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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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ARBC 315 Readings in Premodern Arabic Anthologies 3 credits
The concept of adab as the liberal arts education of the premodern Arab world presents itself most vividly in the adab anthology. Authors writing in this genre collected and classified the knowledge of their time, drawing on material from a large variety of disciplines: literature (poetic, proverbial, historical-anecdotal), Religion (Quran, prophetic tradition, jurisprudence, theology), linguistics, as well as philosophy and the sciences. This encyclopedic genre represented the ideal of a broad-based erudition, and the perception that education should be entertaining as it is edifying. In this class we will read excerpts from the works of some of the major premodern anthology writers: Ibn Abd Rabbihi, Abu l-Faraj al-Isfahani, al-Ibshihi and al-Nuwayri.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Arabic 206 or equivalent
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ARBC 315.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- TLibrary 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARBC 315.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- THLibrary 305 10:10am-11:55am
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ARBC 387 The One Thousand and One Nights 6 credits
This course is an exploration of the world of the Thousand and One Nights, the most renowned Arabic literary work of all time. The marvelous tales spun by Shahrazad have captured and excited the imagination of readers and listeners–both Arab and non-Arab–for centuries. In class, we will read in Arabic, selections from the Nights, and engage some of the scholarly debates surrounding this timeless work. We will discuss the question of its origin in folklore and popular culture and the mystery of its “authorship,” as well as the winding tale of its reception, adaptation and translation. Readings and class discussions will be in both Arabic and English.
- Spring 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Arabic 206 or equivalent
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ARBC 387.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 387.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 387.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARBC 387.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARCN 111 Archaeology of the Americas 6 credits
This class will examine how archaeologists know the past, focusing on North and South America. The course is organized by themes including migration (first peopling of the Americas, trans-Atlantic slave trade), early cities (Caral in South America, Teotihuacan in Central America, Cahokia in North America), and the environment (domestication, over hunting). Remember–the past is not something natural and static that waits to be “discovered.” The past changes depending on who gets to tell the story–it is not neutral! Whose past is legitimate? Which voices get heard or ignored? In this course, you will find out!
- Winter 2022, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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ARCN 111.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 8:30am-9:40am
- FAnderson Hall 121 8:30am-9:30am
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ARCN 111.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 11:10am-12:20pm
- M, WAnderson Hall 122 11:10am-12:20pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 12:00pm-1:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 122 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARCN 211 Coercion and Exploitation: Material Histories of Labor 6 credits
What do antebellum plantations, Spanish missions, British colonies in Australia, mining camps in Latin America, and Roman estates all have in common? All are examples of unfair/unfree and forced labor in colonial and imperial settings. This class will review archaeological, archival, and ethnographic cases of past coerced and exploitative labor, and compare them with modern cases such as human trafficking, child slavery, bonded labor, and forced marriage. Case studies include the Andes under Inka and Spanish rule, North American and Caribbean plantations, British colonial Australia, and Dutch colonial Asia.
- Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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ARCN 211.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 8:15am-10:00am
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ARCN 222 Experimental Archaeology and Experiential History 6 credits
This course offers an experiential approach to crafts, technologies, and other material practices in premodern societies. Through hands-on activities and collaborations with local craftspeople, farmers, and other experts, this course will examine and test a variety of hypotheses about how people in the past lived their lives. How did prehistoric people produce stone tools, pottery, and metal? How did ancient Greeks and Romans feed and clothe themselves? How did medieval Europeans build their homes and bury their dead? Students will answer these questions and more by actively participating in a range of experimental archaeology and experiential history projects. Lab required.
- Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Science with Lab
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One previous Archaeology pertinent course
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ARCN 222.54 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤 · Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 11:30am-12:40pm
- THAnderson Hall 122 1:45pm-5:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 11:10am-12:10pm
- THAnderson Hall 122 1:45pm-5:00pm
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ARCN 222.54 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 11:10am-12:20pm
- THAnderson Hall 121 1:00pm-5:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARCN 222.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 8:30am-9:40am
- FAnderson Hall 121 8:30am-9:30am
- THAnderson Hall 121 1:00pm-5:00pm
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ARCN 222.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 1:50pm-3:00pm
- THAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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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ARCN 395 Archaeology: Science, Ethics, Nationalism and Cultural Property 6 credits
This seminar course will focus on a wide range of contemporary issues in archaeology, including case studies from many continents and time periods that shed light on archaeological theory and practice. Specific course content varies. The course serves as the capstone seminar for the Archaeology Minor; enrollment is also open to non-minors.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
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ARCN 395.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤 · Mary Savina 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
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ARCN 395.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THAnderson Hall 122 1:00pm-5:00pm
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ARTH 100 Witches, Monsters and Demons 6 credits
Between 1300 and 1600 depictions of witches, monsters, and demons moved from the margins of medieval manuscripts and the nooks of church architecture to the center of altarpieces and heart of princely collections. Although this diabolical imagery was extremely diverse, it came from one place: the mind of the Renaissance artist. This course examines how images that came from within were devised and fashioned into works of art. It considers why fantastical imagery that showcased the artist’s imagination was so highly valued during the Renaissance–a period typically associated with the rebirth of classical antiquity. Finally, it explores the connection between illusions, visions, dreams, and other visual phenomena that highlighted the potential malfunction of the mind, and artistic creation. Some of the artists discussed include, but are not limited to, Hieronymous Bosch, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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ARTH 100.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 140 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 140 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 100.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 140 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 140 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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 165 Japanese Art and Culture 6 credits
This course will survey art and architecture in Japan from its prehistoric beginnings until the early twentieth century, and explore the relationship between indigenous art forms and the foreign (Korean, Chinese, European) concepts, art forms and techniques that influenced Japanese culture, as well as the social political and religious contexts for artistic production.
- Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 165.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 165.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ARTH 165.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 166 Chinese Art and Culture 6 credits
This course will survey art and architecture in China from its prehistoric beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century. It will examine various types of visual art forms within their social, political and cultural contexts. Major themes that will also be explored include: the role of ritual in the production and use of art, the relationship between the court and secular elite and art, and theories about creativity and expression.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 166.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 166.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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ARTH 166.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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 209 Chinese Painting 6 credits
Since the tenth century in China, a tension emerges between art created as a means of self expression and works which were intended to display social status and political power and to convey conventional values. This course concentrates on the primary site of this tension, the art of painting. We will explore such issues as the influence of Confucian and Daoist philosophy on painting and calligraphy, the changing perception of nature and the natural in art, the politics of style, and the increasing dominance of poetry rather than narrative as a conceptual construct for painting.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 209.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 209.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 209.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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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 236 Baroque Art 6 credits
This course examines European artistic production in Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands from the end of the sixteenth century through the seventeenth century. The aim of the course is to interrogate how religious revolution and reformation, scientific discoveries, and political transformations brought about a proliferation of remarkably varied types of artistic production that permeated and altered the sacred, political, and private spheres. The class will examine in depth select works of painting, sculpture, prints, and drawings, by Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Velázquez, Rubens, and Rembrandt, among many others.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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 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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ARTS 117 Living London Program: Visualizing Renaissance England 6 credits
In this introductory course, devised for all skill levels, students will explore England through on-site observational drawing, watercolor, and mixed media. The critical observation and artistic rendering of England’s artifacts, artwork, architecture, gardens, and landscapes will afford students a window into British culture as they acquaint themselves with the country’s visual vocabulary. The course will address the technical aspects of drawing, including how to use line, value, composition, and color effectively. Additional components will include journaling, tours of historical sites, and museum and gallery visits (including the National and National Portrait Galleries, Hampton Court Palace, St. Paul’s Cathedral, etc.).
OCS Theater & Lit in London Program
- Spring 2022
- Arts Practice International Studies
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Participation in OCS Theater & Lit in London program
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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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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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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 205 “Passing Strange”: Shakespeare’s Othello and its Modern Afterlives 3 credits
One of the most intimate and devastating plays in all dramatic literature has also continuously been at the center of societal debates around race, representation, and civil rights. Moving from Shakespeare’s Renaissance to important historical and civil rights figures like Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson to reimaginings by contemporary artists, we will explore how Othello has served as a vehicle for social change. The class will be taught in conjunction with the campus visit of writer, actor, and anti-apartheid activist Bonisile John Kani, OIS, OBE, the first Black actor to play Othello in South Africa.
1st 5 weeks
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 206 William Shakespeare: The Henriad 3 credits
Shakespeare’s account of the Wars of the Roses combines history, tragedy, comedy, romance, and bildungsroman as it explores themes of power, identity, duty, family, love, and friendship on an epic scale. We will read and discuss Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, and Henry V, and attend the Guthrie Theater’s three-play repertory event.
Extra time
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 207 Princes. Poets. Power 3 credits
Can you serve power without sacrificing your principles or risking your life? We examine the classic explorations of the problem–Machiavelli’s Prince, Castiglione’s Courtier, and More’s Utopia–and investigate the place of poets and poetry at court of Henry VIII, tracing the birth of the English sonnet, and the role of poetry in the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn.
