Interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinary courses offer students the opportunity to experience courses specifically designed to incorporate subject matter from two or more disciplines. As a means of beginning to integrate various areas of their knowledge and as a preparation for higher education, fifth and sixth form students are encouraged to participate in at least one interdisciplinary course.
Humanities Concentration
This program studies how we have come to think, feel, understand, form values, and communicate in the early 21st century. Students follow three great cultural revolutions of the past 200 years through some key works of literature, art, music, and social theory.
This is a story that begins with the Romantic revolt against mathematics and science (the Enlightenment), continues with the Modernist revolt against history, and takes us to the Post-Modernist revolt against language itself. The story is interwoven with others: the march of industrial capitalism and urbanism; the spread of literacy, affluence, and political freedom; and the last phase of white male domination and the first phase of multiculturalism. Students learn through discussion, exposure to movies, trips to New York museums, workshops, and presentations (both student and teacher), and write five papers each term. Prerequisite: B average or higher in English and history.
Satisfaction of Course Credit
The program satisfies the requirements for term course credit in English and arts according to the following schedule: any two courses earn one term course credit in visual arts; all three courses earn one course credit in art plus one term course credit toward the English requirement. (With special written permission of the English department head and the Dean of Academic Affairs, a sixth form student who has been recommended for honors English may take the entire sequence and receive English course credit for one year.)