Humanities and USD Reqs: HUMU 295

I’d like to announce a Spring ’23 3-credit course that will fulfill a Humanities elective and the US Diversity co-req and might be particularly attractive to students in STEM, textiles, and management/business disciplines: HUMU 295 Transformative Texts in American Life.

The course will use major texts – great speeches, short stories, court decisions, and pop culture across generations – to transform students’ thinking about the diversity of human life in America’s past, present and future and their place in it. The in-person classes will be small (25 student cap) and have two sections (MW 11:45-1p and TuTh 3:00-4:15p), both taught by accomplished instructors in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

What is also exciting about the course is that it may be counted toward something much bigger currently in the works. CHASS has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a certificate program, planned to be rolled out in Fall ’23, that will create coherent pathways through the GEP more aligned with students’ pre-career goals and which students will be able to use to show future employers that they have advanced skills in written and oral communication. Students who enroll in HUMU 295 in the spring will get the first jump on this new opportunity.

Please message me with any questions you have or if you’d like more detail!