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Here’s an overview of the different Hum options. Take it with a grain of salt, I haven’t taken all of them.
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Readings in World Lit:
Format - discussion, twice a week
I took this. You read a lot of literature and it’ll be like the classes you took in high school except everyone is way smarter and you read more and faster. I liked it but I thought a lot of people who took it tended to see it as a lighter hum because it doesn’t focus on philosophy, so more people didn’t do the readings than I would have liked. Still, I enjoyed my professors and the literature, I just didn’t like that a large chunk of the class was clearly bs-ing everything and didn’t do the readings. It isn’t really intense in any way, you just read a ton of literature and talk about it. It was enjoyable but I wish I took something else, to be honest.
Philosophical Perspectives (Phil Per):
Format - discussion, twice a week
You read a lot of philosophy. One of the very traditional hums. Large (very large) concentration of that kids, people who read one thing by Kierkegaard in high school and now think they’re the second coming of Plato. If Readings in World Lit’s fault is that it attracts people who don’t take it seriously enough, Phil Per sometimes attracts people who take it way too seriously. Still, I have heard great things and a lot of people love it, if they like reading/thinking about philosophy.
Greece and Rome:
Format - discussion, twice a week
Honestly, I don’t know anyone who took this
Human Being and Citizen (HBC):
Format - discussion, twice a week
This is the other very traditional hum. Like Phil Per you read a lot of philosophy, but you read literature too (though it looks at the literature from a philosophical perspective, it isn’t purely interpretive). It attracts that kids but not as many as phil per. Good class, don’t know anyone who didn’t like it.
Intro to the Humanities:
Doesn’t seem to be offered this year 
was always super small anyways, only had one section last year
Reading Cultures:
Format - discussion, twice a week
You read literature but you read really, really, really far into it and the questions are very interpretive instead of philosophical. Like high school but more intense interpretation. Some people think this is the class where you focus on non-western works to balance out the others - but this is not the primary focus, although it does read more non-western works than others.
Media Aesthetics:
Format - discussion, twice a week
The really trippy hum. Go off the walls crazy with interpretation of anything from movies to books to video games to blank pieces of paper (I don’t know if they actually analyze blank pieces of paper but it wouldn’t surprise me). Not an easy hum, despite what some people (who didn’t take it) say. Many people really love it. Older alumni complain it’s untraditional but it’s actually surprisingly traditional, your texts just aren’t. If you go into it thinking that analyzing movies is easier than literature, you are going to be proven wrong.
Language and the Human:
Format - discussion once a week, lecture (often skipped) once a week
The black sheep of hums. Your readings are a fraction of the size of the other ones and it doesn’t really go into the humanities much, it’s mostly scientific. Take this if you really want that, but imo you’re going to be missing out - intro to ling is much better and taking hum is an experience you shouldn’t miss.
Most people save sosc for their second year (including me, so I’m taking self next year) but here is a shorter breakdown.
Mind is the one with the lecture and discussion. It is apparently super low workload, like only a few essays a quarter, and it’s just a very, very non in depth bio class. Again, take if you’re really interested in it but taking sosc is an experience.
Social Science Inquiry (SSI) is different too, but less than mind. It has two discussions a week. It’s basically a non in depth stats class, though the first quarter focuses more on experiments and how we know things. Still, you aren’t going to be reading as much and it basically becomes a math class after a while. My recommendation is to take a stats class if you want to learn stats.
The three big soscs where you’re going to be reading a lot of social science is Self, Power, and Classics, both of which are discussions that meet twice a week.
Self looks at the social science of society and culture and how modern society (and our conception of it) is organized and was developed.
Power looks at political theorists and theories on how government is organized and was developed.
There’s a lot of overlap but there’s a difference in perspective.
Classics is a mix of both with two key differences: you go in order (like St. John’s Great Books curriculum) and you read whole books instead of excerpts.
