In this course students will explore the relationship between American novels and free speech. Paying particular attention to the ideas…
The course seeks to help students find ways to articulate their own motivations for dress and then apply the ideas…
This course explores revolutionary upheavals in Latin American and Caribbean history. We will begin by analyzing relationships between popular and…
Jewish life and civilization in Spain have been compared to a drama in which moments of cultural flourishing are mixed…
This first-year seminar will reflect upon the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, exploring how the terrorist attacks…
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century. The first scrolls…
This seminar will examine how historians have reconstructed the life, teachings and death of the historical Jesus. We will look…
In 1905 the sociologist Max Weber famously proclaimed that capitalism has a “spirit.” Beyond just determining how we make money…
This seminar examines the cultural construction of animals in Japanese myth, folklore, and religion. We will discuss various kinds of…