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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 125) Social histories of medieval buildings from c.300 - c. 1400 CE., with particular attention to space, audience and experience. Course themes include: architecture and remembrance in the early Christian period; liturgy and ritual; gendered spaces in medieval monasteries; architects, masons and engineering; castles and the ideology of conquest; late medieval civic architecture; timber/stone construction; symbolism in the Gothic cathedral; and cross-cultural forms. Also offered as lower-level. Prerequisites Consent This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the following culture options: French Culture
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Judaic Studies 126.) An introduction to Jewish myths, legends, and mystical doctrines that were influential in the formation of Jewish imaginative literature. Topics include the life and death journey of the soul; Israel's exile among the nations; the Messiah and the end of days; the Throne of Glory and the divine name; angels, demons, and beasts of fancy. All texts read in English. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the following culture options: Judaic Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 128.) Integrated study of the shared art and culture of the Mediterranean from late antiquity through medieval times (3rd - 13th centuries CE). Architecture, painting, mosaic and luxury objects will be considered with a focus on continuities and dynamic cultural intersections across religious and political boundaries in European, Islamic, and Byzantine realms. Topics include the early church, synagogue, and mosque; figural and non-figural imagery in Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic contexts; relationships between secular and sacred and between majority and minority cultures. Research papers are required. (Also offered as lower-level.) This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the following culture options: Middle Eastern Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 129 and German 129.) Representations of medieval sex/gender arrangements in art and literature ca. 1000-1300 CE. Constructions of gender through religious and scientific teaching and images; its impact on roles authors/makers and patrons played by men and especially women such as Hrotsvit, Hildegard, Jeanne d'Evreux. Secular and religious works, such as the Bayeux Embroidery and the Nibelungenlied, the Hortus Deliciarum, and the writings of the "mystics," in light of medieval and present-day gender theories. (Also offered as lower-level.) Spring. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the following culture options: Germanic Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 130.) International crosscurrents in the fourteenth century. Flamboyant architecture; the art of royal and papal courts in France and Bohemia; the new secularism in wall paintings, tapestries, and books; Honoré, Pucelle, Bondol, Jacquemart, Theodoric, and the influence of Giotto, Duccio, and Simone Martini. (Also offered as lower-level.) This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the following culture options: Italian Culture
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Judaic Studies 132.) A detailed study of the biblical book of Genesis, with special attention to the role the book played in postbiblical Jewish tradition. All texts read in English. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the following culture options: Judaic Culture
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Anthropology 132.) Various approaches to myth, ritual, and symbol including functionalist, structuralist, and psychological. Topics include dreams, landscape shamanism, and fairy tales, along with issues of performance, representation, authenticity, and history. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
Please see departmental website for detailed information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as History 132.) The peoples of Southeastern Europe from the Ottoman conquests in the Balkans during the fourteenth century and the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the present time. Emphasis on the development of Balkan nationalism, ethnic rivalries, the role of religion, the rise of independent Balkan states, the area's role in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European diplomacy, and the spread and disintegration of Communist regimes. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: East Asian Culture and Diasporas
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as History 142.) Social and political conflict and cultural and political accommodation in the history of South Asian Islam, spanning the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods. The question of Muslim identity and the politics of coexistence with members of other religious communities, especially Hindus and Sikhs. The multiple and shifting affiliations of Muslims as individuals to the community of Islam, as well as to the linguistic groups, economic classes, and modern nations. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: South and Southeast Asian Culture
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