UWM Undergraduate Catalog 2009-2010
College of Letters and Science
Study of Liberal Arts Through Great Books
David Mulroy, Professor of Classics, Coordinator
The Certificate Program in the Study of Liberal Arts Through Great Books is designed to provide guidance to students seeking a rigorous liberal arts education. It provides an incentive for such students to select courses that traditionally compose the nucleus of a liberal arts education and still are considered especially valuable by a large number of faculty members, i.e., courses in foreign language, mathematics, the history of Western civilization, and the great books (original works widely regarded to be of fundamental importance within various disciplines).
Any student in good standing at UWM is eligible to participate in the program. To earn the certificate, students must fulfill the requirements listed below with an average GPA of 2.75 or better. At least half of the courses must be completed in residence at UWM. Certificate requirements are as follows:
a. 4 credits in courses at the 200 level or above offered by the Department of Mathematical Sciences;
b. two courses (at least 6 credits) in a single foreign or Native American language (not including literature in translation) at the 200 level or above; this requirement may be fulfilled by four years of a single foreign language in high school;
c. either an additional 3 credits in mathematics at the 200 level or above or an additional 6 credits of foreign language at the 300 level or above;
d. Hist 101 and 102 (Western Civilization); and
e. 15 credits in courses designated by the program coordinator as great books courses.
Great books courses offered regularly at UWM include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Anthro 460 |
Anthropological Theory |
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Classic 180 |
Readings in Greek and Roman Literature: (Subtitle) |
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Classic 201 |
Introduction to Greek Life and Literature |
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Classic 202 |
Introduction to Roman Life and Literature |
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Classic 301 |
The Life and Literature of Classical Athens: Herodotus and Dramatists |
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Classic 302 |
War and Politics in Ancient Greece |
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Classic 303 |
The Life and Literature of the Roman Empire |
| Classic 304 | The Graeco-Roman World: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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Commun 435 |
Rhetoric in Western Thought |
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Commun 436 |
Recent Rhetorical Theory |
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CompLit 207 |
World Literature in Translation |
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CompLit 208 |
World Literature in Translation |
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CompLit 230 |
Literature and Society: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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CompLit 309 |
Great Works of Modern Literature: (Subtitle) |
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CompLit 350 |
Topics in Comparative Literature: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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CompLit 444 |
Myths, Legends, and Poems of the Celts |
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Econ 405 |
Breakthroughs and Debates in Economic Thought |
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English 247 |
Literature and Human Experience: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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English 301 |
Survey of English Literature: Beginnings to 1500 |
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English 302 |
Survey of English Literature: 1500-1660 |
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English 303 |
Survey of English Literature: 1660-1798 |
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English 304 |
Survey of English Literature: 1798-1900 |
| English 305 | Survey of English Literature: 1900 to the Present |
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English 306 |
Survey of Irish Literature |
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English 307 |
Survey of American Literature to 1865 |
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English 308 |
Survey of American Literature: 1865-1965 |
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English 342 |
Comedy: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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English 343 |
Tragedy: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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English 360 |
The Art of Poetry: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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English 451 |
Chaucer |
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English 452 |
Shakespeare |
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English 454 |
Milton |
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English 458 |
Writers in English Literature, 1798-1900: (Subtitle) |
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English 460 |
Writers in American Literature, 1500-1900: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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English 461 |
Writers in American Literature, 1900 to the Present: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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English 465 |
Women Writers: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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English 530 |
Studies in Shakespeare: (Subtitle) |
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English 628 |
Seminar in Literature by Women: ("Women Writers of the Eighteenth Century" subtitle) |
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English 685 |
Honors Seminar: ("Reading Chaucer" subtitle) |
| French 510 (665) | Seminar on Masterpieces of Literature Written in French: (Subtitle) |
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Hebr St 231 |
Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible |
| Hebr St 235 | The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible |
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History 215 |
History of Capitalism |
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History 332 |
The History of Science Since Newton |
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Honors 200 |
Honors Seminar: The Shaping of the Modern Mind - ("Ovid and Mythic Imagination" subtitle) |
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Honors 680 |
Honors Seminar in the Humanities: (with appropriate subtitle) |
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Italian 257 |
Italian Culture and Civilization: Medieval and Renaissance |
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Italian 333 |
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Translation |
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Latin 502 |
Readings in Latin Poetry: ("Ovid" subtitle) |
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L&S HU 101 |
Great Books Seminar: (Subtitle) |
| Philos 272 | Philosophical Classics: (Subtitle) |
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Philos 349 |
Great Moral Philosophers |
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Philos 430 |
History of Ancient Philosophy |
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Philos 475 |
Special Topics in Indian Religious Thought: ("The Vedanta and Bhagavad-Gita" subtitle) |
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Poli Sci 381 |
The Development of Western Political Thought |
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Russian 235 |
Survey of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Translation |
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Russian 236 |
Survey of Twentieth-Century Russian Literature in Translation |
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Sociol 375 |
History of Sociological Theory |
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