Lives and Times: Place Matters

If you change the setting, do you change the story--especially if that story is the story of your own life? This course guides you through answers to that question, both in history and in our present moment. We turn to the "lives" of both characters and actual people as a way of understanding the "times" they inhabited—historically, socially, and culturally. Place, we will discover, can have a profound influence on who we are and how we understand ourselves.

Humanistic Studies, or HUST as it is often called, is an exciting, interdisciplinary department that invites you to think across traditional departmental boundaries. Whether in an introductory-level course like this one or an upper-level seminar, all HUST classes provide you with the opportunity to integrate the study of literature with history, religion, art, philosophy, and music into a dynamic whole. In HUST, you get to do it all! Follow us on Instagram (@saintmaryscollegehust) and Facebook (@HUSTSMC).