Theory and Methods of the Humanities
This page supports the graduate course Theory and Methods of the Humanities, at the University of Central Florida. It is taught by Bruce Janz.
- Syllabus: HTML, pdf, Word
- Reading Schedule, Fall 2006
- Schedule of Position Papers, Fall 2006
Humanities
- What are the humanities?
- Some Interpretations of the Humanities
- A. S. P. Woodhouse, “The Nature of the Humanities”
- Bayard Coll, “Humanities”
- Patt Nicolet, “On the Function of the Humanities at the Present Time”
- John Updike, “Humanities Class”
- Humanities Major at San Francisco State University – Description
- Richard Jewell, Experiencing the Humanities – online text
- Overview of Theory & Methods in Humanities & Humanistic Social Science
- T. V. Reed, “Theory and Method in American/Cultural Studies: A Bibliography”
- Some Interpretations of the Humanities
- The Production of Knowledge in the University and in Society
- History of the University
- The Liberal Arts
- Bibliography of the Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinarity, and University Studies
- Disciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and Post-Disciplinarity
- The Key to Humanities Research: Questions
- Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
- Lyotard on Postmodernism
Textuality
- Marshall Blonsky, On Signs
- Semiotics
- Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
- Post-Structuralism
- Paul Ricoeur, Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning
- Hermeneutics
Visuality
- Nicholas Mirzoeff, Visual Culture
- Representing the Rose
Applications
- UCF Cultural Heritage Alliance & Folkvine
- Mieke Bal, Travelling Concepts in the Humanites
- Interdisciplinarity
Reading: de Zengotita, Thomas. “Common Ground: Finding Our Way Back To The Enlightenment”Harper’s, January 2003