This course introduces students to the theoretical study of culture, offering tools for understanding, questioning, and analyzing the social, historical, and political contexts of the media we experience on a day-to-day basis. It covers and develops the four streams of the Humanities Major: Power, Diaspora, and Race; Arts, Material, and Popular cultures; Digital, Technological, and […]
An introduction to the literature and history of the early Christian communities in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome. The varieties of early Christian thought and practice are examined in terms of their religious, cultural and political contexts.Note: This course has been approved in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies for general […]
Note: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.An examination of Egypt and Egyptians in the imagination and history of the cultures of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. The place of Egypt in the imagination of the cultures of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean was […]
Civilization began in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and then Egypt. Shortly thereafter, civilizations developed all over the Near East (modern Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Iran). This course surveys major developments in the political, social, and cultural history of the peoples and states of this region. In broad terms, the area covered by this course […]
This course offers a general introduction to the history of ancient Greece and Rome. It surveys the ancient world from the Greek Bronze Age in the second millennium B.C. until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. Specific periods are studied with emphasis on the social, economic, and political history […]
Plato and Aristotle are two of the pillars of philosophy. This course will introduce students to some of their most influential theses and works with a special emphasis on Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Students will also be introduced to the question of how and why their two opposite approaches to philosophy, rationalism and […]
An examination of the origin and early development of western philosophy. The works of the first philosophers, the Pre-Socratic, will be introduced and contextualized, providing an indispensable background to Plato and Aristotle, and the continuing development of philosophy.
This course is designed to improve the student's oral and written command of the modern Greek language. Short texts relevant to modern Greek culture will be read and analyzed.This course is designed to improve the students' oral and written command of Modern Greek. Short texts relevant to Modern Greek culture will be analyzed for their […]
This course explores how distinctive patterns of government, society and culture emerged over four millennia in East Asia - primarily China and Japan - and how this endogenous development prepared those nations to confront and challenge Western supremacy in the modern world.Course credit exclusion: AP/HIST 2710 6.00 (prior to Fall 2011).PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course […]
This course provides an overview of contemporary Japanese culture and society to help students understand Japan and its people in the age of globalization and cross-cultural communication. Students have specific assignments to search on the internet for information relevant to lecture presentations, discussion and written work. The class lectures are augmented by videotapes.Prerequisite: None. Taught […]