HUM 4930: Selected Topics in Humanities

America in the 70's

Aztec Art and Iconography

Food in Western Culture

Music, Machines and Performance

Monasticism and the Arts

Place and Mobility in America

Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town

Sex, Crime and Madness in the 19th Century

The Worlds of Homer

Women in Antiquity

A survey of the lives of women, both the famous and the unknown, in Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquity.The format will include lecture, slides, and group discussion based on reading. While the primary emphasis is on data, some theoretical tools for analysis will also be employed.