What do humanist scholars do and how do they do it? This preparatory course introduces students to the fundamental skills, techniques, and methods that are applicable for study in any one of the disciplines offered in the Humanities, including languages and literatures, philosophy and theory, music, performance and the visual arts, from antiquity to the present. Through a comprehensive and systematic explication of cross-disciplinary terminology, participants acquire the tools necessary for interpretation and analysis, for critically engaging with what has been produced, expressed, and argued by artists and thinkers across the world’s epochs and cultures.