Courses

A survey of the history of Christianity from its origins to the present, primarily in Europe, and with attention to its interaction with state, society, and civilization.

Major geologic events and climatic changes in our planet’s 4.6-billion-year history. Evolution of life on Earth as documented through the fossil record. Required all- day field trip(s). (LPS, SW, SCI)

English political, religious, and social institutions from early times to the death of Elizabeth I.

Explores how urbanism has taken shape in the world's cities, with a strong emphasis on places outside the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. Examines the history, culture and politics of cities as well as the process of globalization that joins cities and urban dwellers in translocal networks and flows that extend across wide geographic space.

A survey of prints and printmaking from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries, concentrating on woodcut, engraving, etching, and lithography. Among the artists to be considered are Master E.S., Schongauer, Dürer, Callot, Rembrandt, Goya, and Picasso. 239 / 1272 Queens College

English history from the death of Elizabeth I to the present.

This course will study the evolution of typical international business and financial structures and their performance through readings and lectures on international enterprise and national economic histories from the first era of globalization to the present. The business of export-import, financing trade and international 560 / 1272 Queens College investment, and multinational enterprise will be covered.

Historical experience of Italians in the United States from the mass migration in the late 19th and early 20th century to the present.

The major cultural and political trends in Japan from the earliest times.

A study of the transmission of the classical philosophical heritage to the Latin, Islamic, and Jewish cultures during the Middle Ages. Selected readings from Augustine, Anselm, Eriugena, Abelard, Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.