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• ARLET 107 / The Medieval Mind (3) - (view)
  This course is intended as a sequel to "Dante and his World";therefore only students who have taken that course or who are very familiar with "The Divine Comedy" should enroll. In addition to an in-depth reading of select cantos of the entire "Commedia", students will read Dante's "minor works," including La Vita Nuova, Il Convivio, de Vulgari Eloquentia, and de Monarchai. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 108 / Studies in European History (3) - (view)
  Topics vary and are announced at the time of registration.
• ARLET 114 / The Classics (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Classical Roots, Modern Revisions: Eclectic Electra; Gods, Great Men, and Little Women; Re-Making Myth: Joyce's Journey. Course may be repeated. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 115 / The English Bible (3) - (view)
  Topics include: the Old Testament; the New Testament and Apocrypha. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 118 / Medieval History (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Magic, Madness, and Mayhem in the Middle . Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 122 / Topics in Modern Philosophy (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Education, Equality, and Our Ideals of Justice; Progress Pro and Con: Modernity as a Problem. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 130 / Studies in Ancient History and Society (3) - (view)
  Topics vary and are announced prior to registration. Course may be repeated Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 201 / Enduring Social and Political Problems (3) - (view)
  Topics include: the Search for the Good Community; Creative Breakthroughs in Politics; Protection Against Genocide.
• ARLET 204 / Studies in Shakespeare (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Shakespeare's Use of Language; Plays of Intrigue; Clowns, Confusions, Crimes, and Couples: Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 205 / THE AGE OF REASON (3) - (view)
  No description is available for this course.
• ARLET 206 / American History (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Literature of the American Civil War; War Comes Again: The Civil War and WWII; The Great War: Its Impact on Culture and Politics; Political Philosophy and Political Health; Religion and the Prohibition Movement. Course may be repeated. Same as: POSDOC 725.
• ARLET 207 / Topics in African American History: (3) - (view)
  Topics vary and are announced at registration. Same as: POSDOC 745.
• ARLET 208 / Topics in American Intellectual History: (3) - (view)
  Topics in American Intellectual history vary with instructor interest and expertise. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 210 / Studies in American Political Thought (3) - (view)
  Studies in the thought and the text of modern thinkers. Topics vary and are published prior to registration. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 214 / American Culture (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Frederick Olmsted, Central Park, and the Idea of Urban Landscapes in 19th-Century America; Contributions of William and Henry James; No Ordinary Time: America on the Homefront During WWII; Legacies of the Family: Domestic Revolutions in America from Colonial Times to the Present; Ireland and America. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 215 / Studies in British History (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Charles Dickens in His Time; John Locke and 18th-Century Literature; The Age of Trollope; Perspectives on Gender, Class, and Race in Victorian England. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 218 / European Intellectual History (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Balzac's Human Comedy; St. Petersburg: the Biography of a City; Selected 19th-Century Writers. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 220 / Studies in European Literature (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Humanism and Renaissance in Italy.
• ARLET 225 / History of Rhetoric (3) - (view)
  Rhetoric, most typically defined as "the art of persuasion," has had a variety of descriptions based on the describer and his or her historical context. This class will study the changing definitions of rhetoric from 5th-century B.C. Greece to contemporary American culture and why those changes took place. Students will also be asked to analyze rhetoric's relation to politics, religion, law and cultural identity from antiquity to the present day.
• ARLET 230 / Vatican Councils I & II (3) - (view)
  This course seeks to understand the Council's decrees in context: first, in relation to its predecessor to which it was integrally related, historically and otherwise; second, by considering the philosophical, theological, cultural, historical, political and social influences which brought about the convocation of both councils and the final documents. Students are guided through original texts and assisted in evaluating how the teachings of these councils have been "received" within the Catholic Church, and how they have in turn had an impact on ecumenical, interreligious and political affairs.
• ARLET 231 / The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (3) - (view)
  In this course, students first read, then see, the plays being presented by The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in their theatre on the Drew University campus.
• ARLET 232 / Topics in Archival Research (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The Irish Immigrant Experience. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 233 / Archives: History and Methods (3) - (view)
  A study of the theory and practice of religious archives, arranging, describing, evaluating, and using primary source documents in the collections of the United Methodist Archives and History Center. Focuses on preservation, micrographics, scholarly editing, and oral history. Guest lecturers. Each student develops a project based on a collection in the Archives. Signature of instructor required for registration. Same as: CHIST 735.
• ARLET 234 / Studies in Irish History and Literature (3) - (view)
  This course will trace the way in which the history and culture of Ireland have been represented in visual images from 1800 to the present day. The main representations will be films, photographs, cartoons and wall murals.The course will examine how these images have been used to reinforce nationalist and unionist, Catholic and Protestant caricatures, both within Ireland and elsewhere. it will also explore the emergence of cultural stereotyping, which has ranged from affectionate views of "paddy" (drunk, stupid, but loveable) to more sinister ones (dangerous, furtive, violent). Other visual stereotypes will also be examined, such as images of 'the west' (spiritual, mystical, unspoilt) compared with images of 'the north' (dark, unknown,threatening). Be prepared to challenge these and other stereotypes. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 240 / Studies in Church History (3) - (view)
  Topics vary and are announced prior to registration. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 245 / Topics in Economics: History of Economic Thought (3) - (view)
  Courses examine different aspects of the field of Economics.
