Renaissance: Arts and Letters (C035)
GEC Coordinator: Sanford Freedman
The literature and visual arts from the late fourteenth through the early eighteenth centuries in Europe and its American colonies helped shape many of our contemporary cultural models. The Renaissance marked a shift in worldview: Humanism shaped the centrality of the individual; religion once again became an ideological battleground; new national states developed capitalism; slavery took hold in the Americas; technology advanced the spread of empire; and national languages acquired a new prestige.
Complete four credits designated with the (C035) GEC attribute, at least one of which must be from the Visual Arts list below and at least one of which must be from the Literature and Textual Culture list below. Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.
Visual Arts
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| AVC 251 | Medieval Architecture |
| CMS 251 | Medieval Architecture |
| REL 253 | Medieval Architecture |
Literature and Textual Culture
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 213 | Shakespeare |
| ENG 214 | Shakespeare and Early Modern Racialization |
| ENG 222 | Topics in Early Modern Literature |
| ENG 282 | Paradise Lost: Contexts and Afterlives |
| FRE 250 | Power and Resistance through Writing |
| HIST 140 | New Peoples of North America, 1500-1820 |
| HIST 301Y | The Spanish Inquisition |
| LALS 303 | The Spanish Inquisition |
| REL 314 | The Spanish Inquisition |