Courses
Please check the current course offerings catalog to see which courses are offered this semester.
Architecture (see Art and Archaeology)
Art and Archaeology
- 209 Baroque Art
- 210 Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture
- 219 Northern Renaissance Art
- 221 Art of Hispania
- 319 Italian Trecento Art
- 332 The Landscape of Allusion: Garden and Landscape Architecture, 1450–1750
- 333 Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
- 336 The Age of Rembrandt
- 337 Court, Cloister, and City: Art and Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe
- 354 The Art of the Print
- 401 The Materials and Techniques of Painting
- 440 Seminar. Renaissance Art
- 442 Seminar. Old Master Drawings
- 446 Seminar. Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
- 448 Seminar. 17th- and 18th-Century Art
- 501 Introduction to Historiography
- 540 Art and Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- 541 Problems in Renaissance Devotional Art
- 542 Art and Society in Renaissance Italy
- 544 Seminar in the Northern Renaissance
- 545 The Geography of Art
- 547 Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
- 552 Northern Baroque Art
- 553 Seminar in Central European Art
- 554 Seminar in 17th- and 18th-Century Art
- 560 Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Classics
- 335 Studies in the Classical Tradition
Comparative Literature
- 314 The Renaissance
- 400 Seminar. Literary Imagination and the Image of History (Renaissance topics on occasion)
- 533 Literary Criticism: Classicism and Neoclassicism
- 542 The Classical Tradition: Modernity—Homer and the Modern
- 547 The Renaissance
- 551 The 17th Century in Europe
English
- 131 Shakespeare
- 205 Introduction to English Literature: From the 14th to the 18th Century
- 310, 311 Shakespeare I and II
- 312 Spenser and the Epic Romance
- 313 The 16th Century
- 314 The 17th Century
- 315 Milton
- 316 The English Drama to 1700
- 317, 318 Topics in the Renaissance
- 521 Spenser
- 522 The Renaissance in England
- 523 Renaissance Drama
- 524 Special Studies in Renaissance Drama
- 525, 526 Shakespeare I, II
- 531 Milton
- 532 The Early 17th Century
French and Italian
French
- 331 French Renaissance Literature and Culture
- 332 Topics in the French Middle Ages and Renaissance
- 341 French Classicism
- 352 Topics in 17th- and/or 18th-Century French Literature
- 511 Humanism and the French Renaissance
- 512 Lyric Poetry of the French Renaissance
- 515 The Classical Tradition
- 516 Seminar in 17th-Century French Literature
- 517 Forms of Neoclassicism
- 581 Introduction to Romance Linguistics and Cultures
Italian
- 221 Introduction to Italian Literature, Language, and Society: From the Beginnings to 1700
- 222 Introduction to Italian Literature, Language, and Society: From 1700 to the Present
- 303 Dante’s Inferno
- 306 The Italian Renaissance: Literature and Society
German
- 306 German Intellectual History
- 511 German Literature in the 17th Century
History
- 211 Europe from Antiquity to 1700
- 291 The Scientific Revolution and European Order, 1500–1750
- 303 Colonial Latin America to 1810
- 345 Europe at the Dawn of Modernity
- 347 The Origins of the Modern State
- 367 English Constitutional History
- 368 England from the Mid-15th Century to the Mid-17th Century
- 545 Readings in Renaissance and Reformation History
- 547 Readings in 17th-Century European History
- 552 Seminar in 16th-Century France
- 568 The Coming of the English Revolution, 1529–1641
- 591 The Scientific Revolution
- 594 Introductory Colloquium in the History of Science I
Music
- 221 Choral Music
- 232 Music in the Renaissance
- 270 Medieval and Renaissance Music from Original Notation
- 517 Topics in the History of Musical Theory to 1725
- 525, 526 Topics in Music from 1400 to 1600
Near Eastern Studies
- 201 Introduction to the Middle East
- 334 Mediterranean Islam, 1050–1500
- 335 Islamic History, 1050–1800
- 505 Readings in Ottoman Turkish
- 506 Ottoman Diplomatics: Paleography and Diplomatic Documents
- 553 Studies in Islamic Religion and Thought
- 571 Problems in Early Ottoman History
Philosophy
- 303 Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
- 332 Early Modern Philosophy
- 511 Pre-Kantian Rationalism
- 515, 516 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy
Politics
- 301 Ancient and Medieval Political Theory
- 303 Modern Political Theory
- 513 Modern Political Theory
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Spanish
- 221 Introduction to Spanish Literature and Civilization from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
- 222 Introduction to Spanish American Culture from the Discovery of America to the Present
- 301 Topics in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
- 305 Topics in Spanish Civilization of the Golden Age
- 306 Cervantes and His Age
- 535 Golden-Age Prose
- 536 Golden-Age Poetry
- 537 Golden-Age Drama
- 538 Seminar in Golden-Age Literature
- 549 Prose and Poetry of Early Colonial Spanish America