|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the peculiar ethical dilemmas confronting lawyers: confidentiality, protection of the guilty, roles in public policy, conflict of interest, and, in general, responsibility for the functioning of the adversary system.Format: discussion.(Prerequisites: two courses in philosophy or religious studies) Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the dilemmas of lawmaking and governing: principles, tradeoffs, and compromises; dirty hands and the relationship between government and the individual; international politics; presidential secrecy; covert action; and political trust.Format: discussion.(Prerequisites: two courses in philosophy or religious studies) Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar presents an intensive study of select problems in the ethics of medicine and healthcare practice, including abortion; euthanasia; prenatal diagnosis; reproductive engineering and surrogate motherhood; and treatment decisions for very ill newborns.Format: student and guest presentations. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisites: two courses in philosophy or religious studies) Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar offers an intensive study of select problems in the ethics, law, and public policy surrounding healthcare, especially in the United States.Topics include research with human subjects, the professional/patient relationship, allocation of scarce resources, and cost containment.Format: student and guest presentations.(Prerequisites: two courses in philosophy or religious studies) Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
Students undertake an advanced program of course, field, and library work arranged with the instructor.Proposals for special topics must be approved by the director and the dean of the student's school.Ordinarily three credits, although special arrangements are possible.
-
3.00 Credits
From the mysterious depths of Paleolithic cave painting to the soaring heights of Gothic cathedral vaulting, this course surveys the early history of Western art.The course begin with the origins of art-making in prehistoric, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures before viewing the transformations of these ancient arts traditions in early Christian and medieval societies.The course offers students a working vocabulary with which to compose visual analyses of works of art and evaluate them in a social and historical context.One class takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
This survey of the art and architectural history of three major civilizations in Asia studies sacred and secular material culture in painting, sculpture, and architecture during the formation and development of each civilization, comparing them with their modern achievements.In each instance the scope of history covers at least three millennia.Foci include the Mauryan, Kushan, and Gupta periods in India; the Chou, Han, T'ang, Song, and Ch'ing dynasties in China; and the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Edo, Tokugawa, and Meiji periods in Japan.The course emphasizes contrasting periods of isolation and open contact between these civilizations and with those in the West and highlights collections of Asian art at Yale University and in New York City during the course and on trips to study these collection s.This course meets the world diversity requirement . Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
The earliest known written description of the Jewish people is a visual record on an ancient victory monument.Dated from the 13th century B.C.E., a carved stele dedicated to Pharaoh Merneptah presents a hieroglyphic relief inauspiciously boasting: "Israel is laid waste, his seed is no more." Tracing 4,000 years of Jewish art, culture, and ritual, this course is a panoramic overview of visual expression of a people wandering through six continents, innumerable styles and artistic identities.How did the ineffable theophany at Sinai spark the complexity of Judaism's struggle with Greco-Roman pagan idolatry versus attempts at capturing the "spirit of God with wisdom and discernment and the knowledge of workmanship to design designs" [Exodus 35] transforming spirituality into a living art Three credi
-
3.00 Credits
This course explores the ways in which people use images to record their world.From the development of linear perspective in the early Renaissance to the assimilation of advances in optical sciences in the baroque period and the incorporation of photography in the 19th century, art has responded to technological advances and created distinct and expressive visual cultures.By exploring painting, sculpture, the graphic arts, and architecture, students learn to analyze how the contemporary world is designed and defined by a visual heritage that incorporates historical images into film, television, and advertising.One class takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
This course surveys the cities and sanctuaries that flourished in Mesopotamia (Ur, Babylon, Nineveh, Persepolis), Egypt (Thebes, Amarna, Karnak, Luxor) and the Aegean basin (the Cycladic Islands, Crete, Thera, Troy, Mycenae, Pylos) as early as 3000 B.C.E.- with the invention of writing - and studies their domination of the eastern Mediterranean into the first millennium B.C.E.The course analyzes the distinctive artistic developments and architectural forms of these three enduring cultures as well as their impact on Western civilization.It emphasizes objects in area museums and includes field trips.Three credits.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|