HSP Electives Offered in Spring 2027
(individual listings repeated below by department)
note: SHUM courses not on this list are not pre-approved HSP electives (i.e. SHUM 4243/6243, 4719/6719, 4722/6722, 4723/6723, 4724/6724, 4725/6725, 4726/6726, 4753); HSP students must petition for one-off SHUM courses taught by Society for the Humanities fellows to count towards their HSP electives
- SHUM 1802 Introduction to Latinos in U.S. History
- SHUM 1930 A Global History of Love
- SHUM 2011 September 11 and the Politics of Memory
- SHUM 2080 Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
- SHUM 2101 South Asian Diaspora
- SHUM 2241 Game of Thrones: Multi-Media Fantasies
- SHUM 2435 Global Maoism: History and Present
- SHUM 2455 Introduction to Bioethics
- SHUM 2462 Personal Histories of Global Events: Microhistorical Approaches to the Writing of Global History
- SHUM 2481 Recovering the People's Past
- SHUM 2703 Thinking Media
- SHUM 2729 Climate, Archaeology and History
- SHUM 2754 Wondrous Literatures of the Near East
- SHUM 2800 Introduction to the Arts of China
- SHUM 2812 Hieroglyphs to HTML: History of Writing
- SHUM 3202 Plato
- SHUM 3455 Humor and Morality
- SHUM 3465 Anthropology of the Body
- SHUM 3475 Philosophy of Punishment
- SHUM 3490/6490 Museum Studies: Histories, Problems, and Practices
- SHUM 3742 Africans and African Americans in Literature
- SHUM 3778 Free Speech, Censorship, and the Age of Global Media
- SHUM 3837 Dawn of Art: Apes, Prehistory, Theory
- SHUM 4081 Cages and Creativity: Arts in Incarceration
- SHUM 4103 Nabokov, Naturally
- SHUM 4172 Tolstoy: History and Counter-Culture
- SHUM 4202 Women and Gender Issues in Africa
- SHUM 4455 Threads of Consequence: Textiles in South and Southeast Asia
- SHUM 4670 Race and Justice After DNA
HSP Electives Offered in Fall 2026
- SHUM 1100 Art Histories: An Introduction
- SHUM 1615 Introduction to Ancient Rome
- SHUM 2023 Fighting for Our Lives: Black Women's Reproductive Health and Activism in Historical Perspective
- SHUM 2132 Law and Society in Early Modern and Modern China
- SHUM 2195 Biography, History, and Modernity
- SHUM 2220 From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan
- SHUM 2244 The Music, Art, and Technology of the Organ
- SHUM 2650 Introduction to African American Literature
- SHUM 2675 Cultures of the Cold War
- SHUM 2701 Music and Digital Gameplay
- SHUM 2792 Monuments, Museums, and Memory: An Introduction to Public History
- SHUM 3175 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitors, Heretics, and Truth in the Early Modern World
- SHUM 3334 Black Body Politics: Histories, Theories, and Debates
- SHUM 3651 Women in New Media Art
- SHUM 3655 Minorities of the Modern Middle East
- SHUM 4109 Public History, Theory & Practice
- SHUM 4465 Early Modern Materialities, 1400-1700
- SHUM 4540 Fascism, Nationalism, and Populism
- SHUM 4916 Modern Chinese Art
- SHUM 4695 Queer Archives and Archiving Queerness
Africana Studies and Research Center
- SHUM 2023 Fighting for Our Lives: Black Women's Reproductive Health and Activism in Historical Perspective (FA26)
- SHUM 2650 Introduction to African American Literature (FA26)
- SHUM 2528 Borderland History of Jazz: Mexico and African America (FA23)
- SHUM 3010 Sweetness: How Sugar Built the Modern World (SP23)
- SHUM 3206 Black Women and Political Leadership (SP23)
- SHUM 3334 Black Body Politics: Histories, Theories, and Debates (FA26)
- SHUM 3402 Africana Philosophy: Existentialism in Black (SP26)
- SHUM 3434 Underground Railroad Seminar (FA22)
- SHUM 3510 Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Radical Intellectual Tradition (FA23)
- SHUM 4202 Women and Gender Issues in Africa (SP27)
- SHUM 4212 Black Women’s Autobiography in the 21st Century: WritingHerStory (FA24)
- SHUM 4258 Jazz and the Common Wind: Afro-Caribbean and African American Dialogues (SP24)
Anthropology
- SHUM 1900 Global Engagements: Living and Working in a Diverse World (FA25)
