Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify methods of literary study
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Recognize the principles of literary analysis
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop an introductory understanding of how the study of literature relates to other academic disciplines (such as sociology, history and/or political science)
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop an introductory understanding of how the study of literature relates to the study of other cultural artifacts (such as film)
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Think critically about the complexities of one's own culture compared with larger global communities
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Develop an appreciation of the complexities of the interpretative process within historical and cultural contexts
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain how people make meaning across times, cultures, media, and disciplines at an elementary level
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Critically analyze diverse approaches to how people make meaning in past and present at an elementary level.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Begin to recognize and synthesize diverse types of knowledge and disciplinary approaches to how people make meaning.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and describe how people understand and share ideas about society, culture, history and politics.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Compare different ways people think about society, culture, history, and politics.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Begin to recognize and synthesize diverse types of knowledge and disciplinary approaches to how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning in the social sciences.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply foundational principles of Environmental Science to practices such as sustainability, conservation, and systems thinking
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Practice science as a process of inquiry and discovery, using the UW-Madison campus as a living laboratory
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Connect campus systems to wider environmental issues relating to energy, water, land use, and waste
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Analyze sustainability issues and practices using a systems-based approach
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of operating a large public research institution
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe, compare, and analyze visual material.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Evaluate images and buildings in ways that consider historical and cultural contexts.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in written form.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Communicate orally. Listen actively.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Locate, assess, and enlist research resources in physical and digital forms.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Formulate a persuasive and coherent argument based on visual and textual evidence.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Describe, compare, and analyze the end of the world in multiple disciplines, including art, literature, film, and music.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain how scientists make sense of the natural world.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and evaluate the use of evidence-based arguments in science, including quantitative, spatial, and statistical thinking.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Critically analyze what science is and what it is not.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate the ability to recognize sloppy, or fake, science on the basis of logical reasoning.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Distinguish between scientific ways of knowing and other ways of knowing.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Explain how science interacts with economics, social norms, culture, politics, and religion, all of which affects both the trajectories and public perceptions of scientific inquiry.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Recognize the role of, and need for, scientific knowledge in human flourishing.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain critical developments in how the natural world has been analyzed and understood across premodern and early modern times and cultures.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and explain how science and its history have served a wide range of purposes in the premodern and early modern periods.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize and evaluate how premodern and early modern science has been deeply shaped by its historical, social, cultural, intellectual, and material contexts.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Interpret and evaluate historical sources to construct persuasive arguments concerning science and its history in the premodern and early modern periods.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain critical developments in how the natural world has been analyzed and understood in early modern and modern periods and cultures.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and explain how science and its history have served a wide range of purposes in early modern and modern periods.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize and evaluate how early modern and modern science has been deeply shaped by its historical, social, cultural, intellectual, and material contexts.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Interpret and evaluate historical sources to construct persuasive arguments concerning science and its history in the early modern and modern periods.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of major cultures, events, art, and literature within the ancient and premodern history of the Mediterranean world and the Near East.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate skills in critical reading, thinking, and communication about literature, art, and culture.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Evaluate and critique the historical conditions that shape your own worldview through the humanistic study of ancient and premodern cultures.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate critical acumen, cultural sensitivity, empathy, curiosity, and intellectual grounding through the study of ancient and premodern art, literature, and culture..
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain critical developments in the history of western social, economic, and political thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Interpret and evaluate ideas and arguments from western social, economic, and political thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize and evaluate how ancient and medieval social, economic, and political thought interacted with its historical context.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain critical developments in the history of western social, economic, and political thought from the Renaissance through the 19th or 20th centuries.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Interpret and evaluate ideas and arguments from western social, economic, and political thought from the Renaissance through the 19th or 20th centuries.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize and evaluate how Renaissance and modern, economic, and political thought interacted with its historical context.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze literary works from an interdisciplinary perspective with an emphasis on their interaction with society, including social institutions.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and explain historical and cultural developments in the interrelationship between literature and society.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate an understanding of how literature and society interact.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Critically assess literary representations of society and its institutions.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze literary and dramatic works from an interdisciplinary perspective with an emphasis on the role and place of the scientific content therein.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and explain developments in the history of science and their relationship to and place in literary and dramatic works.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate an understanding of how literature, art, and science interact.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Critique literary and dramatic representations of scientific issues.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Formulate creative responses to scientific ideas and their representation in dramatic and literary works.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify drivers of climate change and describe effects both locally and globally
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain sustainability as depicted in models of the Triple Bottom Line
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explain the sustainability challenges of operating a large public research institution, making connections from local to national and global contexts
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Analyze top-down versus bottom-up approaches to addressing sustainability issues on our campus and in the wider world
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Describe the intersection of sustainability goals with issues relating to communities of color and First Nations communities, particularly in Dane County and Wisconsin
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Value the human and natural capital necessary to sustain our life support systems on this planet
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and employ various approaches to interpreting plants and ecological themes in religious works of art, literature, architecture, gardens, and practices.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe key concepts of world religions and how they have and continue to understand and incorporate plants into their traditions and beliefs.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Practice interpretative methods within multiple historical and cultural contexts.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply critical approaches to understanding in religious practices and beliefs and alternative ways of considering them.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Compare and contrast the complexities of one's own culture and larger global communities.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Extract and analytically summarize arguments from secondary source books on plants and religion.
Audience: Graduate

7. Develop an original humanities argument based on primary sources and using secondary sources to construct a framework.
Audience: Graduate

8. Analyze current academic debates about plants and religion across religious studies, history, folklore, sociology, and art history.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critically engage with major questions in the field of animal studies in a Nordic context in class discussion, in writing assignments, and on exams.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Interpret film and literature in their cultural and historical contexts in class discussion, in writing assignments, and on exams.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze literature and film in multiple genres--including novels, tales, and feature and documentary films--in formal papers.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Synthesize, interpret, and respond to current scholarship in the fields of Nordic literary studies, film studies, and animal studies in formal papers.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Reflect on different methods and fields of study (including literature, history, and religion) used in Health Humanities to explore questions and problems about illness and wellbeing.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explore cross-cultural medical traditions and histories of healing and views about health and illness.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Consider the multi-sided impacts and experiences of illness on people's everyday lives, including and beyond the physio-biological, such as the social, legal, and emotional impacts, and examine ways that different medical traditions offer practices and communities of care and healing to address them.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of Roman society and culture in both Antiquity, the Pre-Modern, and Modern Eras.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Examine, analyze, and interpret texts in translation and material culture.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Critique Roman society and culture throughout the periods under review and compare them to other societies and cultures and to each other.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain and assess how historical - particularly ancient Classical and Near Eastern - theories of sex, gender, and medicine inform our beliefs and understandings today.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Assess how cultural, medical, and scientific understandings and definitions of sex and gender have changed (or not) over time.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify major developments in the history of medicine and the medical profession, particularly as relates to sexed and gendered bodies.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize health and illness as grounded in personal experience, develop empathy for others' experiences and use creative means to reflect on those experiences.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Comprehend and evaluate complex arguments about politics, values, healthcare, and health in ancient and contemporary society.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Assess what health means among differently positioned people (e.g., with respect to race, class, gender, culture, disability, age).
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how literary writing affects political consciousness.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explore how literary works represent and negotiate political questions in writing.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Encourage students of literature to read and think politically.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop a broad understanding of Machiavelli’s principal intellectual attitudes.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Cultivate a deep understanding of Machiavelli's literary sensibility.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Articulate controversies and complexities surrounding Machiavelli's political thought.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the role of history in Latin American cultures and demonstrate its importance for understanding those cultures.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate awareness of the ways in which Latin American culture is found in various geographic settings.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate the intersections between culture and other socially meaningful categories, such as race, class, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they appear within literary and artistic practices.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Evaluate literature, art, and movies connected to “Magical Realism” by means of various communicative, deliberative, and persuasive modes.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate an understanding of the historical moment that we inhabit and the way in which some Latin American artists analyze it and express it.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Identify, explain, and critically analyze the making of meaning in “Magical Realism.”
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning in literature and art.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Critically analyze diverse approaches to how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning through literature and art.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize and synthesize diverse types of knowledge and disciplinary approaches to how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning in literature and art.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning in the social sciences.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Critically analyze diverse approaches to how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning in the social sciences.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize and synthesize diverse types of knowledge and disciplinary approaches to how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning in the social sciences.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning in the humanities.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Critically analyze diverse approaches to how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning through the humanities.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize and synthesize diverse types of knowledge and disciplinary approaches to how people make social, cultural, historical, and political meaning in literature and art.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and synthesize arguments, concepts, and approaches to how people make meaning in light of humanistic and social scientific inquiry.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Formulate new questions about and integrate new approaches to how people make meaning in light of humanistic and social scientific inquiry.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze arguments, concepts, and approaches to how people make meaning in light of humanistic and social scientific inquiry.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Articulate and assess the value of a liberal education in light of humanistic and social scientific arguments, concepts, and approaches.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage with major figures, ideas, and debates in the social and political thought of Jews about the “Jewish Question” from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Understand these ideas in relation to the historical contexts in which they were produced
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Enter into a dialogue with past thinkers, critically assessing whether and how their ideas may remain relevant to the changed circumstances of the present
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore deception – and truth telling – as matters of fundamental political concern.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Examine flattery, hypocrisy, lying as a matter of state, and lying as a matter of policy: philosophical explorations of these and related phenomena are at the center of this course.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explore writers ranging from Plato to John Rawls and how they have grappled with the problem of deception and truth-telling in politics.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Reflect on personal values and experiences in relation to health, illness, and medical care, and use humanities methods to explore them
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Engage respectfully with alternative views on health and illness (especially drawn from different cultures/life experiences), and develop interpersonal skills in class projects
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify ethical dilemmas in healthcare, apply analytical tools to these problems, and discuss the benefits and shortcomings of various approaches
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize major historical trends pertinent to the health field and demonstrate an understanding of the connections between events, ideas, and values across time
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Understand how creative and humanistic thinking impacts experiences of illness and can improve the delivery of care and healing
Audience: Undergraduate