Slow Syllabus Gives Away the Humanities Seminar

Field notes

The curriculum is divided into a ten-week course on love, loss, friendship, intimacy, and character, and a sixteen-week course on mortality, natality, grief, and public mourning. Readings are sequenced for weekly study and include works by Gilgamesh’s authorship tradition, Hannah Arendt, Toni Morrison, Sappho, Leo Tolstoy, and Anne Boyer. The homepage identifies Justin Neuman, a Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, as the teacher, and distinguishes these materials from summaries of his courses.