Winter Quarter 2025

AHI 001B Medieval and Renaissance Art 

Location: Lecture Everson Hall 176
Time: T,R 10:00-11:30
Instructor: Lopez, John 

  • Section A01 (CRN: 10614); M 9:00-9:50 - Everson Hall 157
  • Section A02 (CRN: 10615); M 10:00-10:50- Everson Hall 157
  • Section A03 (CRN: 10616); M 11:00-11:50- Everson Hall 157
  • Section A04 (CRN: 10617); W 9:00-9:50- Everson Hall 157
  • Section A05 (CRN: 10618); W 10:00-10:50- Everson Hall 157
  • Section A06 (CRN: 10619); W 2:10-3:00- Everson Hall 157

AHI 179B Baroque Art 

Section 001 (CRN: 10648)
Location: Lecture Art 217
Time: T,R 12:40-2:00
Instructor: Lopez, John 

COM 002 Major Works of the Medieval and Early Modern World

Section 001 (CRN: 16621)
Location: TLC 3210
Time: M,W 10:00-11:50
Instructor: Staff

COM 002 Major Works of the Medieval and Early Modern World

Section 002 (CRN: 16622)
Location: Wellman 25
Time: T,R 2:10-4:00
Instructor: Staff

COM 002 Major Works of the Medieval and Early Modern World

Section 003 (CRN: 16623)
Location: Olson Hall 105
Time: T,R 12:10-2:00
Instructor: Staff

COM 172 A Story for a Life: The Arabian Nights (cross-listed with MSA 121C and ARB 140)*
Section 1 (CRN: 41454)
Location: Wellman Hall 233
Time: T,R 1:40-3:00
Instructor: Sharlet, Jocelyn
Course Description: This course investigates storytelling, fiction, and fantasy in the Thousand and One Nights, also known as The Arabian Nights, an important storytelling tradition in Arabic and world literature. Students will investigate how stories within this frame tale create and explore ideas about trauma, ambition, justice, desire, comedy, and wisdom. We will consider how the legendary narrator Shahrazad, a minister’s daughter who marries King Shahrayar to save the women of her kingdom from the king’s murderous obsession by telling stories to him and her sister, offers imaginative perspectives on the adventures of her characters—such as sisters who own businesses, a fisherman who catches a jinn, a king of China who serves as a judge, a caliph and his minister who tour their city in disguise, a princess from a kingdom under the sea, a world-travelling merchant who encounters strange new cultures, and a barber who brings a man back to life.

Books: The Arabian Nights and Sindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights, ed. Muhsin Mahdi and tr. Husain Haddawy (in book order and Reading lists in Canvas)

GEs: AH, WC, WE

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ENL 10A Literatures in English I: To 1700 Medieval and Renaissance Art

Location: Lecture Wellman Hall 109
Time: T,R 9:00-10:20
Instructor: Wallis, Wally 

  • Section A01 (CRN: 21213); R 6:10-7:00 - Social Science and Humanities 70
  • Section A02 (CRN: 21214); R 7:10-8:00- Social Science and Humanities 70
  • Section A03 (CRN: 21215); F 8:00-8:50- Olson Hall 244
  • Section A04 (CRN: 21216); W 9:00-9:50-  Olson Hall 244

ENL 113B Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Literatures in English I: To 1700 Medieval and Renaissance Art

Location: Lecture Olson 146
Time: T,R 12:10-1:30
Instructor: Cheramie, Hillary

  • Section A01 (CRN: 21345); F 8:00-8:50 - Olson 151
  • Section A02 (CRN: 21346); F 9:00-9:50- Storer Hall 1342
  • Section A03 (CRN: 21347); F 6:10-7:00PM- Olson Hall 163
  • Section A04 (CRN: 21348); R 7:10-8:00-  Olson Hall 117

Course Description: The Canterbury Tales offers a vivid portrayal of late 14th-century English society, but its world stretches far beyond the road from London to Canterbury. This course explores The Canterbury Tales as an expansive work of world-building that illuminates the connections between the insular and global ambitions of England in the Middle Ages. We will begin by examining the development of Middle English and how The Canterbury Tales contributed to the rise of English as a literary language. Alongside this linguistic exploration, we will analyze the diverse social functions of genre in the tales and the broader pilgrimage framework, revealing it as more of a transformational social experience than a spiritual one.

ENL 150A British Drama to 1800

Location: Lecture Wellman Hall 230
Time: T,R 10:30-11:50
Instructor: Bloom, Gina 

  • Section A01 (CRN: 41478); R 6:10-7:00PM - Olson Hall 159
  • Section A02 (CRN: 41479); R 7:10-8:00PM - Olson Hall 159
  • Section A03 (CRN: 41480); F 9:00-8:50- Olson Hall 159
  • Section A04 (CRN: 41481); F 10:00-10:50- Olson Hall 159
     
    Course Description: Gender and Sexuality in the Drama of Shakespeare's Contemporaries

We will read a range of plays from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, focusing in particular on how these plays represent gender and sexuality. The course will be especially interested in how these concerns with gender and sexuality intersected with the “material conditions” of the theater: what the early modern theater looked like, who acted in the plays, and who came to see them. Topics include adultery and its relationship to crime; boy actors playing female roles and the implications for sexuality; and the politics around women's chastity. In addition, many of our texts feature games being played on stage, so we’ll think about theatre’s relationship to gameplay in various ways, including by exploring some course material through a virtual reality game I am co-developing.

Since this course fulfills the Upper Division Writing Requirement, there will also be explicit instruction and guided practice in writing. The nontraditional grading system in this course emphasizes self- and peer-assessment. Consistent attendance in lecture and discussion sections is a requirement for success in the course.

