A selection of the most engaging and influential works of literature written in England before 1800. Some of the earliest survived only by a thread in a single manuscript, many were politically or religiously embattled in their own day, and some were the first of their kind in English. Fights with monsters, dilemmas of chivalry, a storytelling pilgrimage, a Faustian pact with the devil, a taste of the forbidden fruit, epic combat over a lock of hair: these writings remain embedded in American culture and deeply woven into the texture of the English language. Enrollment limited to 20.

Survey of Western European art music to 1400 with emphasis on Gregorian Chant, Notre Dame and Ars Nova repertoires. Historical, liturgical, analytic, and performance-practice considerations.

Algebraic geometry provides a precise language for describing geometric shapes defined by systems of polynomial equations - algebraic varieties - with applications ranging from configuration spaces in physics to parametric models in statistics. This versatile language is used across mathematics and has fueled recent advances not only within algebraic geometry itself but also in representation theory, number theory, symplectic geometry, and other fields.