CORE 205 - Places and Pathologies:Medieval Pilgrimage Routes

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Meredith College

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(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) This course linkage combines MRE 201 Pilgrims Poets and Prophets with BIO 203 Death, Disease, and Sex in Medieval Europe. Using the medieval pilgrimage routes as a conceptual template for the study of history, students examine the communication of ideas through narrative poetry and prose, visual art, and the pronouncements of prophets and mystics. Similarly, students consider the role of roads and trade routes in the communication of disease, with special attention to outbreaks of the Black Death c. 1350 and of syphilis in the late middle ages. The courses are linked primarily by the cross referencing of lectures, readings, and student research projects, but films, field-trips, and Five O'clock Scholars activities further connect the two. Fulfills CORE 200 requirement; BIO203 fulfills a Science in Society elective, and MRE 201 fulfills either a literature elective OR a cultural perspectives elective. Prerequisites: For MRE 201, none; for BIO 203, one Natural Science laboratory course.

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6.00

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Institution Website:

www.meredith.edu

Phone Number:

(919) 760-8600

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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