Description
•Core Seminar III: Modern
This course covers a number of important primary sources, all of them written by key authors whose work was done mainly in the 16th through 19th centuries in a variety of humanistic and scientific fields. Representative authors may include such figures as Francis Bacon, Emily Brontë, Charles Darwin, René Descartes, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglas, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Galileo, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Madame de Lafayette, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, though assignments may vary slightly from year to year. The goal of the course is to empower students to grapple directly with accessible presentations by leading historical figures.