"The Renaissance "
CAS room 522, Tuesday 12:30 - 2 PM

Announcements

• A PDF of Aristotle's Poetics is available for Prof. Tabatabai's students
• The images from Prof. Stratton-Pruitt's lecture on Velazquez can be viewed as a PDF
• The PowerPoint from Prof. Hopp's 10/20 lecture on Descartes is now available
• The notes accompanying Dr. Ilchman's 9/22 lecture on Michelangelo are now available
• Supplemental reading: from Vasari's Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo Buonarroti - Painter, Sculptor, and Architect
• The notes accompanying Prof. Eden's 9/8 lecture on Petrarch's Renaissance are now available for viewing online
• Two essays not included in the Montaigne text, Of cannibals and Of friendship, are now available for reading online.

Course Description

The third semester of the Humanities Core continues our multidisciplinary survey with some of the most significant literary, artistic, musical, and philosophical works from the Renaissance, an era in which the foundations of the modern world were laid. The semester will carry us from the early fourteenth century through the late seventeenth century.

Grade and Exam Policy

Your seminar instructor determines your final grade, based on the following components: participation 20%; seminar papers 60%; final exam 20%. Attendance at lectures and seminar discussions is an important part of the course. Absences from lecture and seminar will be weighed seriously by your seminar leader, and will bring down your final grade.

Faculty List and Office Hours

Discussion Section Schedule

Academic Conduct Policy

All Core students are expected to be familiar with the provisions of the CAS Academic Conduct Code, particularly regarding issues such as plagiarism and cheating on exams. It is your obligation to know these rules, copies of which are available in room CAS 105. Any case of suspected academic misconduct will be referred to the Dean’s Office.

All members of the University are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic honesty and integrity; we have the same expectations of each other in this course. Seminar leaders take the issue of plagiarism seriously and expect all the work you do in this course to be your own. If you have any questions about what constitutes plagiarism and how it differs from the appropriate use of other people’s work, consult the Academic Conduct Code or your instructor.

Lecture, Exam, and Reading Assignments