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ARBC 185 The Creation of Classical Arabic Literature 6 credits
In this course we will explore the emergence of Arabic literature in one of the most exciting and important periods in the history of the Islamic and Arab world; a time in which pre-Islamic Arabian lore was combined with translated Persian wisdom literature and Greek scientific and philosophical writings. We will explore some of the different literary genres that emerged in the New Arab courts and urban centers: from wine and love poetry, historical and humorous anecdotes, to the Thousand and One Nights, and discuss the socio-historical forces and institutions that shaped them. All readings are in English. No Arabic knowledge required.
In Translation.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARBC 185.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARBC 185.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARBC 185.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARCN 246 Archaeological Methods 6 credits
As a field that is truly interdisciplinary, archaeology uses a wide range of methods to study the past. This course provides a hands-on introduction to the entire archaeological process through classroom, field, and laboratory components. Students will participate in background research concerning local places of historical or archaeological interest; landscape surveying and mapping in GIS; excavation; the recording, analysis, and interpretation of artifacts; and the publication of results. This course involves real archaeological fieldwork, and students will have an opportunity to contribute to the history of the local community while learning archaeological methods applicable all over the world.
Sophomore priority
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Science with Lab
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ARCN 246.52 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
- TArboretum OTHER 3:10pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.53 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
- WArboretum OTHER 3:10pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.52 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:20am-12:05pm
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:45pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.53 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:20am-12:05pm
- WAnderson Hall 122 1:45pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.52 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
- TAnderson Hall 121 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.52 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 8:15am-10:00am
- TAnderson Hall 121 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.52 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.53 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
- WAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTH 101 Introduction to Art History I 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from antiquity through the “Middle Ages.” The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, sacred spaces, images of the gods, imperial portraiture, and domestic decoration.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ARTH 101.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 140 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 101.01 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 101.02 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 101.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤 · Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 101.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 104 10:00am-11:10am
- FBoliou 104 9:50am-10:50am
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ARTH 101.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 101.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 101.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 102 Introduction to Art History II 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from the fifteenth century through the present. The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, humanist and Reformation redefinitions of art in the Italian and Northern Renaissance, realism, modernity and tradition, the tension between self-expression and the art market, and the use of art for political purposes.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ARTH 102.01 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.02 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Wendy Sepponen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤 · Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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ARTH 102.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤 · Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 155 Islamic Art and Architecture 6 credits
This course surveys the art and architecture of societies where Muslims were dominant or where they formed significant minorities from the seventh through the nineteenth centuries. It examines the form and function of architecture and works of art as well as the social, historical and cultural contexts, patterns of use, and evolving meanings attributed to art by the users. The course follows a chronological order, where selected visual materials are treated along chosen themes. Themes include the creation of a distinctive visual culture in the emerging Islamic polity; cultural interconnections along trade and pilgrimage routes; and westernization.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 155.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 155.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 203 Intersectional Medieval Art 6 credits
Grounded in critical race theory, intersectionality, and queer theory, this class draws on a range of visual and textual sources to trace the histories, experiences, and representations of marginalized identities in the medieval world. We will consider gender, sexuality, and race in the context of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultures during the Middle Ages. This class will examine topics including transgender saints, demonic possession, and the so-called “monstrous races.” In contrast to misconceptions of a homogenous white Christian past, the reality of medieval Europe was diverse and complex, as reflected in its visual and material culture.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 203.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 213 The Medieval Book as Art and Object 6 credits
Even more than knights, the Black Plague, or Monty Python, the Middle Ages is characterized by books, as the number of manuscripts from the period far exceed those of paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and other artworks combined. In this course, students will learn about the various forms that the book took on during its development over 1,000 years, through contextual study of patrons, creators, and redactors. Students will also develop an introductory familiarity with the tools of manuscript studies, including paleography and codicology through hands-on exercises.
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 213.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 235 Revival, Revelation, and Re-animation: The Art of Europe’s “Renaissance” 6 credits
This course examines European artistic production in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. The aim of the course is to introduce diverse forms of artistic production, as well as to analyze the religious, social, and political role of art in the period. While attending to the specificities of workshop practices, production techniques, materials, content, and form of the objects under discussion, the course also interrogates the ways in which these objects are and, at times, are not representative of the “Renaissance.”
- Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One Art History course or instructor permission
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ARTH 235.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 235.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 235.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 263 European Architectural Studies Program: Prehistory to Postmodernism 6 credits
This course surveys the history of European architecture while emphasizing firsthand encounters with actual structures. Students visit outstanding examples of major transnational styles–including Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Moorish, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Modernist buildings–along with regionally specific styles, such as Spanish Plateresque, English Tudor and Catalan Modernisme. Cultural and technological changes affecting architectural practices are emphasized along with architectural theory, ranging from Renaissance treatises to Modernist manifestoes. Students also visit buildings that resist easy classification and that raise topics such as spatial appropriation, stylistic hybridity, and political symbolism.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Architectural Studies in Europe
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in OCS Architectural Studies Program
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ARTH 321 Arts of the Chinese Scholar’s Studio 6 credits
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in China, unprecedented economic development and urbanization expanded the number of educated elite who used their wealth to both display their status and distinguish themselves as cultural leaders. As a result, this period experienced a boom in estate and garden building, art collecting and luxury consumption. This course will examine a wide range of objects from painting and calligraphy to furniture and ceramics within the context of domestic architecture of the late Ming dynasty. It will also examine the role of taste and social class in determining the style of art and architecture.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 321.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 140 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 321.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 321.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 324 The Sexuality of Jesus Christ 6 credits
Why did Renaissance artists produce hundreds of paintings of the Christ Child touching his genitals or presenting his genitals to someone, for instance his mother the Virgin Mary, inside the picture? Why did images of the dead Christ emphasize or exaggerate Jesus’s genitalia? And why were these phallic features of Renaissance religious painting not openly discussed and debated in art historical scholarship until 1983? These questions are at the heart of this course. In order to answer them we will examine the art critic Leo Steinberg’s groundbreaking book, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion (1983) and the dramatic responses Steinberg’s book engendered.
- Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 324.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 140 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CHIN 258 Classical Chinese Thought: Wisdom and Advice from Ancient Masters 6 credits
Behind the skyscrapers and the modern technology of present-day China stand the ancient Chinese philosophers, whose influence penetrates every aspect of society. This course introduces the teachings of various foundational thinkers: Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Sunzi, Zhuangzi, and Hanfeizi, who flourished from the fifth-second centuries B.C. Topics include kinship, friendship, self-improvement, freedom, the art of war, and the relationship between human beings and nature. Aiming to bring Chinese wisdom to the context of daily life, this course opens up new possibilities to better understand the self and the world. No knowledge of Chinese is required.
In translation
- Spring 2020, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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CLAS 124 Roman Archaeology and Art 6 credits
The material worlds of the ancient Romans loom large in our cultural imagination. No other civilization has made as direct a contribution to our own political system or to its physical vestiges of power and authority. From the architecture of the state to visual narratives of propaganda, Roman influence is ubiquitous in the monuments of western civilization. But what were the origins of the Romans? Their innovations? Their technical, artistic, and ideological achievements? How are they relevant today? This course explores these questions and more through the archaeology of the eternal city and beyond.
- Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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CLAS 124.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CLAS 124.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CLAS 124.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ENGL 114 Introduction to Medieval Narrative 6 credits
This class will focus on three of the most popular and closely connected modes of narrative enjoyed by medieval audiences: the epic, the romance, and the saint’s life. Readings, drawn primarily from the English and French traditions, will include Beowulf, The Song of Roland, the Arthurian romances of Chretien de Troyes, and legends of St. Alexis and St. Margaret. We will consider how each narrative mode influenced the other, as we encounter warriors and lovers who suffer like saints, and saints who triumph like warriors and lovers. Readings will be in translation or highly accessible modernizations.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 144 Shakespeare I 6 credits
A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare’s career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare’s genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft (“page to stage”). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare’s highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Note: Declared or prospective English majors should register for English 244.
Cross-listed with English 244
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 144.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
- T, THMusic & Drama Center TENT 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENGL 203 Other Worlds of Medieval English Literature 6 credits
When medieval writers imagined worlds beyond their own, what did they see? This course will examine depictions of the afterlife, the East, and magical realms of the imagination. We will read romances, saints’ lives, and a masterpiece of pseudo-travel literature that influenced both Shakespeare and Columbus, alongside contemporary theories of postcolonialism, gender and race. We will visit the lands of the dead and the undead, and compare gruesome punishments and heavenly rewards. We will encounter dog-headed men, Amazons, cannibals, armies devoured by hippopotami, and roasted geese that fly onto waiting dinner tables. Be prepared. Readings in Middle English and in modern translations.
- Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 216 Milton 6 credits
Radical, heretic, and revolutionary, John Milton wrote the most influential, and perhaps the greatest, poem in the English language. We will read the major poems (Lycidas, the sonnets, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes), a selection of the prose, and will attend to Milton’s historical context, to the critical arguments over his work, and to his impact on literature and the other arts.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 244 Shakespeare I 6 credits
A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare’s career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare’s genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft (“page to stage”). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare’s highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Note: non-majors should register for English 144.
Cross-listed with ENGL 144
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 244.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
- T, THMusic & Drama Center TENT 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENGL 281 London Program: Literature, Theater, and Culture in Tudor and Stuart England 6 credits
The course focuses on the relationship between literature and material culture during the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. This era of violence, plague, war, superstition, imperial expansion, and the slave trade also saw a flourishing of writing, science, technology, music, architecture, and the visual arts. Studying the literary works, theaters, historical sites, and artifacts of the period, students will explore what life was like in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Living London
- Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS London Program
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ENGL 285 Textual Technologies from Parchment to Pixel 6 credits
As readers, we rarely consider the technologies, practices, and transactions that deliver us our texts. This course introduces students to the material study of writing, manuscripts, books, printing, and digital media. It attends to the processes of copying, revision, editing, and circulation; familiarizes students with the disciplines of descriptive bibliography, paleography, and textual criticism; and introduces the principles of editing, in both print and electronic media. It offers hands-on practice in most of these areas.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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ENGL 285.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:George Shuffelton 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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ENGL 381 Literature, Theater, and Culture in Tudor and Stuart England 6 credits
The course focuses on the relationship between literature and material culture during the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. This era of violence, plague, war, superstition, imperial expansion, and the slave trade also saw a flourishing of writing, science, technology, music, architecture, and the visual arts. Studying the literary works, theaters, historical sites, and artifacts of the period, students will explore what life was like in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
For students pariticipating in OCS London Program
- Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or permission of instructor
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HIST 100 Confucius and His Critics 6 credits
An introduction to the study of historical biography. Instead of what we heard or think about Confucius, we will examine what his contemporaries, both his supporters and critics, thought he was. Students will scrutinize various sources gleaned from archaeology, heroic narratives, and court debates, as well as the Analects to write their own biography of Confucius based on a particular historical context that created a persistent constitutional agenda in early China. Students will justify why they would call such a finding, in hindsight, “Confucian” in its formative days. Themes can be drawn from aspects of ritual, bureaucracy, speech and writing
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 100.04 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 305 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 100.06 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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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HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds 6 credits
Through the intensive exploration of a variety of distinct “worlds” in the early Middle Ages, this course offers an introduction to formative political, social, religious, and cultural developments in Europe between c.300 and c.1050. We will pay special attention to the structures, ideologies, practices, and social dynamics that shaped and energized communities large and small. We will also focus on developing the ability to observe and interpret various kinds of textual, visual, and material primary sources.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 137.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 137.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 236 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 236 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe 6 credits
A narrative and survey of the early modern period (fifteenth through eighteenth centuries). The course examines the Renaissance, Reformation, Contact with the Americas, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment. We compare the development of states and societies across Western Europe, with particularly close examination of the history of Spain.
- Fall 2018, Spring 2021, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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HIST 139.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 139.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 236 1:45pm-3:30pm
- THLeighton 304 1:45pm-3:30pm
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HIST 139.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 150 Politics of Art in Early Imperial China 6 credits
Poetry has been playing an important role in politics from early China down to the present. Members of the educated elite have used this form of artistic expression to create political allegories in times of war and diplomacy. Students will learn the multiple roles that poet-censors played in early imperial China, with thematic attention given to issues of self and ethnic/gendered identity, internal exile and nostalgia, and competing religious orientations that eventually fostered the rise of Neo-Confucianism. Students will write a short biography of a poet by sampling her/his poems and poetics (all in translation) from the common reading pool.
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HIST 150.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 159 Disaster, Disease, & Rumors in East Asia 6 credits
How are rumors generated and transmitted in a period of high anxiety like disaster? Do rumors and anxiety reciprocate? How do rumors enhance existing stereotypes and prejudices of people? Why do rumors arise in a society that suffers from inadequate information or the complete cutoff in communication? This course classifies the types and nature of rumors at the time of making modern East Asia. Thematically, it examines the interplay between wartime science, environmental conditions, and societal capacities in modern Japan, Korea, and China. Topics include rumor panics generated by epidemic, water pollution, atomic bomb, famine politics, industrial toxins, and lab leaks.
- Winter 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 159.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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HIST 159.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 169 Colonial Latin America 6 credits
This course examines the formation of Iberian colonial societies in the Americas with a focus on the lives of “ordinary” people, and the ways scholars study their lived experience through the surviving historical record. How did indigenous people respond to the so-called Spanish conquest? How did their communities adapt to colonial pressures and demands? What roles did African slaves and their descendants play in the formation of colonial societies? How were racial identities understood, refashioned, or contested as these societies became ever more globalized and diverse? These and other questions will serve as the starting point for our study of the origins and formation of contemporary Latin America.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 169.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Fisher 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 303 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 303 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 201 Rome Program: Community and Communication in Medieval Italy, CE 300-1250 6 credits
Through site visits, on-site projects, and readings, this course explores the ways in which people in Italy from late antiquity through the thirteenth century sought to communicate political, religious, and civic messages through combinations of words, images, objects, and structures. What are the “arts of power and piety” and when and why are they used? How do people use spaces and images to educate, to challenge, to honor, to remember, or to forget? How can materials create and transmit meaning and order? How do people combine creativity and tradition to maintain and enrich the worlds they inhabit?
OCS Rome Program
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance to Carleton Rome Program
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HIST 206 Eternal City in Time: Structure, Change, and Identity 6 credits
This course will explore the lived experience of the city of Rome in the twelfth-sixteenth centuries. We will study buildings, urban forms, surviving artifacts, and textual and other visual evidence to understand how politics, power, and religion (both Christianity and Judaism) mapped onto city spaces. How did urban challenges and opportunities shape daily life? How did the memory of the past influence the present? How did the rural world affect the city and vice versa? Students will work on projects closely tied to the urban fabric.
OCS Rome Program
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Enrollment in OCS program
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HIST 231 Mapping the World Before Mercator 6 credits
This course will explore early maps primarily in medieval and early modern Europe. After an introduction to the rhetoric of maps and world cartography, we will examine the functions and forms of medieval European and Islamic maps and then look closely at the continuities and transformations in map-making during the period of European exploration. The focus of the course will be on understanding each map within its own cultural context and how maps can be used to answer historical questions. We will work closely with the maps in Gould Library Special Collections to expand campus awareness of the collection.
Extra time is required for a one-time map show in the library during 6a which we will schedule at the beginning of term.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 231.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 231.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
- M, WLeighton 303 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 303 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy 6 credits
Enthusiasm, artistry, invention, exploration…. How do these notions of Renaissance culture play out in sources from the period? Using a range of evidence (historical, literary, and visual) from Italy and France in the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries we will explore selected issues of the period, including debates about the meaning of being human and ideal forms of government and education; the nature of God and mankind’s duties toward the divine; the family and gender roles; definitions of beauty and the goals of artistic achievement; accumulation of wealth; and exploration of new worlds and encounters with other peoples.
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HIST 232.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 843-1453 6 credits
Heir to the Roman Empire, Byzantium is one of the most enduring and fascinating polities of the medieval world. Through a wide variety of written and visual evidence, we will examine key features of Byzantine history and culture such as the nature of imperial rule; piety and religious controversy; Byzantium’s evolving relations with the Latin West, Armenia, the Slavic North, and the Dar al-Islam (the Abbasids and Seljuk and Ottoman Turks); economic life; and Byzantine social relations. Extra time may be required for group projects.
Extra Time
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 233.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 233.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 235 Bringing the English Past to (Virtual) Life 6 credits
This course will explore the history of England from the time of the Tudors through the Industrial Revolution, with a particular focus on the history of poverty and social welfare. We will use new technologies to develop innovative ways to teach and learn about the past. Using a specially designed digital archive, students will construct life stories of paupers, politicians and intellectuals. One day per week, the class will work in a computer lab constructing 3-Dimensional, virtual institutions and designing computer game scenarios that utilize their research to recreate the lived experience of the poor.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 235.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 138 12:00pm-1:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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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HIST 238 The Viking World 6 credits
In the popular imagination, Vikings are horn-helmeted, blood-thirsty pirates who raped and pillaged their way across medieval Europe. But the Norse did much more than loot, rape, and pillage; they cowed kings and fought for emperors, explored uncharted waters and settled the North Atlantic, and established new trade routes that revived European urban life. In this course, we will separate fact from fiction by critically examining primary source documents alongside archaeological, linguistic and place-name evidence. Students will share their insights with each other and the world through two major collaborative digital humanities projects over the course of the term.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WAnderson Hall 329 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 329 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 243 The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France 6 credits
Political propaganda of the French Revolutionary period tells a simple story of downtrodden peasants exploited by callous nobles, but what exactly was the relationship between the political transformations of France from the Renaissance through the French Revolution and the social, religious, and cultural tensions that characterized the era? This course explores the connections and conflicts between popular and elite culture as we survey French history from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries, making comparisons to social and political developments in other European countries along the way.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 243.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 243.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 278 The Aztecs and Their World 6 credits
Come explore the world of feathered serpents, smoking mirrors, flower songs, and water mountains! This course examines from multiple disciplinary perspectives the Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico under both Aztec and early Spanish rule (spanning approximately the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries). Students will gain experience working with a range of sources produced by Nahua authors, scribes, and artists, including ritual calendars, imperial tribute records, dynastic annals, and translated documents. The College’s rich collection of Mesoamerican codex facsimiles will play a prominent role in our investigation. No prior knowledge is required or expected.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 278.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Fisher 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 289 Gender and Ethics in Late Medieval France 3 credits
Acknowledged by contemporaries as one of the leading intellects of her time, Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) was an author of unusual literary range, resilience, and perceptiveness. In addition to composing romances, poetry, quasi-autobiographical works, royal biography, and political theory, she became one of the most articulate critics of the patriarchy and misogyny of her world and a critical voice in defense of female capability. Using Christine’s writings along with other contemporary documents as a foundation, we will explore perceptions of gender, the analysis and resistance to misogyny, the ethics love and personal relations, and the exercise of patriarchal power (and resistance to it) in domestic and public spheres in late medieval France.
- Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 289.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 332 Image Makers and Breakers in the Premodern World 6 credits
What roles do images play in premodern societies? What are these images thought to be and to do? Why, at particular moments, have certain groups attempted to do away with images either completely or in specific settings? How do images create and threaten communities and how is the management of the visual integrated with and shaped by other values, structures, and objectives? This course will examine these and related questions by looking in depth at image-making and veneration and their opponents in a range of case studies (from the medieval west, Byzantium, Muslim lands, and Protestant Europe) and by examining theoretical discussions of images, vision, and cognition from the fourth through sixteenth centuries. This course is discussion intensive and each student will develop a research project on a topic of their own design.
- Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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Previous history course or instructor consent
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HIST 332.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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LATN 243 Medieval Latin 6 credits
This course offers students an introduction to post-classical Latin (250-1450) through readings in prose and poetry drawn from a variety of genres and periods. Students will also gain experience with medieval Latin paleography and codicology through occasional workshops in Special Collections.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Latin 204 or equivalent, Latin placement exam or instructor’s permission
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LATN 243.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LATN 243.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 111 Introduction to the Qu’ran 6 credits
This course aims to introduce students to the Qur’an as the sacred text of Islam. It assumes no background in Islamic Studies nor does it introduce students to the religion of Islam. Rather it familiarizes students with one of the most widely read, dynamic, and influential texts in human history. Topics in the course include the history of the Qur’an and its codex, the Qur’an’s literary style and structure, its references to other religions, its commentarial tradition, and its roles and significance in Muslims’ devotional, social, and political lives.
