A: Rebellious Daughters and Filial Sons of the Chinese Family: Present and Past

First in a two quarter sequence. The family in its enduring role in shaping members of a community and citizens of society. The Chinese family as a case study. How family has been revolted against, broken up, critiqued, and transformed through social and political changes. The authority of the father, care of the mother, supportive or antagonistic relations of siblings, and the extension of these relations in kinship community and society. How notions of love, emotion, and gender play into the formation of the family and how family connects with interpersonal and social relations.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-2

IHUM 7B: Rebellious Daughters and Filial Sons of the Chinese Family: Present and Past

Second in a two quarter sequence. The family in its enduring role in shaping members of a community and citizens of society. The Chinese family as a case study. How family has been revolted against, broken up, critiqued, and transformed through social and political changes. The stern authority of the father, nourishing care of the mother, supportive or antagonistic relations of siblings, and the extension of these relations in kinship community and society. How notions of love, emotion, and gender play into the formation of the family and how family connects with interpersonal and social relations.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-3

IHUM 10A: Humanistic Perspectives on Science

First in a two quarter sequence. A humanistic perspective views science itself as an essential part of human culture and explores the many relationships between scientific activity and religion, philosophy, society, politics, and the arts. Exploration of these relationships from a philosophical point of view, across a large part of the development of Western science from ancient Greece and the medieval period, through the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, and up to recent times.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-2

IHUM 10B: Humanistic Perspectives on Science

Second in a two quarter sequence. A humanistic perspective views science itself as an essential part of human culture and explores the many relationships between scientific activity and religion, philosophy, society, politics, and the arts. Exploration of these relationships from a philosophical point of view, across a large part of the development of Western science from ancient Greece and the medieval period, through the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, and up to recent times.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-3
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