The Humanities Senior Seminar [HUM 497(W)] provides seniors majoring in the humanities the opportunity to synthesize their liberal arts experiences. Each seminar focuses intensively on a single significant work in the humanities or literature. A visiting scholar enhances each seminar and works with students to develop their theses. Recent seminars have focused on texts such as My Antonia by Willa Cather; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; The Parthenon by Iktinos, Kallikrates, Pheidias; The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir; Ulysses by James Joyce; Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; and Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. DuBois.