The University of Winnipeg is launching an experimental humanities course that will teach undergraduate students about classics, religion, and literary studies. The Winnipeg Free Press reports that the Introduction to the Humanities course, spanning two semesters and taught by four professors, is inspired by a course offered at the University of King’s College. Content is grouped into four themes: beginnings, self and community, love and desire, and endings. The course is interdisciplinary in nature, requiring students to make connections between texts and disciplines and think critically as they consider questions about the history of human thought. “[T]he four of us have been actively thinking about how the traditional canon has excluded important voices who have an awful lot to contribute to the study of big ideas,” said UWinnipeg Professor Carlos Colorado.
