Related Courses:  Old English Across the Curriculum

From the earliest painting on cave walls, to the soaring cathedrals of the Gothic Period, this course offers an historical approach to the art and architecture of the western world before the Renaissance. Art is approached as a text with which one can examine religion, history, technology, and many other aspects of society. NOTE: This course fulfills the Historical Mode of Inquiry requirements of the LSP.

Medieval Art explores a millennium of European monuments (4th-15th centuries). Within a feudal system of Christians, artisans and builders create or react to vigorous church, state, and civic patronage; the continuity, cooptation and perennial renewal of pagan Roman forms; German migrations, Nordic raids, Islamic and Hungarian incursions; the Crusades and pilgrimages of Christian knights and commoners. Medieval works exhibit sustained stylistic developments and erratic formal shifts. Monuments of art and architecture make visible the clash and synthesis of Western European and Mediterranean traditions with those of insular Christianity and the Byzantine East. NOTE: General Honors Course.

Myths and mythic patterns inherent in world cultures and literatures, including classical Greek and Roman, South American, North American, African, Asian, Sumerian, and Germanic civilizations. Students should take ENG 208 Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.

Detailed study of Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, with some consideration of Chaucer’s minor poems.

The development of the language from Old to Modern English, with Indo-European sources. NOTE: General Honors Course.

In order to provide a framework for the study of literature, this course explores patterns of myth in world cultures, including Sumerian, Hebrew, American Indian, African, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Roman, modern American, and others. NOTE: General Honors Course.

Political, social, economic, religious, cultural, and scientific trends in Europe from c. 300 AD to c. 1400 AD. NOTE: General Honors Course.

This course explores the history of European women form approximately 200 to 1700. Major themes include the impact of Christianity, politics, the economy, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the law on the lives of women. Changing attitudes towards womanhood, sexuality, reproduction, and the family will also be discussed, as will women’s power and independence. NOTE: General Honors Course.

A first course in the history of England and Great Britain from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present century. The course will survey major political events with an additional emphasis on the social history of the English people. NOTE: General Honors Course.

This course will focus on depictions of women and women’s roles in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries C.E. These depictions may come from the women authors themselves, from male contemporaries, or from less literary portrayals in sources such as canon law, visual art, musical compositions, medical treatises, etc.

This course uses evidence from linguistics, archaeology, and history (among other disciplines) to explore the origins and identity of the speakers of Indo-European, a language spoken over five millennia ago, which gave rise to modern languages such as English, Russia, Hindi, the Romance Languages, etc.

A critical examination of Western and Middle-Eastern philosophy from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries. NOTE: General Honors Course.

Proceeding from the pontificate of Gregory the Great, major developments are traced, highlighting monastic, missionary, and restoration movements, papal growth and reaction, scholasticism and the quest for reform. The ensuing division and new alignments in the world of the Reformation are studied through the end of the sixteenth century.