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$15,400* |
January 9 - May 9 |
Eligibility: This program is for undergraduate students only.
Students must be at least 18 years of age and have graduated from high school.
Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.69.
Total contact hours: 180-270 per semester.
15 contact hours = 1 semester credit; 10 contact hours = 1 quarter unit.
Possible U.S. Credits: 12 - 18 semester credits per semester. Normal course load is 4-6 classes per semester.
*Certain courses (i.e. art history and others) may require field trips which students must pay for on their own and
are not included in the program fees.
The final transcript for this program is issued by John Cabot University.
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COURSE OFFERINGS
Courses numbered 100-299 are freshman, sophomore, or other introductory level courses. Courses numbered 300-399 are junior or senior level courses, requiring background in the material. Courses numbered 400-499 are senior level courses. Students should ensure that they have completed the prerequisites listed at the end of many course descriptions.
Course offerings are subject to change. The University reserves the right to cancel courses with insufficient enrollment, and the curriculum is subject to change as a result of ongoing curricular revisions and program development.
Unless otherwise indicated, all courses carry 3 semester hours of credit (45 contact hours).
Most courses taught at JCU require the use of personal computers. While PCs are available in the computer labs, students are strongly urged to bring a laptop with them in order to facilitate their course work.
Course offerings and descriptions for John Cabot University are listed below.
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*COURSES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
ART HISTORY & STUDIO ART
BUSNIESS ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE & MARKETING
ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & THEATRE
HISTORY & HUMANITIES - CLASSICS, RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
MATHEMATICS, NATURAL SCIENCE & COMPUTER SCIENCE
ITALIAN LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE, JOURNALISM, COMMUNICATIONS, ECONOMICS & PSYCHOLOGY
ART HISTORY & STUDIO ART
AH 151 Introduction to Western Art I: Ancient and Medieval Art
This course offers an introduction to the most significant artistic monuments and trends of European art and architecture. They are designed for the student with no previous art history background, and for the student with some experience seeking a general historical overview. Lectures, class discussion, readings, journal assignments and site visits familiarize students with a variety of period styles and cultures. Each course also considers the function of art as a shifting expression of institutions and individuals at different moments in history.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH 152 Introduction to Western Art II: Renaissance to Modern Art
This course offers an introduction to the most significant artistic monuments and trends of European art and architecture. They are designed for the student with no previous art history background, and for the student with some experience seeking a general historical overview. Lectures, class discussion, readings, journal assignments and site visits familiarize students with a variety of period styles and cultures. Each course also considers the function of art as a shifting expression of institutions and individuals at different moments in history.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 181 Politics and Power in Roman Architecture - Augustus to Mussolini
Rome City Series - This on-site survey investigates the history of Rome primarily through its monuments-its architecture and urban form. This course will provide the student with a clear grasp of how the city of Rome has changed over the course of two thousand years from a modest Iron Age settlement on the Palatine Hill to a thriving modern metropolis of the twentieth century. The student will become intimately acquainted with the topography, urban makeup and history of the city and its monuments; and will acquire the theoretical tools needed to examine, evaluate and critically assess city form, design and architecture.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AH 190 Cities, Towns & Villas: Rome, Ostia, Pompeii
This on-site course examines Roman visual culture in Italy from c. 800 BC to c. 400 AD by focusing on the most important surviving sites in Rome and its environs as well as the areas hit by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. A focus throughout the course is the development of Roman cities and towns, their plans and topography, their public monuments and their political, economic, social, and religious institutions. We will also study private architecture: from the aristocratic city-house to the country villa to middle class homes. In addition to formal descriptions of the structures, there is a strong emphasis on the role of the monument in ancient society. The course will be conducted entirely on site.
There is a mandatory field trip to Pompeii and Herculaneum (equivalent to two class meetings).
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AH 196 Introduction to Italian Renaissance Art
A survey of art and architecture in Italy from the 14th to the early 16th century, this course will give primary emphasis to Florence as an artistic center while including exploration of the contributions of Siena, Rome, and Venice. The course is intended for students with little or no background in art history and will cover the principal artists and trends of the Italian Renaissance, from Giotto to Michelangelo. Lectures and on-site visits, including a trip to Florence, will help build a visual vocabulary of monuments in a general historical overview.
Mandatory Field Trip
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 220 Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology
This is a survey of Greek art and archaeology from the Bronze Age through the late Hellenistic period. The course begins with an introduction to the Minoans and Mycenaeans; cultural and artistic developments are traced through the 2nd century BC when the Hellenistic kingdoms began to fall into the hands of Rome. Analysis of architecture and art are merged with an understanding of historical trends and Greek mythology.
Mandatory Field Trip
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH 221 The Etruscans and their Neighbors: the Art and Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy
This is a survey of the cultures that inhabited Italy between the Copper Age and the Social Wars with a focus on the Etruscans. This course begins with Otzi the Iceman and his contemporaries and continues through the 80's BC, indicating developments of Italic populations and their contact with both Aegean and European cultures. The core of the course concentrates on the Etruscans: students will be introduced to their tomb paintings, statuary, bronze and ceramic production, religious rites and language.
Mandatory Field Trip
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 223 The Art and Architecture of the Roman Empire
A survey of Roman architecture and art (sculpture, wall painting, mosaics and crafts) produced in Italy and the Roman provinces between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD. The course addresses such themes as: changing styles and techniques, practical and symbolic function of art and architecture, what it meant to be "Roman" in a multicultural Empire, and the notions of commemoration, remembrance and nostalgia.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 240 Great Writings on Art: Description, Analysis and Interpretation
This course is about the art of writing about art, and surveys notable examples. As in any historical study, our understanding of art history is filtered through specific writings. These writings can to be appreciated in themselves for their sensitivity, originality, and craft, and also evaluated critically. In this course we search out authors who achieve sensitive description of works of art of many diverse styles and periods, who vividly communicate the intellectual and emotional responses triggered by visual experience, and who skillfully delineate art's historical and cultural context.
This course is appropriate for beginners in art history.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH 290 Ancient Rome and its Monuments
Rome City Series - This on-site course considers the art and architecture of ancient Rome through visits to museums and archaeological sites. The course covers the visual culture and architecture of Rome beginning with the late Bronze Age and ending with the time of Constantine. A broad variety of issues are raised, including patronage, style and iconography, artistic and architectural techniques, Roman religion, business and entertainment.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AH 291 Medieval Rome and its Monuments
Rome City Series - An on-site survey of Roman urbanism, as well as developments in figural media and architecture, from the 4th to the 14th century. While the course will naturally emphasize the abundant religious art remaining in the city, it will also examine such secular achievements as towers, housing, defenses, and roads.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AH 294 Renaissance Rome and its Monuments
Rome City Series - This on-site course will study the monuments of Renaissance Rome: painting, sculpture and architecture produced by such masters as Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, all attracted to the lucrative service of popes, cardinals and nobles of the Roman court. On-site classes will investigate examples of palace and villa architecture, chapel decoration that encompasses altarpieces and funerary sculpture, as well as urbanistic projects where the city itself was considered as a work of art. In-class lectures will introduce historical context and theory allowing the student to understand artworks studied conceptually and place commissions of painting and sculpture within a socio-historic framework.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AH 295 Early Italian Renaissance Art
The first half of a two-part study of art and architecture in central Italy (Rome, Florence, and Siena) covering the period from the 14th to the mid-15th century. While attention is given to the ambience from which Giotto developed in the Trecento, and to the International Gothic style at the turn of the Quattrocento, major consideration is given to the momentous changes brought about in the first half of the Quattrocento by Brunelleschi, Alberti, Donatello, Ghiberti, Masaccio, and others.
