HUMSC 100W Human Rights & Human Diversity (WLU)
Taught at Wilfrid Laurier University. Refer to WLU Undergraduate Calendar for course description.
LEC · Course ID 016651On ucalendarHUMSC 100W today
Human Sciences (HUMSC)
11 courses in Waterloo’s course catalog for 2021–22 (Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022), from UW Open Data. ucalendar asks programs not to read that year’s calendar, so this stands in for it. Original: ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/2122/COURSE/course-HUMSC.html
HUMSC 101 Great Dialogues: Reflection and Action
What is the relationship between thinking and action? Do they pull us in different directions? Can they be integrated? This course investigates how our own dialogue with core texts, from antiquity (e.g., Homer, Plato, Christian Scriptures) to the present (e.g., Joyce, Arendt), offers ways of understanding the dilemmas and issues raised by these texts and present in our culture.
LEC · Course ID 011869On ucalendarHUMSC 101 today
HUMSC 102 Great Dialogues: Politics and Morality
What is the relationship between politics and morality? Are they opposites? Can they be integrated? This course investigates the way our own dialogue with core texts, from the Renaissance to the present (authors may include Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Conrad, and Arendt), offers ways of thinking through the dilemmas and issues raised by these texts and present in our culture.
LEC · Course ID 011870On ucalendarHUMSC 102 today
HUMSC 201 Great Dialogues: Reason and Faith
What is the nature of, and relationship between, reason and faith? Does this fundamental distinction lead to other distinctions such as those between explanation and revelation, and the rational and the intuitive? What impact do such modes of thought have on notions such as providence, perception, and truth? What comparisons and contrasts can be drawn between each mode and prevailing modern perspectives? This course investigates how a dialogue with core texts (e.g., Boethius, Aquinas, Dante, Bacon, Milton, Descartes, Hume, Austen) offers ways of understanding these issues.
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 012363On ucalendarHUMSC 201 today
HUMSC 289 Special Topics in Human Sciences
An in-depth analysis of research in selected topics in the Human Sciences. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of four times.]
Prereq: HUMSC 101
LEC · Course ID 015574On ucalendarHUMSC 289 today
HUMSC 301 Great Dialogues: The Sacred and the Profane
What is the nature of, and relationship between, the sacred and the profane? This course will examine diverse manifestations of the sacred and the profane by emphasizing the nature of their interaction and the impact on our understanding of contemporary human civilization. A dialogical method in exploring these ideas will be encouraged. Areas to be investigated include space, time, ritual, culture, morality, life, and death. The readings will be taken from core texts spanning a wide variety of fields and authors (e.g., Eliade, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Pieper, Charles Taylor, Mary Douglas).
Prereq: Level at least 3A or one of HUMSC 101, 102, 201
LEC · Course ID 012453On ucalendarHUMSC 301 today
HUMSC 389 Special Topics in Human Sciences
An in-depth analysis of research in selected topics in the Human Sciences. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of four times.]
Prereq: HUMSC 101; Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 015575On ucalendarHUMSC 389 today
HUMSC 401 Great Dialogues: Athens, Jerusalem, and Technological Society
What is the relationship between our Western technological world and its roots in the cultures of ancient Athens (representing the heroic life, the dramatic and tragic life, the political life, the examined life) and Jerusalem (representing liberation from oppression, the focus on justice and mercy, the divine challenge to humans playing God)? Do these cultures offer the potential to challenge the principles on which contemporary technological society rests or have they been surpassed? This course investigates how a dialogue with core texts offers ways of understanding these issues.
Prereq: Level at least 3A; One of HUMSC 101, 102, 201, 301
LEC · Course ID 012454On ucalendarHUMSC 401 today
HUMSC 489 Special Topics in Human Sciences
An in-depth analysis of research in selected topics in the Human Sciences. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of four times.]
Prereq: HUMSC 101; Level at least 3A
SEM · Course ID 015576On ucalendarHUMSC 489 today
HUMSC 490 Great Dialogues: Medical Humanities on Health and Life
What is the relationship of health to life? This course will focus on identifying areas of strain or conflict in public health and everyday life in relation to tensions connected to models of health and sickness. It will examine contested representations of the relations of health and life, healing and cure, pleasure and pain, self-governance and negligence, body and mind, and policy and polity. Core texts will span a wide variety of fields, eras, and authors (e.g., Plato, Descartes, Freud, Parsons, Foucault, Gadamer, Garfinkel).
Prereq: Level at least 3A; At least 0.5 unit in HUMSC
LEC · Course ID 012962On ucalendarHUMSC 490 today
HUMSC 498 Directed Studies in Human Sciences
Selected study and assignments under the direction of a faculty member.
Prereq: HUMSC 101; Level at least 4A
RDG · Course ID 015577On ucalendarHUMSC 498 today