Course Name |
Long Title |
Min Credits |
Description |
Requisites |
HON-152 |
History , Memory , & Forgetting |
3 |
This course seeks to facilitate students ' critical thinking about history as constructions of the past . In the United States and throughout the world , debates and sometimes violent campaigns have focused on official narratives and commemorative depictions about the past that function to sustain existing norms of status and power . Who contributes to making these choices ? Whose voice , and thus perspective , remains muted ? How does this affect what stories about the past get told and how they get told ? Why do these questions and the manner they get resolved matter ? This course addresses a rich body of literature about collective memory , an emerging literature on cultural forgetting , and case studies relating to various current topics . |
Take ENG-101 . ( Required , Previous ). |
HON-200 Latin Foundations 3
HON-201 Medieval Life and Thought 3
It may be used to fulfill a General Education requirement or an Honors
Take ENG-101 . ( Required , Previous ). Program requirement under " Grammar ." The Middle Ages describe the approximately thousand-year span in western culture between what is called Antiquity and Modernity . The fall of the old Roman Empire to Germanic invaders marks its beginning . The crisis in western culture due to the Renaissance and the religious turmoil of the sixteenth century marks its end . The intervening centuries gave rise to a rich culture that this course seeks to describe and have you experience in various ways . The experience will be mostly through the writings of some extraordinary medieval men and women . They are voices speaking to us from the past , inviting us into their world and sensitizing us to view , perhaps from
Take ENG-101 . ( Required , Previous ). new angles , features of our own world that seem to echo theirs . Besides literature , our course will utilize film and music to draw you into the spirit of the Middle Ages .( Please note that this course may be taken for English , Religious Studies , or Philosophy credit . It may be used to fulfill a General Education requirement or an Honors Program requirement under " Grammar .") It may be taken for English , Religious Studies , or Philosophy credit . It may be used to fulfill a General Education requirement or an Honors Program requirement under " Grammar " or " Rhetoric " or " Dialectic ."
HON-202 Politics & Literature in the Modern Era 3
It may be taken for English or History credit . It may be used to fulfill a General Education requirement or an Honors Program requirement under " Rhetoric " or " Grammar ."
Take ENG-101 . ( Required , Previous ).