Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN I

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the fundamentals of Latin grammar with emphasis on acquisition of reading skills. Cross-list: LATI 101.

Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN II

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LATI 101 OR MDST 101

Description: Continuation of LATI 101 and MDST 101. Graduate students require permission of instructor. Cross-list: LATI 102.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of major medieval Christian thinkers. Primary focus on high and late middle ages (12th-15th century), with some attention to spiritual and apocalyptic writings and dissenting thought in this period. Cross-list: RELI 105.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN DEVOTIONAL PRACTICES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of major themes in medieval Christian devotion introducing medieval practices of death, penance, pilgrimage, cult of the saints and Mary, among others. Considers devotional texts, material culture, art and literature. Cross-list: RELI 106.

Long Title: ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will be concerned with art, architecture, and history of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. We will employ historical texts, literature, and illustrations of works of art, showing how historical documents and sources can illuminate the cultural context of art and architecture. Cross-list: HART 240, HUMA 108.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: PREHISTORIC TO GOTHIC

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Antiquity through the 15th century. Cross-list: CLAS 102, HART 101.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATIONS

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Focusing on the period between 300-1500 CE, the course will survey political institutions, society, and culture in medieval European, Byzantine, and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Christianization of Europe, the rise of Islam, the Crusades, scholastic theology, persecution of heretics, bubonic plague, and the rise of centralized monarchies. Cross-list: HIST 120.

Long Title: THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In the 1100's people began writing down stories of Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin, and the Knights of the round table using sophisticated techniques of literary composition. Today, these stories count among the great writings of Europe. This course examines the spectrum of medieval stories and histories of Arthur that arose in England, France, and Germany from the beginning to the age of printing, plus some recent revivals. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 126, GERM 126.

Long Title: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the major philosophers and philosophical systems of ancient Greece, from Parmenides to the Stoics. Cross-list: CLAS 201, PHIL 201.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION I: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the European culture of the "Dark Ages," from the fall of Rome to the end of the Viking invasions. Includes the use of historical, literary, artistic, and archaeological sources to trace changes in European material, spiritual, and cultural life between 300 and 1000 AD. Cross-list: HIST 202.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION II: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Continuation of HIST 202 (not a prerequisite). Topics include the revival of Europe in the eleventh century, birth of universities and scholasticism, appearance of new monastic orders, the rise of centralized monarchies, and military and economic expansion. Course ends with fourteenth-century crises and the start of the Age of Exploration. Cross-list: HIST 203.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE LATIN I: PROSE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LATI 101 OR MDST 101) AND (LATI 102 OR MDST 102)

Description: Review of grammar and readings in Latin prose. Cross-list: LATI 201.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE LATIN II

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LATI 201 OR MDST 211

Description: Readings in Virgil. Cross-list: LATI 202.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ERAS

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): MUSI 211 OR MUSI 317

Description: Introduction to the study of Western music history, with emphasis on music before 1600. Score reading ability required. Cross-list: MUSI 222.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL LATIN SAINTS' LIVES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LATI 101 AND LATI 102

Description: This course will introduce selected lives from St. Anthony to St. Francis of Assissi which will be read in Latin; grammar review, as necessary. Focus will be on continuity and change in the Hagiographic tradition and representation of saint in relation to community. Intermediate Level Latin. Cross-list: LATI 205, RELI 254.

Long Title: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will focus on Jewish-Christian coexistence in medieval Europe. Will examine the Jews' legal status in Christendom, their communal life, economic activities, intellectual achievements, while also focusing on the complex dynamics of Jewish-Christian interaction, and the shifting patterns of persecution and acceptance. Cross-list: HIST 257.

