ARCH&UD 10A. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN: PREHISTORY TO MANNERISM
LEC 1
Instructor: LAVIN, S. / TA
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Developments in architecture and urban design from prehistory to 1600, constructing critical positions within which implications of terms history, architecture, city, and culture can be explored. Focus on examples from Europe and Mediterranean Basin and periodic exploration of world context. Units: 5.0
Armenian
Not scheduled this quarter.
Art History
ART HIS 51. MEDIEVAL ART
LEC 1
Instructor: GERSTEL, S.E.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; quiz, two hours. Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, Carolingian, Ottoman, Romanesque, and Gothic art and architecture. Units: 5.0
ART HIS 57. RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART AND IDEOLOGY
LEC 1
Instructor: WOODS-MARSDEN, J.C
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of Renaissance and baroque art and ideology to introduce students to basic tools of stylistic and iconographical analysis. Coverage of historical development of European art and architecture over period of almost 500 years and exploration of ways in which those in religious and secular power used images to promote their particular ideologies. Units: 5.0
ART HIS 104A. WESTERN ISLAMIC ART
LEC 1
Instructor: BIERMAN-MCKINNEY,
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. From Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to Spain, 7th to 16th century. Units: 4.0
ART HIS C109A. BAROQUE ART
LEC 1
Instructor: BLACK, C.V.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Art and architecture of Spain or Italy, 16th to late 17th century. Concurrently scheduled with course C209A. Units: 4.0
ART HIS 114C. JAPANESE ART
LEC 1
Instructor: MCCALLUM, D.F.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Not open to freshmen. Japanese art from its beginning in prehistory through 19th century. Emphasis on development of Buddhist art and its relationship with culture. Units: 4.0
ART HIS C117D. AZTEC ART
LEC 1
Instructor: KLEIN, C.F.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 55B or C117A. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts of Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico in centuries before Spanish conquest, with emphasis on their social and historical context and major scholarly debates. Concurrently scheduled with course C218D. Units: 4.0
COM LIT 1A. WORLD LITERATURE: ANTIQUITY TO MIDDLE AGES
LEC 1
Course Description: Study of major texts in world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization. Texts include major works and authors such as "Iliad" or "Odyssey," Greek tragedies, portions of Bible, Virgil, Petronius, St. Augustine, and others such as "Gilgamesh" or "Tristan and Iseult." Units: 5.0
COM LIT 2BW. SURVEY OF LITERATURE: MIDDLE AGES TO 17TH CENTURY
LEC 1
Course Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Study of selected texts from Middle Ages to 17th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works by authors such as Chaucer, Dante, Cervantes, Marguerite de Navarre, Shakespeare, Calderón, Molière, and Racine. Units: 5.0
COM LIT 4AW. LITERATURE AND WRITING: ANTIQUITY TO MIDDLE AGES
DIS 1
Instructor: JACKSON, S. / KRISTAL, E.
Course Description: Study and discussion of selected texts from antiquity to Middle Ages, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts include works and authors such as "Iliad," "Odyssey," "Gilgamesh," Sappho, Greek tragedies, "Aeneid," Petronius, "Beowulf," or Marie de France. Units: 5.0
COM LIT 4BW. LITERATURE AND WRITING: MIDDLE AGES TO 17TH CENTURY
DIS 1
Instructor: SIDES, K.B. / KRISTAL, E.
Course Description: Study and discussion of selected texts from Middle Ages to 17th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works and authors such as Chaucer, Dante's "Divine Comedy," Cervantes' "Don Quixote," Shakespeare, "1001 Nights," Christine de Pizan, "Popul Vuh," Molière, and Racine. Units: 5.0
ENGL 10A. ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 1660
LEC 1
Instructor: SHUGER, D.K.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Study of selected works of period, beginning with selections from Old English poetry and including writings by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Units: 5.0
ENGL 88A. LOWER DIVISION SEMINAR: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH -- MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
SEM 1
Class Title: Good Works and Social Responsibility in Medieval England
Instructor: SMITH, J.A.