1st 5 weeks
- Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 207.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Timothy Raylor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ENGL 208 The Faerie Queene 3 credits
Spenser’s romance epic: an Arthurian quest-cycle, celebrating the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I, and England’s imperial destiny. Readers encounter knights, ladies, and lady-knights; enchanted groves and magic castles; dragons and sorcerers; and are put through a series of moral tests and hermeneutic challenges.
2nd 5 weeks
- Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 208.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Timothy Raylor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ENGL 209 The Merchant of Venice: A Project Course 6 credits
This interdisciplinary course will explore one of Shakespeare’s most controversial and complex plays, The Merchant of Venice. We will investigate the play’s historical, political, religious, and theatrical contexts as we try to understand not only the world that produced the play, but the world that came out of it. How should what we learn of the past inform a modern production? How can performance offer interpretive arguments about the play’s meanings? Individual and group projects may involve research, writing, dramaturgy, program design, and exhibition curation. Students will be actively involved in a full-scale Carleton Players production of the play.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 209.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 182 3:10pm-4:55pm
- T, THWeitz Center 136 3:10pm-4:55pm
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ENGL 209.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤 · Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 214 Revenge Tragedy 3 credits
Madness, murder, conspiracy, poison, incest, rape, ghosts, and lots of blood: the fashion for revenge tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean England led to the creation of some of the most brilliant, violent, funny, and deeply strange plays in the history of the language. Authors may include Cary, Chapman, Ford, Marston, Middleton, Kyd, Tourneur, and Webster.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 214.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
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1st 5 weeks
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ENGL 219 Global Shakespeare 3 credits
Shakespeare’s plays have been reimagined and repurposed all over the world, performed on seven continents, and translated into over 100 languages. The course explores how issues of globalization, nationalism, translation (both cultural and linguistic), and (de)colonization inform our understanding of these wonderfully varied adaptations and appropriations. We will examine the social, political, and aesthetic implications of a range of international stage, film, and literary versions as we consider how other cultures respond to the hegemonic original. No prior experience with Shakespeare is necessary.
Second 5 weeks
- Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 219.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
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2nd 5 weeks
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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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HIST 100 Migration and Mobility in the Medieval North 6 credits
Why did barbarians invade? Traders trade? Pilgrims travel? Vikings raid? Medieval Europe is sometimes caricatured as a world of small villages and strong traditions that saw little change between the cultural high-water marks of Rome and the Renaissance. In fact, this was a period of dynamic innovation, during which Europeans met many familiar challenges—environmental change, religious and cultural conflict, social and political competition—by traveling or migrating to seek new opportunities. This course will examine mobility and migration in northern Europe, and students will be introduced to diverse methodological approaches to their study by exploring historical and literary sources, archaeological evidence and scientific techniques involving DNA and isotopic analyses.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2021
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 100.05 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 100.05 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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 136 The Global Middle Ages 6 credits
Encounter, interaction, and communication across space and between cultures are fundamental parts of the human story yet are often marginalized when we use national, regional, or religious frameworks to shape our study. In this course, we will center our investigation of the medieval time period (roughly 500-1500CE) on interactions among cultures and peoples across Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas. We will think comparatively about how peoples around the globe approached similar questions and problems and ask how a global approach helps improve our understanding of this dynamic and creative period. Extra time required for one field trip.
Extra time for one field trip
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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 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 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 246 The Material World of the Anglo-Saxons 6 credits
This course explores the world of Anglo-Saxon England from Rome’s decline through the Norman Conquest (c.400-1066) through the lens of material culture. These six centuries witnessed dramatic transformations, including changing environmental conditions, ethnic migrations, the coming of Christianity, waning Roman influence, the rise of kingdoms, and the emergence of new agricultural and economic regimes. We will look beyond the kings and priests at the top of society by analyzing objects people made and used, buildings they built, and human remains they buried alongside primary and secondary written sources. Students will gain experience in how to write history from “things.”
- Spring 2018, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 246.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 246.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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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HIST 334 Voyages of Understanding 6 credits
This seminar will examine the phenomenon of travel across historical periods and around the globe. We will look at motivations for travel; ideas about place, space, and geography; travel as site of encounter and conflict with peoples of different religions, ethnicities, and cultures; the effect of travel on individual and group identity; and representations of travel, cultural contact, and geography in texts, maps, and images. We will work on key research skills, and each student will carry out an original research project leading to a ca. 25-page research paper.
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HIST 334.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Applies to multiple history fields. Consult the instructor.