Mandatory Field Trips and a trip to Florence are an essential part of the course.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH 296 Italian High Renaissance Art
An extension of the study of Italian art and architecture in the Renaissance through the second half of the 15th century into the first three decades of the 16th. The works of Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Pollaiuolo, and others will be studied, along with works by those whose innovations initiated the High Renaissance style: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bramante, and Raphael. Numerous on-site visits in Rome and a trip to Florence are an essential part of the course.
Mandatory Field Trips
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AH 298 Baroque Rome and Its Monuments
Rome City Series - An on-site course that enables the student to visit many of the major and minor monuments of Baroque Rome - churches, palaces,piazze, etc. - and thus to study firsthand important works by such artists as Bernini, Borromini, Caravaggio and Pietro da Cortona, among others.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AH 330 European Art and Architecture: 1780-1880
This survey of art and architecture of the later 18th and 19th centuries will investigate the major movements of the age: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Students will explore not only the works of such artists as Canova, Turner, Delacroix, Manet, Degas and Van Gogh, but will also examine how the function and reception of art are transformed over the course of a century. While emphasis will be placed on French painting, art and architecture in England, Germany, Spain, Italy and North America will also be represented. Selected writings by 19th century critics and the artists themselves, in addition to readings by recent scholars in the field will also inform understanding of the development of art in a period marked by social and political upheaval, and from which an increasingly "modern" culture emerged.
Prerequisite: One course in Art History or permission of the instructor.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH 335 Twentieth Century Art
A treatment of the major artists and artistic issues of the early 20th century, emphasizing modern art as an arena of dialogue and debate. An important aim is that of cultivating skill in seeing in order to achieve direct, personal responses to works of art, along with formal and historical understanding. The course will review the origins of modern thinking in artists associated with movements as far back as the Enlightenment, neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism. Symbolism, which broadly applies to many art forms, was a dominant idea at the dawn of the twentieth century. The Fauves, and expressionist German movements follow. The great innovations of Cubism shook the art world in every corner of the globe. In Italy, the Futurists and later the metaphysical artists (de Chirico, et al) altered European art. Pure abstraction arrived first in Russia, and expressed utopian and even spiritual ideals. The Primitive as a stylistic mode and philosophical ideal can be traced back through Gauguin to romanticism.
Prerequisite: One course in Art History.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH 340 Theories and Methods of Art History
It is not possible to look at art in an entirely direct, "pure," way: our understanding is always mediated by a conceptual structure, hence the necessity to be conscious of the methods and theories employed when studying art. This course is an introduction to various historical approaches to the description, analysis, interpretation and evaluation of art from Plato to the present. The biographical approach (Pliny, Vasari) leads to the beginnings of the history of art per se (Winckelmann, Buckhardt, etc.), and the analysis of form (Wölfflin, Riegl etc.) and style. Panofsky's iconographic method is fundamental. This course will not be limited to writings that are explicitly part of the literature of art history, but proposes a broad outlook on the history of ideas, theories and evaluations of the visual arts by poets, thinkers, philosophers and art historians.
Prerequisite: One course in Art History
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 341 Issues and Trends in Contemporary Art
This course is a survey of major artistic movements since 1960, and an introduction to galleries, museums, foundations, auctions, and other arts organizations in Rome.
Prerequisite: One course in Art History or permission of the instructor
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 352 Rome in the Age of Augustus
This course considers the city of Rome and the Empire during the reign of Augustus. Following an introduction to the political, social and artistic trends of the late Republican period, students are exposed to the politics, ideology, literature, art and architecture of the Augustan period. Themes include memories of Julius Caesar, constructing the Imperial family, Aeneas and the legacy of Augustus. Mandatory Field Trip.
Prerequisite: One course in Art History or permission of the instructor.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 360 Selected Topics in Ancient Art
Specialized courses periodically offered on specific aspects of art in the ancient world. Topics offered in the past have included Egyptian Art, Etruscan Art, and Greek and Roman Painting.
Prerequisite: One course in Art History
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 363 Culture Clash and Innovation in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
The gradual decline of Roman Imperial power in Late Antiquity eventually gave way to the unimaginable. In the 400s, Rome itself was sacked by Germanic tribesmen-by Visigoths and Vandals-and afterward many formerly Roman territories gradually fell to them and to related "barbaric" peoples, the Ostrogoths, Franks, Longobards, and others. Soon a new and seemingly unstoppable religious phenomenon, Islam, began to expand westward and would eventually swallow up much of the territory taken by these Germanic tribes. This course examines the amazingly rich and varied visual culture that emerged from this period of intense conflict and cultural innovation in Italy, Spain, North Africa, and the Near East, with emphasis on metalwork and gems, illuminated manuscripts, stone and ivory carving, textiles, paintings, mosaics, and architecture. The course includes classroom lectures and discussions, site visits, and a class field trip.
Prerequisite: One course in Art History
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH 364 Pagans, Jews and Christians - Art and Religion in Late Antique Rome
Rome City Series - In the third and fourth century Rome continued to be a stronghold of traditional paganism, but it was also a hub of "exotic" pagan cults imported from the East, home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the Diaspora, and of one of the fastest-growing Christian communities in the Empire. This diversity was matched by an increase in religious feeling that affected Roman society as a whole. Much of the art produced in Rome at this time may be understood in the context of this new religious ferment. It is a highly creative art, in which tradition, innovation, syntheses, and even contradiction often coexist and give expression to the complex and constantly evolving religious, cultural and social framework of the times. The goal of the course is to allow students to become familiar with the iconography and meaning of the art of Late Antique Rome in the context of this new age of spirituality. In-class lectures will be complemented by site and museum visits to take advantage of the many monuments and artworks still extant in Rome and its environs.
Prerequiste: one course in Art History, Classical Studies, or Religious Studies or permission of the instructor.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 370 Selected Topics in Renaissance Art - Venetian Art
Monographic courses on Raphael and Michelangelo have been offered in the past; similar courses on Leonardo and Donatello are possibilities, as well as thematic courses on Renaissance Architecture, Papal Patronage, etc.
Prerequisite: One course in Art History
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH 380 Selected Topics in Art History
Periodically offered courses that focus on a particular dimension of the history of art. Topics typically cross over established periods, focus on a modern artist or movement (e.g. Picasso), or deal with non-Western art (Islamic Art).
Prerequisite: One course in Art History
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH 480 Senior Thesis
Thesis supervision for Art History majors in their final year. Students select their research topics in consultation with their thesis advisor.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
AH/RL 260 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Developments in architecture, painting, sculpture, and mosaic of the Early Christian and Byzantine periods, from the art of the catacombs in the 3rd and 4th centuries to the monuments of Italo-Byzantine art of the Middle Ages.
Mandatory Field Trip.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
AH/RL 398 Spirituality and Transcendence in Modern Art
While modern art reflects the secularized era in which it has flourished, many modern artists have described their work in terms of a spiritual search: one needs only to think of Gauguin, the Symbolists of the turn of the century, Malevich and the Russian avant-garde, Chagall, the Italian Metaphysical artists, the Surrealists, and others. This course examines many varieties of religious and spiritual expression in modern art.
Historically, art and religion are intimately intertwined:
- For students of art history, the study of religion can be a key to understanding art. (The early development of Western art took place largely in a religious context.)
- For students of religion, art offers a privileged avenue to understanding a culture's deep spiritual convictions. Indeed, for many lost cultures, artistic artifacts may constitute nearly the only available evidence concerning religious practice.
