The College of Arts & Sciences offers many summer courses that fill Ohio University Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL) general education requirements. Many of the courses are online.
African American Studies
AAS 1100 Introduction to African American Literature ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #5518 | First Summer Session
Description: This course focuses broadly on African American literature from work of the 18th century to contemporary writings with the intention of providing the student with an introduction to the topic. With readings in poetry, short fiction, the novel, and other forms of writing, the course explores such questions as how black writers address African American literary inheritance and production. A final paper affords the student the occasion of applying a critical approach to literary texts. Topics may include slave and freeman and free woman narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, and the postmodern black novel. The aim of the course is to equip the student with a strong academic knowledge of African American literature in its cultural and historical contexts.
AAS 2100 Slave Narrative and Freeman/Freewomen Fiction of the 18th and 19th Centuries ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #5519 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course covers the African American slave narrative, from the 18th to the 19th centuries, along with free-woman and free-man writings of the later 19th century and possibly the early 20th century. Readings typically include works by such authors as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. The course considers contemporary debates surrounding the question of authenticity as well as current views of how slave narratives merit aesthetically. The course also interrogates questions pertaining to how the slave narrative challenges conventional notions of autobiography and how the early black novel confronts received and developing notions of the U.S. novel.
Classics & World Religions
CLWR 1810 – Introduction to the Study of Religion
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #4765 | First Summer Session
Description: What is “religion” and how do we study it? The answer may seem obvious but it’s not. In this course, we explore religious practices in multiple religious traditions and examine the relationship between religion and a range of other social factors–social class, gender, ethnicity, politics, among others. Along the way, we will also reflect on broader comparative and methodological questions posed by scholars who have studied religion from diverse perspectives (historical, psychological, phenomenological, and sociological).
CLAS 2340 – Classical Mythology
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #1561 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course is an introduction to classical mythology; readings and discussions of myths and their interpretations.
History
HIST 1220 Western Civilization: Modernity from 1500 ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #3696/3707 | Second Summer Session
Description: What is the West? Is there indeed a coherent, identifiable Western heritage? If so, what is distinctive about the West’s heritage? And what, further, is distinctive about the West’s modern heritage? Addresses these questions by way of an examination of major intellectual, cultural, and political developments from 1500 until the present. Topics to be considered include the Renaissance; the religious Reformations of the 16th- century; absolutism, constitutional monarchy, and enlightened despotism; the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; the American and French Revolutions; industrialization and nation building; modernism; imperialism and the World Wars; and the rise and fall of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century.
Philosophy
PHIL 1010 Fundamentals of Philosophy
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #2473 | First Summer Session
Description: This course is a survey of selected basic problems, concepts, and methods in philosophy.
PHIL 1300 Introduction to Ethics
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #2477 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course is a discussion of classic and/or modern philosophical views of human values, ideals, and morality. It provides an introductory survey of some main problems, concepts, and results of ethics, including selected philosophers of past and present.
PHIL 2160 Philosophy of Science Survey ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #2467 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course is a nontechnical survey of types, testing, and credibility of hypotheses; methods of experimental inquiry; measurement; and laws, theories and their role in explanation, concept formation.
PHIL 2600 Philosophy of Religion
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #5781 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course covers problems in the nature of religion, existence and the nature of God; problem of evil, immortality, and religious language.
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