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Making of the Western Mind

Fall

THE ANCIENT WORLD

Winter

THE MIDDLE AGES

Spring

THE MODERN WORLD

"The Making of the Western Mind" invites students to come to know the major philosophers, painters, sculptors, architects, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the Western cultural tradition. During our thirty-week journey, we read philosophical essays and epic poems; look at slides of frescoes and oil paintings; and study the biographies of great leaders such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Napoleon. The goal of the course is to come to understand how we in the twenty-first century came to be who we are; why we think the way we do; what assumptions about the world and human nature are traceable back to earlier periods in the five-thousand year story of Western Civilization. The Making of the Western Mind is taught by Professor William H. Fredlund, who has taught at University of Florence, UCLA, and Stanford and specializes in the Italian Renaissance. All classes begin at 7:00 PM.

 

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