Art History

• AHIS 121gp: Foundations of Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary

Instructor: Samantha Burton

Description: European art its legacy in the Americas. Painting, sculpture, architecture and other visual media considered in relation to social and cultural history.

• AHIS 128gp: The Arts and Society in Latin America, Colonial to Contempor

Instructor: Daniela Bleichmar

Description: Survey of the art, architecture, and visual culture of Latin America from colonial period to the present, focusing on connections to culture and society.

• AHIS 368: Modern Art I: 1700-1850

Instructor: Hector Reyes

Description: A culture and historical examination of European art and architecture from 1700 (Rococo) to 1850 (Realism), focusing on the beginnings of modernism in the age of revolution.

Classics

• CLAS 101gp: State and Society in the Ancient World

Instructor: Maya Maskarinec

Description: Achievement of the near East, Greece, and Rome with emphasis on the development of ideas, arts, and institutions which have influenced modern man.

• CLAS 150gp: The Greeks and their Legacies

Instructor: Lucas Herchenroeder

Description: Introduction to the culture of ancient Greece and its influence on contemporary ideas, institutions, values, and literary and artistic works of the imagination.

• CLAS 349gp: Ancient Empires

Instructor: Brandon Bourgeois

Description: History and cultures of the ancient empires of southwest Asia, from Cyrus the Great to the establishment of Islam.

Comparative Literature

• COLT 312: Heroes, Myths and Legends in Literature and the Arts

Instructor: Mia Du Plessis

Description: Study of transformations of characters and themes from myth, legend or fairytale (Oedipus, Antigone, Faust, Don Juan, Cinderella, Comic and Tragic Twins, Hero and Monster)

English

• ENGL 174g: Reading the Heart: Emotional Intelligence and the Humanities

Instructor: Thomas Gustafson

Description: A study of emotional intelligence through literature, history and the hearts with a focus on anger, happiness, love and empathy.

• ENGL 230g: Shakespeare and Hist Times

Instructor: Thea Tomaini

Description: Close study of Shakespeare's plays and poems to introduce his language, stagecraft, literary "genius," social and literary contexts, precusors and rivals, and legacy.

• ENGL 261g: English Literature to 1800

Instructor: Thea Tomaini, David Rollo, Anthony Kemp

Description: Intensive reading of major writers to 1800.

• ENGL 299g: Introduction to the Genre of Poetry

Instructor: Christopher Freeman

Description: Historical survey of the traditions of lyric poetry from Shakespeare to the contemporary, examining the genre's multiple forms of literary, visual, and aural expression.

• ENGL 304: Introduction to Poetry Writing

Instructor: Molly Bendall

Description: Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing poetry.

• ENGL 420: English Literature of the Middle Ages

Instructor: David Rollo

Description: Selected studies in the major figures, genres, and themes of Middle English literature to Malory, with special emphasis on Chaucer.

History

• HIST 103g: The Emergence of Modern Europe

Instructor: Karin Amundsen

Description: Political, intellectual, and cultural developments in Europe, 1300-1815. Renaissance and Reformation; absolute monarchy, scientific changes, Enlightenment; French Revolution and Napoleon.

• HIST 314: Rome Through its Monuments from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Instructor: Maya Maskarinec

Description: Urban history of Rome from its beginnings through the 14th century focusing on select sites in the city.

• HIST 408: Rubenstein

Instructor: Aro Velmet

Description: Beliefs of European heretics 1000 - 1400 and practices of religious persecution, with special consideration given to problems of evidence gained through interrogation or torture.

• HIST 431: Histories of the Apocalypse

Instructor: Aro Velmet

Description: A historical overview of apocalyptic hopes and fears, from Revelations to the present. New World exploration, utopian communes, nuclear war, zombies, climate change.

International Relations

• IR 150xg: Environmental Issues in Society

Instructor: Jill Sohm

Description: Exploration of the major social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical disagreements that exist between scholars, leaders, and citizens concerning today's most serious environmental issues and problems.

• IR 310: Peace and Conflict Studies

Instructor: Douglas Becker

Description: Interdisciplinary study of the pursuit of peace, including causes of war, arms races, conflict resolution, peace movements, nonviolent resistance, and peace with justice.

Judaic Studies

• JS 100gp: Jewish History

Instructor: Joshua Garroway, Leah Hochman

Description: Major ideas, personalities, and movements in Jewish history from antiquity to the present in light of interaction of the Jews with the general culture.

• JS 180gp: Judaism

Instructor: Reuven Firestone

Description: Jewish beliefs, practices, and history from the biblical period to the present; Judaic contributions to Western civilization.

• JS 211gw: The Holocaust

Instructor: Wolf Gruner

Description: Historical background and responses to the Holocaust, with special emphasis on ethical implications.

• JS 315g: Anti-Semitism, Racism and Other Hatreds

Instructor: Benajmin Ratskoff, Leah Hochman

Description: History and contexts of anti-Semitism, racism and other discourses about difference examined through religious, national and cultural forms in Europe and in the US.

Philosophy

• PHIL 168g: The Meaning of Life

Instructor: Edwin Mcann

Description: Explores philosophical treatments of the problem of the meaning or purpose of human life.

• PHIL 174gw: Freedom, Equality, and Social Justice

Instructor: Jonathan Quong

Description: Explores the nature of justice, and how apparently conflicting ideals, such as freedom and equality, are able to be balanced within a just society.

• PHIL 288gp: Love and its Representation in Western Literature, Film, and Philosophy

Instructor: Edwin McCann

Description: Key works that have shaped the European and American cultural inheritance, with a special focus on the nature of love.

• PHIL 314: Origins of Free Market Thought in Early Modern Europe

Instructor: Jacob Soll

Description: The varied history of ideas of a free market at Cicerom through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to the Enlightenment, Adam Smith, Colbert and beyond.

Religion

• REL 141g: Global Religions in Los Angeles

Instructor: Varun Soni

Description: Congregational and individual expressions of religion in Los Angeles.

• REL 146gp: Spirituality in America

Instructor: Arjun Nair

Description: Examination of the historical continuities and disjunctions between "spiritual but not religious" Americans; the relationship between spirituality, politics and social change, and the role of media.

• REL 147g: Religion, Media and Popular Culture

Instructor: Diane Winston

Description: Exploration of the manner in which the media frame discussions and understandings of ethical issues, moral dilemmas, spirituality and religious imagination,

• REL 334g: Religion and Colonial Encounter

Instructor: Kelsey Moss

Description: Survey of religious responses to colonial encounter in the Americas. Emphasis given to a study of religious innovations of Amerindians, Africans and Europeans.

• REL 338: Mysticism and Religious Desire

Instructor: David Albertson

Description: How human appetite for sex, food, community or immortality are articulated as mystical desires in different religions, either within institutional structures or working against them.

Slavic Languages and Literature

• SLL 344g: Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist

Instructor: Peter Winsky

Description: Tolstoy's major works in the context of his ethical views. Readings and lectures in English.

Thematic Option

• Core 104: Change and the Future: Thematic Option Honors Program

Instructor: David Albertson

Description: Critical readings of a series of texts in the liberal arts designed to promote discussion of important themes, theoretical approaches, research directions, and interdisciplinary connections.

• Core 200: Liberal Arts Reading Salon

Instructor: Amy Cannon

Description: Critical readings of a series of texts in the liberal arts designed to promote discussion of important themes, theoretical approaches, research directions, and interdisciplinary connections.