This course analyzes a culture through the study of its art, philosophy, and literature. It will not only acquaint you with a particular period and place but also introduces you to various definitions of culture and to recent themes and debates in cultural studies. Various theorists inform the teaching team's interdisciplinary approach to cultural artifacts as well as its investigation of aesthetics, ideology, and issues of ethnicity, gender, and class. Cultures under study have included Ancient Greece, Enlightenment France, and Renaissance Europe.
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