- SHUM 2245 Health and Disease in the Ancient World (FA25)
- ANTHR 2421 Worlding Sex and Gender (FA23)
- SHUM 2437 Economy, Power, and Inequality (FA25)
- SHUM 2482 Anthropology of Climate Change (SP23)
- SHUM 3230 Humans and Animals (FA24)
- SHUM 3490/6490 Museum Studies: Histories, Problems, and Practices (SP27)
- SHUM 3465 Anthropology of the Body (SP27)
- SHUM 4231 Fakes and the Authentic: Connoisseurship, Value, and Judgement (FA25)
- SHUM 4555 Indigenous Erasure and Resurfacing (SP25)
- SHUM 4670 Race and Justice After DNA (SP27)
Asian American Studies
- SHUM 2101 South Asian Diaspora (SP27)
- SHUM 4040 Fictions of Dictatorship (FA22)
Asian Studies
- SHUM 2132 Law and Society in Early Modern and Modern China
- SHUM 2207 East Asian Medical and Martial Arts (SP26)
- SHUM 2208 Introduction to Southeast Asia (FA24)
- SHUM 2269 Korean Popular Culture (FA25)
- SHUM 2460 Japanese Pop Culture (SP25)
- SHUM 3022 Science and Discovery: Japan and the "New World," 16th-17th Centuries (SP26)
- SHUM 3324 Modern and Contemporary Korean Literature (FA25)
- SHUM 3325 Game Studies and Japan (SP26)
- SHUM 4426 Narrating Choson Korea: History and Memory (SP25)
- SHUM 4451 Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian Cinema (FA23)
Classics
- SHUM 1615 Introduction to Ancient Rome (FA26)
- SHUM 2652 Ancient Greek Drama (SP26)
- SHUM 2729 Climate, Archaeology and History (SP27)
- SHUM 2812 Hieroglyphs to HTML: History of Writing (SP27)
- SHUM 3635 Queer Classics (FA25)
Comparative Literature
- COML 2009 Prison Literature (FA22)
- SHUM 2241 Game of Thrones: Multi-Media Fantasies (SP27)
- SHUM 3655 Minorities of the Modern Middle East (FA26)
- SHUM 3837 Dawn of Art: Apes, Prehistory, Theory (SP27)
- SHUM 3977 Body Politics in African Literature, Cinema, and New Media (SP25)
- SHUM 4103 Nabokov, Naturally (SP27)
- SHUM 4025 Literature and Science: Transfers in Poetics & Epistemology (SP25)
- SHUM 4948 Pleasure and Neoliberalism (FA23)
Literatures in English
- SHUM 2080 Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (SP27)
- SHUM 2350 Literature and Medicine (SP25)
- SHUM 2650 Introduction to African American Literature (FA26)
- SHUM 2675 Cultures of the Cold War (FA26)
- SHUM 3615 Podcast, Radio, Gramophone: Literary Technologies of Sound (SP24)
- SHUM 3637 Loving Latinx L.A.: Music, Literature, Art, and Stage
- SHUM 3741 Design Thinking, Media, and Community (SP24)
- SHUM 3742 Africans and African Americans in Literature (SP27)
- SHUM 3778 Free Speech, Censorship, and the Age of Global Media (SP27)
- SHUM 3980 Latinx Popular Culture Matters (FA22)
- SHUM 4605 Black Speculative Fiction (SP23)
- SHUM 4180 Critical Approaches to Videogames (SP24)
French
- SHUM 3520 (Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History (SP26)
German Studies
- SHUM 2703 Thinking Media (SP27)
- SHUM 3075 Print Matters (FA22)
- SHUM 3211 Sharing Space: Fantasy and Form in German Architectural Imaginations (SP26)
- SHUM 3212 Germanophone Science and Speculative Fiction (SP26)
- SHUM 3514 Trash Talk: Garbage and Beauty (SP26)
- SHUM 3535 Science, Fiction, Media (FA23)
- SHUM 3545 Imagining the Middle Ages: Films, Games, and Media (FA25)
- SHUM 3555 Comics as a Medium (FA25)
- SHUM 3610 Fables of Capitalism (SP26)
- SHUM 3636 Introduction to Critical Theory (FA25)
Government
- SHUM 2011 September 11 and the Politics of Memory (SP27)
- GOVT 3265 Power and Freedom: Words, Concepts, Politics (SP24)
- SHUM 4540 Fascism, Nationalism, and Populism (FA26)
- SHUM 6836 Gandhi's Politics (SP26)
History
- SHUM 1802 Introduction to Latinos in U.S. History (SP27)
- SHUM 1930 A Global History of Love (SP27)
- SHUM 2010 Atlantic Travelers (FA23)
- SHUM 2025 Apartheid's Afterlife (SP22)
- SHUM 2082 Of Ice and Men: Masculinities in the Medieval North (SP24)
- SHUM 2132 Law and Society in Early Modern and Modern China (FA26)
- SHUM 2158 St. Petersburg and the Making of Modern Russia (SP25)
