Humanities 5: Modern Culture

Spring 2024


Required Texts

  • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Harper) 

  • Albert Camus, The Plague, trans Marris (Vintage)

  • Victoria Chang, TBD

  • James Baldwin, A Fire Next Time (Vintage)

  • Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind (Milkweed)


3/29       Intro (Ada Limón, “The Endlessness”)
3/31       Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

4/5        Huxley
4/7        Huxley 

4/12 Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa”
4/14       Albert Camus, The Plague

4/19       Camus
4/21       Camus

4/25       Camus
4/27       Paul Farmer, Bending the Arc (film) & “Health, Healing, & Social Justice”

5/3       Victoria Chang, TBD
5/5       Chang

5/10    James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
5/12        Baldwin

5/17        Baldwin
5/19        TBD

5/24       Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind
5/26       Limón

5/31        Limón       
6/2        Conclusion (Limón, “The Endlessness”)

Class Schedule