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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce method and theory in historic sites archeology; historic preservation law; and cultural resources management. It will include a discussion of field and laboratory methods; classification and analyses of material culture; and data presentation methods. Field trips to local historical sites will be included.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores cradles of civilization in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. An introduction to early man is followed by a survey of Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Hittite, Phoenician, and Hebrew cultures, as well as the Assyrian and Persian imperialism that replaced them. Course covers the period through Cyrus the Great.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the emergence and development of Greek civilization from the time of the Trojan War to the Roman conquest of Greece. Students use the works of ancient Greek historians, poets, and thinkers together with art and archaeology to investigate Greek religion, culture, and warfare, as well as the origins and development of democracy, philosophy, and drama. Topics include the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, the trial and execution of Socrates, and Alexander the Great.
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3.00 Credits
This class explores the emergence and development of Roman civilization from the foundation of the city of Rome to the Christianization of the empire under emperor Constantine. It will examine the challenges that confronted ancient Romans and how they met those challenges socially, culturally, politically, and intellectually. Topics include the early wars of conquest, Romanization, gladiators, slavery; Hannibal, Spartacus, Julius Caesar; Roman paganism, Christianity, Judaism; army, provincial, and frontier life.
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3.00 Credits
This class explores the causes and consequences of the fall of the Roman Empire. Students use primary sources, archaeological evidence, and remains of art and architecture to investigate the collapse of Roman authority, the cultural transformation of the Greco-Roman world, and the emergence of early medieval kingdoms, societies, and religious beliefs in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The course also traces the rise of Celtic, Judeo-Christian, Islamic, and Germanic cultures.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines violence, chaos, and the political and social crisis of medieval Europe. Students explore the transformation of Europe from an isolated, disordered, agricultural society to a powerful, wealthy, expansionist one. Topics include knights and peasants, the Crusades, heresy, plague, Marco Polo's travels to China, and the rise of Western European empires.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the lives of women during the Middle Ages, ca. 500-1500. Starting with the Biblical stories of Eve, the Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene, students will explore the ideological foundations for the positions ascribed to women that, arguably, continue to shape attitudes toward women and their role in society. Topics include women's roles as wives, mothers, and healers, the lives of noblewomen and powerful female monarchs, spirituality, the church, and the life and legacy of Joan of Arc, and female characters in medieval literature such as Guinevere.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the society and culture of the pre-modern Iberian Peninsula with an emphasis on the conflict, coexistence, and diversity of interaction of its three religious groups: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. We will consider the territorial struggle between Christian and Muslim-ruled regimes over the course of many centuries, the environments of pre- and post-conquest societies and the frontier that separated them, and the ability of minority (and majority) religious groups to maintain themselves in these changing socio-religious contexts.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the origins and consequences of the rediscovery of Europe's classical heritage in Italy and the broader continent between the 14th and 16th centuries. Topics include continuities and discontinuities with medieval traditions, politics and political theory, civic and philosophical humanism, court culture, and art and architecture.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the great age of statebuilding that followed the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618-48). Topics include the cultural ascendancy of Louis XIV's France, the commercial wars of the 17th and 18th centuries, the development of an ancient regime, and the forces contributing to the Age of Enlightenment.
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