48 Humanities Courses
There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin...
This course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries....
The Energy Seminar is produced by the Woods and Precourt Institutes and is comprised of an interdisciplinary series of talks primarily by Stanford experts on a broad...
Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging? Law will be examined through case histories including: environmental effects of national security,...
This course offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II. Along with the consideration...
The impact of religious faith is profound in a world where political, economic, and social spheres are increasingly interconnected. Intentional and sustained reflection...
This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary...
A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise the 8-week General Philosophy...
This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy....
This 10-week course for non-science majors focuses on a single problem: assessing the risk of human-caused climate change. The story ranges from physics to chemistry,...
This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United...