HUM 222 - Modern European Humanities II

The world we live in today is heir to ideas, political movements, social structures, and forms of artistic, literary, and philosophical expression that arose in Europe over the last few centuries. This class focuses roughly on the period from 1850 to 1950. Major topics include the literature of urban life, the invention of photography, the Darwinian revolution, Nietzscheanism, psychoanalysis, literary modernism, mass culture, imperialism and colonialism, the Bolshevik revolution, the invention of film, fascist and totalitarian movements, the world wars and the Holocaust, feminism, anti-colonial movements, and migration. Reading often includes texts from Baudelaire, Flaubert, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Kafka, Lenin, Woolf, Arendt, Levi, Césaire, Beckett, Beauvoir, and Selvon.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I, Distribution Group II
Prerequisite(s): HUM 110 or sophomore standing
Instructional Method: Lecture-conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Notes: HUM 222 is the second in a two-semester sequence (with HUM 221) that are best taken in order, but can also be taken out of order or independently.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).
Evaluate data and/or sources.
Analyze institutions, formations, languages, structures, or processes, whether social, political, religious, economic, cultural, intellectual or other.
Think in sophisticated ways about causation, social and/or historical change, human cognition, or the relationship between individuals and society, or engage with social, political, religious or economic theory in other areas.