The intro level humanities courses may not have as clever nicknames but they bear the same relationship to upper level courses and the discipline as a whole as

The intro level humanities courses may not have as clever nicknames but they bear the same relationship to upper level courses and the discipline as a whole as those classes do. A 100 level history course aimed at non-majors looking for distribution classes isn't going to teach much "real history". Not even close. At best you are getting a small morsel of the methods and philosophies of the field buried deep inside a large scoop of crowd pleasing "and then, and then" readings and discussion. Not that there's anything wrong with that approach to pedagogy for either the scientists or the historians.