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DGAH 264 Visualizing the Ancient City 6 credits
What makes a city, well, a city? This course examines urban society across different regions of the ancient world from the 2nd millennium BCE to 1st millennium CE. Taking a comparative approach to examples from the Mediterranean, Near East, Mesoamerica and China, we will reconstruct social, political, and topographic histories of urban space from a kaleidoscope of sources that include archaeological excavations, art & architecture, inscriptions, and literature. We will approach this source material using digital methods such as 3D modeling, GIS mapping, and digital storytelling to reconstruct both the physical environments and lived experiences of past cities.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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DGAH 264.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 110 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 131 Saints, Sinners, and Philosophers in Late Antiquity 6 credits
In Late Antiquity, Christians and pagans asked with particular intensity: How should I live? What should be my relationship to wealth, family, power, and the world? How are mind and body related in the good life and how can this relationship be controlled and directed? What place had education in the pursuit of the good life? Was the best life to be achieved through material renunciation, psychological transformation, or both? We will ask these and many other questions of a wide array of primary sources written originally in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Armenian while employing the insights of modern scholarship.
Extra time
- Winter 2017, Winter 2021, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
- FLeighton 301 2:20pm-3:20pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 131.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 254 Freedom, Excellence, Happiness: Aristotle’s Ethics 6 credits
Cross-listed with POSC 354. What does it mean to be morally excellent? To be politically excellent? To be intellectually and spiritually excellent? Are these things mutually compatible? Do they lie within the reach of everyone? And what is the relation between excellence and pleasure? Between excellence and happiness? Aristotle addresses these questions in intricate and illuminating detail in the Nicomachean Ethics, which we will study in this course. The Ethics is more accessible than some of Aristotle’s other works. But it is also a multifaceted and multi-layered book, and one that reveals more to those who study it with care.
Cross-listed with POSC 354
- Winter 2017, Fall 2020, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 254.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Crosslisted with POSC 354
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POSC 254.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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POSC 254.02 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm