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Course Inventory

Archaeology

AR100: Great Discoveries in Archaeology 

AR150: Archaeology of Cities

AR190: Introduction to Archaeology 

AR200: Heritage Matters: Introduction to Heritage Management 

AR201: The Americas before Columbus 

AR210: Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations 

AR215: The Contested Past 

AR230: Introduction to Greek and Roman Archaeology 

AR250: The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors: Archaeology of Mesoamerica 

AR262: Asian Gods & Goddesses 

AR270: Archaeology of the Age of Exploration 

AR273: Archaeology of the Viking Age 

AR280: Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World 

AR283: North American Archaeology 

AR290: Human Impacts on Ancient Environments 

AR322: Ancient Aztec and Inca Civilizations 

AR342: Archaeology in the Holy Land

AR365: Deep Histories of Conquest: Aztec Mexico and New Spain 

AR390: The Archaeology of Southeast Asia 

AR395: Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Museums, and Identity 

AR534: Seminar in Roman Art: Imperial Rome 

AR535: Europe and the Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity 

AR590: Ceramic Studies in Archaeology

Classical Studies

CL101: The World of Greece 

CL102: The World of Rome 

CL106: The Others: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Ancient World 

CL111: Beginning Latin 

CL112: Latin, II

CL115: Intensive Latin 

CL161: Ancient Greek 

CL162: Ancient Greek, II

CL211: Intermediate Latin, III: Prose

CL212: Latin, IV: Verse

CL213: Greek and Roman Mythology 

CL216: Greek and Roman Religion

CL261: Greek, III: Prose

CL351: Latin Seminar

CL391: Greek Seminar 

CL451: Advanced Latin Seminar

CL461: Advanced Greek Seminar

Core Curriculum

CC101: Core Humanities, I: Ancient Worlds 

CC102: Core Humanities II: The Way: Antiquity and the Medieval World 

CC201: Core Humanities III: Renaissance, Rediscovery, and Reformation

English

EN122: Medieval Worlds 

EN163: Reading Shakespeare 

EN221: Major Authors, I 

EN322: British Literature, I 

EN325: Topics in Early Modern British Literature 

EN363: Shakespeare, I 

EN364: Shakespeare, II 

EN465: Critical Studies in Literature and Society

EN473: Critical Studies in Literary Genres

EN495: Critical Studies in Literary Topics

History

HI101: The Dawn of Europe: Antiquity to the Renaissance 

HI175: World History to 1500 

HI191: What Is Europe?

HI200: The Historian’s Craft 

HI201: History of Medieval Europe

HI203: Magic, Science, and Religion

HI204: History of the Crusades 

HI207: Game of Thrones: Power and Politics in Pre-Modern Europe 

HI208: Renaissance Europe 

HI209: The Reformation: Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe

HI210: Europe between Renaissance and Revolution 

HI213: Sacred and Secular Power in Christianity and Islam

HI237: Reconstructing the African Past

HI254: The History of Ireland 

HI255: History of Spain, 711-1898

HI260: The Venetian Republic 

HI261: The Venetian Republic: 697-1797

HI290: Topics in History

HI304: Science and Religion: Dialogue and Debate 

HI343: Taste, Culture, and Power: The Global History of Food 

HI345: Greece and the Greeks: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern 

HI347: Bodies, Drugs, and Healing: A Global History of Medicine 

HI349: History of Religion in Precolonial Africa 

HI350: Atlantic History 

HI363: Early Chinese History 

HI377: The Sword, the Cross, and the Crescent: Byzantium and the Near East 

HI378: Armenia from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 

HI385: History of Premodern Iran 

HI400: Topics in History 

HI406: Monks, Friars, and Saints

HI407: Topics in Medieval Religious Culture 

HI410: Religion, Community, and Culture in Medieval Spain

HI412: Popular Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 

HI414: Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe 

HI482: Merchants, Pirates, Missionaries, and the State in Maritime Asia, 600-2000

HI595: Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents

History of Art & Architecture

AH111: Pyramids to Cathedrals: An Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Art 

AH220: Islamic Art and Architecture 

AH225: Arts of Asia 

AH234: Art of Rome 

AH240: Medieval Art in Europe 

AH257: Renaissance Art 

AH313: Early Modern Islam

AH314: After Genghis Khan 

AH317: From Morocco to Timbuktu: Art and Architecture at the Saharan Crossroads 

AH352: Venetian Renaissance Art 

AH365: Baroque Arts in Northern Europe 

AH444: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Middle Ages 

AH504: Topics in Religion and the Visual Arts

AH527: Topics in Art and Society

AH534: Imperial Rome

AH541: Courtly Commissions: Ottoman Art and Architecture 

AH557: High Renaissance and Mannerist Art in Italy 

AH563: Global Baroque

Jewish Studies

JS110: Judaism 

JS244: Jewish Mysticism, I: Formative Traditions 

JS250: Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination

JS311: Dead Sea Scrolls

JS455: Religion, Community, and Culture in Medieval Spain

Philosophy

PH408: History of Medieval Philosophy

PH409: Maimonides

Religion

RN101: The Bible

RN103: Religions of Asia 

RN104: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 

RN202: From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of Christianity 

RN206: Scriptures in World Religion 

RN211: Chinese Religion 

RN216: Judaism 

RN220: Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination

RN224: Woman and Religion 

RN242: Magic, Science, and Religion

RN325: Jewish Mysticism, I: Formative Traditions

RN326: The Kabbalah 

RN334: Dead Sea Scrolls

RN338: History of Medieval Philosophy

RN340: The Qur’an 

RN348: Rumi and Persian Sufi Poetry

RN410: Religion, Community, and Culture in Medieval Spain

RN420: Maimonides

RN494: Magical Texts: Literature and Practice 

RN556:  Dante: The Divine Comedy, II: Purgatory and Paradise

Romance Studies

LF564: Medieval Lyric 

LF565: Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

LI350: Italian Literature, I: Medieval 

LI555: Dante’s Hell

LI556: Dante: The Divine Comedy, II: Purgatory and Paradise

LS575: Topics in Peninsular Literature

World Languages & Literatures

LC250: Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature 

LC260: Gateway to Asian Cultures

LC285: Topics in Chinese Literature

LC320: Advanced Classical Chinese

LJ250: Masterpieces of Japanese Literature

LJ316: Classical Japanese

LK251: Classics of Korean Literature 

LY441: 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination

LZ380: Persian Epic and Romance 

LZ381: Rumi and Persian Sufi Poetry

XL223: Introduction to Middle Eastern Literatures 

XL224: Introduction to East Asian Literatures 

XL225: Introduction to South Asian Literatures 

XL343: Alexander the Great in the East 

XL381: Topics in Gender and Literature

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