Ernest Shackleton College of Arts and Humanites
ART 100 The Arts in History / Intro to Humanities
Key periods, styles and great works in all of art history from Altamira and Stonehenge to Warhol and postmodern art.
ART 101 Prehistoric and Ancient Art
Painting, sculpture and architecure in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant and Persia.
ART 103 Classical Art
The arts in the Aegean, Greek, Hellenistic and Roman worlds, from Troy to the fall of Rome.
ART 105 Medieval Art
The development of the arts in Latin Christendom and Orthodox Byzantium and Russia..
ART 107 Renaissance Art
The 'giants' of the Italian and Northern Renaissance.
ART 109 Early Modern Art
Development of mannerism and the Baroque and Roccoco styles in art and architecture.
ART 111 Romantic Art
Art of the Revolutionary Age and 19th Century, neoclassism and 'Liberation' style.
ART 113 Modern Art
Development of modern artistic styles beginning with impressionism, avant garde and cubism- through WWII.
ART 115 Post-War Art
The divergant paths of the socialist-realist East and liberal West after 1945.
ART 117 Postmodern Art
Art and architecture today- the legacy of the past, current trends, the future
ART 121 American Art
Evolution of art and architecture in the United States, from Plymouth Rock to today.
ART 123 Oriental Art
Artistic traditions and works in the Near and Far East.
ART 125 Art of Antarctica
Antarctica-themed or inspired painting, sculpture, architecture, stamps and coins.
FLM 201 The Past in Film to 1500
A visual arts class of film critcism taking as a theme how history has been shown by Hollywood since the silent film era, covering the periods from Prehistoric to Medieval.
FLM 202 The Past in Film 1500-1900
A visual arts class of film critcism taking as a theme how history has been shown by Hollywood since the silent film era, covering the periods from Renaissance to WWI.
FLM 203 The World Wars in Film
A visual arts class of film critcism taking as a theme how history has been shown by Hollywood since the silent film era, covering the periods from WWI through WWII.
FLM 204 The Present in Film
This visual arts class of film criticism demonstrates how modern historical events, from the end of WWII to the Sept. 11 attacks and beyond, have been portrayed on film. It further asks how they have reflected social issues.
FLM 205 The Future in Film
A visual arts class of film criticism showing how the future has been shown- utopian and dystopian, in film, and what assumptive factors have provided background setting.
FLM 206 Science on Film
A visual arts class of film criticism showing how the scientific topics have been shown- in film, and what assumptive factors have provided background setting.
FLM 207 Antarctica in Film
How has Antarctica been treated in film? This course introduces to the student the major items in the Antarctic film library and how close to Antarctic reality they have come.
LIT 100 Intro to Literature
This course explores the types, poetics, styles, limits and divisions of great literature through history, and its effect on the societies in which they were written.
LIT 102 Ancient Literature
Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Levantine writings, including the Old Testament of the Holy Bible.
LIT 104 Classical Literature
This course begins with Homer and continues through Hellenic, Hellenistic and Roman iterations in classical prose, drama and myth, from 1200 BC - 500 AD.
LIT 106 Medieval Literature
The cornerstone pieces of Medieval writing, from the Norse Sagas to Dante and Chaucer. 500-1400.
LIT 108 Renaissance Literature
From the manners of Castiglione to the essays of Montaigne, covering the years 1400-1600.
LIT 110 Elizabethan and Baroque Literature
This course covers the time of Cervantes and Shakespeare, 1600-1700.
LIT 112 Enlightenment Literature
Writing during the 18th Century, Voltaire, Swift, Cook, Diderot and many more.
LIT 114 19th Century American Literature
With the rapid expansion of the volume of litearature appearing at the beginning of the 1800s, this class focuses on just the American contribution- Melville, Twain, others.
LIT 116 19th Century English Literature
A companion to LIT 114, this course aims to show the classics of British literature, such as Shelley, Thackray, Austen and Kipling.
LIT 118 19th Century West European Literature
Companion to LIT 116 and 118, Stendhal, Balzac, Goethe and other giants of the European Romantic Age.
LIT 120 19th Century East European Literature
The Russian and Polish infusion also grew immensely in the 19th Century, here are examined Pushkin, Tolstoy, Mickiewicz, Dostoyevsky and others.
LIT 122 20th Century American Literature
This course looks at Adams, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald and others in the large catalog of American writers.
LIT 124 20th Century English Literature
Doyle, Elliot, Burgess, Golding and more, this class covers the continued British literary merit.
LIT 126 20th Century West European Literature
The war torn first half of the century finds Remarque and Frank, while the second half sees a new Europe forming, but what kind of Europe? Raspail, Eco and others.
LIT 128 20th Century East European Literature
This course covers Reymont's description of peasant life just as it disappeared, to the dystopias of Kafka, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn.
LIT 130 Literature of Antarctica
A continent found through exploration has a long tradition of non fiction accounts by the explorers themselves. These have given way to descriptive works and evocotive tales.
LIT 131 The Travelogue
This course develops the theme of travel-writing from Herodotus to Marco Polo to Robert Kaplan, showing the continuity that while the ages change, the world is in some respects the same as it ever was.
