Description

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of cultural, religious, and racial differences in early modern world of Italy, America, Africa, and Ottoman Empire. Materials include films, artworks, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Qur’an, Arab chronicles of Crusades, travel logs and letters of Christopher Columbus, Italian Renaissance epic poems, and anticolonial polemics. … For more content click the Read More button below.

Instructional Format

Primary Format

Lecture

Secondary Format

Discussion

University and College/School Requirements

This course satisfies the following requirements:

Diversity — Letters and Science, Education and Information Studies, Music, Public Affairs