The Introduction of Humanities I is the first of two courses that provide a general survey of the humanities as part of the liberal arts component of the General Education Program.
FAS 201 traces the humanistic tradition from its origins in the hunter-gatherers of the Old Stone Age, through the first origins of settled agricultural communities of the Neolithic Age, the first true civilizations in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, the flowering of the classical period in Greek and Roman civilizations up to the dawn of the Christian Era, the emergence of Islam, Medieval Europe up to the Renaissance, to the colonization of Africa, and the discovery of the Americas.
