Reserve your Fall 2026 Seat in ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture’

June 12, 2026
Professor Effie Rentzou and Humanities Sequence students outside Joseph Henry House

Spots remain in HUM 216-217, the year-long exploration of Western literature, philosophy, history, art, and music! Reserve your seat in the course today.

Guided by a team of faculty from across the humanities and social sciences, undergraduate students join an intellectual community of peers and mentors to examine pivotal texts, events, and artifacts of European culture from antiquity to present day, as part of an ongoing conversation with modernity and the world.

HUM 216-217 is part of a double-credit, year-long Humanities Sequence that fulfills four distribution requirements: two Literature & Arts (LA), one Historical Analysis (HA) and one Epistemology & Cognition (EC). There are no pre-requisites and no expectation of prior knowledge of the texts.

By completing this sequence, students fulfill three of the five course requirements for the interdisciplinary minor in humanistic studies.

An information session will held via Zoom on July 9 at 2:00 pm EST. Professor Barbara Graziosi (Classics), faculty coordinator, will give an overview of the Western Humanities Sequence and current Princeton students will talk about their experiences in the course. If you would like to attend, or if you have questions about whether the course is right for you, please contact Program Manager Stephanie Lewandowski.  

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