Western Cultural Tradition II
Examines late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Modernism through literature, visual arts, music, architecture, and film.
The second course in a two-course sequence in the history of ideas. This interdisciplinary course traces a number of developments that inform “Modernism” through examination of literature, painting, music, architecture, and film. Through this course students will become familiar with some of the major writers, artists, and ideas of the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Required field trip. Two hours in the second semester.