Course Catalog > Humanities, Languages and Personal Development
Humanities
American Fiction
Children's Literature: The Golden Age
Comparative Philosophy
History of Islam
History of Western Philosophy From the Pre-Socratic Period to the End of the Middle Ages
Introduction to American Politics
Introduction to the History of the United States: From Colonial Settlement to the Civil War
Introduction to the History of the United States: From the Civil War to the Present
LASER: Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
- Berkeley, Wed. June 5, 6:30 pm, 2 meetings
Mystery Fiction
Pharaoh's Tomb Crew: The History of Deir el-Medina
- Berkeley, Sat. June 15, 10 am, 6 meetings
Principles of Sociology: A Multicultural Perspective
Shakespeare
The Culture of India: Roots of Tradition and Change
The Development of World Civilization: 1500 to the Present
The Development of World Civilization: The Neolithic Age to the Renaissance
The English Novel
The History of the English Language
Vampires and Steampunk
- San Francisco, Wed. July 10, 6:30 pm, 5 meetings
Views of the Absolute in World Religions
Courses Offered Future Term
- Alan Watts: American Guru
- Americans at Home and Abroad: Issues in Short Fiction
- Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics
- Appreciating Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- Beyond Bedtime Stories: Fairy Tales and Folklore
- Camus: Literature, Philosophy, Politics
- Cinema of the Middle East
- Crossing Cultural Boundaries
- Culture and Counterculture
- Discovering the Middle East
- Early Joyce: From Dubliners to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Encountering the Sacred: The Nature of Religious Experience
- Enduring Questions: Religions' Responses to Life's Mysteries
- Epic Encounters: Oral, Written and Cinematic
- Experiencing Kabbalah
- Faulkner: Two Novels
- Freedom of Expression in Times of War
- Fundamentals of Augustinian Philosophy
- Gender and Nation in 20th-Century British and Anglophone Women's Literature
- Great Novels You Always Meant to Read
- Hell, Hades and Tartarus: Greco-Roman Underworld
- Henrik Ibsen: Father of Modern Realist Drama
- Homer's The Iliad
- Homer's The Odyssey
- Horizons of Eternity: The Theban Royal Necropoleis
- Irish Song and Music: From Sean-Nos to Jazz
- Is the Medium Still the Message?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the European Enlightenment
- JFK: Life, Vision and Legacy
- Joseph Conrad: Three Short Novels
- Joyce's Ulysses
- Latin and Greek Roots in English
- Literary Art of the Bible
- Love and Power in the Postcolonial Novel
- Modern Middle East: Its Peoples, Cultures and Histories
- New Kingdom Egypt
- Oxford Berkeley Program Open House: Berkeley Meets Oxford
- Panel on the Presidency: Four More Years: Obama's Re-Election and the Prospects for His Second Term
- Performance Workshop With the Joe Goode Dance Company
- Petro Politics: Untangling the Roots of Discontent
- Poetry of the Sacred: Jelalludin Rumi, Moses de Leon, Dante Alighieri
- Science and Religion: Ways of Knowing
- Shorter Works in Russian Fiction
- Six Shakespeare Tragedies
- Spiritual Radicals
- The 18th Dynasty of Egypt
- The Art of the Memoir Essay
- The Dialectical Logic of Hegel
- The History of the Roman Republic, 510-27 BC
- The Last Giant: The Dramas of Arthur Miller
- The Many Voices of Albert Camus
- The Pathos of Enlightenment: Reason and Revolution in the 18th Century
- The Roman Empire: Caligula and Other Bad Emperors
- The World of Sinuhe: Middle Kingdom Egypt and Its Neighbors
- Thinking the Crisis of Western Civilization: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and Badiou
- Thinking Through The Da Vinci Code
- Tolstoy and War and Peace
- Two Great Russian Novels
- U.S. Foreign Policy and Democracy in the Muslim Middle East: Historical and Current Perspectives
- Universal Truths of the World's Religions
- Urbanization in Developing Countries
- Viking Family Saga and Mythology
- Virgil's The Aeneid
- Virginia Woolf and Writing Practice
- War in the Ancient World
- War Stories and Social Change
- World Cities and Globalization
- World of Sinhue: Middle Kingdom Egypt