Winter 2026

AHI 001B Medieval and Renaissance Art

Location: Lecture Everson Hall 157
Time: T,R 10:00-11:20 AM
Instructor: Lopez, John

Section A01 (CRN: 10596); T 3:10-4:00 PM - Everson Hall 157
Section A02 (CRN: 10597); M 4:10-5:00 PM - Everson Hall 157
Section A03 (CRN: 10598); M 2:10-3:00 PM - Everson Hall 157
Section A04 (CRN: 10599); W 9:00-9:50 PM- Everson Hall 157
Section A05 (CRN: 10560); W 2:10-3:00 PM- Everson Hall 157
Section A06 (CRN: 10561); W 1:10-2:00 PM - Everson Hall 157

COM 002 Major Works of the Medieval and Early Modern World

Section 001 (CRN: 16591)
Location: Wickson Hall 1038
Time: M,W 10:00-11:50 AM
Instructor: The staff

Section 002 (CRN: 16592)
Location: Wellman Hall 003
Time: T,R 2:10-4:00 PM
Instructor: The staff

Section 003 (CRN: 16593)
Location: Veihmeyer Hall 116
Time: T,R 12:10-2:00 PM
Instructor: Sell, Sean

COM 005 Fairy Tales, Fables & Parables

Location: Lecture Olson Hall 205
Time: T,R 12:10-1:30 PM
Instructor: Sharlet, Jocelyn

Section A01 (CRN: 16600); W 6:10-7:00 PM - Wellman Hall 7
Section A02 (CRN: 16601); w 7:10-8:00 PM - Wellman Hall 105

ENL 10A Literatures in English I: To 1700

Location: Lecture Olson Hall 118
Time: T,R 9:00-10:20 AM
Instructor: Waters, Claire

Section A01 (CRN: 21187); R 6:10-7:00 PM - Wellman Hall 005
Section A02 (CRN: 21188); R 7:10-8:00 PM - Social Science and Humanities 70
Section A03 (CRN: 21189); F 8:00-8:50 AM- Wellman Hall 129
Section A04 (CRN: 21190); F 9:00-9:50 AM - Wellman Hall 129

ENL 113A Chaucer: Troilus & the "Minor" Poems

Location: Lecture Wellman Hall 119
Time: T,R 12:10-1:30 PM
Instructor: Chaganti, Seeta

Section A01 (CRN: 40285); R 6:10-7:00 PM- Olson Hall 159
Section A02 (CRN: 40286); R 7:10-8:00 PM - Olson Hall 159
Section A03 (CRN: 40287); F 8:00-8:50 AM - Olson Hall 244
Section A04 (CRN: 40288); F 9:00-9:50 - Olson Hall 244

ENL 189 Seminar in Literary Studies

Section 001 (CRN: 21349)
Location: Edwards Family Athletic Center 1011
Time: T,R 1:40-3:00 PM
Instructor: Chaganti, Seeta

HIS 102D Love, Sex and Gender in Premodern Europe

Section 001 (CRN: 25595)
Location: Lecture Social Sciences and Humanities 4202
Time: T 12:10-3:00 PM
Instructor: Stuart, Kathy

We study ideas about love, sex and gender as they impacted people’s lived experience from late antiquity through the eighteenth century. In the Middle Ages a couple did not need clergy or witnesses to get married. They could simply consummate the marriage by having sex. State and church set out to suppress such clandestine marriages by the sixteenth century, in order to impose control over the sexuality of their subjects. Sex out of wedlock, prostitution, and same-sex relationships, widely tolerated in late antiquity and the Middle Ages became criminalized in the early modern period. We explore how and why these changes occurred and how they intersected with religion, class, ethnicity, religion and class. Why did early modern people believe that Jewish men menstruated? Why was sex with Satan a necessary legal element of the crime of witchcraft? Why were Renaissance medical textbooks full of examples of women spontaneously turning into men, but a man turning into a woman was considered medically impossible? How was the emergence of a modern “gay” identity in the late eighteenth century related to the development of the modern heterosexual male, which happened at the same time?

