Courses

An interdisciplinary survey of African civilization from the sixteenth century to the present. The course will focus on the impact upon African civilization, culture, politics, and society of European expansion and colonialism in Africa.

The art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, from the Minoan and Mycenaean periods until the late Roman Empire in the fourth century C.E. This time span is covered in chronological order, with some emphasis on the monuments of the Classical and Hellenistic Greek periods, and the Early to High Roman Imperial periods.

A comparative study of the artistic traditions of India, China and Japan, from their Stone Age beginnings to recent trends. Focus on the relationship of works of art to the philosophies of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

An introduction to weather and climate for students competent in high school science. Not open to students who have taken GEOL 342.

This interdisciplinary course explores key developments in African history from human origin to 1850. The course covers Ancient Egypt, Kush, Nubia, the West African Islamic kingdoms, and empires, East-Central and Southern Africa before 1870 (Swahili City States, Great Zimbabwe, and the Kongo Kingdom, …), the eastern slave trade and the transatlantic slave trade, the scramble for Africa and its partition at the 1884-1885 conference of Berlin.

Reading and analysis of representative works from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment; special emphasis on literary values and history. Required for majors and others planning to take elective courses in the department.

Reading and analysis of representative works from the Enlightenment to the present; special emphasis on literary values and history. Required for majors and others planning to take elective courses in the department.

The art of the European Middle Ages from its beginnings in pre-Christian Celtic art through Carolingian and Romanesque art and the art of the great Gothic cathedrals.

Western art from the late eighteenth century to the present, with attention to the dramatic social, technological, and intellectual changes of modern life that set its painting, sculpture, architecture, and other art forms apart from earlier, pre- industrial times. Artists covered range from the Romantics to the Impressionists to van Gogh and Picasso.

Prose and especially poetry from the period of the Greek Enlightenment and of Romanticism, with attention to the social, cultural, and political changes that affected that literature. Topics to be discussed will include the theories of Korais, Classic as opposed to Romantic, the influence of folk poetry, and the rise of the Greek novel. Readings from the works of Solomos and the Heptanesian poets, Vikelas's Loukis Laras, and Makriyannis's Memoirs.