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RELG 111.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 122 Introduction to Islam 6 credits
This course provides a general introduction to Islam, as a textual and lived tradition. Students will read from the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, engaging them both as historical resources and as dynamic and contested objects that have informed Muslim life in diverse ways throughout the centuries. Through following a thread from scripture, through the interpretive sciences (chiefly law and theology), and into an analysis of Muslim life in the contemporary world, students will explore answers Muslim thinkers have given to major questions of our shared existence, with both fidelity to the texts and flexibility to present demands. Though the focus of this course is not on Islam’s role in current events, through attaining a solid introduction to the tradition–its sociology, its history, and its modes of reasoning–students will attain the knowledge necessary to begin to engage those events with a critical and informed mind.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 122.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 122.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 162 Jesus, the Bible, and Christian Beginnings 6 credits
This course introduces students to the diverse literature and theologies of the New Testament and to the origins and social worlds of early Christianity. Possible topics include: Jesus and his message; Paul and women’s spiritual authority; non-canonical gospels (Mary, Thomas, Judas, etc.); relations between Christians and Jews in the first century; and conflict with empire. Attention is given to the interpretation of New Testament texts in their ancient historical setting, and to the various ways contemporary scholars and groups interpret the New Testament as a source for theological reflection.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 231 From Luther to Kierkegaard 6 credits
Martin Luther and the Reformation have often been understood as crucial factors in the rise of “modernity.” Yet, the Reformation was also a medieval event, and Luther was certainly a product of the late Middle Ages. This class focuses on the theology of the Protestant Reformation, and traces its legacy in the modern world. We read Luther, Calvin, and Anabaptists, exploring debates over politics, church authority, scripture, faith, and salvation. We then trace the appropriation of these ideas by modern thinkers, who draw upon the perceived individualism of the Reformers in their interpretations of religious experience, despair, freedom, and secularization.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 231.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLibrary 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 231.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLeighton 301 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 234 Angels, Demons, and Evil 6 credits
Besides humans, animals, and gods, what other beings populate the cosmos? Where do evil, sin, and suffering come from? What can be done about them, and can their existence be justified philosophically? This course explores the problem of evil through an exploration of angels and demons in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman traditions from antiquity to the present, with a focus on late antiquity. Special attention will be given to the bodies of angels and demons: Are they gendered? Where do they dwell? What do they know, and what can they do to humans? This course will also consider modern articulations of systemic, historical injustice.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 234.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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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RELG 278 Semantics of Love in Sufism 6 credits
Sufism broadly refers to a complex of devotional, literary, ethical, theological, and mystical traditions in Islam. More specifically, it refers to the activities associated with institutionalized master-disciple relationships, which define the paths through which Muslims have sought experiential knowledge of God. In both the broad and narrow sense of Sufism, love has been a prominent means of Sufi self-representation. In this course, we will explore the ideas and practices semantically associated with love in the Sufi tradition and analyze the ways in which these ideas and practices have both shaped and been shaped by individual lives, religious institutions, and socio-cultural contexts.
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RELG 278.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 282 Samurai: Ethics of Death and Loyalty 6 credits
This course explores the history of samurai since the emergence of warrior class in medieval times, to the modern developments of samurai ethics as the icon of Japanese national identity. Focusing on its connection with Japanese religion and culture, we will investigate the origins of the purported samurai ideals of loyalty, honor, self-sacrifice, and death. In addition to regular class sessions, there will be a weekly kyudo (Japanese archery) practice on Wednesday evening (7-9 pm), which will enable students to study samurai history in context through gaining first-hand experience in the ritualized practice of kyudo.
Extra Time
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 282.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
- WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-9:00pm
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Extra time
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RELG 282.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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SPAN 301 Greek and Christian Tragedy 6 credits
This course is a comparative study of classical and Christian tragedy from Sophocles to Valle Inclán and from Aristotle to Nietzsche. Classes alternate between lectures and group discussions. Course requisites include a midterm exam and a final paper. All readings are in Spanish, Sophocles and Aristotle included.
Extra time
- Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 301.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 318 Islamic Spain 6 credits
Muslims conquered Spain in 711 and lived in the country roughly until 1614. This course will examine the Islamic origins of Spain from a variety of disciplines, including literature, religion, history, and art history. Topics covered include:Hispano-Arabic literature, the fall of Granada, the repression of Moriscos under Philip II, aljamiado literature (literature written in Spanish with Arabic characters), the expulsion of Moriscos, and the diaspora in Tunisia. We will also devote two weeks to the study of the representation of Turks, Muslims, and Moriscos in Cervantes’ plays and novels, including several chapters of his famous Don Quixote. All texts are in Spanish, including Arab sources by Ibn Hazm, Wallada, Muhya, and other Hispano-Arabic and Morisco writers.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 318.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Humberto Huergo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:40am-10:40am
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SPAN 330 The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes’ Don Quijote 6 credits
Among other things, Don Quijote is a “remake,” an adaptation of several literary models popular at the time the picaresque novel, the chivalry novel, the sentimental novel, the Byzantine novel, the Italian novella, etc. This course will examine the ways in which Cervantes transformed these models to create what is considered by many the first “modern” novel in European history.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 330.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 10:10am-11:55am
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SPAN 330.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm