HST 339 - World Renaissance and Reformation

4 credits
Explores the remarkable development in European arts, architecture, scholarship and technology known as the Renaissance as a much broader global encounter between peoples and ideas. Examines the battles over religion in Europe known as the Reformation in a much wider context including the colonial world. Reveals how the Renaissance and Reformation were much more than European phenomena each unfolding in a time of commerce and intellectual exchange that linked educated European elites both to Mediterranean antiquity and to a wider world of merchants, writers, and rulers from other literate civilizations. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above or HST 110.
Graded (A-F) only