Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: IMPERIAL GARDENS: A CULTURAL COMPARATIVE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will examine the design and development of gardens (primarily those of the Islamic world - Al Andalus, the Middle East, Persia, Central and South Asia) and their use as political and religious metaphors, havens for meditation, stages of imperial performance and ritual, sites of social interaction, and affirmations of power and legitimacy.