The Core Curriculum -
Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy
(Literature Humanities)
What
is required?
 HUMA
C1001-C1002
When?
Fall and spring semester of first year.
Can I test out?
No.
Special Notes:
All first-year students should be prepared to
discuss the first six books of The Iliad on the first day of class, which meets during
Orientation week. Every member of the class of
2010 will be given a copy of The Iliad,
as a gift from the Columbia College Alumni Association.
Popularly known as “Lit Hum,” this course offers students
the opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of some of
the most significant texts of Western culture. An interdepartmental staff
of professorial and preceptorial faculty meets with groups of approximately
twenty-two students four hours a week to discuss texts by, among others,
Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato,
Vergil, Augustine, Dante, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoyevsky,
and Woolf, as well as Hebrew scripture and New Testament writings. The
objective of the course is to consider particular conceptions of what
it means to be human and to consider the place of such conceptions in
the development of critical thought.
Center for the Core Curriculum
202 Hamilton Hall
212-854-2453
Sophomore sense:
"Don’t wait ’til the last minute. Start reading The
Iliad over the summer!"
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