Topics in Humanities: Interpreting Contemporary Culture, HUMN 3093 Approved for Arts and Sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts. Examines historical, ethical and aesthetic aspects of reading in the 21st century - how we read and how we are read by new technologies. Course texts include literary, historical, and media writings from 1900 to the present. Vanessa Place is a criminal appellate lawyer, artist and author of seven fiction and nonfiction books. For more info: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/vanessa-place