Pre-requisite: One course in Religious Studies, Art History, Anthropology, or Philosophy
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
ARCH 101 Introduction to Classical Archaeology
This is an introduction to the major cultures of the classical world, ca. 2000 BC to AD 400, with archaeology as the primary body of evidence. Following an introduction to the history of classical archaeology and current archaeological theory and methods, the course traces the development of society in the Mediterranean basin from the Minoans and Mycenaeans to the complex system of the Roman Empire. The course involves lectures and museum visits and integrates information from current archaeological projects.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AS 110 Drawing - Rome Sketchbook
This course makes use of the unparalleled resource that is the city of Rome itself; each class meets at a different site around the city. Students work in sketchbook form, creating over the course of the term a diary of visual encounters. Instruction, apart from brief discussions of the sites themselves, focuses on efficient visual note-taking: the quick description of form, awareness of light and the development of volume in space.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AS 199 Basic Photography (Traditional Film Photography)
This course is designed to give students an overview of the photographic medium as a means of communication and personal expression with the city of Rome as a vehicle. The major components of the class are use of the 35mm camera, introduction to darkroom technique, and an overview of the history of photography and its specific aesthetics. Class will consist of technical, theoretical, and visual elements to take place in class, on site in Rome, and in museums and galleries.
Students must have access to a 35mm film camera with manual controls, and be prepared to have film developed and printed by a commercial lab each week at their own expense.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AS 204 Beginning Painting
This course introduces the basic issues of oil painting through a series of classic problems: the still life, figure study, self-portrait and others. Emphasis is on control of color and light and dark value, while building form in a coherent pictorial space.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AS 212 Figure Drawing and Painting
Figure drawing is the traditional basis for training the artist's eye and hand. Through specific exercises, students learn to control line and gesture, to model form in light and dark, and to depict accurately the forms and proportions of the human body.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AS 289 Digital Photography
This is a course in basic digital photography. The theoretical component deals with the basic functions of the camera, the use of lighting, principles of composition, interaction between colors, visions of architecture and interiors, and basic principles of the elaboration of photos on the computer. The practical component involves picture-taking and the preparation of a photo exhibition.
Each student must be equipped with a digital camera with a wide lens or a 3x or greater optical zoom, and camera functions selector which includes M,A,S,P. A tripod is strongly recommended. Modern single-lens reflex (SLR) digital cameras with interchangeable lenses are highly recommended.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AS 310/311 Fresco Painting
This course will provide students with the material techniques and art-historical context to understand Italian fresco painting. The art of fresco is particularly varied, and includes drawing, painting, color theory and plaster preparation. Students will leave the course with a knowledge of these techniques and be familiar with the history of the fresco and with its important artists and their work in Rome. While the course aims to provide an introduction to the history of fresco painting in Italy from 1300 to 1600, we will also study the traditional techniques of fresco painting and engage in the production of fresco work. Students will learn all phases of fresco making, from mortar mixing and surface preparation, drawing studies and transfer, to dry pigment preparation and application. Student projects may vary according to background and interest, from research projects to actual paintings, and, due to the scope of the subject, collaborations and group projects are encouraged.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
AS 349 Advanced Photography
The aim of this course is to provide the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to conceive, plan, and produce a creative photographic project. Each student will work on a photography research project that may concern: nature photography, architecture, portraiture, fashion and beauty, photojournalism, landscape, etc. Students should already have basic competence in black and white photography including developing and printing techniques, and will learn advanced creative darkroom techniques. Further instruction will involve the use of PhotoShop software for the digital manipulation of images. Assignments will help students to begin to acquire specific skills and knowledge sought in the professional workplace.
Prerequisite: An introductory photography course or permission of the instructor
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
BUSNIESS ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE & MARKETING
IT/BUS 303 Italian for Business
This course, which is open to students who have completed the equivalent of two years of college Italian, is designed for those interested in doing business with or in Italy. It focuses on the Italian language of business, aiming at developing students' written and oral skills while providing them with the technical vocabulary and professional expressions that are most often used in a variety of business situations. Topics are confronted in several ways: through readings from textbooks used in business schools, the analysis of letters, office documents and newspaper articles about business, and targeted exercises and discussions. Attention is also given to culture, manners, and customs as they relate to business practices.
Prerequisites: IT 302, FIN 201 or permission of the instructor.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
BUS 220 Business Communications
This course deals with the definition and analysis of problems and the production of written and oral business reports. Use of appropriate computer software (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, graphics) is an integral part of the course
Prerequisite: Junior Standing, EN 110.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
BUS 301 Business Ethics
This course considers some of the most important ethical issues in business today. Students will examine such issues as businesses' responsibilities to shareholders, workers and consumers, the pros and cons of a "free market," the challenges raised by globalization and environmental destruction, the idea of "ethical" consumption, and the particular dilemmas faced by Western businesses working in foreign countries. Issues will be studied through a selection of contemporary cases, arguments, and broader theories, along with much class discussion, with the aim of helping students develop a familiarity with the issues and the ability to discuss and defend their own opinions.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
BUS 310 Business and Society
The modern business enterprise exists and functions within the context of its surrounding economic, legal, and social environments. Whether driven by economic or social motivations, today's manager must have a keen awareness of the impact of changing environmental factors on the organization's ability to achieve its goals and objectives, given finite resources. This course explores contemporary problems and issues, and aims to evaluate the alternative strategies that a firm may choose from to prepare for and respond to the impact of these changes.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing. Recommended: EC 201 or MGT 301 or LAW 219
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
BUS 320 Public Relations
This course surveys the theory and practice of public relations, examining a model for public relations programming, the principles of public relations writing, and stakeholder/issues management techniques, together with their ethical implications. It distinguishes PR and publicity communication concepts within the framework of the firm's overall marketing communication strategy and organizational mission. Special topics, such as Marketing Public Relations, Investor Relations, Government Relations, etc., will also be addressed. Students are expected to be able to use primary and secondary research and the information tools of communications professionals.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing, EN 110, MKT 301; Recommended: MGT 301
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
BUS 330 International Business
The objective of this course is to expose students to the essential elements of international business, with particular emphasis on how it differs from domestic business. An extensive use of case studies provides a basis for class discussion, allowing students to develop their analytical skills and apply their theoretical knowledge.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing, EC 202; Recommended: MGT 301
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
FIN 201 Financial Accounting
This course is an introduction to basic accounting methods and concepts; preparation of principal financial statements; application of accounting principles to the main asset, liability, and owners' equity accounts.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
FIN 202 Managerial Accounting
This course focuses on the role of accounting in the management process and where accounting can provide critical support to management decision making. Cost-volume relations are introduced, along with identification of costs relevant to management decisions. Process costing and job costing systems, the development of a master plan, preparation of flexible budgets and responsibility accounting are covered, and the influences of quantitative techniques on managerial accounting are introduced.
Prerequisite: FIN 201
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
FIN 301 Finance
This course examines both the theoretical and applied foundations required to make decisions in financial management. The main areas covered include an overview of the financial system and the efficiency of capital markets, evaluation of financial performance, time value of money, analysis of risk and return, basic portfolio theory, valuation of stocks and bonds, capital budgeting, international financial management, and capital structure management.
Prerequisite: FIN 201, FIN 202, EC 202, MA 208
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
FIN 302 Financial Management
This course builds on FIN 301 Finance and completes the overview of theoretical and applied foundations required to make decisions in financial management. The course focuses on the interpretation of financial data ratios, cost of capital and long-term financial policy, short-term financial planning and management, issues in international finance and mergers and acquisitions.
Prerequisite: FIN 301
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
FIN 330 International Finance
The course emphasizes the structure and analysis of international capital and financial markets, Euro-currency financing, and the financing of international transactions.
Prerequisite: FIN 301
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
LAW 219 Legal Environment of Business
This course provides students with an overview of the law in general, beginning with the foundations of the legal and regulatory environment, the law-making processes and the implementation of legal rules. Students examine some areas of substantive law, including bodies of law that are regulatory in nature. Particular attention is given to aspects of business transactions in an international context.
