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1. Find the website of a humanities program at a university of your choice. 2. Find the required courses for a degree in the specific area you are interested i

1. Find the website of a humanities program at a university of your choice. 2. Find the required courses for a degree in the specific area you are interested in. This is always openly published. 3. Find the course homepage for each of the courses, if available. 4. Look to see if the required list of textbooks / readings is given, which it often is. 5. Repeat as desired.

dredmorbius 5y ago
Required courses are typically published either under the department's information to students. Note that both undergraduate and graduate degree requirements are typically posted (for institutions offering advanced degrees), though often in separate sections for undergrad and grad students. Course catalogues are something of a dying phenomenon, but may still exist in either printed, PDF, or nominal online form, and can offer detailed information on numerous departments, majors/degrees, and programmes. Note that required courses are often mentioned only by number, such that you'll have to cross-reference these to find the actual courses involved. (This practice made some sense in the days of print catalogues and increased costs of additional detail, less so in an age of online presentation.) If the course itself doesn't list reading materials, both on- and off-campus bookstores will typically list the reading lists for at least the present session's (quarter or semester) courses. Instructors also frequently independently list syllabi on their own faculty webpages, though this also seems to be a slowly dying practice, and more commonly practiced in technical departments (with computer science probably the most representative), least often in humanities, business, and professional degrees (law possibly the least likely to do so, the role of the legal profession as an informational gatekeeper goes back millennia). The Internet Archive can be useful in finding prior years' syllabi and course descriptions, especially where these have disappeared behind registration walls / proprietary education information systems (this seems to have occurred largely ~2010--2019 from my own explorations). Actual content change is usually remarkably slow even in relatively rapidly-advancing fields, especially in lower-division (that is, elementary basics) courses. A notable exception from my own uni years was the geography course on the Soviet Union for the Winter 1992 section. Whilst not enrolled in the course, I remember seeing the extensive supplemental reading in the on-campus bookstore at the time.

dredmorbius 5y ago

Required courses are typically published either under the department's information to students. Note that both undergraduate and graduate degree requirements are typically posted (for institutions offering advanced degrees), though often in separate sections for undergrad and grad students. Course catalogues are something of a dying phenomenon, but may still exist in either printed, PDF, or nominal online form, and can offer detailed information on numerous departments, majors/degrees, and programmes. Note that required courses are often mentioned only by number, such that you'll have to cross-reference these to find the actual courses involved. (This practice made some sense in the days of print catalogues and increased costs of additional detail, less so in an age of online presentation.) If the course itself doesn't list reading materials, both on- and off-campus bookstores will typically list the reading lists for at least the present session's (quarter or semester) courses. Instructors also frequently independently list syllabi on their own faculty webpages, though this also seems to be a slowly dying practice, and more commonly practiced in technical departments (with computer science probably the most representative), least often in humanities, business, and professional degrees (law possibly the least likely to do so, the role of the legal profession as an informational gatekeeper goes back millennia). The Internet Archive can be useful in finding prior years' syllabi and course descriptions, especially where these have disappeared behind registration walls / proprietary education information systems (this seems to have occurred largely ~2010--2019 from my own explorations). Actual content change is usually remarkably slow even in relatively rapidly-advancing fields, especially in lower-division (that is, elementary basics) courses. A notable exception from my own uni years was the geography course on the Soviet Union for the Winter 1992 section. Whilst not enrolled in the course, I remember seeing the extensive supplemental reading in the on-campus bookstore at the time.