Course Offerings
Listed below are courses on Renaissance and Early Modern topics regularly offered in various departments. To find out which of these courses are offered this year please consult Current Year Courses. Students interested in the 200-level courses listed here must obtain the instructor's permission before enrolling. Other courses may count for concentration credit upon consultation with the Program Director.
Africana Studies
AF0017 Afro-American History and Society before 1800
AF0019 Caribbean History and Society
AF0102 Special Topics in Afro-American Studies
American Civilization
AM0125 Topics in Material Culture Studies
Anthropology
AN0066 Seminars
Classics
CL0042 Ancient Novel and Its Influence
CL0076 Ancient Utopias and Imaginary Places
CL0090 Greek Mythology
CL0104 Virgil: Aeneid
CL0181 Survey of Republican Literature
Comparative Literature
CO0051 Literary Creation and Literary Discourse
CO0071 Literature and Its History
CO0081 Ideas, Myths, and Themes
CO0181 Studies in the Literature of Ideas
English
EL0020 Seminars in Writing, Literatures, and Cultures
EL0021 Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Literatures and Cultures
EL0025 Introductory Seminars in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures and Cultures
EL0030 Introduction to Shakespeare
EL0042 Foundations of the Novel
EL0057 Eighteenth-Century British Literature
EL0131 Special Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures and Cultures
EL0136 Special Topics Seminars in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures and Cultures
EL0151 Special Topics in the Enlightenment and the Rise of National Literatures and cultures
French Studies
FR0101 Masterpieces of French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present
FR0102 Early French Language and Literature
FR0104 Studies in French Literature of the Seventeenth Century
FR0132 Special Topics in French Studies II
FR0133 Studies in French Literature in English Translation
FR0190 Senior Seminar
German
GM0166 Studies in German Culture
Greek
GR0030, 0040 Introduction to Greek Literature
Hispanic Studies
SP0054 Intensive Surveys in Spanish Literature
SP0055 Topics in Hispanic Culture and Civilization
SP0124 Studies in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
SP0133 Studies in Spanish American Literature
History
HI0001 Europe from Rome to the Eighteenth Century
HI0096 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies (Lecture Course)
HI0097 Introductory History Seminar
HI0107 Europe 1559-1715
HI0108 Europe in the Eighteenth Century
HI0113 The Renaissance in Nothern Europe
HI0118 The Rise of the Scientific World View
HI0154 Samurai and Merchants, Prostitutes and Priests: Japanese Urban Culture
HI0162 Colonial Latin America
HI0164 Clash of Empires in America
HI0195 Portuguese Navigations and Encounters with Civilizations
HI0197 Undergraduate Seminars on Interpretations of History
History of Art and Architecture
HA0001 Introduction to the History of Art
HA0002 Introduction to the History of Architecture and Urbanism
HA0015 Visual Cultures of Colonial Latin America
HA0058 Word, Image, and Power in Renaissance Italy
HA0062 The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt: Culture of the Netherlands in the 17 Century
HA0065 Eighteenth-Century Art: Imagining the Global
HA0115 Topics in Hispanic Art and Architecture
HA0156 Topics in Italian Visual Cultur
HA0165 Topics in Eighteenth-Century Art
Italian Studies
IT0101 Dante in English Translation
IT0102 Boccaccio's "Decameron"
IT0161 The Divina Commedia: Inferno and Purgatorio
IT0162 The Divina Commedia: Paradiso
Latin
LA0030, 0040 Introduction to Latin Literature
Music
MU0030 Major Masters of Music
MU0057, 0058 Chamber Music Performance
MU0091 Medieval and Renaissance Music
MU0092 Baroque and Classic Music
MU0104 Tonal Counterpoint
Philosophy
PL0007 The Individual and the State
PL0035 Ancient Philosophy
PL0036 Early Modern Philosophy
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
PB0160 On the Dawn of Modernity
Theatre, Speech and Dance
TA0123 Introduction to World Theatre
TA0124 Histories of World Theatre: 1500-1800