Class Description: U.S. and world struggle to understand what it means to have social responsibility in era of economic need. Reading of medieval texts on poverty, good works, greed, etc., challenges students to evaluate traditional and current notions of charity, need, and individualism, and to encourage real-world application of those critical thinking skills. Students discuss issues abstractly as they deal with literary works, and in detail as they pertain to their experiences working at service-learning sites. Discussions and writings aim to develop students' abilities to examine relevance of cultural concepts across time. Outside activities seek to create dialog between students and community. Questions include: Who constitutes needy? What is difference between charity and service? Who is responsible for welfare of people in need? What role does money play in morality? How is equality important? Units: 5.0
ENGL 141A. CHAUCER: CANTERBURY TALES
LEC 1
Instructor: ALLEN, M.J.
LEC 2
Instructor: CHISM, C.N.
LEC 3
Instructor: KIPLING, G.L.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Introductory study of Chaucer's language, versification, and historical and literary background, including analysis and discussion of his long major poem, "Canterbury Tales." Satisfies department's Chaucer requirement. Units: 5.0
ENGL 142A. SHAKESPEARE: POEMS AND EARLY PLAYS
LEC 1
Instructor: ALLEN, M.J.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Intensive study of selected poems and representative comedies, histories, and tragedies through "Hamlet." Units: 5.0
ENGL 142B. SHAKESPEARE: LATER PLAYS
LEC 1
Instructor: WATSON, R.N.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Intensive study of representative problem plays, major tragedies, Roman plays, and romances. Units: 5.0
ENGL 142C. SHAKESPEARE: SELECTED TOPICS
LEC 1
Class Title: Shakespeare and Mediterranean
Instructor: FUCHS, B.
Course Description: Lecture, three or four hours. Designed for students interested in further study of Shakespeare.
Class Description: How does Shakespeare represent space between Christianity and Islam, Europe and Africa, East and West? How does early modern writer negotiate classical Mediterranean vs. geopolitical pressures of his own time? Readings include Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, and other plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Units: 5.0
ENGL 143. MILTON
LEC 1 KAREEM, S.T.
LEC 2 POST, J.F.
LEC 3 ROWE, K.E.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Study of major works of Milton, with emphasis on "Paradise Lost." Units: 5.0
ENGL 150A. EARLY MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: JAGER, E.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Reading knowledge of Old English not required. Major prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England (600 to 1100), including epic, romance, history, saints' lives, and travel literature. Texts and topics include "Beowulf," Vikings, poems on women, Bede, and King Alfred. Units: 5.0
ENGL 152B. DRAMA, 1567 TO 1642
LEC 1
Instructor: CUNNINGHAM, K.J.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Non-Shakespearean English drama from opening of first public playhouse to closing of theaters. Units: 5.0
ENGL 181B. SPECIALIZED STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
SEM 1
Class Title: Shakespeare and Tudor Poetry
Instructor: BRAUNMULLER, A.R.
Class Description: Placement of Shakespeare's lyric and narrative verse--sonnets, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece--in their original poetic contexts by reading them with anga against poems by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Drayton, Daniel, and Sackville. James Fenton's Introduction to English Poetry used as guide and whipping post, along with more specific readings on individual poets, poems, techniques, etc. Students responsible for leading class discussion of one or more critical texts, and submission of research paper of at least 15 pages. Alumni of Stratford-London program especially welcome. For more details, contact instructor. Units: 5.0
ENGL 181B. SPECIALIZED STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
SEM 2
Class Title: Bad Shakespeare
Instructor: CUNNINGHAM, K.J.
Course Description: Seminar, three or four hours.
Class Description: Traditionally, many of same plays by Shakespeare are repeatedly staged, read, and taught while others of extensive canon are consigned to dustbin. Study of nine of Shakespeare's plays that are not usually performed or taught--those that are by implication bad Shakespeare. Students and instructor determine which of Shakespeare's plays have been read least or not at all by group, and syllabus crafted from among those. Issues include questions of genre, verse, character, and cultural milieu. Implications of identifying Shakespeare with limited number of plays and overlooking others. Required: selected critical essays (to be determined once syllabus is formed), oral presentations, and 15- to 20-page culminating research paper. Units: 5.0
ENGL 181B. SPECIALIZED STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
SEM 3
Class Title: Love and Lust in Shakespeare's Plays and Poems
Instructor: POST, J.F.
Course Description: Seminar, three or four hours.