Recommended: EN 110
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
LAW 323 International Business Law
This course deals with legal aspects of international business transactions. The course introduces students to issues in international commerce, including requirements of a contract, international shipping terms, and liability of air and ocean carriers. The course will examine international and U.S. trade law, including GATT 1994, and the regulation of imports and exports. Finally, the course will familiarize students with various areas of regulation of international business, such as competition law, employment discrimination law, and environmental law.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
LAW 341 Fundamentals of Italian Legal Practice
The principal object of this course is to present to the student a basic study of the Italian legal system, beginning with a comparison between the common and the civil law systems. The course shall provide the student with an overview of the Italian legal tradition and the Italian legal profession, as well as a basic knowledge of some of the areas of Italian law (such as Constitutional law, Contract law and Labor law) focusing particularly on the ones related to business. The purpose of the course is not to develop deeply informed lawyers, but to stimulate and interest students, coming from substantially different backgrounds, in legal topics they come across during their stay in Italy.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
MGT 301 Principles of Management
Introduction to the manager's role and the management process in the context of organizations and society. Focus on effective management of the corporation in a changing society and on improved decision making and communication. Processes covered: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Teamwork and individual participation are emphasized.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
MGT 303 Modern Management Thought
Modern cases are the basis for understanding the continuing evolution of modern management principles and practices. A comparative study is made, using the works of many pioneers in the field of management, including Machiavelli, Mosca, and Parrot. Guru theory and current popular business writers may be addressed.
Prerequisite: MGT 301
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
MGT 310 Organizational Behavior
The course examines the disciplinary foundations of organizational behavior, the major conceptual models that purport to explain organizational behavior, the methods used to study organizations, and the trends in the field. Content is based on basic concepts of motivation, control, change, and team building, as well as the development of effective relationships in a diverse work environment. Note: this course is intensive in that students are asked to write individual papers, work in groups to formulate plans to resolve real life situations as described in various case studies and present their recommendations to the assembled class.
Prerequisite: MGT 301
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
MGT 320 Human Resources Management
The course provides an overview of the strategic human resource challenges in organizations. It provides a framework to understand the role of human resource strategies, activities, and programs in achieving competitive advantage. To support this broad perspective, some of the most important external and internal challenges are discussed in three categories: environmental challenges, organizational challenges, and individual challenges.
Prerequisite: MGT 301
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
MGT 330 Operations Management
Management issues related to the procurement and allocations of resources in the production of goods and services in order to meet organizational goals. Topics covered include product and process design, facility size, location and layout, quality management, production planning and control.
Prerequisite: MGT 301, MA 208
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
MGT 426 International Management
This is an introductory course in Comparative Business Cultures in a context of International Business and Management, covering the work of Clyde Kluckholm and Fred Strodtbeck, Gary Ferraro, Bjorn Bjerke, Fons Trompenaars, Geert Hofstede as well as the G.L.O.B.E. project. The emphasis in this course is on understanding and applying one's knowledge of the different National Cultures as an aid to improved management of human resources, enhanced cross border trade, relocation of business activities to different countries, as well as on the "melding" of different cultures in multi-national as well as companies which are involved in joint ventures, mergers or take-overs.
Prerequisite: MGT 301.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
MGT 498 Strategic Management
Focuses on the role and responsibilities of the Chief Executive Officer, which call for leadership, integration across functional areas, organizational development, and strategy formulation and implementation.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing and completion of all other business core courses
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
MKT 301 Principles of Marketing
This course provides students with an understanding of the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of goods and services. Major areas: selecting target markets, market positioning, and marketing mix strategy. Skill development in demand/competitive analysis, value creation, teamwork, and effective communication. Teaching methodology is case study-based and group work is emphasized.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing, EC 201, MA 208
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
MKT 302 Service Marketing
This course offers key insights into the rapidly growing service sector industry. The course is challenging and requires students to apply their knowledge and skills for the effective management of service design and delivery. Central issues addressed in the course include identifying differences between service and product marketing; understanding how customers assess service quality/ satisfaction; applying the GAPS model to assess service failure; and understanding of the theory of relationship marketing and using related tools and techniques for keeping customers and encouraging loyalty.
Prerequisite: MKT 301; Recommended: MGT 301.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
MKT 304 New Product Management
This course investigates the process of new product management, starting from idea and concept generation through to project evaluation and development. The course is designed to be a workshop for new product development, allowing students to explore market opportunities and propose new concepts to the market.
Prerequisite: MKT 301
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
MKT 305 Market and Marketing Research
This course covers the basic methods and techniques of marketing research. Discusses the tools and techniques for gathering, analyzing, and using information to aid marketing decision- making. Covers topics such as problem definition, research design formulation, measurement, research instrument development, sampling techniques, data collection, data interpretation and analysis, and presentation of research findings. Students choose a marketing research project, formulate research hypotheses, collect primary and secondary data, develop a database, analyze data, write a report, and present results and recommendations.
Prerequisite: MKT 301; Recommended: MA 209
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
MKT 320 Integrated Marketing Communications
This course first examines the basic principles underlying consumer information processing and how marketing can influence this process. It then addresses the design, coordination, and management of marketing communications, focusing on the role of integrated marketing communications in the marketing process, particularly as it relates to branding. The second part of the course may take the form of an extended case study/IMC plan or may address special topics: for example, the relationship between public relations (PR) and marketing, the history and development of advertising and public relations, public opinion and its role in IMC planning, media relations, research for campaign design, global communication, and crisis management.
Prerequisite: MKT 301
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
MKT 321 Advertising Management
This course addresses the strategies and steps needed to create successful, ethical, and creative advertising, while emphasizing the role of advertising as a communication process. The student will learn about the advertising process from both the "client" and "agency" perspectives, and gain hands-on experience in crafting written and visual advertising messages based on sound marketing and creative strategies. The student is expected to be able to use primary and secondary research and the information tools of communications professionals.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, EN 110; MKT 301. Recommended: MGT 301
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
MKT 330 International Marketing
This course examines the process of planning and conducting transactions across national borders in a global environment. Topics include factors in assessing world marketing opportunities, international marketing of products, pricing, distribution and promotion program development in dynamic world markets. Marketing practices which various businesses adapt to the international environment are studied. Attention is also given to comparative marketing systems, and planning and organizing for export-import operations.
Prerequisite: MKT 301
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
MKT 340 E-Marketing
This course approaches Internet marketing from a marketing management perspective. The course looks at the Internet both as a tool to be used in the marketing planning process and as an element of a company's marketing mix. The course explores how traditional marketing concepts such as market segmentation, research, the 4Ps and relationship marketing are applied using the Internet and other electronic marketing techniques. Website design is not covered.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing, MKT 301
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
MKT 490 Marketing Management
This course involves the analytical integration of material covered in previous marketing courses. It develops skills in diagnosing marketing problems, formulating and selecting strategic alternatives, and recognizing problems inherent in strategy implementation. The development of a comprehensive marketing plan is a major requirement of the course.
Prerequisite for Marketing Majors: Senior standing and completion of all other marketing core courses; Prerequisite for Business Majors: MA 208; Recommended: MKT 301, MKT 305 and MKT 310.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & THEATRE
EN 101 English Composition I
This course focuses primarily on developing the ability to write grammatically and idiomatically correct English prose, using a variety of sentence structures and appropriate vocabulary. The course includes in-depth grammar review and an introduction to the basic elements of academic writing. In addition to reading short essays, students will have both in- and out-of-class writing assignments.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
EN 105 English Composition II
This course concentrates on the development of effective paragraph writing for inclusion in argumentative essays. Elements covered include outlining, the introduction-body-conclusion structure, thesis statements, topic sentences, supporting arguments, and transition signals. Critical reading is also integral to the course. Students write in- and out-of-class essays and analyze peer writing as well as good expository models.
