Courses

The origin, evaluation, and present pattern of government regulation of business; the organization of industry; antitrust and the promotion of competition and prevention of monopoly and public regulation; public policies in natural resource and environmental conservation.

An introduction to the variety of religious beliefs and practices in the world of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Topics include official state cults, unofficial forms of worship such as household religion and mystery cults, "Oriental" deities such as Mithras and Isis, and early Christianities.

This course considers examples of both left-leaning and right-leaning religiously motivated political action, abroad and in New York City. Guest speakers whose political actions are rooted in their religious communities and faith will present their views in class.

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A study of the interaction between categorical schemes and constructs used in the study of religion, including psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and structuralist approaches.

An overview of the development of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires in the Islamic world during the period 1450-1700. The rise of these empires represented the end of the political fragmentation in the Islamic world that came about after the collapse of the Mongol system in the second half of the fourteenth century.

A systematic study of images of man in contemporary thought and their relation to modern religion.

The development of European architecture from the classical revival in 15th- century Florence through the grandeur of Baroque Rome and the final flowering of the Rococo period. Buildings and cities as expressions of cultural values and social structures, and the spread of Renaissance principles as far as Spain and Russia, plus their gradual influence outside Europe (colonial Americas) and mutual interaction with Asia.

In this course, students will become familiar with the profound innovations in painting, sculpture, and architecture created in Europe from about 1300 to 1700, which set the course and standards for much of western visual culture down to the past century. From Giotto to Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rembrandt, we will examine what is meant by the term Renaissance in the visual arts and European society at large, including its contacts and exchangeswith global cultures outside the west.

Major trends and personalities in painting, sculpture, and architecture from the classical revival around 1400 to the dawn of the High Renaissance. Artists who set the direction of western art well into the modern era, including Masaccio, Botticelli, and Leonardo da Vinci.