Critical analysis of western culture through a thematic investigation of literature, philosophy, music, and the arts as found in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and Medieval Europe.

3 Class Hours

Critical analysis of western culture through a thematic investigation of literature, philosophy, music and the arts as found in the Renaissance, early modern and 19th-20th centuries.

3 Class Hours

A course on the humanities in the twentieth century. The nineteenth-century background. Developments in modern thought. Modernism in music, the visual arts, and literature, 1880-1940. Major cultural movements (expressionism, surrealism, etc.). High modernism, 1940- 1975. New directions in culture (International Style, theatre of the absurd, etc.). Late twentieth century developments, 1975-2000. Recent trends in art, music, and literature (magic realism, the new classicism, etc.).

3 Class Hours

This course is designed to introduce the basic substance of the stories which constitute classical Greek mythology. The course is also meant to provide experience in reading and understanding those stories in their original context-so far as that can be determined-so as to discern how they have continued to influence western art and culture, and express its values. Part of appreciating that influence will rely on introducing as well key traditional interpretative methods and apply them to the mythology.

3 Class Hours