Prerequisite: Placement exam or EN 101 with a grade of C- or above
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
EN 110 English Composition III
This course reinforces the skills needed to write well-organized essays and develops greater awareness of rhetorical modes. Elements covered include thesis development, critical reading, organizing and outlining, paraphrasing and summarizing, and citation and documentation standards. Techniques of academic research and the use of the library and other research facilities are discussed. In addition to regular in- and out-of-class reading and writing assignments, students are required to write a fully documented research paper. Students must receive a grade of C- or above in this course to fulfill the University's English Composition requirement and to be eligible to take courses in English literature.
Prerequisite: Placement exam or EN 105 with a grade of C- or above
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
EN 198 Introduction to Literature
Presupposing no previous knowledge in particular of literature, the course deals in an intensive manner with a very limited selection of works in the three genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. Students learn the basic literary terms that they need to know to approach literary texts. They are required to do close readings of the assigned texts, use various critical approaches, and write several critical essays on specified readings.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
EN 200 Introduction to the Novel
The course traces various developments in the genre of the novel from the 17th to the 20th centuries through a reading of selected representative texts. In addition, students are required to consider these works alongside of the development of theories about the novel.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
EN 205 Introduction to Creative Writing
This course provides an introduction to the creative practice of writing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and stage/screen writing, while probing major issues of literary aesthetics. This course does not satisfy the General Distribution requirement in English Literature. This course is a prerequisite for all higher-level Creative Writing courses.
Prerequisites: EN 110 or permission of the instructor
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
EN 210 Introduction to Poetry and Poetics
Major theories concerning the nature and source of poetic talent and a consideration of the traditional aspects of prosody and poetic form. The course emphasis falls upon competence with poetry as an art form rather than upon the knowledge of particular poets or literary periods.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
EN 220 Post-Colonial Literature
This course examines the idea of the post colonial via a close reading of some of the major works now collected under the term. The course examines themes and techniques from a formal and historical perspective, asking what the "postcolonial" means and whether it is a plausible and productive concept. The course concentrates on writers from countries primarily, but not exclusively, colonized by the British. Topics include decolonization, the appropriation of the colonizer's language, hybridity, exile, the necessity of alienation and the relationship of the postcolonial to the postmodern. The function of orientalism, the role of censorship, the political and historical importance of the development of a literary consciousness and the role of the figure of the author will also play a role in the course.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
EN 223 Survey of American Literature
The course deals with a chronological historical coverage of the development of American literature from the 17th century until the modern times. Attention is given to the major historical, philosophical and literary movements that shaped American literature such as Puritanism, Transcendentalism and American realism. Major canon American writers will be studied and analyzed.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
EN 230 Survey of English Literature I: The Beginnings to Milton
The course deals with works by major writers in the English language over a period of nearly one thousand years. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry, this survey continues through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concludes with Milton. In the context of the course, students should develop both their general background knowledge of literary history as well as their ability to appreciate and criticize particular texts.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
EN 231 Survey of English Literature II: Restoration to Romanticism
A continuation of the survey begun in EN 230, this course deals with works by major British writers in the period 1660 to 1832. Approximately equal attention is devoted to writers of the Restoration (excluding Milton) and 18th century, and to writers of the Romantic Movement.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
EN 232 Survey of English Literature III: 1832-1940
Considering major British and Irish writers since 1832, this course deals with, among other concerns, the various ways in which the Victorians and selected writers of the first half of the 20th century responded to the inheritance of Romanticism.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
EN 245 Shakespeare
This course is a general introduction to Shakespeare's plays and an in-depth study of a selection of representative plays including: a comedy, a history, a tragedy and a romance. Through the close reading of the plays selected for the course, students will learn how to analyze a theatrical text, will study the Elizabethan stage in its day, and consider Shakespeare's cultural inheritance.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
EN 278 Classical Influences on English Literature
The course will examine the inspiration and influences of the Greco-Roman, classical tradition in literature on writers in English. The course will include readings and discussion of all genres of literature in each tradition: epic, elegy, drama, and others, but satire will be a major focus since this was specific to the Romans. The Greek context of the Roman writers will also be discussed. This course is an alternate core course to EN 378 Italian Visions. If taken in addition to EN 378 it may count as a Major elective.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
EN 302 Romantic Poetry
The course aims at a historical and cultural assessment of the Romantic period and of the resulting literature produced in Britain through the close reading of selected works of poetry.
Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
EN 303 Victorian Novel
This course focuses on the novel of the Victorian period analysing the reasons which led to the predominance of the form and how it succeeded in balancing mass popularity and aesthetic complexity. The study of the possible critical approaches to the texts and the identification of the formal structures which govern the novel will be an integral part of the course, as will a consideration of the novel's relationship to cultural and historical changes in the period.
Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
EN 315 Selected Topics in American Literature
This course explores in some depth a particular period, theme(s), or genre in American Literature. Students study the major historical and cultural contexts out of which the works grew. An important aim of the course is to deepen students' knowledge of a certain topic through a choice of representative writers and works. The course may be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
EN 350 Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction
This workshop provides students with the opportunity to develop the creative, editing, and reading habits needed for the production of literary fiction. Students will read contemporary literary fiction and materials related to analyzing and editing literary fiction and participate in a traditional creative writing workshop through in-class writing exercises, critiquing classmates' work, and producing their own fiction. This course does not satisfy the General Distribution requirement in English Literature.
Prerequisites: EN 205 or permission of the instructor
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
EN 380 Junior Seminar
Designed for English majors, the course will be organized around a particular literary period or topic. It will include weekly essay assignments and meetings.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
EN 399 Special Topics in English Literature: Masterpieces in Western Fiction
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the field of English Literature. Courses offered previously include: Dickens and Englishness; Race, Class, Gender, Culture: The American Dream in Literature; The Innocents Abroad: Perceptions of Italy in American, European and British Writing; Topics in World Literature: Masterpieces in Western Fiction. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
EN 399 Special Topics in English Literature: Perceptions of Italy in Literature
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the field of English Literature. Courses offered previously include: Dickens and Englishness; Race, Class, Gender, Culture: The American Dream in Literature; The Innocents Abroad: Perceptions of Italy in American, European and British Writing; Topics in World Literature: Masterpieces in Western Fiction. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
EN 405 Literary Theory
This course focuses on the rise of theory historically while examining the basic assumptions we have inherited relating to literature. It also seeks to give students the critical and theoretical tools necessary in order to better understand and negotiate the underlying principles and assumptions that govern our literary universe. This course will keep pace with the moves taking place in literary study and furnish a secure understanding of the occasionally daunting landscape of literary theory.
Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
EN 480 Senior Thesis
Thesis supervision for English majors in their final year.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
TH 241 Italian Cinema Since 1945
A survey of films, directors and film styles in Italy from the 1940s to the present. The films are examined as aesthetic objects in their own right and in relation to the wider social and cultural environment of post-war Italy. The role of cinema as a tool of historiographic inquiry is also investigated. Realist, modernist and post-modernist aesthestics are discussed in relation to Italian cinema in particular and Italian society in general. Directors treated include Amelio, Argento, Bava, Bertolucci, De Santis, De Sica, Fellini, Leone, Monicelli, Moretti, Nichetti, Pasolini, Petri, Risi, Rosi, Rossellini, and the Taviani brothers. Films are shown on video, in the original Italian version with English subtitles.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
TH 251/COM 210 Language of Film
This course provides students with an introduction to the study of film as complex message system. Taking an analytic approach, the course introduces students to the formal properties of film and film expression, how those properties function in a dynamic relationship to construct meanings, and the relationship between meaning and broader ideological processes.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
TH 342 Modern American Drama
An in-depth study of American drama of the 20th century. Works by playwrights such as Albee, Mamet, Miller, O'Neill, Simon, Wilder and Williams will be analyzed with emphasis on plot, theme, character, structure and technique. The social and philosophical vision of each playwright will receive particular attention.
Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
TH 241/CMS 241 Italian Cinema
This course surveys films, directors and film movements and styles in Italy from 1945 to the present. The films are examined as complex aesthetic and signifying systems with wider social and cultural relationships to post-war Italy. The role of Italian cinema as participating in reconstitution and maintenance of post-War Italian culture and as a tool of historiographic inquiry is also investigated. Realism, modernism and post-modernism are discussed in relation to Italian cinema in particular and Italian society in general. Films are shown in the original Italian version with English subtitles.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
TH/IT 341 Modern Italian Drama in Translation
An in-depth study of Italian drama of the 20th century. Plays by Betti, Chiarelli, De Filippo, Fabbri, Fo, Maraini and Pirandello are analyzed with special emphasis on plot, theme, character, structure and technique. Social and existential problems of our time, as seen by the playwrights, are given particular consideration.
Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HISTORY & HUMANITIES - CLASSICS, RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
CL 399 Special Topics in Classical Studies
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the field of Classical Studies. Topics may vary. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: : One previous course in Classical Studies
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
CL/COM 372 Classical Rhetoric
An examination of the nature, purpose, and place of rhetoric in classical antiquity, as conceived and practiced by ancient Greeks and Romans. Readings (in translation) include the use and conceptualization of an art of persuasion by Gorgias, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, Quintilian, and Augustine. This course prepares students to evaluate the use (and abuse) of devices and techniques of classical rhetoric in contemporary politics, economics, marketing, media, and visual arts.
Prerequisite: EN 110
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
CL/HS 221 Survey of the History of Ancient Greece
This course examines the history of Ancient Greece from the Archaic Age to the Age of Alexander, the seventh through fourth centuries B.C.E. Focus will be on the rise of Athens and Sparta as the most influential city states in Greece; the development of their respective political, military and social systems; and the causes of the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War that paved the way for the rise of Macedon and domination of the Greek world, first under Philip II, and then his son, Alexander the Great, until his death in 323 B.C.E. Readings in translation will include Herodotus, Aristophanes, Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
CL/HS 231 History of Ancient Rome and Italy
This course surveys the history of ancient Rome and Italy. Focus will be on the origins and metamorphoses of Rome from its archaic foundations as an Italic-Latinate kingship. The course will examine the establishment, expansion, and conflicts of the Republican period and the political and cultural revolution of the Augustan 'Principate'to the rise and decline of the Empire. Readings (in translation) include the writings of Polybius, Cicero, Livy, Virgil, Suetonius, Tacitus, and Marcus Aurelius, with some consideration of Roman art and architecture.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
CL/HS 299 Special Topics in Ancient History: Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the fields of Classical Studies and History. Topics may vary. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: Once previous course in Classical Studies or Ancient History
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
CL/RL 288 Religion in the Graeco-Roman World
This course is a survey of the elements of traditional religion in the Graeco-Roman world. It is designed to introduce student to the tenets, beliefs, and spiritual practices of classical antiquity and to familiarize them with the social, cultural and political background surrounding ancient religion. Among the topics covered are the range of religious expressions in Greece and Rome, including the approach to the divine, ritual practices, and the organization of time and space. While the first part of the course is dedicated to Greece, in the second half we will concentrate on Roman religion both as a phenomenon in and of itself and as a factor integrated in the socio-political organization of the empire.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
CL 260 Classical Mythology
The course examines the principal myths of Classical Greece and Rome, with some reference to their evolution from earlier local and Mediterranean legends, deities and religions. The importance of these myths in the literature and art of the Western World will be discussed.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
CL278 Literature and Society in Ancient Rome
This course focuses on the literature of Ancient Rome and its role in shaping modern notions about the customs, social practices, and ideas of its citizens. Emphasis will be placed on using Roman literature as a means of studying Roman civilization, while simultaneously examining stylistics and literary techniques particular to the genres of comedy, rhetoric, epic and lyric poetry, satire and history. Texts, which vary, are chosen from Terence, Plautus, Cicero, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Tacitus, and Juvenal. All texts are studied in translation.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HM 380 Junior Seminar
Courses specifically designed by Humanities faculty to emphasize approaches in Humanistic Studies through a sustained consideration of and reflection upon an over- arching question or idea, stressing the continuity of human thought within and across diverse periods.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HM 480 Senior Thesis
Thesis supervision for Humanistic Studies majors in their final year.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 120 Introduction to Western Civilization I
This survey course explores the foundations of Western societies and cultures and the transformations they underwent from prehistory through the Renaissance. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which diverse ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern peoples interacted to lay the groundwork for Western civilization, the ways in which political structures and cultures changed over the time period covered, and the development of Western religions and cultures. In addition, through the examination and discussion of a range of primary source materials, the course serves as an introduction to the practice of history, i.e., how historians examine the past and draw conclusions about it.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 121 Introduction to Western Civilization II
This course surveys European history from the Reformation to the present, concentrating on the intellectual, political, and economic transformations that marked the advent of Western modernity and on what these changes meant for the people living through them. An additional focus of the course is the evolving relationship between Europe and the rest of the world over the time period covered. Like HS 120, this course also provides an introduction to the practice of history, i.e., how historians go about reconstructing and interpreting the past.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 201 Long-Term History of Globalization
Contemporary discussions of globalization often suffer from a certain short-sightedness. It is all-too-frequently treated as a recent creation of twentieth- and twenty-first-century world economies and information networks. Both its advocates and its critics too often assume that the history of globalization has been the history of the "westernization" of economic and cultural practices. This course provides a deeper and longer term introduction to the complex forces and far-from-one-sided cross-cultural interactions that have been "globalizing" our planet since the development of settled agriculture. Among the aspects of globalization's history that are covered are the development of market conventions, the spread of religious and cultural traditions, ecological exchanges, transport technologies and networks, migration, the role of violence, and industrialization and deindustrialization.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 235 The Birth of Medieval Europe: from Constantine to the First Crusade
This course will outline the main events, intellectual English Literature/History developments, and artistic achievements that shaped the history and culture of Europe and Byzantium from the IV-XI centuries. The course will focus on issues such as the Migration Period and the political restructuring of Europe, Constantinople, and Eastern Roman Empire; the Christianization of Europe; Feudalism; the rise of Islam and the Arabic Caliphate, its relations with Europe and Byzantium; medieval heresies; the Macedonian Renaissance in Byzantium; and movements for the reform of the Catholic Church, Gregorian Reformation.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 236 Europe Before Nations: From the First Crusade to 1453
This course will continue analyzing main political events, changes and cultural achievements of the High Middle Ages until the discovery of the New World. Topics covered include Seljuk Turks in Asia Minor, Pope Gregory VII and the idea of a Crusade, the Crusades and Latin states of the Levant, the Spanish reconquista, Italian city states and their culture, Slavic kingdoms and states in the Balkans, the rise of Mongols and its consequences for Europe, the Plague, Medieval Russia, and the Ottoman Turks and the fall of Constantinople.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 241 History of Islam II: Mamluks & Ottomans (1250-1918)
A survey of the history of the Middle East from the time of the victory over the Crusaders to the end of the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on intellectual, cultural, and religious life. The course will review the major political developments of this period, beginning with the dynamic thirteenth century that witnessed the Mongol conquest. Next, the course will discuss the politics and culture of the Mamluks (1250-1500) and the Ottomans (1500-1900), with a special focus on the question of regional autonomy and religious and cultural diversity. The political, commercial, and intellectual interaction between Europe and the Middle East during this period will also receive attention.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 261 Modern Europe I: The Age of Nationalism
This course provides students with knowledge of the basic events and developments in Europe, as they took shape after the Napoleonic Wars and before the "Age of Imperialism." It is mainly an introductory political history, but attention will also be given to cultural, social, and scientific developments.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 262 Modern Europe II: The Age of Imperialism
This course takes up the main themes of European history, from the beginnings of the Imperial rivalry in the late 19th century and through World War I, to the age of Dictatorships, and the causes and events of World War II. It is an introductory course not requiring previous historical study. Recommended: HS 261.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 263 Modern Europe III: Europe Since 1945
Because of its closeness to our time, the subject of this course combines elements of classical historical studies with other elements of economics and political science. Although the basic structure of the course will be chronological, some themes, such as the emergence of the European Union and the role played by Western Europe in the Cold War, will also be dealt with from other perspectives, such as ideology and theory.
