A course has been developed designed to acquaint the nontechnical student in the humanities with nuclear energy and its applications in many areas affecting human affairs. Course content includes atomic and nuclear structure, applications of radioisotopes, reactors, fusion research, nuclear explosives, and accelerators. Other than the relativistic transformations, the radioactive-decay law and the cyclotron equations are the only relations occurring of any complexity. Socio-economic considerations are treated briefly as they arise. Results are given of a questionnaire examining the extent of misinformation on nuclear energy matters.