Courses

Arts and Sciences (090).  Interdisciplinary. 
            Offering: 239.
 
English (350).  Works produced between the Middle Ages and the 20th century by British and Irish writers, among them Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. 
            Offerings: 225, 226, 316, 317, 318, 321, 322, 324, 330, 331, 332, 333, 342, 349, 351, 353, 356, 357, 358, 372.
 
Fine Arts.  The history of painting, architecture, musical composition, opera, drama, and other art forms--a vast body of creative achievement, from the days of ancient Greece and Rome to the recent past.
            Art History (082)  Offerings: 101, 102, 311, 313, 320, 331, 340, 342, 349, 351, 352, 395.
            Music (700)  Offerings: 292, 293, 320, 337.
            Theater (965)  Offerings: 279, 280, 281.
 
Foreign Languages and Literatures.  Intermediate and advanced instruction in how to read, write, and speak European languages, and courses--many in English--on literature, film, and civilization, from the Middle Ages to the present. Books by Honoré de Balzac, Thomas Mann, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Cervantes. The culture of Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and Madrid. Credit for special topics and individual study courses will be decided on a case-by-case basis.
            French (420)  Offerings: all courses except 101, 102, 108, 109, 243.
            German (470)  Offerings: all courses except 101, 102.
            Russian (860)  Offerings: all courses.
            Spanish (940)  Offerings: 121, 122, 131, 132, 201, 203, 204, 207, 300, 338, 415, 421,   426, 435.
 
History, European (510).  The broad sweep of Western civilization and more specialized courses on particular countries and themes during shorter periods, ranging from ancient Greece through Renaissance Italy to modern Germany and European women.
            Offerings: all courses.
 
Philosophy and Religion.  Interpretations of the meaning of life by profound thinkers as different from one another as Plato, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Buber, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
            Philosophy (730)   Offerings: 211, 212, 303, 307, 313, 314, 344.
            Religion (840)  Offering: 332.
 
Political Science (790).  Contrasts between democratic and antidemocratic governments during the past century and in the present, and the history of political theory, with attention to thinkers such as Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Karl Marx. 
            Offerings:  305, 330, 371, 372, 380, 421.