• ARLET 301 / Contemporary Studies in the Humanities (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The Literary Response to HIV/AIDS; Modernist Literature; Humanity vs. Nature; Contemporary Poetry; Contemporary American Fiction; Living After Attack; The Importance of Being Witty. Course may be repeated. Course may be repeated. Same as: POSDOC 750.
• ARLET 304 / Studies in American Literature (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The Yearning for Paradise; Images of the Garden in American Literature; American Gothic Fiction; Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; American Inheritors of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 306 / Images of the Future (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The Image of the City. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 310 / 20th-Century British Literature (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Charles Williams; C.S. Lewis Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 313 / Psychopathology and Contemporary Life (3) - (view)
  This courses focuses on mastering the "Sea of Storms" -- on the moon or in ourselves. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 314 / Contemporary Uses of Mythology (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Journey Back to Self; Tools of the Titans: Psychodynamic Myths. Course may be repeated. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 318 / British Women Novelists (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Jane Austen; The Brontë Sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 319 / Topics in Literature: (3) - (view)
  Selected Topics in Literature that vary by genre, figure, and focus from year to year.
• ARLET 320 / LITERATURE AND MEDICINE (3) - (view)
  No description is available for this course.
• ARLET 321 / Studies in British Literature (3) - (view)
  The modernist period in literature was one which concerned itself with the problem of knowledge. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the certainty of the Victorian sages gave way to a questioning of certain systems of faith (religion, science, nationalism, imperialism, etc.) that had not only been accepted as truth, but were also crucial to the construct of British modernity. Reading a handful of novelists who have become (to some extent) definitive of British modernism, this course seeks to identify specific preoccupations of the period and how those preoccupations impact narrative voice and structure. In doing so, students explore how modernist plots remap different fields of knowledge. Texts include works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 322 / Studies in World Literature (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 323 / Studies in World Culture (3) - (view)
  Topics vary and are announced at the time of registration.
• ARLET 324 / Art of the Film (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Women in Film; A History of the United States since 1918. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 326 / Studies in Psychoanalysis (3) - (view)
  See MEDHM 500 for course description. Course may be repeated. Same as: MEDHM 500.
• ARLET 327 / Marriage and the Family (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Family Structures and Medical Ethics; Marriage and Family Counseling.
• ARLET 328 / Literature and Medicine (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Medical Narrative; Literature of Aging; Contemporary Ethical Issues in American Literature; Literary Art and the Medical Mind.
• ARLET 329 / 20th-Century America (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Themes in 20th-century American Religious History; Democracy, Liberalism, and the Problem of Propaganda.
• ARLET 330 / TOPICS IN HOLOCAUST STUDIES: (3) - (view)
  No description is available for this course. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 334 / Biomedical Ethics (3) - (view)
  This course examines the major medical care issues facing the discipline, including ethical and religious concerns involving abortion, death and dying, and human experimentation.
• ARLET 335 / Studies in Genocide (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The Armenian Genocide and the Politics of Denial; Cultures of Violence: Genocide after 1945. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 336 / Literature of the Holocaust (3) - (view)
  Topics include: In Search of Anne Frank; Art from the Ashes.
• ARLET 337 / Perspectives on the Holocaust (3) - (view)
  This course provides multiple perspectives on the Holocaust, the near extermination of European Jewry and the brutal persecution of an extended mosaic of victims. As a watershed event, the Holocaust has radically affected our fundamental conceptions of the nature of human nature, the dimensions of evil, the existence of God, the power of bearing literary witness, the moral and political outlook for the future. Readings span the disciplines of history, psychology, literature, theology, and political science, each providing its own distinctive illumination as presented by a faculty member within the discipline, who lectures and participates at appointed sessions in interdisciplinary discussions. Course requirements include papers, journal entries, and a field trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Same as HOLST 33. Course may be repeated. Same as: HOLST 33.
• ARLET 340 / Studies in Theatre and Playwriting: (3) - (view)
  Topics vary and are announced at the time of registration.
• ARLET 341 / Cultural Geography (3) - (view)
  This course examines the natural features of geographic regions in order to understand how geographic causation affects regional political systems, economic opportunities, and social institutions.
• ARLET 344 / Medical Sociology (3) - (view)
  This course examines the important themes, dominant theoretical perspectives, and main methodological approaches involved in the sociological analysis of health care problems and their treatment.
• ARLET 346 / European Cultural History (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Alexander Pushkin: Texts and Contexts; The Life and Work of Vladimir Nabokov.
• ARLET 347 / Mystical Poetry from around the World (3) - (view)
  This course examines mystical literature in verse form as it arises in different religious traditions from around the world. We ask why mystical revelations are so frequently expressed in poetry, and why many poets lean towards a mystical approach in their verse. The texts span the centuries from the Song of Solomon to Rumi, from zen poets to Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane and Seamus Heaney. Students are encouraged to develop their own definitions of mystical poetry and their own explanations for its appearance throughout the ages.
