The Humanities in Uncommonology

The humanities are where human imagination leaves its fingerprints on the world. In Languages and Literature, we peer into the secret life of sentences, wander through stories that argue with each other, and practice the strange art of lying beautifully with words. From fiction as dreams bound in ink to poetry as spells that rhyme, from non-fiction’s truths dressed in prose to world literature’s forgotten libraries, every tongue and tradition becomes a doorway. These studies remind us that language is not just a tool but a living force — capable of persuading, disguising, enchanting, or even haunting.

Yet words are only one way humans tell their stories. The performing arts give breath, rhythm, and movement to what can’t be written down. Music reveals the mathematics of emotion, whether improvised chaos in jazz, ancestral songs still humming, or cathedrals of sound built by composers. Dance writes in secret languages with bodies, theatre conjures shadows onto stages, and film captures our dreams in flickering phantoms. From puppetry to screenwriting, choreography to conducting, each discipline is a way of binding the invisible into form, teaching us that performance is as much about presence as it is about memory.

And then there are the visible traces: the visual arts, history, law, and religion — the frameworks that shape, preserve, and challenge our shared existence. Visual arts turn lines into breath, colours into spellwork, and threads into stories. History whispers from ruins, castles, and frontiers, showing how every ledger, experiment, and revolution is really a human drama. Law makes poetry out of rules and theatre out of justice, while religion and theology map our conversations with the unseen, from epics of the eternal to verses in the sand. Together, the humanities in Uncommonology form not a catalogue but a living chorus — a reminder that to be human is to keep telling, retelling, and re-enchanting the world.

Modules in Humanities

Languages & Literature

  • English studies — The Secret Life of Sentences

  • Comparative literature — Stories That Argue With Each Other

  • Creative writing — How to Lie Beautifully With Words

  • Fiction — Dreams Bound in Ink

  • Poetry — Spells That Rhyme

  • Non-fiction — Truth Dressed as Prose

  • Creative nonfiction — The Honest Trickster

  • Literary theory & criticism — X-Raying the Book

  • Rhetoric — The Alchemy of Persuasion

  • World literature — The Library of Forgotten Worlds

  • American literature — Myths of the Frontier

  • British literature — Empire in Ink

  • Irish literature — Stories in Green

  • Scottish literature — Whisky and Words

  • African-American literature — Songs from the Shadowed South

  • Canadian literature — Snow and Silence

  • Indian English literature — Spices on the Page

  • New Zealand literature — Voices Across the Sea

  • South African literature — Writing the Apartheid Ghost

  • Welsh literature — Tongues of the Red Dragon

Performing Arts

  • Music — The Mathematics of Emotion

  • Composition — Building Cathedrals of Sound

  • Conducting — The Puppet-Strings of Orchestra

  • Jazz studies — Improvised Chaos

  • Ethnomusicology — Songs the Ancestors Still Hum

  • Music history — The Timeline That Sings

  • Music theory — The Grammar of Vibration

  • Organology — The Archaeology of Instruments

  • Singing — Breathing in Harmony

  • Recording — Capturing Echoes in Amber

  • Dance — Moving in Secret Languages

  • Choreography — Writing with Bodies

  • Dance history — Steps Through Time

  • Ethnochoreology — The Tribal Pulse

  • Theatre — Stages for Shadows

  • Acting — Becoming Someone Else

  • Directing — Guiding Ghosts on Stage

  • Playwriting — Whispers on Paper

  • Theatre history — The Curtain’s Memory

  • Puppetry — The Wooden Trickster

  • Stage design — World-Building with Scenery

  • Film studies — Dreams Caught on Celluloid

  • Filmmaking — Magic Lanterns & Moving Phantoms

  • Animation — Drawing Life into Lines

  • Screenwriting — Blueprints of Dreaming

  • Film criticism — Watching the Watchers

  • Television studies — The Household Oracle

Visual Arts

  • Fine arts — Painting with Ghosts

  • Drawing — Lines That Breathe

  • Painting — Colour as Spellwork

  • Sculpture — Frozen Gestures

  • Photography — Catching Time in a Box

  • Printmaking — Impressions of Shadows

  • Applied arts — Art for Everyday Magic

  • Digital art — Pixels with a Soul

  • Fashion design — Clothing the Invisible

  • Textile arts — Threads That Tell Stories

  • Calligraphy — Dancing Letters

  • Culinary arts — Alchemy of the Kitchen

  • Architecture — Designing What Doesn’t Exist Yet

  • Interior design — Rooms with Secrets

  • Landscape architecture — Gardens as Poems

  • Preservation — Keeping Time Alive in Stone

History

  • Ancient history — Whispers from the Ruins

  • Medieval history — Castles of Memory

  • Modern history — The Recent Past That Never Happened

  • Art history — The Gallery as Time Machine

  • Cultural history — Time as Costume

  • Intellectual history — Brains Across Ages

  • Economic history — Ledgers of the Lost

  • Political history — The Dance of Crowns

  • Scientific history — The Experiments That Shaped Us

  • Technological history — When Tools Told Stories

  • World history — The Earth’s Scrapbook

  • African history — The Drumbeat of Time

  • Asian history — Silk Roads and Shadows

  • European history — Empires in Echo

  • American history — Frontier Dreams

  • Latin American history — Jungles of Memory

  • Russian history — Snowbound Revolutions

Law

  • Constitutional law — The Poetry of Rules

  • Criminal law — Crime, Punishment, and the Theatre of Justice

  • International law — Borders Made of Paper

  • Civil law — Contracts of Trust and Treachery

  • Environmental law — The Earth in Court

  • Family law — Kinship on Paper

  • Labour law — Work and Its Chains

  • Comparative law — Justice by Juxtaposition

  • Religious law — The Codex of Faith

Religion & Theology

  • History of religion — Gods on the Timeline

  • Philosophy of religion — Conversations with the Unseen

  • Sociology of religion — Faith in Society’s Mirror

  • Psychology of religion — The Mind in Prayer

  • Theology — Blueprints of the Divine

  • Biblical studies — Exegesis of Shadows

  • Comparative theology — Sacred Dialogues

  • Christian theology — Crossroads of Faith

  • Hindu theology — Epics of the Eternal

  • Jewish theology — The Covenant in Ink

  • Islamic theology — Verses in the Sand

  • Buddhist theology — The Wheel of Dharma Turns