All students are required to take 101 and 102, preferably in the first year. Foundations of Twentieth-Century Culture. Introduction to the main themes in contemporary culture with emphasis on the sources of novelty and experiment and on the quest for a new tradition. Topics in Humanities. These courses tend to be broadly interdisciplinary.
Topics vary from year to year.
Recent offerings include The Literature of Leadership, Autobiography, Faust in Music and Literature, and Weimar Culture.