Course Descriptions

Spring 2006

Medieval Studies
MEST M200	Medieval Cultures: Medieval Provence	3 Cr. H Storey
MEST M815	Readings in Medieval Civilization	1-4 Cr. H.Storey

Central Eurasian Studies
CEUS U178 / U520	Introductory Persian II	4 Cr. S. Daneshgar
CEUS U278 / U520	Intermediate Persian II	3 Cr. S. Daneshgar

Classical Studies
CLAS L100	Elementary Latin I	4 Cr. Staff
CLAS L150	Elementary Latin Ii	4 Cr. Staff
CLAS L200	Second-Year Latin I	3 Cr. Staff
CLAS L250	Second-Year Latin II	3 Cr. Staff
CLAS L360	Latin Literature in Translation. The Empire and After	3 Cr. Balint
CLAS L540	Readings in Medieval Latin: Literature of the Long Twelfth Century	4 Cr. Balint

Collins Living-Learning Center
CLLC-L 310	Here Be Monsters? Exploring Medieval Travel Literature	3 Cr. B Williamsen

Comparative Literature
CMLT-C 445/645	Christianity and Empire	3 Cr. J Johnson

English
ENG L305	Chaucer	3 Cr. S Gayk
ENG L710	Beowulf	4 Cr. R Fulk

Fine Arts
FINA A321	Early Medieval Art	3 Cr. E. Kleinbauer
FINA A322	Romanesque and Gothic Art	3 Cr. D Reilly
FINA A101	Ancient and Medieval Art

French and Italian
FRIT F502	Medieval French Literature	3 Cr. E Mickel
FRIT M333	Dante And His Times	3 Cr. J. Bondanella

German
GER-G636	Old Icelandic Literature	3 Cr. K Gade
GER-G639	Old Saxon	3 Cr. K Gade

History
HIST B204	Medieval Heroes	3 Cr. D Deliyannis
HIST C300	Byzantine History	3 Cr. D Deliyannis

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
NELC A150 / A550	Elementary Arabic II	4 Cr. Staff
NELC A250 / A650	Intermediate Arabic II	3 Cr. M Gibrill
NELC A350 / A670	Advanced Arabic II	3 Cr Z Istrabadi
NELC N305	Sufism	3 Cr. F Trix
NELC N182 / N552	Qur'anic Arabic II	5 Cr. Y Mermer
NELC N695 / P710	Islamic Metaphysics	3 Cr. J Walbridge

Philosophy
PHIL P515	Medieval Philosophy	3 Cr. P. Spade
PHIL P596	Readings in Medieval Philosophical Sources	1-4 Cr M Kaplan

Religious Studies
REL R327	Christianity 50-450	3 Cr. D. Brakke
REL R620 / R713	Early Christian Thought	4 Cr. D. Brakke

Here are descriptions for some of the classes offered during the Spring 2006 Semester:

Professor Wayne Storey to teach M200 Medieval Provence

Medieval Provence will examine the historical, cultural and literary traditions of Occitania from the dissolution of Roman empire through the sixteenth-century “renaissance provençale.” (Please follow this link for a more detailed description of the class)

Betsy Williamsen to teach CLLC L310:
Here Be Monsters? Exploring Medieval Travel Literature;
Spring 2006: TR 11:15 – 12:30

Please follow this link for a complete description of the class.

Prof. Bridget Balint to teach

C 360 Latin Literature in Translation
The Empire and After: This course will proceed more or less chronologically from the authors of Imperial Rome through writers who witnessed the decay of the Western Empire and European beginnings. Texts will include prose and poetry across a variety of genres from authors including Statius, Martial, Tacitus, Suetonius, Apuleius, Perpetua, Augustine, Jerome, Boethius, Gregory of Tours, and others.

L540 Readings in Medieval Latin

Literature of the Long Twelfth Century
Reading and interpretation of representative authors of the "Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" with a particular (though not exclusive) emphasis on poetry. Topics to include humanism, the mutual influence of Latin and the vernaculars, the aetas ovidiana, women writers, epic, artes poetriae, love lyric, and satire. Previous experience reading medieval Latin helpful but certainly not necessary.

Course Descriptions

Spring 2006

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