Long Title: THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO SULAYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the history and culture of Judaism during the Second Temple period, which produced such great religious leaders as Jesus and Hillel. Topics include: canonization, colonization, diaspora, economic and political instability, eschatology, Hellenization, imperialism, messianism, Pharisees, priesthood, Sadducees, Scribes, scriptures, sectarianism, synagogue and temple worship.Introduction to the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the middle of the 16th century. Topics include conquests and classical Islamic states, Arabization, Jewish and Christian communities, impact of Turkic peoples, and the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on social, cultural, political, and religious trends which shaped the region's history. Cross-list: HIST 281.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the most significant medieval European women authors from the 10th-17th centuries. We will combine close reading with a focus on intertextuality to recover a feminized literary tradition. Cross-list: ENGL 311, SWGS 300.

Long Title: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics in the history of philosophy from the 4th century B.C. through the 14th century. Graduate students require permission of instructor. Credit may not be received for both MDST 301 and MDST 481. Cross-list: CLAS 301, PHIL 301, Equivalency: MDST 481. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for MDST 301 if student has credit for MDST 481. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the social, religious, and political history of the Roman world from the Diocletian to the rise of Islam, with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of the Mediterranean world and the formation of Byzantine society in the Greek east. Cross-list: HIST 308.

Long Title: DANTE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A close reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, with attention to the meaning of words, images, symbols, figures, structures, and the epic itself, with reference to the political/religious controversies of the time in Florence, Italy, and medieval Europe. Cross-list: ENGL 310.

Long Title: OLD ENGLISH

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will be a combination of Old English Grammar and readings in Old English.

Long Title: BEOWULF

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A reading of the beginning, the death and the funeral of Beowulf in Old English. Recommended prerequisite(s): Old English Grammar or instructor permission.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL CULTURES THROUGH FILM

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: An interdisciplinary course exploring the literature, art, philosophy, history, music, and science of the Middle Ages, with films by Pasolini, Bergman, Dreyer, Einstein, Annaud, Vigne, and others, and highlighted by a medieval banquet.

Long Title: CHAUCER

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course on Chaucer and his literary culture and philosophical backgrounds. Readings include minor poems, a dream vision, "The Canterbury Tales", "Troilus and Criseyde." Cross-list: ENGL 316, SWGS 305.

Long Title: J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine Tolkien's awareness of medieval works such as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, old English Riddles, Sir Galvain and the Green Knight, and the Finnish Kalevala in his scholarship and fiction, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the Silmarillion. Cross-list: ENGL 318.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Student works one-on-one with an individual faculty member on a topic directly related to Medieval Studies. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: COEXISTENCE IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course explores the history of the Iberian Peninsula from late Antiquity to the early 16th century, focusing on coexistence and conflict between medieval Spain's three religious communities - Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Cross-list: HIST 324.

Long Title: EARLY MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Early Medieval Art from the 5th Century to the Romanesque period. This course begins with a study of the art and architecture of the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Lombards, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Franks, and Merovingians, and the transformation of the Roman World through new Germanic, Barbarian, and Christian forces. The second part of the course considers the cultural Renaissance of the Carolingian and Ottonian Periods under rulers such as Charlemagne and Otto III. The last third of the course focuses on themes of pilgrimage, relics, crusades and the emergence of new monumental tradition in art and architecture during the Romanesque Period. Cross-list: HART 330.

Long Title: GOTHIC ART

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the full array of sacred art and architecture produced in the early and high gothic periods in northern Europe. Includes cathedral architecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscripts, and metalwork studies in relationship to the expansion of royal and Episcopal power. Cross-list: HART 331.

Long Title: ART OF THE COURTS

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of art and architecture produced in the late gothic period within three distinct settings-the court, the city, and the church. Includes private, public, and religious life as expressed in the objects, architecture, and decoration of the castle and palace, the house, city hall and hospital, and the chapel and parish church. Cross-list: HART 332.

Long Title: NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of art in northern Europe from Jan van Eyck to Peter Bruegel. Cross-list: HART 340.

