General Education

Profs. Davíd Carrasco and Bill Fash M W 10:30-11:45am How does Mexico's rich cultural past shape contemporary Mexico and the US in the face of today's pandemics, protests and other challenges of the borderlands? This course provides students with the...

Prof. Michael Puett Thurs. 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM A study of approaches in the philosophical traditions of the West and the East to the conduct of life. Philosophical ethics has often been understood as meta-ethics: the development of a method of moral...

Prof. Peter Manuelian Mon. and Wed. 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM How does ancient Egypt enlighten our times about what defines a civilization, and were those ancient humans, with their pyramids, hieroglyphs, and pharaohs, exactly like or nothing like us? How much of...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness M W 10:30-11:45am How is verbal art -- from story-telling to poetry and from hip hop to church song -- created from linguistic and musical form, and how does its performance mediate social relations as well as construct cultural...

Prof. Ajantha Subramanian Tues. and Thurs. 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Sever Hall 102 Click here for a video preview of this course. Race and caste are two of the most enduring forms of social stratification. While their histories date well before the advent of...

Profs. Salmaan Keshavjee, Lindsey Zeve, Jason Silverstein Tues. and Thurs. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM How can health care systems be restructured to provide high quality care even to the poorest and most vulnerable people on our planet? Health care is never just...

Prof. Michael Puett M W 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM What is the best way to live a fuller and more ethical life? Concretely what should we do to begin to live in a more flourishing and inspiring way? Questions such as these were at the heart of philosophical...

Prof. Jason Ur M W 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM In a time when histories are being contested, monuments removed, and alternative facts compete with established orthodoxy, how do we evaluate competing narratives about what really happened in the past? What happened...

Profs. Matthew Liebmann and Daniel Smail T Th 12:00-1:15pm Who are we, how did we get here... and how far back in time do we have to go to start asking the question? When does history begin? To judge by the typical history textbook, the answer is...