Recommended: HS 261, HS 262
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 280 The American Experience I: From the First Colonies to the Closing of the Frontier
This course provides an overview of American history from early European discoveries and settlements to the closing of the frontier. Main emphasis will be on the economic, political, social, cultural, and artistic experiences that shaped the Republic and its people. Main themes will be the wilderness and the frontier, the struggle for independence, slavery and civil rights. Special attention will also be devoted to the impact of Puritanism, the pioneer spirit, democracy and freedom, and Manifest Destiny.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 283 The American Experience II: From the Closing of the Frontier to the Present
This course will examine the transformation of the United States from a peripheral country to a world power. The course will analyze the causes of that transformation, focusing on industrialization, the First World War, the Great Depression, changes in American social thought and literature, the Second World War, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the search for a new world order. Special attention will be devoted to democracy and freedom, the role of race, the impact of immigration, as well as the post-war student and protest movements.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 290 Native American History and Traditions
This course aims to broaden students' understanding of the history, culture and contemporary situations of Native Americans. The course uses historical, literary, and anthropological analysis to explore American Indian life and culture. It also examines the contemporary legal and social institutions that affect Native American life. Topics treated include: history of the indigenous peoples of North, Central and South America, Native American religion, Native American economic development, and Native American oral and written literatures.
Prerequisites: One previous course in History.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 365 Italy from the Risorgimento to the First World War (1815-1918)
This course explores Italian history from the Congress of Vienna to the eve of World War I. Main emphasis will be on the emergence of modern liberalism and nationalism, the construction of the new Kingdom, the crisis of the end of the century, and the age of Giolitti. Although the principal focus will be on political structures, considerable attention will be given to the history of the Italian economy and society, as well as to the history of culture and ideas.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 366 Italy from Mussolini to the Crisis of the First Republic (1918 to present)
An in-depth survey of Italian history from the emergence of Fascism to the crisis of the first Republic in the early 1990s. Focus will be on the breakdown of the Liberal system, the emergence and nature of Fascism, and Mussolini's "New State," as well as the achievement and weaknesses of the post-war democratic Republic.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 371 The American 20th Century
This seminar examines the history of the United States of America from the closing of the frontier to the present. Although the analysis of the 20th century will generally be chronological, an attempt will be made to trace the importance of key experiences and ideas that have shaped US society during the last 100 years. Special attention will be paid to such topics as the closing of the frontier, immigration, World War I, the Great Depression, the Impact of American literature, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Sixties, and to ideas such as democracy, freedom, "American Identity" and the "American Dream."
Prerequisites: Junior Standing, one previous course in History
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 375 The Spanish Civil War and the Franco Regime
This course will examine the Spanish Second Republic, the Civil War and Franco's Regime. The Republican political system will be assessed focusing on politics and government, economic and social reforms, and the relations between church and state. Considerable attention will be devoted to political and military development in the Republican and Nationalist zones during the Civil War, and to the international context. The making of Franco's dictatorship, the Regime's post-war policies and the transition to democracy will also be dealt with in detail.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing, one previous course in History.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS 399 Research Seminar in History
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the field of History, with an emphasis on research and writing. Topics may vary. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics. Prerequisites: Junior Standing, one previous course in history.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing, one previous course in history
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS 480 Senior Thesis
Thesis Supervision for History majors in their final year.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS/CL 221 History of Ancient Greece
This course examines the history of Ancient Greece from the Archaic Age to the Age of Alexander, the seventh through fourth centuries B.C.E. Focus will be on the rise of Athens and Sparta as the most influential city states in Greece; the development of their respective political, military and social systems; and the causes of the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War that paved the way for the rise of Macedon and domination of the Greek world, first under Philip II, and then his son, Alexander the Great, until his death in 323 B.C.E. Readings in translation will include Herodotus, Aristophanes, Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
HS/CL 231 History of Ancient Rome and Italy
This course surveys the history of ancient Rome and Italy. Focus will be on the origins and metamorphoses of Rome from its archaic foundations as an Italic-Latinate kingship. The course will examine the establishment, expansion, and conflicts of the Republican period and the political and cultural revolution of the Augustan 'Principate'to the rise and decline of the Empire. Readings (in translation) include the writings of Polybius, Cicero, Livy, Virgil, Suetonius, Tacitus, and Marcus Aurelius, with some consideration of Roman art and architecture.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
HS/CL 299 Special Topics in Ancient History: Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the fields of Classical Studies and History. Topics may vary. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
One previous course in Classical Studies or Ancient History.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
HS/CL 399 Special Topics in Classical Studies and History
An in-depth treatment of a current area of special concern within the fields of Classical Studies and History, with an emphasis on research and writing. Topics may vary. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
Junior Standing: One previous course in Classical Studies.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
HS/PH 223 Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Italian Renaissance
The purpose of this course is to examine the historical and philosophical background of the epoch of the Italian Renaissance, especially during the Quattrocento and Cinquecento, as a foundation for future studies in early modern history, philosophy, politics and literature. Readings (in translation) include selections from Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Giordano Bruno, Castiglione, and Machiavelli.
Prerequisite: One previous course in Philosophy
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
LAT 101 Introduction to Latin I
This course is a first introduction to the study of the Latin language. The course introduces all forms of nouns and pronouns in the five declensions and all tenses of the verb in the indicative and imperative. It emphasizes vocabulary development and the acquisition of reading skills in Latin prose. Assignments include considerable reading of continuous passages, and translation from Latin to English and English to Latin. Attention is also given to Latin proverbs, abbreviations and cognates in English.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
LAT 102 Introduction to Latin II
This course provides continued study of accidences and syntax, treating all tenses of the verb in the subjunctive, indirect discourse, paraphrastic constructions and deponents. Vocabulary development is continued through intensive reading of selections of Latin prose. Students are also introduced to verse forms and the study of inscriptions. Assignments focus on translation from English to Latin and Latin to English.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Latin I or permission of the instructor.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
MUS 101 Introduction to Music
The aim of this course is to explore the language and structure of classical Western music, through the study of fundamental elements of music theory and its application to musical forms and genres. The course will include elements of music theory, basic approach to melody and harmony, and the study of musical instruments. Designed for students with little or no musical background, the course will provide the foundations for reading music, and will study the principal composers who determined the course of history of Western Music. Last, the course will also include concert and opera evenings, on-site visits to the Museum of Musical Instruments, and jazz seminars.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
PH 101 Introduction to Philosophical Thinking
The course provides a historical introduction to philosophical reflection, through reading and discussion of major works in the Western philosophical tradition. The course requires attentive outside reading to enable the individual student to engage him - or herself in active classroom discussions and argumentation and thus to progress in the learning and practicing of philosophical analysis and thoughtful discourse.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
PH 210 Ancient Philosophy
This course outlines the rise of philosophical thinking, from Pre-Socratic thought to St. Augustine. The first fundamental philosophical questions will be discussed and assessed: What is change? What is being? What is the relationship between thinking and being? Do we know the world through sensations or through ideas? What is matter? How did the universe begin? Does it have finality? Is a universal ethic possible?
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
PH 240 Modern Philosophy
This course offers an introduction to modern philosophy, focusing on metaphysics, ontology, ethics, the foundations of modern science, language, society, and politics. Emphasis will be given to the works of Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel and Marx.
