Curriculum

Students planning to complete the Humanities Gateway Program in two semesters take four Humanities Gateway courses during the first year.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, the Program will be structured to explore the chronological development of western thought. In the first semester, students will examine classical Greek literature alongside ancient Roman philosophy. While these two courses in the fall semester are designed to investigate the foundations of European culture, the two spring courses will extend this work by posing a series of interrelated questions: How did these classical sources lay the groundwork for new ways of composing the Anglo-European literary canon, and how did the emerging Christian tradition then come to define notions of gender and sexuality?

Fall 2026: HMTS 125 Epic Quests (Prof. Vincent Tomasso), and HMTS 124 Roman Philosophy (Prof. Todd Ryan)

Spring 2026: HMTS 217 Gender and Sexuality in the Christian Tradition (Prof. Tamsin Jones) and HMTS 220 Recasting the Canon (Prof. Chloe Wheatley)

Beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, students in the Humanities Gateway Program will also take part in a series of monthly colloquium meetings that foreground the thematic connections between their HMTS courses.  At the end of the ’26-’27 academic year, current HMTS students will participate in a symposium that allows them to articulate the connections they have been able to forge across the four-core courses and with other disciplines and areas of study.

 

Please visit the Trinity College Bulletin for the details of the Humanities Gateway Program curriculum.