Course
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- Spring 2008
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Courses marked with an asterisk
(*) can be
taken for Medieval Studies graduate credit with the major advisor’s
approval and the approval of the instructor. |
Please Note:
Class numbers and times may change in PeopleSoft.
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Art & Art History: |
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*ARTH 257:
Early
Medieval |
D.
Givans |
W 4-6:45PM |
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*ARTH 283:
Islamic
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D.
Givans |
W 10:30AM-1:30PM |
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Note:
Both of the above can be taken for graduate credit with Professor Givans’
permission. |
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CAMS: |
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CAMS 282/CAMS 301:
Advanced Latin |
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Note:
Contact Professors Travis or Johnson for details about scheduling
information and texts to be studied. Students must make sure 301 will count
for credit towards degree requirements. |
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CLCS: |
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CLCS 304: Grails |
A. Berthelot |
Tu 4-6:45PM |
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Course
Description: This course will take a comparative approach, encompassing
German, Celtic, and Spanish Grails for sure (and French and British, of
course), and it will lean toward modernity and the fascination of
nineteenth-century artists with the Grail myths. |
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English: |
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ENGL 304: Bible as Literature |
C.
King’oo |
Tu 3:30-6PM |
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ENGL 406:
Seminar in Beowulf |
F. Biggs |
M 3:30-6PM |
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ENGL 415: Medieval English Drama |
T. Jambeck |
Th 1-3:30PM |
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Course Description: This course will trace the
development of the drama from its Latin liturgical beginnings (in
translation) through its twelfth century Norman versions (in
translation) to its English flowering in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. Along the way, we will concentrate on the two
major genres (the civic cycles and the morality plays) and on the
literary, religious, and social contexts that shaped the drama of
late medieval England. |
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ENGL 497-05: Seminar in
Special Topics: Constructing Literary Spaces: Geographies, Maps,
Architectures |
B.
Hasenfratz |
Th 9:30AM-12PM |
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Course Description: The subject of this seminar, the
construction of literary space, will be approached through theory,
praxis and direct reading. In the theoretical portion, we will take
on board some of the most important thinkers on space and its
construction: LeFebvre, de Certeau, Bachelard, Calvino, Hillis
Miller, etc. In the praxis portion, we’ll read how scholars deploy
theories of space, architectures, topographies, and geographies on
literature from a wide range of periods in studies like
Premodern Places: Calais to
Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn (Wallace),
Spatial Representations and the
Jacobean Stage (West),
Geographies of Empire in English
Literature 1580-1745,
The Transformation of Space from
the Victorian Age to the American Century (Michie et
al.), and ‘Keeping Up Her
Geography’: Women’s Writing and Geocultural Space in
Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
(Kennedy). Finally, we will read a few literary texts with an
eye to how they create and manipulate space: these may include the
following: Chaucer's House
of Fame, Shakespeare’s
King Lear, Behn’s
Oronooko,
Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels,
Eliot’s Mill on the Floss,
Alsdair Gray’s Lanark,
Hurston’s Their Eyes were
Watching God, and Auster’s
New York Trilogy--though
I am open to suggestions from the participants in the seminar. The
course is open to students of any specialty or period. |
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History: |
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*HIST
220:
High and Later Middle Ages |
S. Olson |
TuTh 9:30-10:45AM |
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*HIST
267: Italy
1250-1600 |
K. Gouwens |
TuTh 9:30-10:45AM |
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Course Description: Italy from the triumph of the
city-state and the popolo grosso to the end of the Renaissance. The
complex interrelationship between society and culture will be the
focus of study. |
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*HIST
271: The Renaissance |
K. Gouwens |
TuTh 12:30-1:45PM |
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Course Description:
Europe in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. |
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HIST 316: Topics in Medieval History Seminar |
S. Olson |
Th 12:00-3:00 |
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Note: This course will feature a new syllabus, so students who have
taken the course before may take it again. Contact Professor Olson
for more details. |
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Philosophy: |
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*PHIL
221: Ancient Philosophy
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L.
Shapiro |
W 4-6:30PM |
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Other/Independent Studies: |
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Old Irish Independent Study |
F. Biggs |
TBD |
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Note: Contact Professor Biggs for details. |
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Old Norse Independent Study |
B. Hasenfratz |
TBD |
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Note: Contact Professor Hasenfratz for details.
Course Description: 7-week introduction to grammar and then 7 weeks
of readings from Gordon’s
Introduction to Old Norse. |
