Intensive lecture course treating topics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, taught by instructors from various departments. Lectures, readings, discussions, examinations.

Examines the hypothesis that human beings have and continue to create and recreate themselves through the telling of stories. Explores the concept that stories help define what is significant, what is praiseworthy, and what it is we should value and why.

Explores the economics of the business firm, the management of technical change, and the interaction between technology and finance in the writings of major twentieth century economists. Emphasis on attempting to understand the social and income-distributional consequences of technical change, the potential for system instability, and the dilemmas of public policy in this area.

Selected readings from autobiographies, poetry, fiction, and memoirs, primarily about the Western Front, by German, British, and American authors; a short history of World War I; readings of a central book of literary analysis; exploration of the nature of war, the experience of combatants, and the legacy of the war itself and its unique literature.

An examination of a range of subjects and styles that distinguish the capacity of the novel to reflect private lives and public moments. Focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century British and American novelists such as George Eliot, Philip Roth, Ford Maddox Ford, and Graham Greene.

Examines how narrative accounts such as documentary film, biography, or other non-fiction work impact the interpretation of significant events. A component of the class includes individual or collaborative research on a chosen topic and presentation of a life history project via a narrative description, video, photography, or other medium.

The historical and cultural processes that lead people to change the way they look at the world, and also brought some early modern Europeans to argue for religious toleration - first as a practical matter, and eventually as a matter of principle.

Explores the era of decolonization of the British empire after World War II.

An exploration of nonfiction writing and the process of translating facts, ideas, and experiences into words.

Concepts include monotheism, the nature and personality of this god, the soul, chosen people, linear time, history as divine classroom, original sin, heaven, hell, salvation, etc. Establishes how and when these and a host of other features came into existence and created Judeo-Christian reality, and contrast the reality created therein with other realities--Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam.

Exploration of the nature and history of rhetoric and analysis of some of the great speeches of the Western tradition.

Examines the technologies that enabled the book and explores its impact on society, with particular attention paid to the printed book that has flourished since the mid-fifteenth century. Explores the technologies of production and manufacture, and those that enabled the creation of texts by authors and their distribution and reception, and considers the future of the book in today's society.

The craft of writing profiles, narratives, and essays. Concentration on the fundamental components of nonfiction: beginnings, organization, character development, narrative flow, and conclusions.

Explores the nature and consequences of money in American politics.

Explores the great religious, political, and cultural debates that occurred around two historic events: England's break with the Catholic Church in 1536 and India gaining independence from Britain in 1947.

Explores the historical, religious, and psychotherapeutic manifestations of the "search for meaning" in modern American culture. Examines theology, psychological theory, literature, music, politics, and art.

Reading course in history, literature, and politics, and as a class in professional writing. Examines not only the literature, history, and politics of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.

Examine the artistic traces left in Sicily by Greek, Roman, Arab, Norman, and Spanish civilizations and how they contributed to create the present Sicilian reality.

Examines the American Civil War not in terms of its military or political history but in relation to the ways literary and cultural texts have remembered and rewritten it.