Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
MEDVL 1101
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Reading Engl Romances in Mdl Ages
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Currie, E
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Text, Context in Chaucer's Wife of Bath
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 498
Instructors
Byland, H
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Space/Place/Mvmnt in Medvl Society
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Greenlee, J
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Heroes and Villains of the Medvl Stage
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Lowell, A
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Icelandic Family Saga
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G20
Instructors
Stepp, R
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Medieval Modernities &the Modern Middle Ages
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Hans Bethe House 240
Instructors
Grabowski, R
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MEDVL 1102
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Fighting Words-Anglo-Saxon Heroes&their Poetry
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Wu, D
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MEDVL 1103
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Evolution of Fairy Tales
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Waymack, A
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Shapeshifters&Cybermen--Almost-Hmn in Allegory
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G20
Instructors
Matlack, M
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MEDVL 2170
Course Description
This course explores major texts and themes of the Hispanic tradition from the 11th to the 17th centuries. We will examine general questions on literary analysis and the relationship between literature ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 2170, SPAN 2170
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Garces, M
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MEDVL 2217
Course Description
Explores the development of the English language from its Indo-European beginnings through the period of Early Middle English. Topics include linguistic reconstruction, changes in sound, vocabulary and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2170, LING 2217
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Harbert, W
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MEDVL 2740
Course Description
Although Scotland, which was long a separate nation, is now politically united with England, it preserves its distinctiveness. This course provides an introduction to Scottish literature, with special ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2740
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Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Hill, T
Shaw, H
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MEDVL 3080
Course Description
An introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and the Icelandic family saga-the "native" heroic literary genre of Icelandic tradition. Texts will vary but will normally include the Prose Edda, the Poetic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3080
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Hill, T
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 3110
Course Description
In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3110, ENGL 6110, MEDVL 6110
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Hill, T
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 3210
Course Description
A selective survey of Western philosophical thought from the fourth to the 14th century. Topics include the problem of universals, the theory of knowledge and truth, the nature of free choice and practical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 3210, RELST 3150
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Penner, S
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 3308
Course Description
Reading/discussion groups in Welsh or Scottish Gaelic. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LING 3308
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/UnSat(Satisfactory - Unsatisfactory)
MEDVL 3315
Course Description
Old Norse is a collective term for the earliest North Germanic literary languages: Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian, Old Danish, and Old Swedish. The richly documented Old Icelandic is the center of attention, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LING 3315
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Stefansdottir, B
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MEDVL 3637
Course Description
This course traces the historical development of Christianity from its roots in 1st century Palestinian Judaism to the emergence of Islam in the early 7th century, with special emphasis on the period prior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3637, JWST 3637, NES 3637, NES 6637, RELST 3637
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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MEDVL 3750
Course Description
Introduction and training in dendrochronology and its application to archaeology, art history, and environment through participation in a research project dating ancient to modern tree-ring samples especially ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: ARKEO 3090, ARKEO 4755, ARTH 3250, CLASS 3750, CLASS 4755
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall B48
Instructors
Manning, S
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Additional Information
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
MEDVL 4002
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosphical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Hans Bethe House 125
Instructors
Brittain, C
MacDonald, S
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MEDVL 4180
Course Description
When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews--that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4180, ENGL 6180, JWST 4180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 6180
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Zacher, S
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MEDVL 4350
Course Description
The installation and dissemination of portraits of living political leaders ("rulers") is frequently perceived as a hallmark of twentieth-century regimes, especially those labeled as "totalitarian" or ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4450, ARKEO 7450, ARTH 4350, ARTH 6350, CLASS 4751, CLASS 7751, MEDVL 6350, VISST 4350
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B06
Instructors
Anderson, B
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MEDVL 4557
Course Description
How and why do landscapes come to inspire the religious imagination? And how do sensory landscapes, more specifically-territories of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell-inform, inflect, and engage the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4677, JWST 4557, NES 4557, RELST 4557
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B06
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 4910
Course Description
'Violence' has become an unavoidable - and urgently troubling - buzzword in contemporary Western culture. We worry about its manifestations and representations in our own civilization, we scan foreign ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4910, HIST 6920, MEDVL 6910
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B14
Instructors
Falk, O
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Hans Bethe House 125
Instructors
Brittain, C
MacDonald, S
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 6110
Course Description
In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3110, ENGL 6110, MEDVL 3110
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Hill, T
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 6180
Course Description
When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews--that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4180, ENGL 6180, JWST 4180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 4180
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Zacher, S
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 6210
Course Description
Graduate seminar covering a topic in medieval philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 6210
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Penner, S
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 6350
Course Description
The installation and dissemination of portraits of living political leaders ("rulers") is frequently perceived as a hallmark of twentieth-century regimes, especially those labeled as "totalitarian" or ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4450, ARKEO 7450, ARTH 4350, ARTH 6350, CLASS 4751, CLASS 7751, MEDVL 4350, VISST 4350
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B06
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 6910
Course Description
'Violence' has become an unavoidable - and urgently troubling - buzzword in contemporary Western culture. We worry about its manifestations and representations in our own civilization, we scan foreign ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4910, HIST 6920, MEDVL 4910
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B14
Instructors
Falk, O
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Additional Information
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MEDVL 7777
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to some of the bibliography and approaches available for studying the Middle Ages. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Sat/UnSat(Satisfactory - Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Olin Library 403
Instructors
Galloway, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Instructor Consent Required (Add)