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Art of the Italian Renaissance

Examine the major artists, artworks and historical context related to the production of sculpture, painting, and architecture in Italy from 1300 to 1600. Students will engage in critical analysis of artwork through application of primary source readings and seminal theories of Renaissance scholarship in essays and oral presentations.

Italian 2: Conversational Italian

Increase your cultural awareness and conversational Italian skills. Through experiences in true-to-life situations, you’ll learn idioms, useful phrases, and conversational patterns in Italian.

Spanish 2: Conversational Spanish

Increase your cultural awareness and conversational Spanish skills. Through experiences and true-to-life situations, you’ll learn idioms, useful phrases, and conversational patterns in Spanish.

Discrete Mathematics

Gain math skills for computer science. You’ll learn logic, sets, algorithms, Boolean algebra, number theory, counting techniques, recurrence, trees, and more.

Exploring Science Fiction Cinema

Investigate the history of science fiction cinema. You’ll start with George Miles’ “A Trip to the Moon” and Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” in the early 20th century, through the “golden era” of the 1950s, to today’s special effects-laden epics.

French 2: Conversational French

Increase your cultural awareness and conversational French skills. Through experiences in true-to-life situations, you’ll learn idioms, useful phrases, and conversational patterns in French.

Italian 3: Reading and Writing

You’ll increase your Italian vocabulary and idiomatic expressions based on situational dialogues, articles, and readings that reflect various Italian-speaking cultures and practice to gain greater listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.

Film History 2: 1940-1974

It was the Golden Age of Cinema. You’ll study Neo-Realism, the French New Wave, Cinéma Vérité, and a new Golden Age of Hollywood to discover what made the great directors—Vittorio DeSica, Billy Wilder, Francois Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa, Mike Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola—great.

Art of the Middle Ages

Discover the art and architecture from the Early Christian and Byzantine Empires to the start of the Renaissance. You’ll analyze the historical context and literary and philosophical texts of the era.

History of Aesthetics

Explore the concepts of truth, beauty, artistic form, unity, expression, representation, and taste by reading philosophers and artists, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Croce, Henri, Rodin, and Hughes.