Western Traditions-Renaissance to Modernity
This course (and its companion, HONR 101) opens perspectives on works that have shaped the self-understanding of the West. An interdisciplinary team of professors examines these works from a variety of disciplinary paradigms. Students will examine the recurring questions the works pose to each other and to our own culture: questions about the nature of human existence and destiny, and the characteristic problems and possibilities of humanity's struggle for justice, search for truth and hunger for beauty.
Outcomes: Studying a selection of major works from antiquity to the present, students learn how each text reflects its own period, how texts within each period present different views, and how ideas change over time; Written and visual expressions of these themes are examined in relation to the political and cultural background of each period: Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Period and modernism.
These courses are structured as three hours of lecture and three hours of seminar each semester.
Outcomes: Studying a selection of major works from antiquity to the present, students learn how each text reflects its own period, how texts within each period present different views, and how ideas change over time; Written and visual expressions of these themes are examined in relation to the political and cultural background of each period: Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Period and modernism.
These courses are structured as three hours of lecture and three hours of seminar each semester.