Class Description: Consideration of number of Shakespeare's works especially concerned with erotic issues. Attention paid to some of comedies, such as Love's Labours Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Measure for Measure; and at least one of tragedies of love--Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and/or Anthony and Cleopatra. Discussion and analysis of Sonnets, as well as narrative poems Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis, including Shakespeare's mythological sources and their visual representations in Renaissance art. Themes discussed include wooing, role playing, kissing, gender-bending, marriage, chastity, power, innocence, violence, etc. Assessment of varied roles of sexuality in formation of personal and social identities in Renaissance; and language, too, since it is through language--imagery, diction, wordplay, song, and dialog--that subjects get spelled out on page and for stage and age. Units: 5.0
ENGL 181B. SPECIALIZED STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
SEM 4
Class Title: Christopher Marlowe and His Heirs
Instructor: KIPLING, G.L.
Class Description: Reading of relatively small corpus of Marlowe's plays and poems along with one or two plays by those (Chapman, for instance) who attempted to represent themselves as rightful heirs to Marlowe's distinctive style. Students prepare reports, lead discussions, and write term paper. Units: 5.0
FRNCH 116. STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE FRENCH CULTURE AND LITERATURE
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: CARRON, J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Taught in French. Study of Renaissance French culture and literature, including la Pléiade and 16th-century poetry, linguistic and poetic revolution, novel and early prose, and late French humanism. Units: 4.0
HIST 1A. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION: ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, PREHISTORY TO CIRCA A.D. 843
LEC 1
Instructor: RAPP, C.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Broad, historical study of major elements in Western heritage from the world of the Greeks to that of the 20th century, designed to further beginning students' general education, introduce them to ideas, attitudes, and institutions basic to Western civilization, and acquaint them, through reading and critical discussion, with representative contemporary documents and writings of enduring interest. Units: 5.0
HIST 1B. INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION: CIRCA A.D. 843 TO CIRCA 1715
LEC 1
Instructor: MCCLENDON, M.C.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Broad, historical study of major elements in Western heritage from the world of the Greeks to that of the 20th century, designed to further beginning students' general education, introduce them to ideas, attitudes, and institutions basic to Western civilization, and acquaint them, through reading and critical discussion, with representative contemporary documents and writings of enduring interest. Units: 5.0
HIST 21. WORLD HISTORY, CIRCA 600 TO 1760
LEC 1
Instructor: VON GLAHN, R.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Outline of world history from rise of Islam to start of Industrial Revolution, structured around a broad chronological narrative of salient developments. Use of thematic and comparative approaches, with certain recurring themes and institutions that modulate from culture to culture. Reading of variety of contemporary accounts to look at way people perceived cultures outside their own. Units: 5.0
HIST 97C. INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE: VARIABLE TOPICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
SEM 1
Class Title: Unsolved Mysteries of Early Modern European World
Instructor: MCCLENDON, M.C.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Discussion classes of no more than 15 students. Introduction to study of history, with emphasis on historical theory and research methods.
Class Description: Investigation of some of most intriguing mysteries of early modern era in European history. In investigating these problems, students introduced to some sources, methods, and principles of historical research in writing. Helps students develop their ability to read historical writing critically and to improve both oral and written presentation skills. Units: 4.0
HIST 105B. SURVEY OF MIDDLE EAST, 500 TO PRESENT: 1300 TO 1700
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: PITERBERG, G.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Background and circumstances of rise of Islam, creation of Islamic Empire, and its development. Rise of Dynastic Successor States and Modern Nation States. Social, intellectual, political, and economic development. Units: 4.0
HIST 116A. BYZANTINE HISTORY
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: LANGDON, J.S.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Political, socioeconomic, religious, and cultural continuity in millennial history of Byzantium. Reforms of Diocletian. Byzantium's relations with Latin Europe, Slavs, Sassanids, Arabs, and Turks. Units: 4.0
HIST 119A. MEDIEVAL EUROPE, 400 TO 1000
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: GEARY, P.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Basic introduction to Western Europe from Latin antiquity to age of discovery, with emphasis on medieval use of Greco-Roman antiquity, history of manuscript book, and growth of literacy. Units: 4.0
HIST 122A. CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE, 15TH CENTURY
LEC 1
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Climates of taste and climates of opinion. Educational, moral, and religious attitudes; art, thought, and manners of time in historical context. Renaissance cultural and intellectual history of Europe. Central themes include comparative history of ideas, theory and practice of art and architecture, civic and religious humanism, religious experience, and new cultural genres of history and philological scholarship. Units: 4.0
HIST 135A. EUROPE AND WORLD: EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST, 1400 TO 1700
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: SUBRAHMANYAM, S.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. First phase of European expansion in Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Analysis of motives and methods of expansion, differing patterns of European settlement, including plantation economy, and development of new commercial networks, including Atlantic slave trade. Units: 4.0
HIST 136A. HISTORY OF BRITAIN: TUDOR-STUART TIMES, 1485 TO 1715
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: ANDERSON, F.R.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Analysis of British economy, society, and polity, with focus on dynamics of both stability and change. Political, socioeconomic, religious, and cultural history of Britain under Tudors and Stuarts. Topics include Reformation, transformation of economy, establishment of overseas colonies, 17th-century political upheavals and their impact on political and socioeconomic structures. Units: 4.0
HIST 173C. SHINTO, BUDDHISM, AND JAPANESE FOLK RELIGION
LEC 1
Instructor: OOMS, H.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Social dimension of various Ways, great and little: Shinto's connection with cultural nationalism, Buddhism's medieval Reformation and Zen's relation to warrior culture, folk religious aspects such as shamanism, ancestor worship, and millenarianism. Units: 4.0
HIST 191B. CAPSTONE SEMINAR: HISTORY -- MEDIEVAL
SEM 1
Class Title: Medieval Conflict Resolution
Instructor: GEARY, P.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Designed for seniors.