Long Title: RENAISSANCE EUROPE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How did the recovery of ancient texts shape the discovery of new worlds and perhaps the destruction of the old? This course explores major developments in western Europe from the rise of Italian humanism in the fourteenth century to the imperial expansion and devastating conflicts of the 1500s and 1600s. Cross-list: HIST 345.

Long Title: EARLY EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FROM AUGUSTINE TO DESCARTES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will survey key developments in Western thought (political theory, literature, philosophy, theology, and art) from the consolidation and institutionalization of Christian doctrine in the fourth and fifth centuries through the beginning of the "Scientific Revolution" in the 17th century. Cross-list: HIST 358.

Long Title: CENTRAL ASIAN CONQUEST EMPIRES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines the rise of Chingis Khan and Mongol Steppe society (religion, role of women, cultural exchange, strategies of violence, imperial ideologies) as well as successor empires: Yuan, Golden Horde, IIkhanid and eventually that rulled by Timur/Taerlane, who reproduced Mongol imperial power in Central Asia and India. Cross-list: HIST 364.

Long Title: REPRESENTING THE DEVIL IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND ART

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on representations of the devil in Christian sources from the early medieval to early modern period. Primary texts will begin with Augustine's On Divination by Demons and move on to include some medieval saints' lives, cycle plays, and versions of the Faust story. Crosslisted with RELI 367. Cross-list: RELI 367.

Long Title: MYTHOLOGIES: TRAGIC WOMEN, ENEMIES OF THE STATE, WITCHES, ROGUES AND REVOLUTIONARIES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to world mythologies, mythmakers and their cultures, from the beginnings to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, modern (Glass, Borges, 'Whale Rider'). Cross-list: ENGL 309, SWGS 368.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL FRONTIERS

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course focuses on multiple frontiers within medieval Western Eurasia. It will not only explore the confrontations between societies, but also emphasize the transformative nature of these cross-cultural contacts.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO TRADITIONAL CHINESE POETRY

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course seeks to decode enchanting features of traditional Chinese poetry through examining the transformation of poetic genres, the interaction between poetic creation and political, social and cultural changes, and the close association of poetry with art. Thus, this course also serves to understand Chinese culture and history through poetic perspectives. All readings in English translation. Cross-list: ASIA 330, CHIN 330.

Long Title: CHINESE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, we will study how various artistic styles developed in historical, social, and cultural contexts from the ancient period to the present day. Through the careful examination of architecture, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, ceramics, bronze, and film, students will gain a deeper understanding of Chinese art and visual culture. Cross-list: ASIA 372, HART 372.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL CHINESE NOVELS

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the basic characteristics of classical Chinese novels, primarily through six important works from the 16th to 18th centuries: Water Margin, Monkey, Golden Lotus, Scholars, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Dream of the Red Chamber. Cross-list: ASIA 335, CHIN 335.

Long Title: EAST & WEST: MEDIEVAL VISUAL CULTURE IN CHINA AND NORTHERN EUROPE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores a series of issues that are criticallly important for the medieval art of both China and northern Europe. Topics include materials and techniques; public and private art: commerce, technology and prints; art and motion; archaeology; paradise and hell; maps and space; the gaze; erotica; patronage; and multiculturalism. Cross-list: ASIA 376, HART 376.

Long Title: WOMEN IN CHINESE LITERATURE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines women's roles in Chinese Literature as writers, readers, and characters, focusing particularly on the tension between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural experiences inscribed on the female body and how, in the process, women have contrarily gendered patriarchal culture into their own. It will also touch on Chinese women's incorporation of the Western Tradition. Cross-list: ASIA 399, SWGS 399.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MAGIC AND MAGICIANS

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines both the variety of practices construed as magical and the people who performed them in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; attention given to the emergence of author-magicians in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Ficino, Agrippa, and Dee. Cross-list: RELI 386.

