. Courses 2020-21
Courses 2021-22
Renaissance Studies, Courses 2021-22
Art History
Fall
ARTH 17121 The Art of Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Cohen
Winter
ARTH 22266 / 32266 Witchcraft and the Cultural Imagination
Tamara Golan & Noel Blanco Mourelle
ARTH 22815 / 32815 Medici Florence
Lia Markey
Spring
ARTH 14810 Devotion – Dissent – Disenchantment? Art in the Age of the Protestant Reformation
Tamara Golan
ARTH 17530 The Art of Raphael and the Idea of the Renaissance
Charles Cohen
ARTH 17550 Renaissance Facades: Architecture in the Age of Representation
Dario Donetti
English
Fall
ENGL 15430 The Origins of Utopia and Utopian Literature
Ryan Campagna
ENGL 16500 Shakespeare I: Histories and Comedies
Noémie Ndiaye
ENGL 23304 The Stage and the City: Performance and Daily Life in Renaissance London
Sarah-Gray Lesley
(This course is part of the 2021 London: British Literature and Culture study abroad program)
ENGL 56200 Early Modern Critical Race Studies
Noémie Ndiaye
Winter
ENGL 16600 Shakespeare II: Tragedies and Romances
Ellen MacKay
Spring
ENGL 12720 Inventing Consciousness: Literature, Philosophy, Psychology
Timothy Harrison
ENGL 40701 Early Modern Natality
Timothy Harrison
History
Fall
HIST 11301 Global British Empire to 1784: War, Commerce, and Revolution
Steven Pincus
HIST 29535 Witches, Shrews, and Whores: Transgressive Women in the Early Modern Period
Stephanie Painter
Spring
HIST 12203 Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings
Ada Palmer
HIST 42303 Renaissance Humanism
Ada Palmer
(Open to undergraduates by consent)
NELC
Fall
NEHC 30852 The Ottoman World in the Age of Suleyman the Lawgiver-1
Cornell Fleischer
Winter
NEHC 20602 Islamic Thought and Literature II (ca. 950 – 1750)
Franklin Lewis
Spring
NEHC 20840 / 30840 Radical Islamic Pieties 1200-1600
Cornell Fleischer
Philosophy
Fall
PHIL 29905/39905 17th Century Political Philosophy: Hobbes and Spinoza
Daniel Moerner
Winter
PHIL 26000 History of Philosophy II: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
Daniel Moerner
Political Science
Winter
PLSC 20800 Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy
Nathan Tarcov
Religious Studies
Spring
RLST 26316 Medical Innovation and Religious Reform in Early Modernity
Mark Lambert
Romance Languages and Literatures—French
Fall
FREN 21122 Théâtre et relations internationales au XVIIème siècle
Amine Bouhayat
FREN 25000 / 35000 Molière
Larry Norman
Spring
FREN 25622 Narratives of Travel and Conquest, 12th-16th Centuries
Jacqueline Victor
Romance Languages and Literatures—Italian
Fall
ITAL 33501 Boccaccio Minore
Justin Steinberg
Winter
ITAL 22722 Magic, Madness, and Marvels: Renaissance Epic Literature from the Page to the Stage
Darren Kusar
ITAL 23000 / 33001 Machiavelli and Machiavellism
Rocco Rubini
Spring
ITAL 23502 / 33502 Boccaccio’s “Decameron”
Justin Steinberg
Romance Languages and Literatures—Spanish
Fall
SPAN 21310 / 31310 Golden Age Poetry. Theory and Practice of Lyric Reading
Miguel Martínez
SPAN 26210 / 36210 Witches, Sinners, and Saints
Larissa Brewer-García
Winter
SPAN 21705 Iberian Literatures and Cultures: Medieval and Early Modern
Noel Blanco Mourelle
SPAN 22266 / 32266 Witchcraft and the Cultural Imagination
Noel Blanco Mourelle & Tamara Golan
Spring
SPAN 24202 Don Quixote
Frederick de Armas