HUMA 111 Eastern Humanities Eastern Humanities is designed to introduce students to some of the major issues and works in Eastern humanities through, among other things, popular, everyday cultural texts and practices, the media, literature (oral and written), philosophy, music, and the arts-and also, to begin to acquaint them with the wider historical, social, political, and cultural context of these works, as well as with the enormous diversity and complexity of Eastern societies and cultures.