Courses in Renaissance Studies

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

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)

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

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

  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

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

Music

• 221 Choral Music
• 232 Music in the Renaissance
• 270 Medieval and Renaissance Music from Original Notation

Near Eastern Studies

• 201 Introduction to the Middle East
• 334 Mediterranean Islam, 1050–1500
• 335 Islamic History, 1050–1800

Philosophy

• 303 Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
• 332 Early Modern Philosophy

Politics

• 301 Ancient and Medieval Political Theory
• 303 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