Class Description: Before appearance of modern state with its courts, police, and judicial officers, Europeans did not live in chaos or anarchy. However means by which conflicts were pursued, resolved, and transformed relied less on formal governmental institutions than on spectrum of practices based in religious and social custom and tradition. Examination of some of this spectrum, from blood-feud and religious rituals to arbitration and judicial ordeals, to understand how conflict can work in stateless societies that were Europe between 6th and 13th centuries. Required: completion of course 119a or 119b or equivalent upper division medieval history course. Units: 4.0
ISLAMIC 110. INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM
LEC 1
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Genesis of Islam, its doctrines, and practices, with readings from the Qur'an and hadith; schools of law and theology; piety and Sufism; reform and modernism. Units: 5.0
ITALIAN 114B. MIDDLE AGES: MEDIEVAL HUMOR, MORALISM, AND SOCIETY
LEC 1
Instructor: TUTTLE, E.F.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Conducted in Italian. Novelty of Boccaccio's witty and comic masterpiece, "Decameron," analyzed within context of moral and social codes of culture of time. Units: 4.0
JAPAN 108FL. SPECIAL STUDIES: READINGS IN JAPANESE
SEM 1
Class Title: Japanese Buddhism
Instructor: BODIFORD, W.M.
Course Description: Seminar, two hours.
Class Description: Students must be concurrently enrolled in course C160/C260. Advanced readings in Japanese and discussion related to lecture topics presented in course C160/C260. Units: 2.0
NR EAST 50B. ORIGINS OF JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM
LEC 1
Instructor: BAKHOS, C.A.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of formative period for monotheism -- first millennium of Common Era in the Middle East -- and emergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Units: 5.0
PHILOS 100B. MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
LEC 1
Instructor: COPENHAVER, B.P.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of development and transformation of Greek metaphysics and epistemology within context of philosophical theology, and transition from medieval to early modern period. Special emphasis on Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and Descartes. Units: 4.0
RUSSIAN 211A. LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL RUS'
LEC 1
Instructor: LENHOFF, G.D.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Survey of the literature from its beginning through the Kievan and Muscovite periods up to end of the 17th century. Units: 4.0
SCAND 132B. INTERMEDIATE OLD NORSE
LEC 1
Instructor: WILLSON, K.J.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered Old Norse Studies 132B.) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 132A. Continued grammar, pronunciation, and readings from "Eddas" and sagas of Icelanders, Norwegian kings, and legendary heroes. Units: 4.0
Semitics
Not scheduled this quarter.
Slavic Languages and Literature
Not scheduled this quarter.
Spanish
SPAN 125. GOLDEN AGE: PROSE
LEC 1
Instructor: FUCHS, B.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Study of 16th- and 17th-century prose writing in Spain, with particular emphasis on Lazarillo de Tormes and the picaresque tradition. Units: 4.0
SPAN 127. GOLDEN AGE: DON QUIJOTE
LEC 1
Instructor: KRISTAL, E.
Course Description: Development of the novel in the Golden Age, with particular reference to "Don Quijote." Units: 4.0
