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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HU 102 - Modern Civilization


A continuation of HU 101 (Ancient and Medieval Civilization). Its focus is the intensive study of key and significant texts, and films, primarily in the Western tradition but not excluding the non-Western. Texts chosen may include a selection of the following: Machiavelli’s The Prince, a play by Shakespeare, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Marx’s Communist Manifesto, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

Full course
Liberal Studies Curriculum: Literary Studies or Historical Studies