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An introduction to environmental ideology, politics and public policy. Emphasizes the political and social implications of competing approaches to enviromental and energy policy, and how policy preferences are pursued through politics, law and the administrative process.
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Discusses the formative years of the Christian tradition, from its roots in the Hellenistic World through its establishment in the second century to the rise of Islam. Special consideration of regional developments in the Christian community. Students read influential documents of this period and view and discuss early Christian art.
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This course is the second of four courses in the Honors Humanities Sequence which aims to provide basic knowledge of major topics, figures, problems and developments of medieval Europe. Designed in a thematic rather than chronological format, the course explores the role and influence of medieval Christian institutions, thought, spirituality and religious practices within the context of social, political and economic institutions. In addition to weekly lectures, our discussions analyze primary sources drawn from a wide variety of genres and historical circumstances, which aid each participant to develop the critical skills for analysis. In addition to looking at pivotal figures such as St. Francis, Dante, Abelard and Heloise, topics include: church and state; war and peace; varieties of Christian experience; Jews, Christians, and Muslims; the Crusades; and the built environment.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the Renaissance, when great discoveries and rediscoveries of the past changed the cultural horizions of European men and women. It examines these new views through the fine arts and architecture of the age and through the writings of Christian humanists. Classical literature, rhetoric, history and moral philosophy-- among the primary concerns of the new learning--are also a main part of the topics for discussion in this course.
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This course explores the conflict between Christian thought and the secular age, from 1750 to the present. Beginning with Pietism and the Enlightenment of the 18th century, it concludes with a living defender of the Enlightenment, Jürgen Habermas, in dialogue with Joseph Ratzinger, shortly before he became Benedict XVI. This course does not propose a linear reading of Western culture. Instead, it traces the tension between Christianity and Secularism through several distinct historical phases: the pre-history of the French Revolution and the Revolution; the early 19th century, with its abiding revolutionary energy, which engendered enthusiasm and antipathy; the late 19th century, as shaped by the anti-Christian Nietzsche, the proto-Christian Wagner and the Christian Dostoevsky; the early 20th century and its revolutions (Nazi, Bolshevik and Freudian); and the later half of the 20th century, traumatized by Holocaust and Gulag, though alive with cultural radicalism, spiritual striving and its own version of the struggle between secular and Christian norms.
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3.00 Credits
The iconic symbol of three failed political identities, Berlin is now a vibrant metropolis of political and cultural activity. The course is framed by the two German unifications of 1871 and 1990 and examines literary, artistic, and cinematic representations of Berlin. Films, documentaries, visual arts, novels, diaries, short stories, essays and poetry will provide us with a road map through two centuries of this amazing city.
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3.00 Credits
The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Era, Modernism and Post-Modernism--each of these historical periods had its own philosophies and aesthetics. This course will address the artistic expressions of these ages, examining the creative parrallels between the music, art, and literature of each age and identifying them as expressions of contemporary society and culture.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with the "Meiji Restoration" of 1868, Japan experienced a remarkable and distinctive process of modernization, which drew from the nation's traditional culture and society but absorbed much from the West as a result of Japanese determination to catch up. Throughout this period, Japan displayed a unique gift for selectively incorporating ideology and developmental models borrowed from elsewhere. This course examines cultural and social change over the past one and a quarter centuries; it focuses primarily upon literature and language change, cinema, and education as, simultaneously, important factors of, and factors effecting and shaping, that change; and it explores the complex interactions between traditional and modern factors.
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3.00 Credits
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