Humanities (HUM) - For a syllabus or more detailed course information, please contact the department at 610-758-4649.

Course Listings

 Course#                    Course Title (Credit Hours)               CRN         Day/Time    Location  Session  Instructor

Course Descriptions

96/PHIL 96.  Business Values & Ethics:  This seminar course approaches Business Ethics as “Applied Ethics” where we use moral philosophies to resolve some issues that are part of our 21 century world of Marketplace Global Capitalism.  Our focus is mainly on choices and dilemmas faced by ALL of us in our day-to-day life as consumers, business managers and/or corporate professionals.  Seminar methods are based on small groups, typically 10-12 people.  Where we study business situations in which Values are in conflict.  We do this using BOTH Conceptual analysis and Experience-based stories to capture the theory and the practical understanding of Value & Ethics we-live-by.  This means going beyond factual knowledge alone to also be an intelligent reader/listener of our unique and our common Human Experiences. Our core concepts are the “Values and Ethics” behind personal-professional “Character and Integrity”.  Final grades are based on seminar participation, and several 3-5 page papers.  For further information, please contact Prof. B. Litt through the Office of Summer Sessions 610-758-3966.

194.  Screening Desire:  Through an investigation of a range of films, this course will examine the ways in which men and women’s desires are shaped by and conflict with the moral code of the culture.  The project of the course will be guided by such questions as:  How is desire related to issues of identity?  In what ways does desire inform or disrupt class and gender boundaries?  What boundaries, if any, should be created around erotic desire?  Is erotic desire necessarily a matter of possession?  And finally, do we desire others because they fill a lack within us? HU

196.  Violence in American Cinema:    This course seeks to examine the approaches to understanding violence offered in a range of American films.  I intend for the class to examine the ways that violent affects and is impacted by issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.  We will also consider the cultural responsibilities of filmmakers in their presentation of violence and the complex pleasures film audiences derive from that violence.  We will such issues by watching, discussing, and writing about a variety of films dating from 1931 to 2005.  HU

271. Humanities Independent Study: Individual investigation of an author, book or topic designed in collaboration with a faculty sponsor. Tutorial meetings; substantial written work. May be repeated more than once for credit. Consent of faculty sponsor required. HU

371. Humanities Advanced Independent Study: Advanced individual investigation of an author, book, or topic designed in collaboration with a faculty sponsor. Tutorial meetings; substantial written work. May be repeated more than once for credit. Consent of faculty sponsor required. HU

373. Independent Ethics Project: Supervised ethics research into a topic approved by the advisor for the Humanities Minor in Ethics. An option for completing the ethics minor. For ethics minors only. HU