HUMN 1109 – Western Culture I: Before the Reformation

(3 credits – TG) 3 hours lecture

This course surveys the development of Western cultural experience from its origins in Ancient Greece (circa 800 BCE - 323 BCE) to the end of the Middle Ages (circa 1500 AD). Although the course employs an historical framework, its overall approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on the findings of archaeologists, classical scholars, philosophers, art historians, literary critics as well as historians of the Ancient World and the Medieval World.