Humanities |
Modern American Novel |
Humanities is a five academic credit, multidisciplinary course. It fulfills the senior-year English requirement. Some students elect, instead, to take the course for social studies credit; many take other English and social studies courses as well during their senior year. It is team taught by a member of the history department and of the English department. The course essentially covers the origins and development of Western civilization, beginning with the three tap-roots: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Hebrews, and through the Greco-Roman classical period, the growth of Byzantine, Islamic and Christian cultures, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. Within those topics, students study the spirit of each age, its philosophy, its world-view, its social and cultural life, its music, and its contributions and connections to our current world. Some current assignments are below. |
