This survey course examines Europe, the Mediterranean world, from the late 10th century to the 14th, considered the height of the medieval world. Students study the interactions between peoples and societies in the medieval world - from the emergence of new conceptions of sovereignty, popular religion and the Crusades, the university, and Arthurian literature, to the restructuring of society in the calamitous century of the Mortalitas Magnas.

This introductory course looks comparatively at the histories of China, Japan and Korea from the late 18th century to the present. It examines the struggles of these countries to preserve or regain their independence and establish national identities in a rapidly emerging and often violent modern world order. Although each of these countries has its own distinctive identity, their overlapping histories (and dilemmas) give the region a coherent identity. The class also looks at how individuals respond to and are shaped by larger historical movements.

A survey of the history of the Roman people as Rome developed from a village in central Italy to the capital of a vast Mediterranean empire of 50 million people. The course traces Rome’s early rise through mythology and archaeology and follows developments from Monarchy to the end of the Republic, including the Struggle of the Orders, conquests and citizenship, wars with Carthage, encounters with local cultures in North Africa, Gaul and the Greek East, challenges of expansion and empire, rich versus poor, political corruption and the Civil Wars of the Late Republic.

Offered as GRK 200X and GRK 300X. Students should take GRK 200X first. This course explores Greek prose and poetry from the Archaic and Classical periods, such as Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, and Lysias, with attention to linguistic differences over time and region. Students consider themes and topics such as the connection between myth and history, the formation of pan-Hellenic identity, and the relationship between the individual and society.

Offered as GRK 200X and GRK 300X. Students should take GRK 200X first. This course explores Greek prose and poetry from the Archaic and Classical periods, such as Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, and Lysias, with attention to linguistic differences over time and region. Students consider themes and topics such as the connection between myth and history, the formation of pan-Hellenic identity, and the relationship between the individual and society.

Since the end of the Second World War, intra-state warfare has become the predominant form of armed conflict around the world. This course provides students with the intellectual framework for understanding the numerous, complex, and often contentious, debates related to various aspects of intra-state armed conflict, or civil wars. The course explores concepts of civil war, insurgency, counterinsurgency, irregular warfare, among others, as analytical concepts in political science.

This course introduces students to the basic building blocks of political science research, including developing a research question, conducting a literature review, defining concepts, selecting cases and presenting results. While students read and discuss exemplary research in American and comparative politics and international relations, the course focuses on "learning by doing" via a series of short projects driven by students’ interests.