Art History
- AHIS 120gp: Foundations of Western Art: Prehistoric to Renaissance
Instructor: Hector Reyes
Description: Mediterranean and European art and architecture presented in historical, cultural, and social context that introduces art history as a discipline.
- AHIS 220g: Medieval Visual Culture
Instructor: TBA
Description: Medieval visual culture as an introduction to the Christian heritage of western civilization and to the interaction of Church and state from the 3rd to the 13th century.
- AHIS 368: Modern Art I: 1700-1850
Instructor: Hector Reyes
Description: A culture and historical examination of European art and architecture from 1700 (Rococo) to 1850 (Realism), focusing on the beginnings of modernism in the age of revolution.
Classics
- CLAS 349gp: Ancient Empires
Instructor: Brandon Bourgeois
Description: History and cultures of the ancient empires of southwest Asia, from Cyrus the Great to the establishment of Islam.
English
- ENGL 230g: Shakespeare and His Times
Instructor: Steven Minas
Description: Close study of Shakespeare's plays and poems to introduce his language, stagecraft, literary "genius," social and literary contexts, precursors and rivals, and legacy.
- ENGL 261g: English Literature to 1800
Instructor: Thea Tomaini, Ben Levine
Description: Intensive reading of major writers to 1800.
- ENGL 304: Introduction to Poetry Writing
Instructor: Molly Bendall
Description: Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing poetry.
- ENGL 426: Modern English Literature
Instructor: Anthony Kemp
Description: Studies in English literary modernism, including the prose of Conrad, Joyce, and Woolf, and the poetry of Pound, Eliot, Yeats, and Auden
- ENGL 520: Renaissance English Literatures and Cultures
Instructor: Rebecca Lemon
Description: Studies in poetry and patronage, the popular traditions in literature and drama, the social and sexual dynamics of comedy, historical and cultural uses of genres, among other topics.
History
- HIST 102g: The Worlds of Medieval Europe
Instructor: Jay Rubenstein
Description: The social, political, religious, intellectual and cultural landscapes of Europe and the Mediterranean, c.300 to c.1400.
- HIST 103g: The Emergence of Modern Europe
Instructor: Karin Amundsen
Description: Political, intellectual, and cultural developments in Europe, 1300-1815. Renaissance and Reformation; absolute monarchy, scientific changes, Enlightenment; French Revolution and Napoleon.
- HIST 240gp: History of California
Instructor: Philip Ethington
Description: A thematic approach to California history from precontact to present; focus on peoples, environment, economic, social, and cultural development, politics, and rise to global influence.
- HIST 250g: Climate Change: Science, History and Solutions
Instructor: Joshua Goldstein, Victoria Petryshyn
Description: History and science of anthropogenic climate change; climate dynamics; carbon cycle; climate modeling; fossil fuel economy; climate denial and political tactics; group research of solutions.
Instructor: Jay Rubenstein
Description: Examines wars between European Christian and Muslim armies in the Middle East, 1096-1291 and their cultural, military, religious, and artistic legacies.
International Relations
- IR 150xg: Environmental Issues in Society
Instructor: Shannon Gibson
Description: Exploration of the major social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical disagreements that exist between scholars, leaders, and citizens concerning today's most serious environmental issues and problems.
Judaic Studies
Instructor: Candice Levy, Leah Hochman
Description: Major ideas, personalities, and movements in Jewish history from antiquity to the present in light of interaction of the Jews with the general culture.
Instructor: Sarah Benor, Leah Hochman
Description: Jewish beliefs, practices, and history from the biblical period to the present; Judaic contributions to Western civilization.
Instructor: Leah Hochman, Benjamin Ratskoff
Description: Historical background and responses to the Holocaust, with special emphasis on ethical implications.
Philosophy
- PHIL 103g: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Europe, from Renaissance to Enlightenment
Instructor: Jacob Soll
Description: Introductions to the central ideas of philosophy, science, politics and economics in western European history between 1450 and 1800.
- PHIL 174gw: Freedom, Equality, and Social Justice
Instructor: Jonathan Quong
Description: Explores the nature of justice, and how apparently conflicting ideals, such as freedom and equality, are able to be balanced within a just society.
- PHIL 314: Origins of Free Market Thought in Early Modern Europe
Instructor: Jacob Soll
Description: The varied history of ideas of a free market from Cicero, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to the Enlightenment, Adam Smith, Colbert and beyond.
- PHIL 320: History of Western Philosophy: Modern Period
Instructor: John Dreher
Description: The development of philosophy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; emphasis on Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, and the philosophy of Kant.
Religion
- REL 146gp: Spirituality in America
Instructor: Arjun Nair
Description: Examination of the historical continuities and disjunctions between "spiritual but not religious" Americans; the relationship between spirituality, politics and social change, and the role of media.
- REL 301g: Introduction to the Study of Religion
Instructor: Sheila Briggs
Description: Survey of academic approaches to the study of religion.
- REL 334g: Religion and Colonial Encounter
Instructor: Kelsey Moss
Description: Survey of religious responses to colonial encounter in the Americas. Emphasis given to a study of religious innovations of Amerindians, Africans and Europeans.
Slavic Languages and Literature
- SLL 345g: Literature and Philosphy: Dostoevsky
Instructor: Peter Winsky
Description: Dostoevsky's novels as psychological and philosophical analyses of modern alienated man. Readings in Dostoevsky and selctions from Gide, Kafka, Camus, and Sarte. Conducted in English.
Thematic Option
- Core 200: Liberal Arts Reading Salon
Instructor: Michael Petitti
Description: Critical readings of a series of texts in the liberal arts designed to promote discussion of important themes, theoretical approaches, research directions, and interdisciplinary connections.
