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2011-2012 Courses in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

 

FALL 2011

The following courses may be of interest to Renaissance and Early Modern Studies concentrators. Please see the sponsoring department for the time and location of each course.

AFRICANA STUDIES

AFRI 1150: Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, P. Henry

AFRI 0210: Afro-Latin Americans and Blackness in the Americas,

A. Dzidzienyo

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

COLT 1410R: Hamlet: Translation, Adaptation, Appropriation, K. Newman

COLT 1421R: The European Novel from Richardson to Goethe, M. Redfield

ENGLISH

ENGL 0250G: The Green Renaissance, J. Feerick

ENGL 0400A: Introduction to Shakespeare, J. Feerick

ENGL 1311C: Milton, M. Redfield

ENGL 1360K: Shakespeare and Company, C. Kahn

ENGL 1360P: Shakespeare, C. Kahn

ENGL 1950A: Form and Feeling in Renaissance Poetry, S. Foley

ENGL 2360S: Alternative Miltons

FRENCH

FREN 1310A: "French Lovers"; Séduction et libertinage sous l'Ancien Régime, P. Saint-Amand

FREN 2150D: Qu'est-ce que les Lumières? P. Saint-Amand

HISTORY

HIST 1180: The Rise of the Scientific Worldview, J. Richards

HIST 1430: Truth on Trial: Justice in Italy, 1400-1800, C. Castiglione

HIST 1490: History of Medicine I: Medical Traditions in the Old World Before 1700

HIST 1670: History of Brazil, J. Green

HIST 1976R: Early Modern Globalization: Jewish Economic Activity, 1500-1800, A. Teller

HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

HIAA 0150: Visual Culture of the Hispanic World, 1500-1800, C. Zerner

HIAA 0550: Florence and Tuscany in the Fifteenth Century, E. Lincoln

HIAA 0600: Baroque, J. Muller

HIAA 1600J: Rembrandt, J. Muller

HIAA 2540D: The Theater that was Rome, E. Lincoln (by permission)

ITALIAN STUDIES

ITAL 0751: When Leaders Lie: Machiavelli in International Context, C. Castiglione

ITAL 1010: Dante in English Translation: Dante’s World and the Invention of Modernity, R. Martinez

ITAL 1610: The Divina Commedia: Inferno and Purgatorio, R. Martinez

JUDAIC STUDIES

JUDS 0990F: Religion and Sexuality, M. Satlow

JUDS 0990G: Difficult Relations? Judaism and Christianity from the

Middle Ages until the Present, A. Teller

PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 0360: Early Modern Philosophy, C. Larmore

PHIL 0111: Personal Identity, K. Dunlop

PORTUGESE AND BRAZILIAN STUDIES

POBS 1600J: Conflicts, Diasporas and Diversities: Religion in the Early Portuguese Empire

POBS 1600Q: Perceptions of the Other and Ethnographical Writing in Early Modern Portugal

 

SPRING 2012

The following courses may be of interest to Renaissance and Early Modern Studies concentrators. Please see the sponsoring department for the time and location of each course.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

COLT 0510I: Virgil and Milton, P. Saval

COLT 1410P: Shakespeare, K. Newman

COLT 1410T: Tragedy from Sophocles to The Wire, P. Saval

COLT 2830I: Histories of the Early Modern Body, K. Newman

ENGLISH

ENGL 1561K: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama, M. Rabb

ENGL 2360P: Thinking with Romance in the Renaissance, J. Feerick

ENGL 0201F: Ravishing Verse: The Lyric and Spiritual Crisis, A. Naughton

FRENCH

FREN 2130F-S01 Façons d'aimer: Discourses of Sexuality in Early Modern France, L. Siefert (by permission)

HISTORY

HIST 0420: Introduction to East Asian Civilization: Japan, K. Smith

HIST 0960E: Jews Between Christians and Moslems in the Early Modern World (JUDS 0990L)

HIST 1552: Co-Existence and Conflict: Polish-Jewish Relations From 1500 Until Today, A. Teller

HIST 1976U: Cannibals, Barbarians and Noble Savages: Images of the Other in the Atlantic World, J. Mumford

HIST 1510A: China’s Late Empires, C. Brokaw

HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

HIAA 0500: From Van Eyck to Bruegel, J. Muller

HIAA 0560: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Rome, E. Lincoln

HIAA 0650: Eighteenth-Century Art: Imagining the Global Eighteenth Century, D. Kriz

HIAA 1550B: The Early History of Printmaking: Festival and Carnival, E. Lincoln

HIAA 2600E: Jesuit Global Strategies in Art and Conversion,

J. Muller

ITALIAN STUDIES

ITAL 0751: When Leaders Lie: Machiavelli in International Context, C. Castiglione

ITAL 1020: Boccaccio’s Decameron and the End of the World,

R. Martinez

ITAL 1620: The Divina Commedia: Dante's Paradiso: Justifying a Cosmos, R. Martinez

JUDAIC STUDIES

JUDS 0980: A Memoirs and Memory: The Individual Experience of Modern Jewish Life, M. Mandel

JUDS 0990L: Jews Between Christians and Moslems in the Early Modern World, A. Teller

MUSIC

MUSC 0071: Opera, D. Gooley

MUSC 0910: Medieval and Renaissance Music, L. Jodry

PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 0111: Personal Identity, K. Dunlop

PHIL 1720: Kant: The Critique of Pure Reason, K. Dunlop

PHIL 0990M: Descartes Meditations, C. Lamore

PORTUGESE AND BRAZILIAN STUDIES

POBS 1600D: Portuguese Discoveries and Early Modern Globalization

POBS 1800F: The Lusophone World and the Struggle for Modernity,

O. Almeida


SUMMER 2012

ENGLISH

ENGL 0200V: Shakespeare Rewrites Shakespeare, J. Zysk