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HIST 335 Ireland: Land, Conflict, Memory 6 credits
This course explores the history of Ireland from Medieval times through the Great Famine, ending with a look at the Partition of Ireland in 1920. We examine themes of religious and cultural conflict and explore a series of English political and military interventions. Throughout the course, we will analyze views of the Irish landscape, landholding patterns, and health and welfare issues. Finally, we explore the contested nature of history and memory as the class discusses monuments and memory production in Irish public spaces.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 335.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 335.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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LATN 255 Biography, History, and Empire in Tacitus’ Agricola 6 credits
How is it possible to be a good person in a morally deficient system? Part biography, part history, part eulogy, and part invective against Roman Emperor Domitian, Tacitus’ Agricola charts the life and military accomplishments of the author’s father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, in modern-day Britain. In conversation with other readings in English, we will engage closely with the style and language of the text in Latin as we explore the constraints and possibilities of genre, and Tacitus’ understanding of geography and ethnicity.
- Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Latin 204 or equivalent
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LATN 255.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 194 Chamber Music 1 credits
Small groups, formed by at least three students, will participate in the study and performance of keyboard and instrumental chamber music, non-western, or small jazz ensemble repertory, coached weekly by music faculty. Students must be registered and may not audit or participate in more than one group.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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At least one term of applied music lessons at Carleton, or co-registration in applied music lessons, or permission of instructor
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MUSC 194.03 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.09 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.12 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Fall 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.08 Fall 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.11 Fall 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.08 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.09 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.11 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.03 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.11 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.01 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.08 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.06 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.03 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.04 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.03 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.03 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.08 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.03 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.08 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.03 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.06 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.08 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.10 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:7
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.09 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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PHIL 113 The Individual and the Political Community 6 credits
Are human beings radically individual and atomic by nature, political animals, or something else? However we answer that question, what difference does it make for our understanding of the ways in which larger political communities come into existence and are maintained? In this course we will explore these questions through the work of three foundational political theorists: Plato, Hobbes, and Rousseau.
- Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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PHIL 113.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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PHIL 113.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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PHIL 113.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 113.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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PHIL 113.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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PHIL 113.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 236 1:45pm-3:30pm
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PHIL 113.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 8:30am-9:40am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 8:30am-9:30am
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PHIL 113.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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PHIL 270 Ancient Philosophy: The Good Life 6 credits
This course will center on a close reading of two texts, Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, both of which address what is arguably the core concern in the ancient ethical tradition: the relationship between the morally good life and the happy life. In keeping with the ancient tendency to resist a sharp divide between the private and political spheres, we will examine the significance of Plato and Aristotle’s reflections on the good human life both for the individual and for the broader community.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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PHIL 270.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 270.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PHIL 270.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 10:20am-12:05pm
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PHIL 270.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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PHIL 270.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Daniel Groll 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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PHIL 270.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PHIL 272 Early Modern Philosophy 6 credits
This course offers an introduction to the major themes in European metaphysics and epistemology during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Key issues to be examined include the scope and nature of human knowledge, the relationship between the mind and the body, God, the physical world, causation, and the metaphysical categories of substance and attribute. We will place a special emphasis on understanding the philosophical thought of Rene Descartes, G. W. Leibniz, Anne Conway, and David Hume. Two particular themes will recur throughout the course: first, the evolving relationships between philosophy and the sciences of the period; second, the philosophical contributions of women in the early modern era.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 250 Ancient Political Philosophy: Plato’s Republic 6 credits
Cross-listed with POSC 350. In this course we will examine ancient political philosophy through the intensive study of Plato’s Republic, perhaps the greatest work of political philosophy ever written. What is morality? Why should a person behave morally? Wouldn’t it be more satisfying to be a tyrant? What is the best way of life? What would a perfect society look like? What would be its customs and institutions, and who would rule? What would it demand of us, and would that price be worth paying? These are some of the politically (and personally) vital questions addressed by the book.
Crosslisted with POSC 350
- Fall 2019, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 250.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 114 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 250.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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
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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 120 Introduction to Judaism 6 credits
This course provides an overview of Judaism as a religion, exploring its history, modes of expression, and characteristic polarities as they have emerged in various times and places. The contours of classical Jewish life and thought are explored, as well as the crises, challenges, and choices confronting Jews and Judaism today. Our uniting theme will be the question of defining Jewishness: who gets to claim an identity as a Jew, and who has (and has had) the authority to decide who is and is not Jewish?
