B.A. Program

Courses

Autumn 2009 - Spring 2010

The following list may well be incomplete; for further information please consult the offerings in individual departments.

ARTH 16709. Islamic Art and Architecture, 1100-1500. (=NEAA 10630) P. Berlekamp. Winter.

ARTH 23400/33400. Art, Architecture, and Identity in the Ottoman Empire. P. Berlekamp. Autumn.

ARTH 42010. Art and Neoplatonism, East and West. P. Berlekamp and R. Zorach. Spring.

CLCV 25200. Medieval Latin.  M. Allen. Autumn.

ENGL 15104/35104. Law and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England. At the Newberry Library. For information consult C. von Nolcken mcv4@uchicago.edu. J. Schulman. Winter.

ENGL 15500. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. C. von Nolcken. Winter.

ENGL 15600. Medieval English Literature. J. Schleusener. Spring.

ENGL 16180/36180. Travellers on the Silk Road. M. Murrin. Spring.

ENGL 20104. From The Annals of Wales to Monty Python and the Holy Grail: King Arthur in Literature and History. C. von Nolcken. Autumn (London Program).

FREN 21703. Introduction à la littérature française I. PQ : FREN 20300. D. Delogu. Autumn.

HIST 12100. War in the Middle Ages. R. Fulton. Spring.

HIST 21703/31703. Byzantine Empire, 1025 to 1453. W. Kaegi. Autumn.

HIST 22001/32001. Byzantium and Islam. W. Kaegi. Spring.

HIST 22002/32002. Byzantine Military History. W. Kaegi. Spring.

HIST 22401/32401. Europe in the Early Middle Ages. R. Fulton. Autumn.

HIST 22405/32405. Medieval Monasticism. R. Fulton. Spring.

HIST 23206/33206. Europe in the Late Middle Ages. J. Lyon. Spring.

HIST 53501. Religious Thought in the Later Middle Ages. Undergraduates with consent of instructor. R. Fulton. Autumn. 

NEHC 20402/30402. Jewish History and Society II: Medieval Jewish Society. (=JWSC 20002, JWSG 30002) Staff. Winter.

NEHC 20405/30405. Jewish Thought and Literature II: Rabbinic Judaism from the Mishnah to Maimonides. (=JWSC 20005, JWSG 30005). Staff. Winter.

NEHC 20411-20412-20413/30411-30412-30413. Medieval Jewish History I, II, III. (=HUMA 23000-23100-23200, JWSC 23000-23100-23200, JWSG 38100-38200-38300) PQ: Consent of instructor. This sequence does not meet the general education requirement in civilization studies. N. Golb. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

NEHC 20501/30501. Islamic History and Society I: The Rise of Islam and the Caliphate. (=HIST 25704/35704). C. Fleischer. Autumn.

NEHC 20502/30502. Islamic History and Society II: The Middle Period. (=HIST 25804/35804). J. Woods. Winter.

NEHC 20601/30601. Islamic Thought and Literature I. (=SOSC 22000) T. Qutbuddin. Autumn.

NEHC 20636/30636. Classical Arabic Literature (in translation). T. Qutbuddin. Winter.

NEHC 20602/30602. Islamic Thought and Literature II. (=SOSC 22100) F. Lewis. Winter.           

PHIL 25109/35109. The Problem of Evil and the Philosophical Interpretation of Scripture in the Middle Ages: the Book of Job (IV). J. Stern. Winter.

RLST 20701. The Autobiography of Teresa of Avila. (=FNDL 23112, HIST, GNDR 20701)  L. Pick. Winter. 

RUSS 25200/35200. Russian Literature to 1600. PQ: Knowledge of Russian. V. Friedman. Winter 2010.

RUSS 25501/35501. Word, Image, Ritual: Early Russian Literature in Its Historical and Cultural Context. Y. Gorbachov. Autumn.

RUSS 29500/39500. The Aesthetics of Orthodox Christianity. Students In Interdisciplinary Studies In the Slavic Department may use this course as their advanced seminar. R. Bird. Spring.

SLAV 22000/32000. Old Church Slavonic. (=LGLN 25100/35100) PQ: Knowledge of another Slavic language or good knowledge of another one or two old Indo-European languages. V. Friedman. Winter.

SPAN 21703. Literatura hispánica: textos clásicos. PQ: SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor. R. Giles. Autumn.