Courses

Focusing on a comparison of early modern texts representing the encounter between Europeans and native Americans from a variety of perspectives (Spanish, Nahuatl, French, English) and a variety of genres (letters, history, ethnography, poetry, drama), we will examine the convergence of hitherto separated cultures in a key region of the emerging global world: the Atlantic.

An examination of the ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation in the literature, theology, and philosophic thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as the effects of the encounter with the New World in the age of exploration; materials to be studied may include authors, texts, and art from both the Old and the New Worlds.

An examination of the ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation in the literature, theology, and philosophic thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as the effects of the encounter with the New World in the age of exploration; materials to be studied may include authors, texts, and art from both the Old and the New Worlds.

The application of economic principles to provide a comprehensive overview of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Topics considered include the basics of bitcoin and blockchain technology, a taxonomy of cryptoassets, valuation framework for cryptoassets, cryptotokens as micropayments, governance issues, and thedemocratization of entrepreneurship and innovation through digital tokens.

Such topics as the demand for government services, intergovernmental fiscal relations, the distribution of various public services within and between governmental jurisdictions, governmental budgeting processes, and sources of revenue.

The economic causes of environmental problems and the problems encountered in estimating the economic cost of environmental damages. Application of economic theory to establish the conditions for the best use of the environment, and to evaluate economic costs and benefits of current regulatory policy.

The economic causes of environmental problems and the problems encountered in estimating the economic cost of environmental damages. Application of economic theory to establish the conditions for the best use of the environment, and to evaluate economic costs and benefits of current regulatory policy.

This course will focus on the postwar structure and performance of the Greek economy. An examination of overall growth as well as growth of the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors will be pursued, taking into account the private- versus-public sector dichotomy. Special consideration will be given to external economic relations of Greece, its membership in the EEC, and balance of payments problems.

Baroque, Rococo and Neo-Classical trends in the art and architecture of France, England, Italy and Germany. Artistic practice and patronage are considered against the broader cultural backdrop of the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution, including connections to literature and theater.

The origin and development of British prose fiction from 1660 to 1830. Topics may include other genres like travel narratives, sermons, fables, etiquette manuals, and modes of writing like the picaresque, the sentimental, the seduction narrative, the moral, the epistolary, the Gothic. Writers may include Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Lennox, Sterne, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, and Shelley.