Prerequisite: One previous course in Philosophy
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
PH 301 Women in Philosophy
This course will deal with the representations of the "feminine" in Western philosophical tradition, and the recent contemporary critique of that tradition. Philosophical views about women will be analyzed, from the works of Plato and Aristotle to the Enlightenment, Utilitarianism, Existentialism, and contemporary biological determinism.Contemporary feminist philosophy will be examined critically, with a particular focus on the work of Simone de Beauvoir.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
PH 304 Philosophy of Art and Beauty
This course is a survey of classical and modern theories on the appreciation of art and beauty. Attention will be given to the analysis of perception and the aesthetic experience in their interaction with language and culture. Special consideration will be given to contemporary visual arts and poetry. Prerequisite: One previous course in Philosophy and one course in Art History or Aesthetics.
Prerequisite: One previous course in Philosophy or one course in Art History or Aesthetics
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
PH/HS 223 Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Italian Renaissance
The purpose of this course is to examine the historical and philosophical background of the epoch of the Italian Renaissance, especially during the Quattrocento and Cinquecento, as a foundation for future studies in early modern history, philosophy, politics and literature. Readings (in translation) include selections from Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Giordano Bruno, Castiglione, and Machiavelli.
Prerequisites: One previous course in Philosophy
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
PH/RL 224 Living the Good Life: Theories in Religious and Philosophical Ethics
How are moral standards established? How do we differentiate right from wrong? Why should we be ethical? This course will seek to provide both religious and philosophical answers to these questions. We will begin studying the ethical code of Christianity, which provides us with a divine command to act ethically, and a divine example to imitate, that of Christ's sacrifice. We then compare this code to that of Buddhism, which uses the concepts of reincarnation and interdependency to instill morality in its adherents and stresses that human suffering can be overcome only through ethical action. We then turn to philosophical theories, studying the ethical theories of ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato, the duty ethics of modern philosopher Kant and postmodern philosopher Lévinas, the utilitarian ethics of Bentham and the ethics of desire of Spinoza, as well as Nietzsche's plea to rid ethics of morality. Finally, we will assess the relevance of these theories in a discussion of cultural relativism, and apply these views to current debates (euthanasia, abortion, ecology, bio-technology, suicide, the death penalty?)
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
RL 101 Introduction to the Study of Religion
This course introduces students to the history of Religious Studies as an academic discipline and to the methodological approaches that set it apart from anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and history. The fundamental terms that characterize the discipline (religion/religions, God, faith, belief, ritual, experience, liberation, territory, conflict) are discussed, and students are given a selection of four religious texts, to which these methods are critically applied. Possible texts may include a selection from the following: The Mahabharata; Yann Martel's Life of Pi, John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks; Levi-Strauss' The Raw and the Cooked, Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind; Sam Gill's Storytracking; Michael Taussig's Defacement; Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle; The Journal of a Russian Pilgrim; The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
RL 223 Religion and Science
This course attempts to examine some aspects of the classical debate concerning the relationship between science and religion, with particular emphasis on the birth of the "new science" which emerged throughout Europe in the early 17th century. Galileo Galilei occupies a central place in this study, as his challenge to Aristotelian physics and astronomy as well as the traditional interpretation of the Bible powerfully influenced the beliefs and convictions held by enlightened men and women for almost two millennia. In order to understand that challenge correctly, one requires a cursory knowledge of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon and Nicholas Copernicus, especially from a philosophical point of view. After examining in some depth the "Galileo Affair," the course will explore analogous issues raised by Giordano Bruno and Charles Darwin, emphasizing the role of rationality in the knowledge of a Divine Being.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
RL 254 Pathways of Faith
The course will be divided into two parts. The first will be a review of basic Catholic beliefs and practices, as well as their development within the context of the Church of Rome and the early spread of the Faith. The second will examine the evolution of these basic beliefs and practices in the teachings of selected Church Fathers and original sources, with particular emphasis on the theological articulations of key Christological and ecclesiological concepts, which provide the underpinnings of modern understandings of Catholic teaching. The course will follow an historical path through the holy places of Rome, beginning with those associated with the events of Jesus Christ and continuing on through apostolic and patristic sources.
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
RL 299 Reading Seminar in Religion
Topics may vary. Recently taught topics include "Zen," "End of Times: Apocalyptic Prophecies," "Religious Approaches to Death in Film and Literature," and "Ethics: Philosophical and Religious." May be taken more than once for credit with different topics.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
RL 315 Brilliant Darkness: The Mystical Tradition
The Christian mystical tradition can be defined as the interface between the Greek focus on the metaphors of light and darkness and on hierarchical levels of reality, and the Hebrew theme of an invisible God who can be heard but never seen, desired but never reached. The course thus begins with a reading of the Song of Songs, and of the description in Exodus of Moses' encounter with God, followed by Plato's allegory of the cave and Plotinus' development of the Neoplatonic One. We then turn to the development of these themes in the Christian mystics Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysios, Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, and Nicolas of Cusa, paying particular attention to how they portray unknowing, desire and rapture. We then turn to female mystics Angela of Foligno, Mechthild von Magdeburg, and Hadewijch, focusing on the themes of subjectivity, embodiment and gender. Finally, we will engage in the study of comparative mysticism, considering the mystical traditions of Judaism (Kabbalah) and Islam (Sufism). In the tradition of Kabbalah, we will study selections from the Zohar and the Sefer Yetzirah, before turning to Abraham Aboulafia's linguistic mysticism and Isaac Luria's cosmological one. We will approach Sufism with a study of the poetry of Jalal-od-din Rumi, followed by selections from Ibn Arabi's Bezels of Wisdom and Attar's Conference of the Birds.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
RL 399 Special Topics in Religious Studies
Topics may vary. Recently taught courses include "Zen" and "The End of Times: Apocalyptic Prophecies."
Prerequisites: Junior Standing, one previous course in Religious Studies.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
RL/AH 260 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Developments in architecture, painting, sculpture, and mosaic of the Early Christian and Byzantine periods, from the art of the catacombs in the 3rd and 4th centuries to the monuments of Italo-Byzantine art of the Middle Ages. Mandatory Field Trip.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
RL/AH 398 Spirituality and Transcendence in Modern Art
While modern art reflects the secularized era in which it has flourished, many modern artists have described their work in terms of a spiritual search: one needs only to think of Gauguin, the Symbolists of the turn of the century, Malevich and the Russian avant-garde, Chagall, the Italian Metaphysical artists, the Surrealists, and others. This course examines many varieties of religious and spiritual expression in modern art.
Historically, art and religion are intimately intertwined:
- For students of art history, the study of religion can be a key to understanding art. (The early development of Western art took place largely in a religious context.)
- For students of religion, art offers a privileged avenue to understanding a culture's deep spiritual convictions. Indeed, for many lost cultures, artistic artifacts may constitute nearly the only available evidence concerning religious practice.
Pre-requisite: One course in Religious Studies, Art History, Anthropology, or Philosophy.
SPRING SEMESTER ONLY
RL/CL 288 Religion in the Graeco-Roman World
This course is a survey of the elements of traditional religion in the Graeco-Roman world. It is designed to introduce student to the tenets, beliefs, and spiritual practices of classical antiquity and to familiarize them with the social, cultural and political background surrounding ancient religion. Among the topics covered are the range of religious expressions in Greece and Rome, including the approach to the divine, ritual practices, and the organization of time and space. While the first part of the course is dedicated to Greece, in the second half we will concentrate on Roman religion both as a phenomenon in and of itself and as a factor integrated in the socio-political organization of the empire.
FALL SEMESTER ONLY
RL/PH 224 Living the Good Life: Theories in Religion and Philosophical Ethics
How are moral standards established? How do we differentiate right from wrong? Why should we be ethical? This course will seek to provide both religious and philosophical answers to these questions. We will beg | |