- SHUM 2195 Biography, History, and Modernity (FA23)
- SHUM 2207 East Asian Medical and Martial Arts (SP26)
- SHUM 2220 From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan (FA26)
- SHUM 2315 The Occupation of Japan (FA24)
- SHUM 2354 African American Visions of Africa (FA24)
- SHUM 2435 Global Maoism: History and Present (SP27)
- SHUM 2462 Personal Histories of Global Events: Microhistorical Approaches to the Writing of Global History (SP27)
- SHUM 2481 Recovering the People's Past (SP27)
- SHUM 2512 Black Women in the 20th Century (SP23)
- SHUM 2542 The Making of Contemporary Africa (FA22)
- SHUM 2792 Monuments, Museums, and Memory: An Introduction to Public History (FA26)
- SHUM 3175 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitors, Heretics, and Truth in the Early Modern World (FA26)
- SHUM 4109 Public History, Theory & Practice (FA26)
- SHUM 4112 The Historical Geography of Black America (SP24)
- SHUM 4127 The Body Politic in Asia (SP26)
- SHUM 4172 Tolstoy: History and Counter-Culture (SP27)
- SHUM 4265 Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World (FA25)
- SHUM 4422 Oral History: Theory, Practice, and Method (SP26)
- HIST 4474 Race and Identity in the Atlantic World (SP24)
- SHUM 4674 Dispossession, Truth, and Reconciliation (SP26)
- SHUM 4773 Twice A Stranger: Transnational Figures and Their Stories (SP24)
History of Art
- SHUM 1100 Art Histories: An Introduction (FA26)
- SHUM 2550 Introduction to Latin American Art (FA23)
- SHUM 2800 Introduction to the Arts of China (SP27)
- SHUM 2805 Introduction to Asian Art: Material Worlds (SP26)
- SHUM 3651 Women in New Media Art (FA26)
- SHUM 4035 Cornell's Collection of Greek and Roman Art (FA25)
- SHUM 4455 Threads of Consequence: Textiles in South and Southeast Asia (SP27)
- SHUM 4465 Early Modern Materialities, 1400-1700 (FA26)
- SHUM 4520 Reading Race Early Modern Art (SP25)
- SHUM 4916 Modern Chinese Art (FA26)
Jewish Studies Program
- SHUM 2467 Holocaust in History and Memory (FA25)
- SHUM 3825 The Past and Future of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (SP26)
- SHUM 4020 Jewish Cities (SP25)
Music
- SHUM 2006 Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal (FA24)
- SHUM 2244 The Music, Art, and Technology of the Organ (FA26)
- SHUM 2352 How Do You Know? The Ethics and Politics of Knowledge (SP26)
- SHUM 2701 Music and Digital Gameplay (FA26)
- SHUM 3370 Listening for Blackness: Sound, Noise, Music (SP25)
- SHUM 4252 Pop Music in the Archive: Researching Subcultures of the Recent Past (FA25)
Near Eastern Studies
- SHUM 2515 Anthropology of Iran (FA23)
- SHUM 2754 Wondrous Literatures of the Near East (SP27)
- SHUM 3175 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitors, Heretics, and Truth in the Early Modern World (FA26)
- SHUM 3448 Islamic Mysticism: Life, Love and History (SP26)
- SHUM 3655 Minorities of the Modern Middle East (FA26)
- SHUM 3707 Race and Sex: Arabian Nights (FA22)
- SHUM 4537 Shi'ism: Poetics and Politics (SP24)
- SHUM 4659 The Idea of Biblical Israel (FA23)
Performing and Media Arts
- SHUM 4081 Cages and Creativity: Arts in Incarceration (SP27)
- SHUM 4701 Nightlife (SP26)
- SHUM 4860 Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Transformation (SP25)
- SHUM 4695 Queer Archives and Archiving Queerness (FA26)
Philosophy
- SHUM 2455 Introduction to Bioethics (SP27)
- SHUM 3202 Plato (SP27)
- SHUM 3455 Humor and Morality (SP27)
- SHUM 3475 Philosophy of Punishment (SP27)
Science & Technology Studies
- SHUM 2207 East Asian Medical and Martial Arts (SP26)
- SHUM 4021 Science, Medicine, and Media Technologies in East Asia (SP26)
- SHUM 4460 Lightscapes (SP26)
- SHUM 4561 Evaluation and Society (FA25)
Society for the Humanities
- SHUM 4691 Crossing the Apocalypse (SP24)
- SHUM 4680 Art and the Remapping of the World (SP23)
- SHUM 4800 Rural Humanities Seminar (SP25)
Sociology
- SHUM 4540 Fascism, Nationalism, and Populism (FA26)