• ARLET 348 / Studies in Poets and Poetry (3) - (view)
  Topics include: "The Fatal Gift of Beauty": English Romantic Poets in Italy. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 349 / Topics in Cultural History: (3) - (view)
  Selected Topics in Cultural History that vary from year to year.
• ARLET 406 / American History Painting (3) - (view)
  This course examines 18th- through early 20th-century American history painting as it related to its social, political, and cultural contexts.
• ARLET 408 / The New York Semester on Contemporary Art (3) - (view)
  This course is an introduction to contemporary art and criticism through discussion with major artists, critics, curators, and other art professionals in New York City and on the Drew campus.
• ARLET 409 / Studies in Musicology (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Romantic Opera: Rossini to Wagner; Chamber Music. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 414 / Studies in Music History (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Life and Work of Mozart; Life and Work of Brahms; The Music of Fin de Siècle Vienna; The Great Romantic Divide: Music from Mendelssohn to Mahler; J. S. Bach: His Life and Work. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 415 / Studies in Book History (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Gutenberg to Franklin: History of the Printed Book.
• ARLET 416 / Topics in Art and Architecture (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Russian Medieval Art and architecture; Christian Renaissance art. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 417 / Studies in Drama and Theatre (3) - (view)
  No description is available for this course.
• ARLET 502 / The Politics of Gender in Medicine (3) - (view)
  This course demonstrates how the dissimilar physiology and illnesses of men and women are, nevertheless, parallel.
• ARLET 503 / The Cultural History of Medicine (3) - (view)
  This course traces the story of medicine from pre-history to the present.
• ARLET 506 / Topics in Science and Medicine (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The History of Scientific Medicine. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 507 / Medical Biography (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Giovanni Battista Morgagni.
• ARLET 509 / Great Issues in Medicine (3) - (view)
  Topics include: the future of biomedical science; illness of body, mind, and spirit; ethics and medical research.
• ARLET 511 / Medicine in Politics (3) - (view)
  This course considers the political implications of ancient and historical plagues, as well as the politics of alarming new global challenges, such as the immuno-deficient diseases, tuberculosis, Hanta virus, Ebola, and biological warfare.
• ARLET 512 / Plagues in History (3) - (view)
  This course examines the relation between the human population and the micro and macroparasites that interact with it.
• ARLET 515 / Contemporary Medicine and Culture (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Science, Medicine, and Faith. Course may be repeated. Same as: MEDHM 515 POSDOC 803.
• ARLET 517 / Topics in the History of Science: (3) - (view)
  Selected Topics in the History of Science that vary from year to year.
• ARLET 520 / Listening to the Symbolic Language of the Body (3) - (view)
  This course investigates the communication from the self to the self, often found in illnesses, ticks, hysterical conversions, muscle tightness and other ailments.
• ARLET 522 / Women and Aging (3) - (view)
  See MEDHM 505 for course description. Same as: MEDHM 505.
• ARLET 524 / Topics in Developmental Studies (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The Role of the Family in the Early Development of Object Permanence and Non-Existence. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 525 / Medicine and Ecology (3) - (view)
  See MEDHM 810 for course description. Course may be repeated. Same as: MEDHM 810.
• ARLET 526 / Topics in Sociology (3) - (view)
  Topics are announced at the time of registration and vary from semester to semester.
• ARLET 529 / Medicine and Culture (3) - (view)
  See MEDHM 529 for course description. Course may be repeated. Same as: MEDHM 529.
• ARLET 601 / Studies in Spirituality (3) - (view)
  Topics include: British Spirituality in the Time of Chaucer; British and Irish Spirituality in the Age of St. Patrick; The Life and Work of Henri J. M. Nouwen; Christian Mysticism and Contemplative Spiritual Practice. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 900 / Tutorial (3) - (view)
  No description is available for this course. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in fall and spring semesters annually.
• ARLET 901 / Tutorial (3) - (view)
  No description is available for this course. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in fall and spring semesters annually.
• ARLET 905 / Writing Practicum (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The Art of the Essay; Creative Writing; Writing to Heal; The Joy of Scholarly Writing; Fiction Writing; Memoir and Autobiography. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 910 / Painting and Drawing Practicum (3) - (view)
  Topics include: The Watercolorist's Craft; The Art of Charcoal Drawing; The Portrait and the Pen. This course is repeatable. Course may be repeated.
• ARLET 911 / Travel Course (3) - (view)
  Topics include: Lost City Found: Biblical Bethesda; Isle of the Saints: Ireland from the Celts to the Normans.
• ARLET 950 / Travel Course: West Africa (3) - (view)
  No description is available for this course.
• ARLET 990 / M.Litt. Thesis (3) - (view)
  No description is available for this course.
• ARLET 999 / D.Litt. Dissertation (9) - (view)
  No description is available for this course.

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