Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE, ART AND THE HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The focus of this course is the history of modern European philosophy in humanistic context. The course covers the period from Shakespeare to Picasso, with major philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche in between. Although philosophy plays the leading role in this course, literature, art, history, religion and history of science and mathematics have significant roles as well. This course is eligible for credit toward the major in Philosophy.