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Humanities 120 Crisis and Culture

• Athens, Florence, and Budapest: Professor Arpad Kadarkay

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• The Scientific Revolution and the Romantic Movement: Professor George Erving

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• London and Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century: Professor William Beardsley

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• Dionysus and the Art of Theater: Professors Geoff Proehl and Peter Greenfield
  

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Humanities 121 Arms and Men: The Rhetoric of Warfare

• Professors Robert Garratt and David Lupher

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Humanities 122 Utopia/Dystopia

• Professor William Breitenbach

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Humanities 201 The Arts, Ideas, and Society: Western Tradition

• Professor Florence Sandler

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Humanities 206 The Classics of Russian Literature

• Professor Theodore Taranovski

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Humanities 301 The Idea of the Self

• Professor George Erving

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Humanities 304 Ancients and Moderns

• Professors David Smith and William Beardsley

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Humanities 305 Modernization and Modernism

• Professor Geoffrey Block

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