Editing Reed College (section)

===Humanities program===
Reed President Richard Scholz in 1922 called the educational program as a whole "an honest effort to disregard old historic rivalries and hostilities between the sciences and the arts, between professional and cultural subjects, and,{{nbsp}}... the formal chronological cleavage between the graduate and the undergraduate attitude of mind".<ref>Scholz, Richard F., "Remarks to the Association of American Colleges", 1922.</ref>  The Humanities program, which came into being in 1943 (as the union of two year-long courses, one in "world" literature, the other in "world" history) is one manifestation of this effort. One change to the program was the addition of a course in Chinese Civilization in 1995. The faculty has also recently approved several significant changes to the introductory syllabus. These changes include expanding the parameters of the course to include more material regarding urban and cultural environments.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/Hum110/syllabus/syllabus-preview-2010-13.html |title=Humanities 110, Syllabus for 2010–2013 |publisher=Academic.reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926205916/http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/Hum110/syllabus/syllabus-preview-2010-13.html |archive-date=September 26, 2011 }}</ref>

Reed's Humanities program includes the mandatory freshman course ''Introduction to Western Humanities'' covering ancient [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] literature, history, art, religion, and philosophy. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors may take ''Early Modern Europe'' covering [[Renaissance]] thought and literature; ''Modern Humanities'' covering the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], the [[French Revolution]], the [[Industrial Revolution]], and [[Modernism]], and/or ''Foundations of Chinese Civilization''. There is also a Humanities Senior Symposium.<ref>{{cite web |title=Humanities 411 |url=https://www.reed.edu/humanities/hum411/index.html |website=reed.edu |access-date=19 January 2021}}</ref>