LIT 132 Science Fiction Literature
Only a century and a half old, great works in this field have singularly inspired real-life great deeds. Verne and Wells, to Asimov and Heinlein, to Crichton.
LIT 134 Cultural Criticism
From the old (D'Toqueville) to the left (Frankfurt School) to the right (Barzun) and beyond, the great figures of cultural commentary and change are presented.
MUS 100 Intro to Music
This course examines music from its beginnings to the present day, focusing on the limits and divisions of style and form.
MUS 150 Classical Music to Beethoven
From the foundations in Gregorian Chant through the Baroque explosion of musical form, and from the classic of Haydn through Mozart.
MUS 152 Classical Music since Beethoven
Later Beethoven and Chopin, Liszt and romanticism, through Brahms and Tchaikovsky, through the impression and modernist periods.
MUS 154 Music: WWI - 1950s
This course begins with wartime songs, the stylestic changes in music seen through jazz and the big band periods, and into post-war doo-wop and the 'golden oldies'
MUS 156 Classic Rock 1960s-70s
This class begins with the big acts of the 60s, the Doors, Lez Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, continues throughout the 70s and Black Sabbath, Rush, AC/DC and more.
MUS 158 Rock 1980s-90s
The 'hair-bands' Van Halen, Poison, the Scorpions and more are the subject of this course, common themes, subjects and style.
MUS 159 Pianomen and Frontmen
Comparative Neil Diamond, Gordon Lightfoot, Elton John, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and others. Similarities and differences in subject matter and themes.
MUS 160 Heavy Metal
Development of heavy metal out of classic rock, Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Metallica, Manowar, Skrewdriver, Rammstein, and into the 1990s and the present. Psychology of metal, themes and culture.
MUS 161 American National Music
The old church commons of New England, the Revolutionary era patriotic songs, Civil War era music and Twentieth Century additions have resulted in a definitive body of traditional national songs. Their sights and scenes, meanings and style are covered.
MUS 162 Comparative National Anthems
The American anthem is a hymn to that country's flag and its symbolism, the British is a hymn to the head of state and what she stands for. The French and Polish have marching songs, while the German speaks in terms of national endowments. All the major anthems are scrutinized by students in this class, encapsulating a certain place and time.
MUS 163 Film Scores
Evoking a sense of the motion picture is the function of movie-music, this class looks at how film scores have done so.
MUS 164 Music in Science Fiction Films
How do the fantastic and futuristic, bizarre and dystopian subjects in scifi movies and films become enhanced by film scores? MUS 164 considers many examples from 2001 A Space Odyssey, to the newest releases.
MUS 166 Signs of the Times: History in Music
This class looks at 20th and 21st Century history through contemporary music's treatment of major events and social change.
PHL 100 Intro to Philosophy
Theories of knowledge, values and reality, right and wrong, good and evil, realtivism, cultural variations, aesthetic values, moral responsibility, God, self, freewill, ethics and other topics.
PHL 202 Classical Philosophy
Problems of existence, knowledge and action. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the other Greek philosophers begin the class, Hellenistic and Roman finish it.
PHL 206 Modern Philosophy
This course continues PHL 202 with the Medieval worldview's evolution into modern philosophy. Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and into the present.
PHL 208 Exploration Philosophy
Ages of exploration are guided not only by money and promise of wealth, but also by the human urge to 'go beyond' and explore further. The philosophy of exploration is explored in this class, from Columbus's time, through Russian Cosmism, to the present.
PHL 211 Philosophy of Technology
The desirability of technology, its forms, its alternatives, conventional productivist, ecological humanist and radical humanist outlooks.
PHL 209 Ethics and Development
War, genocide, famine, agricultural intensification, economic liberalization, globalization, environmental degredation, gender equity, race-thinking
PHL 210 Human Nature
What is human 'nature?' Is it definable? This course provides some of today's answers in light of the human genome project, evolutionary history and the current debate about bioethics.
REL 200 Myth, Self and Religion
The mythic quest for meaning, identity, value and transcendence as seen through religious biography. Cross cultural worldviews, interpretation as sacred narrative, comparative outlook. The Cosmological Principles.
REL 201 Magic and Mysticism
Western esoteric traditions including alchemy, astrology, magic, Jewish and Christian mysticism, secret or semi-secret groups like Freemasonry, Illumenati, modern globalism.
REL 202 Judaism
Jewish life, thought, institutions, Second Temple, Rabbanic Period, Diaspora, Hasidic, Conservative, Orthodox and Reform movements, Zionism, the Holocaust, Israel.
REL 203 Christianity
Origins and development of Christianity, ritual, prayer, monastic movements, institutions, values, telos.
REL 205 Eastern Religions
Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Southeast Asia as a crossroads of religions, Confucism, African and Japanese religions.
REL 207 The Crescent and the Cross
Jihad and Crusade in their historical and modern senses. Historical power struggle between the West and the Near and Middle East, from 7th Century Muslim expansion into Byzantine territory to the present conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
