Drew > Caspersen School of Graduate Studies

Sample Course Offerings and Areas of Concentration

A recent sampling of course offerings include:

Series 100: Foundations of Civilization
St. Augustine's City of God
Revolutions in Prehistory: The Social Impact of Technological Development
Classical Roots, Modern Revisions; Eclectic Electra
The Medieval Mind: Dante and his World
The Evolution of the Empire in the Ancient World

Series 200: The Modern Era
The Search for the Good Community
The Great War: Its Impact on Culture and Politics
Shakespeare's Real Men
History Imagined: Literature Opens the Annals
Irish Literary Renaissance

Series 300: Contemporary Studies
The Yearning for Paradise: Images of the Garden in American Literature
Contemporary American Fiction
Theatre and the Holocaust: Resistance, Response, Remembrance
Victorian Landscapes: Writers and Artists
American Myths & Folktales: Myths of Origin and Sources of National and Transnational Identity

Series 400: History of Art and Music
Choral Music
The Botany of Healing
Bach and the Expression of Faith
Renaissance and Anti-Renaissance
History of Russian Art and Culture, 1840-2000

Series 500: History and Philosophy of Science:
The History of Scientific Medicine
Plagues in History
Cultural History of Medicine
One Hundred Years of Einstein: More or Less

Series 600: Studies in Spirituality
The Life and Work of Thomas Merton
Sanitary Sanctity and Sanity: Physical, Spiritual and Mental Dimensions of Wellness and Illness
Eastern Christianity
Readings in the Theology of the Body

Series 900: Writing Practicum
Poetry Workshop
Writing to Heal
Travel Writing
The Joy of Scholarly Writing

To learn more about our course offerings, contact the Office of Graduate Admissions for a current Arts and Letters Course Offering brochure.