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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by wnorth · returned 9 results
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EUST 102 Elementary Italian II 3 credits
- Winter 2024
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EUST 101 Elementary Italian or Instructor Permission
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EUST 102.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 110 The Power of Place: Memory and Counter-Memory in the European City 6 credits
This team-taught interdisciplinary course explores the relationship between memory, place and power in Europe’s cities. It examines the practices through which individuals and groups imagine, negotiate and contest their past in public spaces through art, literature, film and architecture. The instructors will draw on their research and teaching experience in urban centers of Europe after a thorough introduction to the study of memory across different disciplines. Students will be challenged to think critically about larger questions regarding the possibility of national and local memories as the foundation of identity and pride but also of guilt and shame.
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EUST 290 Economics and European Studies Program: Studying Britain in Europe: from the Great War to Brexit 2 credits
This course provides guided readings for students on the Economics and European Studies OCS in Cambridge. The course introduces students to the study of European Institutions and their development in the context of major political events of the day. It also covers the different crises that led to the Union’s establishment after the experience of two World Wars, the post-war settlement, and Britain’s awkward relationship with the EU from Churchill to Brexit.
Participation in OCS Cambridge Program
- Winter 2024
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GRK 285 Weekly Greek 2 credits
This course is intended for students who have completed Greek 204 (or equivalent) and wish to maintain and deepen their language skills. Students will meet weekly to review prepared passages, as well as reading at sight. Actual reading content will be determined prior to the start of term by the instructor in consultation with the students who have enrolled. There will be brief, periodic assessments of language comprehension throughout the term.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
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Greek 204 or equivalent
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GRK 285.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 205 3:10pm-4:20pm
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GRK 285.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 205 3:10pm-4:20pm
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HIST 235 Making and Breaking Institutions: Structure, Culture, Corruption, and Reform in the Middle Ages 6 credits
From churches and monasteries to universities, guilds, governmental administrations, the medieval world was full of institutions. They emerged, by accident or design, to do particular kinds of work and to benefit particular persons or groups. These institutions faced hard questions like those we ask of our institutions today: How best to structure, distribute, and control power and authority? What is the place of the institution in the wider world? How is a collective identity and ethos achieved, maintained, or transformed? Where does corruption come from and how can institutions be reformed? This course will explore these questions through discussion of case studies and primary sources from the medieval world as well as theoretical studies of these topics.
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HIST 235.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 236 The Worlds of Hildegard of Bingen 6 credits
Author, composer, artist, abbess, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) used words, images and sound to share unique mystical experiences with her community and the broader world. At the same time, developments in Christian-Jewish relations, church-state relations, and the arts made the Holy Roman Empire a dynamic environment for religious, cultural, and political innovation. Through close examination of Hildegard’s works (writings, images, and music) and her contemporaries informed by current scholarship, we will investigate this period of creativity, conflict, and possibility, especially for women. Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections.
Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections
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HIST 236.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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IDSC 099 Summer Humanities Program 6 credits
In this course, we will explore how key historic figures understood the connection between knowledge, power, and identity and the ways in which they sought to help their contemporaries perceive and cope with uncertainty, deception, and controversial truths. Throughout this course students choosing history as their primary field will pursue individual curated research projects that will culminate in a research essay and a public presentation based on this research.
- Summer 2023
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IDSC 100 Civil Discourse in a Troubled Age 6 credits
As we listen to people discussing critical issues facing individuals, communities, countries and the planet, what do we see happening? Is communication occurring? Do the sides hear each other and seek to understand another point of view, even if in disagreement? Is the goal truth or the best policy or victory for a side? What skills, approaches, and conditions lead to genuine discussion and productive argument? How can we cultivate these as individuals and communities? This Argument and Inquiry seminar addresses these questions in both theory and practice by allowing students the opportunity to read, view, discuss, and analyze theoretical discussions and case studies drawn from the past and present on a range of controversial topics.
Held for new first year students, Extra Time
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IDSC 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤 · Sindy Fleming 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WHasenstab 109 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 109 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 235 Religion and Identity in the Medieval Middle East 6 credits
This course explores the emergence and formation of Islam as a faith in the medieval Middle East (sixth-eleventh centuries) and its impact on social relations and identities in the complex and evolving cultural and religious communities that populated this multifaceted region. Through close reading and discussion of primary sources (in translation) (Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Persian, Greek, and Latin) and scholarship, we will situate the development of Islam in the context of religious and social change in this period and to understand Islam’s role in the transformation of life in the region.
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RELG 235.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤 · William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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