HIST 5560 - The Italian Renaissance

Explores Italian urban life and culture, the courtly world of political elites, education reform and Humanism, religious expression and the Papal court, scientific and medical discovery, art and expressions of power in Italy, 1350-1550. It also examines the darker side of Renaissance culture - violence, sexual deviance, and social repression.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Oral presentations are clear and comprehensive.
Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Europe.
Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.
Understand that problems and issues are often only successfully approached from a variety of perspectives.