2012-2013 Academic Year Calendar - Marianopolis

Liberal Artsof evolution; the first debates aboutwomen's rights and capital punishment;and the first attempts at copingwith mass industrialization andurbanization through mass education.This course looks at the nineteenthcentury as an age of new ideas andrapid change and examines thewritings of eminent European writers.Wars: Just and Unjust345-LPH-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsThis course seeks to examine themoral and ethical issues involved inthe decision by one (or more)independent state(s) to use forceagainst another sovereign state. Inparticular, it seeks: 1) To assesswhether armed intervention in theinternal affairs of a sovereign state isever justified. If it is, under whatconditions can it be justified? 2) Toexamine the moral implications of thedecision to go to war as well as theethical issues of the manner in whichthe war is conducted. 3) To investigatethe relationship between theexisting moral values and thejustification for war and acceptablebehaviour in wartime against thebackdrop of the broad sweep ofhistory from the Napoleonic Warsto the present.Art History (520)Art historians study the historicaldevelopment of the visual arts—painting, sculpture, architecture,photography and more—byexamining the materials, techniques,forms and subject matter chosen byartists while taking into account thevarious contexts in which art isproduced. Understanding the social,intellectual, religious and politicalconditions under which artists livedand worked allows us to gain agreater understanding of how art canreflect, as well as affect, other areasof human life. Courses in art historyoffer students the opportunity toexpand their visual literacy and tolearn how to describe and interpretworks of art: important skills in anincreasingly image-based culture.Thematic Studies In History of Art:Medieval and Renaissance Art520-903-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsAn increasingly humanistic worldview began to emerge in WesternEurope between the eleventh and theearly sixteenth centuries, or in arthistorical terms, from Romanesque toHigh Renaissance. The ways inwhich humanism affected the riseof naturalism, individualism, andclassicism in the arts provides acentral theme for students learning tounderstand the differences betweenthe later Middle Ages and theRenaissance in painting, sculptureand architecture.Civilization (332)Ancient World332-115-MS (2-1-2) 1.66 creditsLiberal Arts students onlyAs an introduction to antiquity, thiscourse investigates the origins of thethreads which, woven together, havecreated the tapestry of WesternCivilization from its beginnings:Prehistory and the birth of civilization(Bronze Age) to Greek and RomanCivilizations.History (330)The study of history helps studentsunderstand the past and presentworld, enrich their cultural life, andbroaden their horizons. Historycourses develop skills in criticalthinking, analysis and synthesis,improve literacy and communicationas well as understanding of socialdynamics. Our history coursesemphasize the multiple interpretationsthat can be given to historical factsand events.Post-Classical History I330-101-MS (2-1-2) 1.66 creditsLiberal Arts students onlySpanning the fall of the classicalempires to the French Revolution,this course places the majordevelopments of European historywithin the context of the wider world.Principal emphases include the postclassicalworld, the rise of Islam, the“civilization” of the barbarians, therecovery of Europe, the emergence ofnations, European colonialism, andthe age of revolutions. With all topicsa holistic approach to the subjectmatter – whether political, social,economic, gender-analytical, etc. – ispursued and current historiographicalcontributions are taken into account.Post-Classical History II: The 19thand 20th Centuries330-102-MS (2-1-2) 1.66 creditsLiberal Arts students onlyBy the nineteenth century, Europehad become entwined througheconomics and politics with mostparts of the world. This relationshipcontinues but changes in thetwentieth century. Major emphasesinclude the industrial revolution, theage of imperialism, World Wars Iand II, the bi-polar and post-colonialworld, and the implications of thedemise of the Soviet Union and theemergence of a uni-polar world.As with Post-Classical History I,students pursue a holistic approachto the subject matter which takes intoaccount current historiographicalcontributions.106