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中日文化交流史

追溯日本文明发展的历史,阐明日本人独特的思考模式,解析日本独特的审美意识。本课程讲授公元前3世纪至清...

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...