This course surveys Italian art and architecture from antiquity to the modern era, tracing visual culture across political, religious, and intellectual periods. It examines how classical vocabulary and architecture shaped later art, then follows stylistic developments through medieval, Renaissance, and post-Renaissance Italy, focusing on continuity and change over time.
This course will explore how economic, political, cultural, and ideological globalized processes are articulated within Italian localities and influence people’s daily lives. Relying on anthropological theories and methods of analysis, we will investigate how the local and global are mutually defined within the contexts of regions and cities in Italy, Italy on the national scale,…
This course will use the perspectives and tools of anthropology to explore how varied and sometimes conflicting legal systems operate within diverse cultural, political, and social contexts, asking what constitutes “law” in these varied contexts. Focusing in part on the relationship between international and national legal systems, this course will explore the ways in which…
This class is designed as an introduction to the history of thought and ideas as they developed on the Italian peninsula. We will familiarize ourselves with some classics of Western thought that were developed and written in Italy. We will also take the opportunity to think about how specific places, cultures, and historical moments can…
What does it mean for a dish to be “authentically” Italian? Who gets to decide? This course uses food as a lens to explore Italian national and regional identity, immigration and diaspora, colonialism, tourism, and the changing landscape of Italy today. Through stories, movies, street markets, local foods, cooking techniques, and museums, we will investigate…
Daily excursions provide opportunities to capture the unique light, textures, and forms of Greece, while independent sketching helps students develop their personal artistic voice. Draw directly from Greece’s landscapes, ruins, and museums in this hands-on studio course. Students explore graphite, ink, charcoal, and watercolor while building a sketchbook that captures their observations, creativity, and personal…
Explore Greek art and architecture through on-site observation and studio projects. Students sketch, draw, and photograph artifacts, monuments, and buildings, then use these studies as inspiration for creative work, culminating in a portfolio that showcases technical skill, cultural understanding, and personal artistic response. This course is open to all students/majors and will serve as an…
What does it mean to live a good life? This course will combine classical Greek theories of virtue and flourishing with psychological research on wellbeing, relationships, and meaning to explore potential answers to this question. Students will explore how social environments shape an individual’s character and happiness, using both ancient wisdom and contemporary data to…
In this course, students will be exposed to basic ideas from the field of social psychology, focusing on the power of situations and the impact of the social environment on human behavior. In the course, students will explore topics such as self, attitudes, persuasion, prejudice, discrimination, group behavior, interpersonal attraction, aggression, and prosocial behavior. Particular…
This course introduces students to the extraordinary diversity of plants and animals and their habitats in Costa Rica. We will explore the Arenal Volcano area of La Fortuna, tour the largest butterfly garden in the world in La Paz, and hike in some of the most famous Costa Rican cloud forests. Emphasis of this course…
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