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Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan
In their ambition to capture “real life,” Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of t...
Understanding Korean Politics
This course will select six most outstanding issues in contemporary Korean politics and will engage...
Understanding China, 1700-2000: A Data Analytic Approach, Part 1
The purpose of this course is to summarize new directions in Chinese history and social science prod...
Understanding 9/11: Why 9/11 Happened & How Terrorism Affects Our World Today
This course will explore the forces that led to the 9/11 attacks and the policies the United States...
Toledo: Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Spain
This course evaluates the medieval history of Toledo from the era of the Visigoth Kingdom (6th-8th c...
The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction
The Talmud is one of the richest and most complicated works of literature the world has ever known....
The Pronunciation of American English Project
In the final course of The Pronunciation of American English specialization, you will complete a fin...
The Music of the Beatles
The Music of the Beatles will track the musical development of the band, starting from the earliest...
The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910
This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part Two begins early in the twentieth...
The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910
This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part One begins with the political and...
The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry
The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry is an adaptation of an on-campus course that has be...
The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World
The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its inn...
The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem
The destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile were a great catastrophe i...
The Epistemic Quest for Truth: Introduction to epistemology
The introduction of the internet and of social media has drastically changed our information positio...
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part I
This course will review the emergence of the modern Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire,...
The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future
With its walls razed to ground by Babylon’s armies, Jerusalem joined a long line of ancient vanquish...
The Ancient Greeks
This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. A...
Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice
Delve into the research behind terrorism as you unpack the assumptions and impacts of both terrorism...
Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity
It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical pr...