The Christian Tradition

Faculty members from Early Christian Studies, English, Greek and Latin, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Semitics, and Theology and Religious Studies teach in this interdisciplinary four-semester sequence. The sequence presents major topics and themes in the history of Christian culture from its origins in late antiquity to the present.

Core Courses

HSHU 101 Jesus to Muhammad: The Early Christians in the Mediterranean World
HSHU 102 Charlemagne to Chaucer: Christian Life in the Middle Ages
HSHU 203 The Age of Discovery
HSHU 204 Christian Culture in a Secular Age

An Aristotelian Studium

Faculty members in the School of Philosophy present this four-semester sequence. The Studium focuses on the original Aristotelian texts, which offer a coherent system of knowledge and provide tools for inquiry still useful in the present day.

The readings in Aristotle are supplemented with works by philosophers responding to his "great questions."

Core Courses

HSPH 101 The Desire to Know
HSPH 102 Human Action and Government
HSPH 203 Nature and Human Nature
HSPH 204 Ultimate Questions