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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The literature in this course spans both the history of the U.S. and the cultural diversity of writers, both male & female. Within this broad frame, students read works which embody characteristic American themes such as conflicts over race, the struggle for equality, the pursuit of individual freedom, the questions of truth and destiny, the role of religious belief in a secular world, and the emergence of a multi-ethnic society. Students will discuss the distinctiveness of American contributions to world literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the literature of the British Isles from the late eighteenth century to the modern day. This course includes the study of poetry, short stories, short novels, and essays from a representative sample of important Modern British authors.
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6.00 Credits
The deepest currents of American life have been shaped by the voices, symbols and traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As well as learning about sacred scriptures in historical context, students explore controversies concerning the mysterious origin of the Bible or the real message of Jesus. They also view Islam from the inside - its history, ways of life, views of the West, and often forgotten contributions to European civilization in the form of architecture, philosophy, mysticism, and science-and its encounters with the West.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we investigate major works of literature, drama, and philosophy from the early Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Reformation. While aiming to appreciate the complex interrelation between spheres of life and creative work during this period, we will become aware of its immense influence on the course of World Civilization. You will need to purchase Karl Thompson (ed.), Classics of Western Thought: Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation through used or online booksellers, because it is out of print.
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9.00 Credits
An exploration of the daily lives of people of antiquity, their worldviews and methods of social and political organization, their discoveries, inventions, and creations in science, literature, and spiritual practice, and ways in which we can derive inspiration from their cultures and histories. Beginning with human origins and cultural creations in Africa we travel on to the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Iran, India, Tibet and China.
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9.00 Credits
This course explores the historical and cultural evolution of classical Greece and Rome. We study daily life, the myths, epics, dramas, fine arts and philosophies as well as the major persons and events which have shaped the course of early Mediterranean history and influenced the world since.
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9.00 Credits
The deepest currents of American life have been shaped by the voices, symbols and traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As well as learning about sacred scriptures in historical context, students explore controversies concerning the mysterious origin of the Bible or the real message of Jesus. They also view Islam from the inside - its history, ways of life, views of the West, and often forgotten contributions to European civilization in the form of architecture, philosophy, mysticism, and sensuality.
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9.00 Credits
This course explores daily life in the world of medieval Europe and during the emergence of the Renaissance and Reformation. Themes include the rise of chivalry, the cult of the Virgin, the Crusades against Islam, and the rebirth of the scientific spirit before a resistant Papacy.
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9.00 Credits
Beginning in the fifteenth century the Old World and the New clashed and coalesced in myriad ways which would irrevocably transform each region. This course examines the colonial contracts between Europe and the Americas, and the rise of revolutionary systems of thoughtwhich challenged reigning theological assumptions. Students study efforts to comprehend the power of the human mind, to define justice in relation to conquest, slavery, and industrial production and to depict the meaning of these developments in literature and the arts.
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9.00 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint the students with some of the most volatile and contradictory events and ideas that underlie the emergence of the modern world: e.g., American democracy and slavery, relativity and fascism, individualistic existentialism and the quest for universal human rights and responsibilities.
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