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Humanities Requirements

Required Credits: 15

All Iona University students are required to take one (1) 3-credit course each in Fine and Performing Arts, Literature, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Courses marked with "(DCCG)" can be used to fulfill your Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives requirement.

Courses marked with "(WI)" and "(OI)" can be used to fulfill your Written and Oral Intensives requirement.

Choose one (1) course.

Fine And Performing Arts Core Course Choices
Choose 1
Course Number Course Name
FPA 200 Art Appreciation
FPA 201 Introduction to the Theatre, Theatre Elements
FPA 202 Music Appreciation (DCCG-Global Perspective)
FPA 203 Drawing and Painting I
FPA 205 Introduction to the Theatre, Theatre Foundations
FPA 207 Shakespeare in Performance
FPA 209 Women in Music (DCCG-Human Diversity)
FPA 211 Introduction to Sculpture
FPA 212 Art History: The Prehistoric Era to the Middle Ages (DCCG-Global Perspective)
FPA 213 Art History: Renaissance to Modern Art
FPA 214 Theatre for Social Justice (DCCG-Global Perspective)
FPA 220 Dance Appreciation
FPA 225 Theatre History: Ancient Greek Theatre to the Renaissance (DCCG-Global Perspective)
FPA 226 Theatre History: The Renaissance to the Modern Theatre (DCCG-Global Perspective)
FPA 229 Introduction to Classical Acting
FPA 230 Introduction to Acting
FPA 233 Music of the Enlightenment and Age of Revolutions
FPA 235 Music in Film and Video
FPA 236 History of Popular Music in America (WI; DCCG-Human Diversity)
FPA 237 Music in World Cultures (DCCG-Global Perspective)
FPA 238 Music History: Medieval through Baroque
FPA 239 Music History: Classical to Modern
FPA 240 Introduction to World Dance Forms (DCCG-Global Perspective)
FPA 244 Introduction to Ballet
FPA 245 Introduction to Choreography
FPA 246 Digital Photography and Imaging Manipulation
FPA 250 Modern Dance I
FPA 255 Jazz: Music, Race, Politics, and American Culture (DCCG-Human Diversity; cross-listed with BST 255)
FPA 256 Musical History and Culture of New York
FPA 258 Music and Politics
FPA 260 Jazz Dance: From Roots to Hip Hop and Beyond (DCCG-Human Diversity)
FPA 275 Women in Dance

Please add the note Courses marked with "(DCCG)" can be used to fulfill your Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives requirement.

Choose one (1) course.

Literature Core Course Choices
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Course Number Course Name
ENG 212 Self and Society
ENG 213 Transformations
ENG 214 New Worlds
ITA 350 Italian Immigrant Literature (DCCG-Global Perspective)
Note: this course is conducted in Italian.

Courses marked with "(DCCG)" can be used to fulfill your Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives requirement.

Choose one (1) course.

History Core Course Choices
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Course Number Course Name
HST 101 The Evolution of Western Civilization
HST 120 Timeless Issues in History
HST 201 Tradition and Modernity: The Challenge of the Non-Western World
HST 304 From Hamilton to Mickey Mouse: IP and Politics of Innovation in American History (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 310 American Colonial History (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 311 The American West (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 315 Civil War and Reconstruction (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 316 The Age of Revolution and Historical Memory (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 319 America’s Recent Past (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 335 The Development of American Foreign Relations (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 336 American Foreign Relations in the Modern Age (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 337 The Immigrant Experience (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 338 The Vietnam Wars 1939-1998
HST 343 Medieval Europe (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 345 The History of Violence (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 346 Renaissance and Reformation Europe
HST 351 Europe, 1648-1799: The Age of Reason and Revolutions (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 355 The Soviet Experiment and Post-Soviet Successor States (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 360 Historical Geography (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 368 Conflict in Twentieth-Century Europe (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 370 Russia under the Romanovs (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 372 Eastern Europe Under Communism and After (DCCG-Human Diversity)
HST 374 Revolution in the Modern World (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 381 African Civilization (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 382 Africa in the Modern World (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 385 The Modern Middle East: From the Rise of Nation States to ISIS (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 386 The Iranian World (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 391 China: From Confucianism to Communism (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 392 Japan: From Ancient Myth to Constitutional Monarchy (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 393 A History of Southern Asia (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 396 The Emergence of Modern Latin America (DCCG-Global Perspective)
HST 410 Seminar in History
HST 411 Oral History: Methodology and Applications (DCCG-Human Diversity)
GEO 415 Economics of Global Resources (DCCG-Global Perspective)

Choose one (1) course.

Philosophy Core Course Choices
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Course Number Course Name
PHL 210 Action & Character: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
PHL 215 Matters of Life and Death
PHL 216 Freedom and Morality
PHL 217 Morality and Skepticism
PHL 218 Markets and Morals
PHL 219 Ethics and Entrepreneurial Leadership
PHL 221 Nursing Ethics

Courses marked with "(DCCG)" can be used to fulfill your Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives requirement.

Courses marked with "(WI)" and "(OI)" can be used to fulfill your Written and Oral Intensives requirement.

Choose one (1) course.

Religious Studies Core Course Choices
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Course Number Course Name
RST 204 Christian Scriptures
RST 205 Buddhist Wisdom (DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 206 Spirituality
RST 207 Vatican II and Catholic Reform (OI)
RST 208 Ethics and Morality
RST 209 Peace and Social Justice (core course through 2018-19 catalog year)
RST 213 Religion and the Natural World
RST 215 Islam: History, Belief, Practice (DCCG-Global Perspective)
RST 220 The Religious Imagination (core course through 2018-19 catalog year)
RST 310 The Religious Traditions of China (DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 317 American Religious Experience
RST 318 Violence, Peace, and Social Justice (not open to those who took RST 209) (OI)
RST 324 Christian Sexual Ethics (WI; DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 326 Theology of Christian Service (DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 327 The Holocaust and the Churches (DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 328 The Religious Imagination (not open to those who took RST 220)
RST 330 Women, Gender, and Religion (DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 332 The Spirtual Legacy of Thomas Merton (WI)
RST 335 Liberation Theologies in the Catholic Tradition and Beyond (DCCG-Global Perspective & OI)
RST 338 The Gospels
RST 341 Story of the Universe
RST 343 Sufism: Traditions of Islamic Mysticism (WI; DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 345 Note to Self: Sacred Music & Poetry (OI; DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 370 Creative Peacemaking (WI; DCCG-Human Diversity)
RST 375 Wisdom Literature
RST 404 Catholic Creation Theology (WI)
RST 406 Biomedical Ethics and the Christian Tradition (WI)
RST 412 Environmental Ethics and Religion (OI)

Contact

Elena Procario-Foley

Elena G. Procario-Foley, Ph.D.


Director, Core Curriculum

Br. John G. Driscoll Professor of Jewish-Catholic Studies

Professor of Religious Studies