Syllabus – The Humanities Program

Unit 1: What is Truth?

Week 1 to Week 3
Thinking About Art

Week 4
Unit 2: Audiences & Theories of Spectatorship

Week 5 to Week 8
Unit 3: History, Colonialism, and Diaspora

Week 9 to Week 11
Focus on Visual and Textual Analysis

Week 12
Civil Rights and the Body

Weeks 13 and 14
The End is Nigh

Week 15
Unit 4: Black Venuses

Week 16 to Week 18
Unit 5: Emotions & the Body

Weeks 19 to 21
Unit 6: How to Survive a Plague

Weeks 22 to 24
Epes Lecture: William Deresiewicz

Spring 2022
Unit 7: Pleasure

Weeks 25 to 27