Adventures of Ideas After 1500. ((3 Credits))

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Studies great written or visual texts in the Eastern or Western history of ideas--artistic, literary, philosophical, religious, political, technological, or scientific--from the Renaissance through the present. Readings and thematic focus vary by instructor, but all courses interrelate readings from different disciplines and world regions under one broad topic relating to the human condition, such as individuality, power, health, freedom, violence, the natural environment, etc.