Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 15, 2016 6:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 9, 2016 6:15PM EDT
Classes
MEDVL 1101
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Icons & Idolatry, from Rome to the Reformation
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Barber, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Reading 'Riting & Ribaldry—Old French Fabliaux
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Lowell, M
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Superheroes and Semiotics
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Reid, D
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Magic in Arthurian Legends
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 303
Instructors
Sprenkle, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
MEDVL 1103
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Otherworlds of Medieval Literature
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Waymack, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Fantasy from the Medieval to the Modern
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Stepp, R
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
MEDVL 1740
Course Description
This course explores the history of imperial China between the 3rd century b.c.e. and the 16th century c.e. with a focus on the following questions: How did imperial Chinese states go about politically ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 1174, CAPS 1740, HIST 1740
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 115
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 145
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Staff
MEDVL 2100
Course Description
The course will survey some medieval narratives concerned with representative voyages to the otherworld or with the impinging of the otherworld upon ordinary experience. The syllabus will normally include ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2100
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Hill, T
MEDVL 2130
Course Description
Topic: Medieval Frontier Societies It's bad enough to run up against a border: at least you know where you stand. The frontier, however -- that fuzzy, murky zone that envelops the border while making its ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2742
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Stimson Hall 119
Instructors
Falk, O
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Rockefeller Hall 105
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Rockefeller Hall 104
Instructors
Staff
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- R Stimson Hall 206
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Staff
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 312
Instructors
Pinet, S
MEDVL 3120
Course Description
In recent years, Beowulf has received renewed attention in popular culture, thanks to the production of two recent Beowulf movies and riveting new translations (eg. Seamus Heaney). The poem's appeal lies ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3120, ENGL 6120, MEDVL 6120
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Hill, T
MEDVL 3190
Course Description
An introduction to the poetry of Chaucer, often considered the "founder" of modern English literature, as well as an introduction to the literary, social, and cultural setting in which he developed his ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3190
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Galloway, A
MEDVL 3316
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 3316
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Morrill Hall 110
Instructors
Jonatansdottir, G
MEDVL 3677
Course Description
Unlike Moses or Jesus, Muhammad is said to have been born in the full light of history. The earliest extant biography of the Prophet, the Life of Muhammad by Ibn Hisham (d. 833), contains a full account ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3677, NES 3677, NES 6677, RELST 3667
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 104
Instructors
Powers, D
MEDVL 4002
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical 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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Hans Bethe House 125
Instructors
MacDonald, S
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
MEDVL 4103
Course Description
The Survey is designed to introduce students to characteristic genres and discourses of Medieval Latin. The focus will be on style (the genera dicendi), and its implications for audience and genre, from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 4213, LATIN 7213, MEDVL 6103
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Hicks, A
MEDVL 4304
Course Description
This seminar investigates the nexus of music, poetry, cosmology, and iconography in medieval Arabo-Persian culture from, roughly, the Sāmānids (ninth/tenth century) to the Safavids (sixteenth/seventeenth ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 6304, MUSIC 4304, MUSIC 7304, NES 4304, RELST 4304
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Lincoln Hall 316
Instructors
Hicks, A
MEDVL 4351
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4351, ARKEO 6351, ARTH 4351, ARTH 6351, CLASS 4752, CLASS 7752, MEDVL 6351, NES 4351, NES 6351
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Ravenna
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
MEDVL 4539
Course Description
This course examines the culture and society of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) from 711, when Islam arrived in Iberia, until 1492 and the demise of Nasrid Granada. Through extensive discussion and analysis ... view course details
MEDVL 4540
Course Description
Moses Maimonides who was born in Cordoba (1138), moved to Fez as a youth and died in Cairo (1204) is regarded by Jewish, Islamic, and Christian tradition alike as the most important Jewish religious ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 4540, MEDVL 6540, NES 4540, NES 6540, RELST 4540, SPAN 4540
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M White Hall 110
Instructors
Brann, R
MEDVL 4761
Course Description
The people who invaded the isle of Britain after the withdrawal of Roman government in the early fifth century, and who dominated it until the establishment of Norman rule in the late eleventh century, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4761, HIST 6761, MEDVL 6761
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B14
Instructors
Falk, O
MEDVL 4963
Course Description
Theories of modernization have inspired, informed, and plagued histories of middle and late imperial China. For the Song-Qing eras (roughly 10th-19th centuries), comparative studies have variously found ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4461, ASIAN 6661, CAPS 4963, HIST 4963, HIST 6963, MEDVL 6963
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Hans Bethe House 125
Instructors
MacDonald, S
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
MEDVL 6103
Course Description
The Survey is designed to introduce students to characteristic genres and discourses of Medieval Latin. In Fall 2012, the focus will be on style (the genera dicendi), and its implications for audience ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 4213, LATIN 7213, MEDVL 4103
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Hicks, A
MEDVL 6120
Course Description
In recent years, Beowulf has received renewed attention in popular culture, thanks to the production of two recent Beowulf movies and riveting new translations (eg. Seamus Heaney). The poem's appeal lies ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3120, ENGL 6120, MEDVL 3120
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Hill, T
MEDVL 6304
Course Description
This seminar investigates the nexus of music, poetry, cosmology, and iconography in medieval Arabo-Persian culture from, roughly, the Sāmānids (ninth/tenth century) to the Safavids (sixteenth/seventeenth ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 4304, MUSIC 4304, MUSIC 7304, NES 4304, RELST 4304
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Lincoln Hall 316
Instructors
Hicks, A
MEDVL 6351
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4351, ARKEO 6351, ARTH 4351, ARTH 6351, CLASS 4752, CLASS 7752, MEDVL 4351, NES 4351, NES 6351
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Ravenna
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
MEDVL 6540
Course Description
Moses Maimonides who was born in Cordoba (1138), moved to Fez as a youth and died in Cairo (1204) is regarded by Jewish, Islamic, and Christian tradition alike as the most important Jewish religious ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 4540, MEDVL 4540, NES 4540, NES 6540, RELST 4540, SPAN 4540
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M White Hall 110
Instructors
Brann, R
MEDVL 6761
Course Description
The people who invaded the isle of Britain after the withdrawal of Roman government in the early fifth century, and who dominated it until the establishment of Norman rule in the late eleventh century, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4761, HIST 6761, MEDVL 4761
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B14
Instructors
Falk, O
MEDVL 6963
Course Description
Theories of modernization have inspired, informed, and plagued histories of middle and late imperial China. For the Song-Qing eras (roughly 10th-19th centuries), comparative studies have variously found ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4461, ASIAN 6661, CAPS 4963, HIST 4963, HIST 6963, MEDVL 4963
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Hinrichs, T