Humanities I: Ancient & Medieval

Lisa Robeson, English
Gerald W. Schlabach, History & Religion

Humanities I is the first of three team-taught, interdisciplinary courses in the humanities sequence of the Bluffton College core curriculum. This initial course will cover the ancient and medieval periods of western (European) civilization, with modest attempts at comparison with non-western works. "Humanities" is an umbrella term that covers all the different forms of the human voice, i.e., the different ways by which people have expressed the experience of being human. For this reason, the course integrates and draws on history, literature, religion, philosophy, art, and music. Lectures and discussions will take up issues that have faced humankind in each age, along with values by which each age and culture lived.

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