The Human Sciences

Harvard Extension School

HUMA E-206

Section 1

CRN 27178

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What do humanist scholars do and how do they do it? This preparatory course introduces students to the fundamental skills, techniques, and methods that are applicable for study in any one of the disciplines offered in the humanities, including languages and literatures, philosophy and theory, music, and performance and the visual arts, from antiquity to the present. Through a comprehensive and systematic explication of cross-disciplinary terminology, participants acquire the tools necessary for interpretation and analysis, for critically engaging with what has been produced, expressed, and argued by artists and thinkers across the world's epochs and cultures.

Credits: 4

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Term

Spring Term 2027

Part of Term

Full Term

Format

Online

Credit Status

Graduate, Noncredit, Undergraduate

Section Status

Open

Instructor Info

John T. Hamilton, PhD

William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Harvard University


Meeting Info

1/25 to 5/15

Participation Option: Online Asynchronous

In online asynchronous courses, you are not required to attend class at a particular time. Instead you can complete the course work on your own schedule each week.

Deadlines

Last day to register:

Notes

The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences companion course Humanities 17. Registered students can ordinarily live stream the lectures Wednesdays, 3-5 pm starting January 27 or they can watch them on demand. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Class sessions for this course may include students enrolled in the FAS companion course. Accordingly, when you participate in live class sessions, you will do so alongside both Division of Continuing Education (DCE) and FAS students. If you participate in a way that causes you to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to DCE students enrolled in this course or FAS students enrolled in the companion course, according to the policies of the two schools on accessing recordings of class sessions.

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All Sections of this Course

CRN Section # Participation Option(s) Instructor Section Status Meets Term Dates
27178 1 Online Asynchronous John Hamilton Open Jan 25 to May 15

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