Long Title: MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the phonology and morphology of Middle High German, such as will prepare students to read 'Tristan', 'Parzifal', and the 'Niebelungenlied', as well as the great lyric poets of that period. Emphasis will be on pronunciation and grammatical distinctions between Middle High and Modern High German as well as on the diverging semantic developments of the two vocabularies.

Long Title: BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF FRANCE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course includes an external history of the French language, an examination of hagiographic literature and the chanson de geste in their cultural and artistic contexts, as well as bibliographic component to acquaint the students with library tools available for research emphasizing medieval resources but not excluding those for later periods. Students will acquire a reading knowledge of Old French. Course taught in French. Cross-list: FREN 404. Recommended: Prerequisite(s): At least two upper-level French courses.

Long Title: THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records.

Long Title: COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or permission of instructor

Description: Undergraduate version of FREN 515. Study of the Occitan and Old French poetry that served as the source of the kind of love that came to be called "amour courtois" in the 19th century. Cross-list: FREN 415.

Long Title: TOPICS IN EARLY MUSIC

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A study of the major musical styles and composers of western art music before 1400 and their historical, cultural, and sociological contexts. Cross-list: MUSI 429.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE OF THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on one of the most important contributions to the history of western architecture-- the Gothic cathedral. The course will approach the material from a number of different perspectives--the formal and technical development of Gothic architecture; the Medieval architect and the design of Gothic buildings; the social, economic, and political history of "big church" building in the Middle Ages; Gothic architecture as experience and metaphor; and the afterlife of the Gothic cathedral from Vasari to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Cross-list: HART 431.

Long Title: THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on the most important secular work from the middle ages - a 230 foot long embroidery depicting the Battle of Hastings. This is a team-taught course that will examine both visual narrative of the tapestry and literary narrative in works such as the "Chanson de Roland," and the "Lais" and "Fables of Marie de France." Cross-list: FREN 433, HART 433.

Long Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE, 1400-1700

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The art of Europe was never the product of a single culture working in isolation. This seminar will explore the multicultural aspects of medieval and early modern Europe by focusing on the visual culture of groups who defined themselves or are today defined by nationality, race, or religion. Cross-list: HART 435, HIST 443.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES: KING ARTHUR

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or permission of instructor

Description: Examination of the origins of the legend of King Arthur and reasons for its popularity, particularly in literature of the French Middle Ages but also in other medieval literatures of Western Europe. Includes discussion of the legend's influence in diverse areas even in modern times. Cross-list: FREN 416.

Long Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The art of Europe was never the product of a single culture working in isolation. This seminar will explore the multicultural aspects of medieval and early modern Europe by focusing on the visual culture of groups who defined themselves or are today defined by nationality, race, or religion. Cross-list: HART 436.

Long Title: JAN VAN EYCK: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar and in-depth research on the art and historiography of the early Netherlandish painter Jan Van Eyck. Cross-list: HART 440.

Long Title: BOSCH AND BRUEGEL: A SEMINAR ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE SACRED AND PROFANE

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Sacred and Profane in the Paintings of Bosch and Bruegel. The obscene, the grotesque, the humorous, and the bizarre were frequently depicted alongside sacred religious scenes in the margins of late Medieval manuscripts or the periphery of Gothic cathedral facade sculpture. By the sixteenth century, this fantastic world had migrated to the center of religious paintings, especially in the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This course will examine the juxtapositions and the complex meanings of sacred and profane imagery within the context of sixteenth- century religious and social life. Cross-list: HART 441.

Long Title: COLLEGIUM MUSICUM

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 2

Description: Performance of music up to the early 17th century. Does not count as chamber music. Instructor permission required. Repeatable for credit. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: MUSI 436. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Special Topics in medieval Europe comparative literature. Topics for 2006-07 was "THE MEDIEVAL DREAM AND VISION." Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics in the history of philosophy from the 4th century B.C. through the 14th century. Credit may not be received for both MDST 301 and MDST 481. Equivalency: MDST 301. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for MDST 481 if student has credit for MDST 301.