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Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

Grand Canyon University’s Bachelor of Arts in English Literature program is designed to provide its majors with a general knowledge of the history of English and American literature and specific knowledge of selected authors, periods, and genres. Students will acquire skills and practice in written and oral communication, critical thinking about literary and other texts, and grammar and linguistics relevant to primary and secondary teaching. Students will gain a critical appreciation for literature and recognize the broad value of literature and its potential to expand students’ perspectives and transform their visions of the world.

This course considers the role that ethical thinking plays in the liberal arts. Topics are set in historic, literary, artistic, political, philosophical, religious, social, and scientific perspectives. The impact and contributions of leaders in these fields are also considered.

Course introduces students to the important questions and issues in the graduate study of the humanities through an overview of research methods and research analysis with an emphasis on appropriate writing style. Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Humanities graduate program

This class is an introduction to research methods used in the humanities at the graduate level. It is a hands-on class: students develop a research proposal in an area of their choice. The course will be valuable for masters students in the early stages of research as they begin to identify a potential research topic and plan their work. It will also be useful for anyone wanting to learn how scientific research is done in practice. Topics include research paradigms and methodologies, research question formulation, design of research approach, literature search and presentation of related work, analysis of results, verbal and written presentation skills, and research ethics. Students prepare a thesis proposal or project proposal in an area of their choice.

This course is a survey of the genealogy of communication and how communication creates shared experiences between people. Through a collection of readings, students will examine how and why society thinks about communication the way it does. Philosophy of Communication is generally concerned with analytical, theoretical and political issues that cross different discipline boundaries. It explores how people live their lives and deal with the conflicts that are inevitable whenever communication occurs in a society, whether in person, in groups, electronically or through the mass media. Throughout the course, students are exposed to the broader study of the field and how it relates to contemporary philosophical arguments, positions and concerns. By studying the historical and social contexts for communication, students will come to understand and appreciate how meaning is created through human interaction, more about themselves and how they relate to others.

This course explores the culture of Cyberspace and the wide range of social, legal, ethical, political and economic issues associated with the evolution of the online world. From its origins as a government sponsored communications network, the Internet has evolved to become the de facto center of information society. In the process, online communication is fundamentally changing how people relate to each other in a computer mediated world. We will also examine the environment that created the Internet and the issues that are emerging along with it. Through a series of readings, reflections, exploration of web sites and online exchanges, students will examine how the Internet is changing culture and society. This will include an exploration of online public spaces such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, blogs, online dating, virtual environments and identities, globalization and the legal issues surrounding privacy, anonymity, predatory online behavior, copyright, libel, indecency, obscenity, hate speech, cyberbullying and junk mail. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the boundaries of online behavior and freedom of expression in the complex, rabidly changing Internet environment.

Course examines the creation and interplay of cultural identity. May draw on readings from sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, literary theory, and communication; students examine major intellectual approaches to the formation and consequences of culture.

Selected readings in the nature of myth as a working hypothesis whose object is to explain the world and make its phenomena intelligible. Topics for study might include the purpose and nature of myth, the major perspectives used to analyze and understand myth, the role of myth as mediator between past and present, the spiritual quality of myth, the transformation of myth into objective reality, myth as symbol, etc. Texts may include Greek, Roman, Celtic, Nordic and other world mythologies.

This course will examine and familiarize the students with various cult films and the cult film phenomenon. From the definition (or designation) of “cult”, to the unusual, yet vital role in society this non-genre fills, the cult film does not fit into traditional critical rhetoric. Instead, by being a marginalized area of film, the cult film and the audiences of this phenomenon deconstruct mainstream film entertainment and analysis.

Readings from ancient dramatic works including those of Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes. Exploration of the unique nature and continuing significance of Greek tragedy and Greek theater in the drama of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. All discussion will stem from Aristotle’s Poetics as the basis for western dramatic traditions and conventions. Topics of study from the texts will include such issues as the tragic voice, the role of women, the nature of heroism, human beings ’ relationship to the divine, and the role of fate in human affairs. Prerequisite: Completion of 12 hours in the MA Humanities program

This course examines the complex social and political history of the peoples of the British Isles from prehistory, to the Celtic migration, to the Roman Conquest, to the invasions of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, ending immediately prior to the Norman Conquest. This study will encompass a history of the English language as well as an introduction to the artistic, literary, architectural, and legal developments of this period, with an eye toward how these developments have shaped the present world.

This course examines the complex social and political history of the peoples of the British Isles from the Norman Conquest through the English Civil War era, ending at the Restoration. This study will encompass a political, economic, and social history of the British Isles as well as an introduction to the artistic, literary, architectural, and legal developments of this period, with an eye toward how these developments have shaped the present world.

This course examines the complex social and political history of the peoples of the British Isles from the Restoration through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ending prior to WWI. This study will encompass a political, economic, and social history of the British Isles as well as an introduction to the artistic, literary, architectural, and legal developments of this period, with an eye toward how these developments have shaped the present world.

This course offers a comprehensive review of African American history from the days of slave trade through today. Students will become familiar with the wide sweep of this history and the contributions of African Americans, particularly in United States history.

Selected topics in the study of human experience. Topics may include ideologies, religion, literature, epistemology, scientific, or political belief systems. Prerequisite: None unless listed in the course schedule.

