We still have seats remaining in HSS 201 Transformative Texts in American Life: Engaging Across Difference for Spring ’24! HSS 201 is a 3-credit course that fulfills GEP in either Humanities or USDEI.
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 (30 student cap) and have two sections next spring (TTh 11:45-1p and MW 1:30-2:45p), both taught by accomplished instructors in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The course is a pilot of something much bigger in the works. HSS 201 is the gateway course to a new certificate program, planned through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, that will allow students to align their GEP courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences with their professional goals and show future employers that they have advanced communication skills. Students who enroll in HSS 201 in the Spring will get a jump on the new opportunity!