INTD 101 - The Western Mind I

This sequence is a survey of the artistic, philosophical, religious, and scientific history of Western Civilization from the Greeks and Hebrews to the 20th Century. Rather than giving more or less equal coverage to all periods, the course is structured around the periods and places within which there was the initial articulation or testing of major concepts, values, and institutions, such as Athens in the 5th century B.C. and Paris in the 13th century. Through both semesters, the goal is to provide a basis for understanding such ambiguous terms as “order,” “classicism,” “realism,” “romanticism,” “reason,” and “naturalism.” Two semester course sequence

3 credits