This course provides students with an overview of aesthetics as it embraces a philosophy of are, beauty, and taste and further investigates the ways in which humans create, experience, and evaluate the fine arts. Class discussions will focus on artistic masterpieces from a number of disciplines including music, drama, literature, painting, and sculpture. Throughout the course students will analyze readings that explore philosophical issues and historical problems of various theoretical approaches to art and will include discussions on the nature and function of the artist, the intrinsic significance of an artistic object, and the concepts of aesthetic value, experience, attitude, and criticism. An emphasis will be placed on developing a personalized philosophy of art.

Readings in cultural and literary identity: 1880-1920. Coming after Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, and Sigmund Freud, the style and traditions of literature, music, dance, and art took on a new reality that shattered old artistic conventions. The course will examine the novels of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, the music of Igor Stravinsky and American jazz artists, the art of the cubists, the dance forms of Isadora Duncan and the evolution of modernism.

A study of the history of how scientists described the methods and goals of science. Selected readings from Archimedes, Aristotle, Newton, Einstein and others.

A study of the development of reasoning and formal logic and its relationship to persuasion and argumentation which gives an overview of logical thinking, distinguishing rational inquiry from mythological inquiry and regulative thinking from associative thinking; articulates logical thinking or reasoning as a process of making logical argument; discusses three basic modes of reasoning in persuasion and argumentation: deduction, induction, and abduction explaining their practical applications in the studies of humanities; introduces possible world semantics and thought experiments, which help the participants to build logical foundations for developing rational, independent, critical, and creative thinking.

This course will examine the areas of thought in Atheism, Agnosticism, and Skepticism. While the purpose of the course is not to change anyone’s beliefs, logical methods of argument will be applied to religion, belief, and the question of a deity or deities. According to some studies, approximately 30% of the world population is agnostic or atheist. This course will explore the atheist and agnostic perspectives on ethics, creation, and other issues, while also examining the preconceptions society has about those who challenge the status quo by not following the popular beliefs. The common arguments for and against religion, existence of a deity or deities, and morality will be considered. Fringe belief systems from fairies to homeopathic medicine will be examined using the skeptical methodology.

This course will examine the axial age, a period in history from 800 BC to 200 BC which, according to German philosopher Karl Jaspers, was a time when common precepts in philosophical principles appeared in China, India, the Middle East and the West. Jaspers saw this time as pivotal in human evolution in that the philosophical and spiritual principles emerging throughout these regions seeded the world’s major religions and contemporary philosophical beliefs: Confucianism and Taoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, philosophical rationalism in Greece, and monotheism in Israel that formed the basis of Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This was also a time of great violence and brutality, to which the axial sages spoke and uniformly called on people to be compassionate and ethical in their relations with others. The idea of the Golden Rule—do unto others as you would like done to yourself – became a universal cornerstone of religious and philosophical teaching.

Selected topics in the study of human thought. Topics may include ideologies, religion, literature, epistemology, scientific, or political belief systems. Prerequisite: None unless listed in the course schedule.

A study of how artists, writers, composers, and scientists develop creativity and how to generate new ideas, considered from psychological, educational, and artistic points of view. Readings from psychologists, philosophers, and artists, broadly defined.

This is a survey course of topics in the histories and cultural uses of photography in Europe and the US in the 19th and 20th centuries. It starts with the origins of photography in Enlightenment and early Industrial Revolution Europe. The course examines the role of the daguerreotype in the US, and photography’s role with war, western expansion, and social Darwinism. There will be discussions on the establishment of elite art organizations in Europe and the US by the 1890s, concurrent with the flood of mass consumer photography and commercial production. From there the course will examine major developments and uses of photography such as magazine journalism, advertising and fashion, social documentary, as well as photographic practices linked to art movements like constructivism, surrealism, documentary realism, and formalism. It will conclude with a look at the more contemporary postmodern practices which foreground the question of photography’s social and psychic operations. Special attention will be paid to the interrelations among photography’s diverse cultural uses and the terms in which debates about the medium’s unstable art status have played out.

This course will critically analyze how the news media influenced public discussion of political and social issues in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as examine how these issues were debated in the news. Drawing on readings from political science, communications, and history, students will also examine how political powers in mass democracies use the news media as a mechanism of persuasion and social control. Prerequisite: Completion of 12 hours in the MA Humanities program

The Creative Writing Workshops are writing courses in the tradition of the classic writer’s workshop, but with the advantage of being online. Students will write and criticize their own and each other’s material in light of critical study of the writing of short fiction.

The Creative Writing Workshops are writing courses in the tradition of the classic writer’s workshop, but with the advantage of being online. Students will write and criticize their own and each other’s material in light of critical study of the writing of a novel.

The Creative Writing Workshops are writing courses in the tradition of the classic writer’s workshop, but with the advantage of being online. Students will write and criticize their own and each other’s material in light of critical study of the writing of poetry.

This course will examine governments from feudal systems, communist systems, and capitalist systems, and how these systems influence society and the public opinion. Students will compare various types of government from the theoretical to the historic and examine the influences of these systems on theory and actuality.

This is a course about exploration and discovery of ideas and the world in an everchanging society. Through the examination of a variety of readings of classical and contemporary humanistic readings in social practice, the course explores a complex social world in which locations, pathways, and boundaries are not fixed. The course also allows students to seek connections between “private troubles and public issues.”

Selected topics in the study of human practice. Topics may deal with historical, economic, sociological, or aesthetic practice. Prerequisite: None unless listed in the course schedule.

Choose two of any courses offered in the Master of Humanities Program

This course requires that the student, with the support and guidance of a faculty member, carry out an independent research project, detailed position paper, or creative project dealing with the human focus of the program. Prerequisite: Permission