Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world...

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to...

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts,...

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms...

An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.