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Core Curriculum

The Humanities Core Curriculum provides a comprehensive, interactive engagement with literature, history, philosophy, and the arts.

Core Curriculum

The Humanities Core Curriculum provides a comprehensive, interactive engagement with literature, history, philosophy, and the arts. LTU’s Humanities Core is designed to help you unleash your curiosity, providing you the chance to engage some of the fundamental questions and enduring ideas of intellectual life through shared readings, lively discussions with faculty and fellow students, collaborative presentations, and problem-solving teamwork. From their very first year, students engage some of the most provocative, challenging, and exciting humanistic works of the past in the two-course “Engaging Texts” sequence, allowing them to cultivate their curiosity, imagination, and intellectual breadth. Building on this experience, students take a series of 2000-level elective courses—one in Language and Literature, the other in the Social Sciences that offer them the chance to explore culture, society, history, the arts, technology, and ideas, from introductory to advanced study. Finally, students conclude the humanities core with a 3000/4000-level Jr/Sr elective.

To help you navigate the core, our Spring 25 offerings are listed below.

HUM 1213: Engaging Ancient Texts/LLT 1213: World Masterpieces 1

CRN Course Course Title Time Days Instructor
3924 HUM1213-01 Engaging Ancient Texts 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Tuesday, Thursday Laurence Winer
3925 HUM1213-02 Engaging Ancient Texts 11 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Laurence Winer
3926 HUM1213-03 Engaging Ancient Texts 2 PM – 3:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Kenneth Ferstle
3928 HUM1213-04 Engaging Ancient Texts 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Wednesday Laurence Winer
3929 HUM1213-05 Engaging Ancient Texts 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Wednesday Laurence Winer
3296 LLT1213-02 World Masterpieces 1 Online Michelle Kustarz
3056 LLT1213-06 World Masterpieces 1 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Tuesday, Thursday Michelle Kustarz
3057 LLT1213-07 World Masterpieces 1 11 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Michelle Kustarz

HUM 1223: Engaging Modern Texts/ SSC 2423: Development of the American Experience

CRN Course Course Title Time Days Instructor
3930 HUM1223-01 Engaging Modern Texts 11 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Ludger Brinker
3931 HUM1223-02 Engaging Modern Texts 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Tuesday, Thursday Ludger Brinker
3932 HUM1223-03 Engaging Modern Texts 2 PM – 3:15 PM Monday, Wednesday Jeffrey Powell
3933 HUM1223-04 Engaging Modern Texts 4:20 PM – 5:35 PM Monday, Wednesday Jeffrey Powell
3161 SSC2423-08 Development of American Exp Online Jason Barrett
3229 SSC2423-11 Development of American Exp 4:20 PM – 5:35 PM Tuesday, Thursday Jason Barrett

LLT 2xx3 elective/LLT 1223: World Masterpieces 2

CRN Course Course Title Time Days Instructor
3937 LLT2603-01 Introduction to Humanity and Technology 4:20 PM – 5:35 PM Monday, Wednesday Scott DeGregoris
3938 LLT2603-02 Introduction to Humanity and Technology 5:45 PM – 7 PM Monday, Wednesday Scott DeGregoris
3939 LLT2213-01 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Tuesday, Thursday Shelby Cadwell
3940 LLT2213-02 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies 11 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Shelby Cadwell
3939 LLT2213-01 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies 9:30 AM – 10 45 AM Tuesday, Thursday Shelby Cadwell
3296 LLT1213-02 World Masterpieces 1 Online Michelle Kustarz
3056 LLT1213-06 World Masterpieces 1 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Tuesday, Thursday Michelle Kustarz
3057 LLT1213-07 World Masterpieces 1 11 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Michelle Kustarz
3057 LLT1213-07 World Masterpieces 1 11 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Michelle Kustarz

SSC 2xx3 elective/SSC 2413 Foundations of the American Experience

CRN Course Course Title Time Days Instructor
3950 SSC2723 Intro to Ethics 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Monday, Wednesday Dan Shargel
3951 SSC2723 Intro to Ethics 11 AM – 12:15 PM Monday, Wednesday Dan Shargel
3953 SSC2213 Intro to Social Sciences: Public Policy for Sustainability 11 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Jessi Hanson DeFusco
3954 SSC2213 Intro to Social Sciences: Public Policy for Sustainability 2 PM – 3:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Jessi Hanson DeFusco
3394 SSC2413-04 Foundations of American Exp 4:20 PM – 5:35 PM Tuesday, Thursday Kenneth Ferstle
3071 SSC2413-05 Foundations of American Exp 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Monday, Wednesday Jeffrey Powell
3072 SSC2413-06 Foundations of American Exp Online Jeffrey Powell

LLT/SSC/PSY 3xx3/4xx3 (JR/SR Elective)

CRN Course Course Title Time Days Instructor
3555 LLT4513-02 Seminar in Literature: The Old Testament in Literature 4:20 PM – 7 PM Wednesday Corinne Stavish
3943 LLT3453-01 American Literature: Reconstruction to the Present 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Monday, Wednesday Daniel Weiss
3944 LLT3513-01 The Novel: Moby Dick 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Paul Jaussen
3945 LLT4923-01 Modern World Literature 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday Felicia Preece
3361 SSC3583-01 Public Finance 4:20 PM – 5:35 PM Tuesday, Thursday Daniel Mulder
3955 SSC4733 History of Technology 5:45 PM – 7 PM Tuesday, Thursday Jason Barrett
3956 SSC3713 Topics in Philosophy: Emotions 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM Monday, Wednesday Danel Shargel
3644 PSY3633-03 Abnormal Psychology 11 AM – 12:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday
3676 PSY3713-02 Topics in Psychology: Psychophysiology for Human Centered Computing 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Monday, Wednesday
3404 PSY4213-01 Behavioral Neuroscience 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM Tuesday, Thursday
3730 PSY4633-01 Clinical Psychology 11:00 AM – 1:40 PM Friday
3952 PSY4313 Drugs & Behavior 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Monday, Wednesday

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.