Intensive reading and analysis of primary and secondary sources. c. 200-300 pages per week.

Assessment based on informed class discussion of assigned readings, 2 short papers and 8-10 page final paper.

HIS 132 Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe

Section 001 (CRN: 25625)
Location: Lecture TLC 2215
Time: T,R 4:40-6:00 PM
Instructor: Stuart, Kathy

In the sixteenth century, you would be executed for throwing dung at a statue of the Virgin Mary. Nowadays, this would be considered offensive, but you will no longer be put to death for the capital crime of blasphemy. In other words, the definition of crime and the classification of criminals changes over time. Together we will explore when, how, and why this happened from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries. In the sixteenth century governments came to see “sin” and “crime” as equivalent, and prosecuted morals offenses and sex crime with new zeal. The emergence of new specifically female crimes like prostitution, infanticide and witchcraft led to a spectacular increase in the number of women facing execution. We examine to what extent it is possible to relate such long-term changes in the incidence and prosecution of particular crimes to changes in economy, social structure, government, religion and culture. We discuss changes in the nature and purposes of punishment in the early modern period, as public rituals of execution and other bloody punishments to the body were replaced by the penalty of imprisonment in the eighteenth century.

HIS 136 The Scientific revolution

Section 001 (CRN: 25625)
Location: Lecture TLC 2218
Time: T,R 12:10-1:30 PM
Instructor: Stolzenberg, Daniel

What does it mean to understand nature in modern—and pre-modern—ways? Today we take for granted that science involves mathematical laws, experimentation, discovering new phenomena, and the creation of technologies that provide power over nature. None of these was true about European natural science in 1500. All had become widely accepted by 1700. This class treats the transformation of European ideas about nature, knowledge, and technology during the age of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. We will explore the intellectual culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to examine issues such as scientific methods, instruments and experimentation, science and religion, and the control of nature. Topics include astronomy, physics, chemistry/alchemy, natural magic, medicine, and natural history. Evaluation is based on short writing assignments, quizzes, and essays. This course satisfies GE requirements for AH, SS, and WC. There are no prerequisites, and no prior knowledge is necessary.
Readings: Peter Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences, and miscellaneous primary sources

GER 120 Survey of German Culture

Section 001 (CRN: 40659)
Location: Lecture Wellman Hall 102
Time: T,R 3:10-4:30 PM
Instructor: Zhang, Chunjie

PHI 145 Philosophy of the Middle Ages

Section 001 (CRN: 41223)
Location: Lecture TLC 3210
Time: T,R 1:40-3:00 PM
Instructor: Szaif, Jan

SPA 130 Survey of Spanish Literature to 1700

Section 001 (CRN: 41471)
Location: Lecture Bainer Hall 1060
Time: M,W,F 1:10-2:00 PM
Instructor: Gutiérrez-Flores, Daniela

LAT 108 Horace: Satires & Epistles

Section 001 (CRN: 41069)
Location: Lecture TLC 3212
Time: M,W,F 2:10-3:00 PM
Instructor: Seal, Carey

LAT 118 Roman Historians

Section 001 (CRN: 41070)
Location: Lecture Wellman Hall 123
Time: M,W,F 12:10-1:00 PM
Instructor: Chin, Mike

MSA 100 Middle East and South Asia: Comparative Perspectives Scientific Revolution

Section 001 (CRN: 30084)
Location: Lecture Social Sciences and Humanities Hall 80
Time: T,R 3:10-4:30 PM
Instructor: Sen, Sudipta

CHN 110 Great Writers of China: Texts & Context (in English)

Section 001 (CRN: 16096)
Location: Lecture TLC 3213
Time: T,R 2:10-4:00 PM
Instructor: He, Yuming

CHN 130 Readings in Traditional Chinese Fiction

Section 001 (CRN: 41023)
Location: Lecture TLC 3213
Time: T,R 12:10-2:00 PM
Instructor: He, Yuming

*This course can only be taken with permission from the MEMS Director. Please fill out the MEMS Request for Course Credit to be Counted for the Major or Minor.pdf