Admission into a departmental Honours programme requires the approval of the Department. This course emphasizes the intellectual, cultural, and political traditions from the Biblical period and classical antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century. Texts studied are related to changing social and historical contexts. Primary sources may include Genesis , Plato, Republic , Marcus Aurelius, Meditations , Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica , Machiavelli, Prince and Discourses , and Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise . A study of major Western literary, religious, and philosophical traditions, involving the reading and interpretation of significant texts from antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century.
Emphasis is placed on development of writing skills and interpretative analysis.
This course is an integrated study of the nature of the visual arts from antiquity to the twentieth century. Artistic expression is examined through chronological and thematic approaches, with attention to the relation between art and society. Specific topics for these courses, and prerequisites relevant in each case, will be stated in the Undergraduate Class Schedule. This course emphasizes the intellectual, cultural, and political traditions from the mid-seventeenth century to 1914. Texts studied are related to changing social and historical contexts.