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 120.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 120.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 120.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 121 Introduction to Christianity 6 credits
This course will trace the history of Christianity from its origins in the villages of Palestine, to its emergence as the official religion of the Roman Empire, and through its evolution and expansion as the world’s largest religion. The course will focus on events, persons, and ideas that have had the greatest impact on the history of Christianity, and examine how this tradition has evolved in different ways in response to different needs, cultures, and tensions–political and otherwise–around the world. This is an introductory course. No familiarity with the Bible, Christianity, or the academic study of religion is presupposed.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 121.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 121.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 121.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 161 10:00am-11:10am
- FWeitz Center 161 9:50am-10:50am
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RELG 121.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 121.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 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 152 Religions in Japanese Culture 6 credits
An introduction to the major religious traditions of Japan, from earliest times to the present. Combining thematic and historical approaches, this course will scrutinize both defining characteristics of, and interactions among, various religious traditions, including worship of the kami (local deities), Buddhism, shamanistic practices, Christianity, and new religious movements. We also will discuss issues crucial in the study of religion, such as the relation between religion and violence, gender, modernity, nationalism and war.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 152.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 152.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:45pm-3:30pm
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 152.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 152.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 153 Introduction to Buddhism 6 credits
This course offers a survey of Buddhism from its inception in India some 2500 years ago to the present. We first address fundamental Buddhist ideas and practices, then their elaboration in the Mahayana and tantric movements, which emerged in the first millennium CE in India. We also consider the diffusion of Buddhism throughout Asia and to the West. Attention will be given to both continuity and diversity within Buddhism–to its commonalities and transformations in specific historical and cultural settings. We also will address philosophical, social, political, and ethical problems that are debated among Buddhists and scholars of Buddhism today.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 153.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 153.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 155 Hinduism: An Introduction 6 credits
Hinduism is the world’s third-largest religion (or, as some prefer, “way of life”), with about 1.2 billion followers. It is also one of its oldest, with roots dating back at least 3500 years. “Hinduism,” however, is a loosely defined, even contested term, designating the wide variety of beliefs and practices of the majority of the people of South Asia. This survey course introduces students to this great variety, including social structures (such as the caste system), rituals and scriptures, mythologies and epics, philosophies, life practices, politics, poetry, sex, gender, Bollywood, and—lest we forget—some 330 million gods and goddesses.
- Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 155.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 155.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 155.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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RELG 155.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 155.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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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 233 Gender and Power in the Catholic Church 6 credits
This course introduces students to the structure, history, and theology of the Catholic Church through the lens of gender and power. Through a combination of readings and conversations with living figures, students will develop the ability to critically and empathetically interpret Catholicism in its various manifestations. Topics include: God, rituals, salvation, the body, women, materiality, sex; the authority of persons, texts, and tradition; conflicts and anxieties involving masculinity, feminist theologies, the ordination of women as priests, the censuring of heretical theologians, and the clerical sex abuse crisis. Conditions permitting, this course will include trips to local Catholic sites.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2023, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 233.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 233.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 233.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 233.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 233.00 Winter 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 237 Yoga: Religion, History, Practice 6 credits
This class will immerse students in the study of yoga from its first textual representations to its current practice around the world. Transnationally, yoga has been unyoked from religion. But the Sanskrit root yuj means to “add,” “join,” or “unite”—and in Indian philosophy and practice it was: a method of devotion; a way to “yoke” the body/mind; a means to unite with Ultimate Reality; a form of concentration and meditation. We will concentrate on texts dating back thousands of years, from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras to the Bhagavad Gita—and popular texts of today. Come prepared to wear loose clothing.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THCowling DANC 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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 322 Apocalypse How? 6 credits
When will the world end, and how? What’s wrong with the world—morally, politically, naturally—such that people have seen its destruction as necessary or inevitable? Are visions of “The End” a form of sophisticated resistance literature, aimed at oppressive systems of power? Or are they evidence of a disturbed mind disconnected from reality? This seminar takes a deep dive into the contours of apocalyptic thought, which in its most basic form is about unmasking the deceptions of the given world by revealing the secret workings of the universe. We will begin with the earliest apocalypses, found in ancient Jewish and Christian texts, and move into modern religious and “secular” visions of cosmic collapse. Our approach will be historical and comparative, and we will explore topics ranging from doomsday cults to climate catastrophe, visions of heaven to tours of hell, malevolent angels to meddling UFOs, all the while asking how the apocalyptic imagination creates, as one thinker put it, “another world to live in.”
- Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 322.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 322.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 322.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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 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
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THEA 195 Acting Shakespeare 6 credits
Though widely read, Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed. This acting class, designed for students with no prior experience with Shakespeare, will explore approaches to performance with an emphasis on the use of the First Folio. Students will create performances using Shakespeare’s approaches to rhetoric, imagery and structure while examining some of the plays’ principle themes. Video and audio recordings will be used to develop a critical perspective on acting Shakespeare with an emphasis on the differing demands of live and recorded performance.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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THEA 195.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 195.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 195.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 195.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am