Artistic expression is examined through chronological and thematic approaches, with attention to the relation between art, music, and society. 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. Primary sources may include Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Freud. I A study of major literary , religious, and philosophical traditions, involving the reading of texts from the mid-seventeenth century to 1914.
Emphasis is placed on development of writing skills and interpretive analysis.
Primary texts include Stendahl, Diderot, Goethe, Nietzsche, and Baudelaire. This course is an integrated study of music, from the mid-seventeenth century to 1914. Artistic and musical expression is examined through chronological and thematic approaches, with attention to the relation between art, music, and society. This course serves as an introduction to the fundamental scientific ideas which determined the important role of science in the twentieth century. Materials examined include a concise analysis of the major developments in mathematics, physics, biology, and discusses views on the growth of science, artificial intelligence, and the interaction between the sciences and society.