103: Lives and Times -- 3 credits
This introductory course explores the interaction of major historical figures with their cultural milieu through a study of works that have cultural or historical importance. top
197: Myth, Legend, and History -- 3 credits
This course studies the ways that people talk about their past through myths, legends, and history, by focusing on subjects such as the Trojan War, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and the sinking of the Titanic, among others. top
203: Asian Influence on Western Culture -- 3 credits
An introduction to the cultures of India, China, and Japan through their influence on western writers, thinkers, and artists. Texts include books about the East written by westerners and also translations of Asian literature. top
212: High Society -- 3 credits
A social and cultural history of the European aristocracy and monarchy, from the Middle Ages to the present. top
242: Art and Culture -- 3 credits
This course studies the relationship of art and culture during selected stages of western civilization. top
A study of myth in literature, painting, and sculpture. Taught in Rome. top
292: Readings in Greek and Roman Culture -- 3 credits
This course looks at the main elements of Greek and Roman culture through a variety of works, historical, philosophical, and literary. Special attention is paid to the role of women in Greek and Roman society. top
321: Cultural History I: Medieval Culture -- 3 credits
A study of the institutions, events, ideas, and people that shaped western culture from the fall of Rome to the late Middle Ages, including monasticism, the conversion of Europe, the feudal world, the discord between church and state, the rise of royal government, and the twelfth-century cultural revolution. top
322: Cultural History II: Renaissance & Reformation -- 3 credits
A study of the intellectual, religious, political, and social developments that marked the transition from the unified world view of medieval Christendom to the new movements of Renaissance humanism and religious Reformation. top
323: Colloquium I -- 3 credits
Selected readings in medieval literature, including Augustine's Confessions, St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries, The Song of Roland, Laxdaela Saga, Abelard's and Heloise's Letters, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. top
324: Colloquium II -- 3 credits
Selected readings in Renaissance and Reformation literature, including Dante's Divine Comedy, Petrarch's Secretum Meum, Boccaccio's Decameron, Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, Erasmus' Praise of Folly, More's Utopia, and Cellini's Autobiography. top
334: Art and Culture -- 2 credits
This course studies the relationship of art and culture during selected stages of western civilization. top
390 / 490: Special Topics -- 1-3 credits
Topics not covered in regular departmental offerings. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. top
461: Cultural History III: Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution -- 3 credits
A study of the people, events, and ideas that shaped European society from the Elizabethan Age to the Napoleonic Empire. top
462: Cultural History IV: The Modern World-- 3 credits
A study of European culture since Napoleon, with emphasis on new ideologies, political and social revolutions, the World Wars, and the twenty-first-century world view. top
463: Colloquium III -- 3 credits
Selected literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Shakespeare's Othello, Pascal's Pensées, Montaigne's Essays, de Lafayette's Princesse de Clêves, Pope's Essay on Man, Voltaire's Candide, and Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther. top
464: Colloquium IV -- 3 credits
Selected literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including various Romantic poets, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Camus's The Plague, Larsen's Quicksand, and Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being. top
497: Independent Study -- 1-3 credits
Independent study for outstanding students. Permission of the instructor required. top
499: Internship -- 1-3 credits
Practical experience in a field related to Humanistic Studies. Permission of the department required. top
