Students must enroll in the two foundational courses and then choose at least two classes in a specific pathway to complete the certificate.
Foundational/Required Courses:
HUM 101: Transformative Texts I: Foundational Knowledge (GH/IL)
This first course of the Keystone sequence engages students with core texts and arts-based materials from antiquity to the modern era, offering a roadmap of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives within which to contextualize interpretation. The course supports open dialogue and critical engagement among students and faculty, to promote curiosity, reflexivity, and mindfulness, while cultivating the spirit of life-long learning.
HUM 102: Transformative Texts II: Contemporary Issues & Practical Perspectives (GH/IL)
This second course of the Keystone sequence explores critical issues from the modern era through texts and visual materials. Students will read texts from a variety of humanities disciplines alongside appropriate historical context to learn how ideas transformed, and were transformed, by social, economic, political, and historical events and institutions and how these ideas relate to the history, politics, economics, and social structures of the United States. Like HUM 101, the course supports open dialogue and critical engagement among students and faculty, to promote curiosity, reflexivity, and mindfulness, while cultivating the spirit of life-long learning.
Abington Pathway Options
(Select a minimum of two courses from one pathway)
PATHWAY 1: Global & Intercultural Connections
This pathway encourages students to explore a range of topics and concerns within transnational and global contexts.
APLNG 220N: Multilingual Lives: Stories of Language and Culture Learning (GH/IL/US)
APLNG/AFR 230N: Language and Social Justice (GH/GS/IL)
ARTH 111: Ancient to Medieval Art (GA/IL/BA)
ARTH 112: Renaissance to Modern Art (GA/IL/BA)
ARTH 120: Asian Art History (GA/IL/BA/OC)
ASIA 100: What is Asia? (GH/IL/BA/OC)
ASIA/RLST103: Hinduism (GH/IL/BA/OC)
ASIA/RLST 104: Buddhism (GH/IL/BA/OC)
ASIA/RLST 3: Introduction to the Religions of the East (GH/IL/US/OC)
CAMS/HIST 5: Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (GH/IL)
CAMS 25: Greek Civilization (GH/IL/BA)
CAS 271N: Intercultural Communication (GH/GS/IL/US)
CM LIT 10: World Literatures (GH/IL/BA/OC)
CM LIT 11: The Hero in World Literature (GH/IL/BA)
CM LIT 153: International Culture: Film and Literature (GH/IL/BA)
ENGL 182: Literature and Empire (GH/IL/BA)
ENGL/CMLIT: 185 The World Novel (GH/IL/BA)
FR 137: Paris, Anatomy of a City (GH/IL/BA)
FR 139: France and the French speaking World (GH/IL/BA)
GLIS 101N: Globalization (GH/GS/IL/BA/OC)
GLIS 102N: Global Pathways (GH/GS/IL/BA/OC)
HIST 10: World History to 1500 (GH/IL/BA/OC)
HIST 11: World History since 1500 (GH/IL/BA/OC)
HIST/JST 143N: History of Fascism and Nazism (GH/GS/IL/BA)
HIST 144: The World at War: 1939-1945 (GH/GS/IL/BA)
HIST 173: Vietnam in War and Peace (GH/IL/BA/OC)
HIST 179: Latin American History since 1820 (GH/IL/BA/OC)
IT 130: Italian Civilization and Culture (GH/IL/BA)
PHIL 7: Asian Philosophy (GH/IL/BA/OC)
RLST 1: Introduction to World Religions (GH/IL/US/BA/OC)
RLST 105: Buddhism in the West (GH/IL/US/BA)
RLST 107: Introduction to Islam (GH/IL/US/BA/OC)
PATHWAY 2: Media & Communication
This pathway encourages students to examine the theory and practice related to various modes of communication.
AMST 100: Introduction to American Studies (GH/US/BA)
AMST 106N/COMM 100N: The Mass Media and Society (GH/GS/US/BA)
ARTH/ENGL 225N: Sexuality and Modern Visual Culture (GA/GH)
CAS 271N: Intercultural Communication (GH/GS/IL/US)
CAS 352: Organizational Communication and Research (GH)
CM LIT 153: International Culture: Film and Literature (GH/IL/BA)
COMM 242: Basic Video/Filmmaking (meets no general education requirement)
COMM 222N: Social Justice and the Image (GA/GH)
COMM 270: Introduction to Multimedia Production (meets no general education requirement)
ENGL/AMST 105: American Popular Culture and Folklife (US/GH/BA)
ENGL 130: Reading Popular Texts (GH/BA)
ENGL 140: Contemporary Literature (GH/BA)
ENGL 144: Everyday Rhetoric (GH)
ENGL 211: Introduction to Writing Studies (meets no general education requirement)
ENGL 215: Introduction to Article Writing (meets no general education requirement)
ENGL 229: Digital Studies (GH)
HIST 112: Introduction to Public History (US)
PHIL 132/BIOET 100: Bioethics (GH/BA)
THEA 101N: Performance & Society (GA/GS/BA)
THEA 206: Critical Theory for Performance (GH/BA)
ART/ENGL/WMNST 225N: Sexuality and Modern Visual Culture (GA/GH/BA)
PATHWAY 3: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
This pathway encourages students to consider the related themes of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in both intellectual and real-world contexts.
AFAM 100N: Black Freedom Struggles (GH/GS/IL/US/BA)
AFAM/WMNST 101N: African American Women (GH/GS/US/BA)
AFAM/SOC/WMNST 103: Racism and Sexism (GS/BA)
AFAM 110N: Introduction to African American Studies (GH/GS/US)
AFAM/RLST 147: The Life and Thought of Malcolm X (GH/US/BA)
AFAM/HIST 210: Freedom’s First Generation: African American Life and Work from the Civil War to World War II (GH/US/BA)
APLNG/AFR 230N: Language and Social Justice (GH/IL)
APLNG 200: Language, Culture, and Social Interaction (GH/IL)
APLNG 220N: Multilingual Lives: Stories of Language and Culture Learning GH/GS/IL)
ARTH/ENGL/WMNST 225N: Sexuality and Modern Visual Culture (GA/GH/BA)
ENGL 120: Difference in Early Literature (GH/IL)
ENGL/AMST 135: Alternative Voices in American Literature (GH/US)
ENGL 140: Contemporary Literature (GH/BA)
ENGL/AMFAM 139: African American Literature (GH/US)
ENGL 165N: Work and Literature (GH/GS)
ENGL/WMNST 194: Women Writers (GH/IL/US/BA)
ENGL/LTNST 226: Latino and Latina Border Theories (GH/IL/US)
ENGL 236N: Inequality: Economics, Philosophy, Literature (GH/GS)
ENGL/WMNST 245: Introduction to LGBTQ Studies (GH/US)
HIST/AMST 3: The American Nation (GH/US/BA)
HIST 153: Native American History (GH/US/BA)
LTNST 100: Introduction to Latina/o Studies (GH/US/BA)
RLST 105: Buddhism in the West (GH/IL/US/BA)
THEA 208/AFAM 208: Theater in Diverse Cultures (GA/IL/US/BA)
PATHWAY 4: Gender & Sexuality
This pathway encourages students to explore the categories of gender and sexuality through various disciplinary and methodological approaches.
AFAM/WMNST 101N: African American Women (GH/GS/US/BA)
AFAM/SOC/WMNST 103: Racism and Sexism (GS/BA)
ARTH 225N/ENGL 225N/ WMNST 225N: Sexuality and Modern Visual Culture (GA/GH)
ENGL/WMNST 194: Women Writers (GH/IL/US/BA)
WMNST 100: Women Studies (GS/IL/BA)
WMNST 301N Sexualities, Gender and Power (GH/GS/IL/US)
PATHWAY 5: Health, Sciences, and Culture
This pathway encourages students to examine themes related to health and science from multiple humanistic perspectives.
ASIA 106N: Asian Traditions of Health (GH/GHW/IL/BA/OC)
BIOET 110N: Health, Illness, and the Human Condition (GH/GS)
CAS/ENGL/SOC 162N: Communicating Care (GH/GS)
ENGL/SCI 142N: Science in Literature (GH/GN)
ENGL 191: Science Fiction (GH/BA)
ENGL 228: Introduction to Disability Studies in the Humanities (GH/US)
ENGL/CHEM 233N: Chemistry and Literature (GH/GN/BA)
HIST 109: Introduction to U.S. Environmental History (GH/US/BA)
HIST 110: Introduction to Global Environmental History (GH/IL/BA)
HIST/STS 124: History of Western Medicine (GH/IL/BA)
HUM 100N: Foundations in the Humanities: Understanding the Human Experience (GA/GH)
PHIL 132/BIOET 100: Bioethics (GH/BA)
PHIL 242N: Happiness and Well-Being (GH/GS/BA)