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ENL 185A Literature by Women Before 1800*

Section 001 (CRN: 21390)
Location: Lecture Bainer 1130
Time: M,W,F 2:10-3:00 
Instructor: Calahan, Ofir

FRE 107B The Making of Modern France*

Section 001 (CRN: 41458)
Location: Lecture Olson 227
Time: T, R 10:30-11:50 
Instructor: Goldstein, Claire

Course Description: Read real historical documents, analyze painting and architecture, and re-enact philosophical debates about important social issues in this quarter’s exploration of the political and cultural history of France from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Highlights of our survey will include: Henri IV’s edict of Nantes, which ended the Wars of Religion; Versailles and Louis XIV’s cultural and political project of French absolutism; Enlightenment polemics about economic inequality and religious toleration; the revolution of 1789; the rise of Napoleon; and the industrial transformation of Paris in the nineteenth century. We will engage topics such as the role of women and minorities in society and France’s relationship with the broader world as students hone reading, writing, and speaking skills in French. Prerequisite FRE 23 or permission of the instructor.

HIS 102D Undergraduate Proseminar in History: Modern Europe to 1815 

Section 001 (CRN: 25814)
Location: Lecture Social Sciences and Humanities 4202
Time: T 12:10-3:00
Instructor: Stuart, Kathy

HIS 130B Christianity and Culture in Europe: 1450-1600 

Section 001 (CRN: 41784)
Location: Lecture TLC 3218
Time: T,R 10:30-11:50
Instructor: Harris, Katie
Course Description: Between 1450 and 1600, Christianity in Europe underwent dramatic transformations that permanently redefined the continent's religious landscape. While most medieval Europeans had shared a common Catholic faith, by the end of the sixteenth century, uniformity of belief and identity were permanently destroyed, replaced by a kaleidoscope of competing churches, sects, and factions. Together, we will explore the ideas and events of the European Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, devoting particular attention to changing concepts of community and identity and the links between religious beliefs and social, political, and cultural change. Our readings, discussions, and assignments will examine not only the ideas of the key thinkers of the period, such as Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and Loyola, but also the effects of their ideas on Europeans of all walks of life.

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HIS 132 Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe

Section 001 (CRN: 41788)
Location: Lecture TLC 1215
Time: T,R  4:40-6:00
Instructor: Stuart, Kathy

HIS 136 (Cross Listened with STS 136 Scientific Revolution 

Section 001 (CRN: 41789)
Location: Lecture Social Sciences and Humanities 80
Time: T 12:10-1:30
Instructor: Stolzenberg, Daniel
Course Description: 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. This course satisfies GE requirements for AH, SS, and WC. There are no prerequisites, and no prior knowledge is necessary.
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LAT 101 Livy

Section 001 (CRN: 41597)
Location: Lecture Wellman 105
Time: M,W,F 2:10 - 3:00
Instructor: Brelinski, Tim
Course Description: This course will read in Latin portions of Book 21 of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita. That book introduces the reader to the young Hannibal and later tells of his first military exploits, including his crossing of the Alps.

LAT 105 Catallus

Section 001 (CRN: 41598)
Location: Lecture Wellman 203
Time: T, R 12:10-1:30
Instructor: Popescu, Valentina 

JPN 103 Japanese Literature in Translation: The Middle Period * 

Section 001 (CRN: 27471)
Location: Lecture Wellman 115
Time: M, W 10:00-11:50
Instructor: Sorensen, Joseph 
Course Description: This course is a survey, in English translation, of works of Japanese literature written between the 13th and 17th centuries. Historical contexts, Buddhist beliefs systems, poetic conventions, and cultural developments will be points of emphasis throughout. We will explore how certain themes cross over different genres, and how literary forms and aesthetics change over time. We will also consider who the authors and readers of such works were and how elite and popular tastes helped define the ways these texts were produced and consumed. We will also explore what it means to be “medieval” and “early modern” within a particular tradition. We will encounter in the readings all walks of life, from members of the imperial family to mountain hermits, aristocratic poets, migrant monks, and yes, samurai warriors. 

 There are no prerequisites for this course, and there is no assumption of prior knowledge of Japanese language, history, or culture. Readings and discussions in English. Knowing some basics of Japanese will be helpful in dealing with the names of authors, texts, and historical periods. 

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

Section 001 (CRN: 31047)
Location: Lecture TLC 3213
Time: M,W 1:40-3:00
Instructor: Sen, Sudipta 

MSA 181A Persianate Thought and Culture*

Section 001 (CRN: 42410)
Location: TLC 3212
Time: M,W 1:40-3:00
Instructor: Brizendine, Ryan 

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MSA 181C Topics in Regional ME/SA Studies: Arab Studies

Section 001 (CRN: 42215)
Location: Lecture Bainer 1130
Time: T,R 12:10-1:30
Instructor: Syed, Mairaj
Course Description: As one of the most influential texts in world history, the Qur’an has shaped not only religious thought but also art, law, culture, literature, and language for over a millennium. This course offers an exciting opportunity to delve into the foundational grammar and vocabulary of Qur’anic and classical Arabic. Through a structured exploration of sentence types, verbs, prepositions, pronouns, and declension, students will develop the tools necessary to approach the Qur’an in its original language. By the end of the course, participants will have a solid grasp of key grammatical structures and a foundational vocabulary, unlocking a deeper understanding of this profound text and its linguistic beauty.

RST 102 - Christian Origins

Section 001 (CRN: 41513)
Location: Lecture Social Sciences and Humanities 80
Time: M,W,F 9:00-9:50 
Instructor: Terry, Wendy

*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