Tackling the Russian Soul

Tackling the Russian Soul

Sorry! This course has sold out. Click here to join the course waitlist This course explores the nuances and key features of the Russian cultural-societal-historical experience often called “the Russian Soul.” Caught between East and West, Asia and Europe, and...
James Joyce’s Ulysses

James Joyce’s Ulysses

Please Note: Summer 2020 Course Registration Opens Online on Monday, May 11th at 8AM This seminar will study the text of Joyce’s Ulysses, one of the most technically accomplished novels. Style will therefore be an important focus. Each chapter alludes to a...
Outsiders, Outliers, and Monsters in Renaissance Literature

Outsiders, Outliers, and Monsters in Renaissance Literature

NEW! HSP Deep Dive Seminar The social, economic, religious, and political instability of the Renaissance informed some of the most brilliantly anxious literature in the history of England. As some authors strained to construct coherent identities, hierarchies, and...
Language and Identity

Language and Identity

Please Note: Summer 2020 Course Registration Opens Online on Monday, May 11th at 8AM This course explores the relationship between language and identity–how individual and group identities interact with language use. Language can show belonging/not belonging to...
Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung

The Ring cycle is Wagner’s triumphant realization of the ideal he called the “total art work,” combining music and drama with poetry, dance, painting, and even architecture. But it’s not just formal spectacle. The plot extends from the beginning of...
The Supreme Court’s Great Debates

The Supreme Court’s Great Debates

Please Note: This is an evening course. Sorry! This course has sold out. Click here to join the course waitlist Alexander Hamilton wrote that the federal courts “will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least...
News in a Digital Age

News in a Digital Age

Please Note: Summer 2020 Course Registration Opens Online on Monday, May 11th at 8AM Never before has the nature of news changed so quickly and dramatically than now, driven by a crumbling economic model, “#FakeNews” attacks from government leaders, and declining...
Climate Change: Earth, Sea, and Sky

Climate Change: Earth, Sea, and Sky

This course was originally scheduled for Spring 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19 Have you ever watched in wonder at our gorgeous earth, sea, and sky interacting to provide us with the air we breathe, water we drink, and food we eat? Come hear UA professors of...
Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement

Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement

Please Note: Summer 2020 Course Registration Opens Online on Monday, May 11th at 8AM Rhythm and blues music emerged as a genre in the late 1940s, coinciding with the rise of multiple civil rights movements in the United States. This course explores culture and...
Jesus, the Bible, and the Invention of Christianity

Jesus, the Bible, and the Invention of Christianity

Please Note: Summer 2020 Course Registration Opens Online on Monday, May 11th at 8AM The Christian religion is inextricably bound up with contemporary culture not only in America but also around the globe. Yet, even after centuries of scholarly inquiry, numerous...
Dante’s Paradiso

Dante’s Paradiso

Please Note: Summer 2020 Course Registration Opens Online on Monday, May 11th at 8AM This class deals with the climax of Dante’s Divine Comedy. While Inferno depicts sin and evil, and Purgatorio portrays redemption, Paradiso illustrates the possibility of...
The Supreme Court’s Role in a Polarized Society

The Supreme Court’s Role in a Polarized Society

Online Registration Opens: Monday, October 12, 2020 at 8 AM (AZ Time) A Review of the 2019-2020 Term & Preview of the 2020-2021 Term The Supreme Court’s last term dealt with issues of abortion, Second Amendment, sex discrimination, religion, and the weight to be...
Television and U.S. Culture

Television and U.S. Culture

Kill your television. TV is furniture. Film and theater are art. These are the vastly different and competing views on the value of television and its place in society today. When television began, it was on 8-in black-and-white sets. Today it arrives in color and...
German-Jewish Writers from the 1800s to the Present

German-Jewish Writers from the 1800s to the Present

This course explores German-Jewish texts starting in the eighteenth century and continuing until the present day. It examines how issues of identity are addressed by the writers, as well as how these writers are viewed by the general (largely non-Jewish) population....
The Plays of August Wilson

The Plays of August Wilson

August Wilson left as his legacy a ten-play cycle that documents each decade of the 20th century in terms of the African American experience. In his plays Wilson adeptly explores key historical moments in the so-called “American Century.” The course begins with Gem of...
Sacred Places

Sacred Places

Religion is often viewed as among the most intangible aspects of culture. Yet, from cathedrals to pyramids, some of the largest and longest-lasting monuments of past societies are religious. Today people throughout the world continue to worship in, make pilgrimages...
Introduction to Mexican American Literature

Introduction to Mexican American Literature

More than half of the 50 million Latinas and Latinos in the US today are of Mexican descent. Yet their culture and literature are relatively unknown. This course surveys their rich literary tradition from the mid-19th century, first tracing its development through the...
From the Gods to the God Within

From the Gods to the God Within

THIS COURSE WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED IN THE SPRING BUT WAS POSTPONED TO SUMMER 2021 In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens, the first trial in Western history to indict, convict, and condemn to death someone for impiety. In Plato’s Apology Socrates says that the...