Humanities (Minor)
Program Description
The humanities integrate different disciplinary perspectives on what it means to be human. Courses give students the opportunity to explore a range of topics, time periods, and world regions by taking classes in art history and theory, history, human geography, literature, philosophy, and related fields including environmental studies, gender and sexuality studies, science and technology studies, and urban humanities. Humanities minors learn myriad scholarly methods and approaches, including historiography, literary analysis, and philosophical argumentation. The Humanities minor trains students in creative analysis, critical interpretative skills, thoughtful argumentation, and clarity in written and verbal communication.
Program Requirements
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Four classes from the required and elective list of Humanities major courses. | 16 | |
| Total Credits | 16 | |
Humanities Major Courses
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ART-SHU 101 | What is Art? | 4 |
| ART-SHU 180 | East Asian Art in the World | 4 |
| ART-SHU 222 | Site and Situation: Public Art | 4 |
| CRWR-SHU 159 | Introduction to Creative Writing | 4 |
| CRWR-SHU 201T | Topics in Creative Writing: Creative Writing, Creative Translation: The Art of Literary Translation | 4 |
| CRWR-SHU 207 | Introduction to Screenwriting | 4 |
| CRWR-SHU 221 | Intermediate Poetry Workshop | 4 |
| CRWR-SHU 248 | Writing the Novella | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 102 | History of Modern China Since 1840 | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 110 | The Concept of China | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 111 | Shanghai Stories | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 123 | Contemporary Chinese Political Thought | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 145 | Food in Chinese History | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 156 | History of Chinese Art | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 164 | The History of the Silk Road | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 165 | China and the Islamic World, c.600AD-Present | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 205 | Hong Kong Cinema | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 210 | China Encounters the World | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 211 | Chinese Architecture | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 233 | Foreign Societies in Classical Chinese Writing | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 247 | Religion and Society in China: Ghosts, Gods, Buddhas and Ancestors. | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 250 | Geographies of China | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 255 | Eat, Pray, Ponder: Chinese Intellectual Culture through the Ages | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 263 | Voices from the Margin: Modern Chinese and Sinophone Writers | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 264 | Chinese Migrant and Diasporic Networks | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 283 | Reading and Viewing Modern China | 4 |
| GCHN-SHU 311 | Global Connections: Shanghai | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 101 | What is History | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 102 | What is Art History? | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 103 | Oral History: Method and Practice | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 110 | U.S. History through Literature and Film | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 130 | Arab-Islamic Influence on the West | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 150 | Asian American History | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 155 | Chinese American History: From the California Gold Rush to the Cold War | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 156 | Europe Since 1945 | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 157 | A Global History of Mathematics | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 158 | Is That Art? The Rise of the Avant-Garde | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 188 | Empires in World History | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 200 | Topics in History: | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 205 | History of Modern Medicine | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 208 | Europe's Long Twentieth Century | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 209 | Witches, Magic and the Witch Hunts in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700 | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 220 | Chinese American History: From the California Gold Rush to the Cold War | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 225 | The Global Space Age | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 230 | Life beyond Earth: Extraterrestrials since 1897 | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 239 | New York: History of the City and its People | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 265 | The Emergence of the Modern Middle East and North Africa | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 280 | The Two Koreas | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 301 | Material Culture: History You Can Touch | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 303 | Histories and Politics of Noise | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 305 | When Science Goes Wrong | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 310 | The Birth of Psychology | 4 |
| HIST-SHU 330 | Popular Culture and the Scientific Revolution | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 101 | What is Literature? | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 110 | What is Science and Technology Studies? | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 112 | What is Human Geography? | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 125 | Paris, I love you / Paris, je t’aime: Literature, Culture and Society in la Belle Epoque | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 135 | The Global Experimental: Modernism and Beyond | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 140 | Magic and Realism in Latin American Fiction | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 160 | Translation in Theory and Practice | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 168 | Penning the Self(ie): Orality, Literacy, Digitality, and the Literary Subject | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 180 | Korean Culture and Society through K-pop | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 181 | Gender and Sexuality in Modern Visual Culture | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 182 | Contemporary East Asian Media Culture | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 183 | Global Environmental History | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 184 | Urban Geography | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 190 | Transnational Feminist Aesthetics and Politics | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 205 | French Cinema: The Birth of the Seventh Art | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 212 | Paper City: Examining Urban Bureaucracies Ethnographically | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 214 | European Thought and Culture: 1750-1870 | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 215 | Excavating Deep Time: Literature and the Human Condition | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 229 | Masters of Asian Cinema | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 231 | Making Sense of Contemporary Art | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 235 | In Conversation: Black and Chinese Artists | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 240 | Gender, Sexuality, and Culture | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 250 | Love and Hate in the Time of Dragons | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 280 | Writing Empire | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 284 | Modern European Philosophy | 4 |
| HUMN-SHU 308 | Legends & their Medieval Past: King Arthur, Robin Hood, Frodo Baggins, Daenerys Targaryen, and more | 4 |
| INTM-SHU 194 | Global Media Cultures | 4 |
| NEUR-SHU 132 | Meaning | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 70 | Logic | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 80 | Philosophy of Mind | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 90 | Philosophy of Science | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 91 | Philosophy of Biology | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 101 | What is Philosophy? | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 105 | Introduction to Chinese Philosophy | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 106 | Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 107 | Great Works in Philosophy | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 110 | Traditional Chinese Political and Legal Philosophy | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 115 | Ethics and Society | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 130 | Philosophy of Technology: Thinking Machines | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 204 | Metaphysics and Epistemology: Perception | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 205 | Metaphysics | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 206 | Epistemology and Perception | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 220 | Philosophy of Law | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 230 | Philsophy of Physics | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 255 | Habermas and Chinese Modernity | 4 |
| PHIL-SHU 300 | Kant | 4 |
| SOCS-SHU 130 | Introduction to Political Theory | 4 |
| SOCS-SHU 228 | Merchants, Chiefs, and Spirits | 4 |
| SOCS-SHU 229 | Capitalism, Socialism, Communism: Theory and Practice | 4 |
| SOCS-SHU 245 | Ethnographic Thinking | 4 |
| SOCS-SHU 252 | Ethics and Global Governance | 4 |
| SOCS-SHU 254 | Ethnographies of Change in China | 4 |
| SOCS-SHU 272 | The U.S. Constitution: Is It relevant to China? | 4 |
Policies
Minor Policies
Students may minor in subjects outside of their major. A minor in a secondary subject enables a student to acquire a useful understanding of concepts and analysis without the same degree of coverage as would be obtained in a major. A grade of C or better is required for a course to be counted toward a minor. If a student fails a course required for the minor, the course must be retaken at NYU; a course taken outside the University will not normally be allowed to substitute for a minor requirement. No course for the minor may be taken as pass/fail. Students may use Core Curriculum classes to fill minor requirements but at least 12 credits of the minor must be unique to the minor, meaning that it is not double-counted with any other major, minor, or core requirement.
Additionally, no single course may be used to meet more than two requirements.
NYU Policies
University-wide policies can be found on the New York University Policy pages.
NYU Shanghai Policies
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