Courses

Exploration of trials and other legal case studies in early modern and modern European history. Some topics may include developments in the way crime and criminal activity was perceived, transformations in criminal justice and the origins the modern prison system. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

Exploration of trials and other legal case studies in Jewish history. Some topics may include the theoretical status of Jewish law within the surrounding state system, the Jewish communal institutions through which Jewish legal norms were administered, and the challenges the Jewish legal system faced in an environment characterized by legal pluralism. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

Exploration of trials and other legal case studies in Greece, Rome, the Near East, and other premodern societies. Some topics may include trials related to treason (such as the case of Socrates); corruption (e.g., Julius Caesar); prostitution and sex work; murder; theft; enslavement and manumission; citizenship and immigration; and libel. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

Exploration of trials and other legal case studies in non-western history. Some topics may include caudillismo and banditry; the urban "underworld"; the growth of legal medicine; scientific criminology and eugenics; the rise of military governments in the twentieth century; organized crime; transitional justice and the contemporary question of the rule of law. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

Exploration of trials and other legal case studies in U.S. history. Some topics may include the roles of the courts, Congress, the executive branch and the Constitution in the enactment of law as well as the law's impact on individuals' rights. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

Advanced instruction and practice in the theoretical, stylistic, and ethical matters connected to the study of writing. Topics may include methodologies of writing research, histories and theories of literacy and writing, theories on composing and language use, rhetorical theory, or digital composing. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

The dynamic interrelationships and interplay of music and literature in a diversity of cultural contexts. Specific areas to be explored may include Western art song, opera, blues and jazz music and poetry, music and literature of the Caribbean and/ or Latin America, music in/and the novel, and the music and literature of movements for social change.

The literatures from the South Asian subcontinent organized around a theme, such as the literature of colonization/decolonization; multilingualism and translation; nationalism and globalization; secularity, the novel, and the lyric. Texts may be written in English but could also be read in translation, possibly including writers such as Bama, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Anita Desai, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and Salman Rushdie. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

The exploration of values, concepts, and working methods in the visual arts which abandon the traditional limits and characteristics of painting, sculpture, and printmaking, etc., to enlarge both formal vocabulary and ways of communicating. Topic will be announced before pre-registration. May be repeated for credit a total of three times if the topic is different.

An examination of selected turning points in the history of science and their philosophical significance. May be repeated once for credit provided the topic is different.