In this course we will explore how writing styles have changed over more than a thousand years, with a focus on medieval handwritten manuscripts. 

Introduction to Italian culture focusing on fashion and manners from the late Middle Ages to today through literary and visual analysis. Taught in English.

Using digital archives and tools, this class explores French history from the 18th century, including the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment leading into the French revolution. 

Examines texts from the last two centuries of French literature to ask what these texts tell us about France's queer past and ways in which literature questions the straight binary status quo

This course on global literature and Nobel Prize laureates introduces students to writers and literatures from around the world and features presentations by other Humanities faculty members.

This class combines language learning with music, providing students with an opportunity to enhance their linguistic skills while immersing in melodies that define French and Italian heritage.

Cross-cultural interactions in the Middle Ages; how diversity and interconnectivity materialize in the contexts of politics, commerce, migration, religion and similar cultural frameworks.

Copying, Copyright, and Plagiarism. Learn how new technologies have (re)shaped how texts are written, published, read, preserved and copied from medieval hand copying to digital copy/paste.

• Discusses shifting Italian and European definitions of race and otherness in literary and visual representations from 1300-1700. Topics include religion as race, nationalism, and ethnography.

Study of the historical origins and subsequent development of contemporary problems and characteristics of French government and politics, economy, and society. Taught in English.