Student Projects: 

Athens | Timeline | Gallery "Plato and Architecture in Athens" | "Alciabiades Athenian Traitor"| "Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy" |"Athenian Democracy" 

Barcelona | Timeline | Galleries "Modernist Artwork in Barcelona" and "Casa Batllo"  | "Catalan Separatism" | "Modernism and Catalonia"| "Catalon and Barcelona Art and Culture"| "Metaphor of St. Jordi"

Berlin |Timeline | Galleries "Construction of the Wall"  "The Wall from Different Angles" and "Destruction of the Wall" | "The Renovation of the Berlin Wall" | "Berlin in the Eyes of the People" | "The Wall Falls"

Paris | Timeline | Gallery "Significant Cathedrals in Paris" | "Saint-Chapelle and French Government" | "Notre Dame: For the People" |"Sacre Coeur: The Heart of the City"

Class Anthology

“A city is, properly speaking, more poetic even than a countryside, for while Nature a chaos of unconscious forces, a city is a chaos of conscious ones. . . “ --G.K. Chesterton, "A Defense of Detective Stories"

As Chesterton has observed, the city has a poetry of its own and showcases human history in a way that allows physical contact with the past.  This course endeavors to use the city to demonstrate how literature, history, and art come together to reveal individual human lives as well as larger historical moments.  History, art, and literature are inspired and shaped by concrete locations and this course will use those locations to demonstrate a spatial view of these disciplines, demonstrating the distinction between the past and its reconstruction as history.  The first semester will focus on select cities in Europe and North America (e.g. London and Monterrey, Mexico); the second semester will focus on cities in Africa, Asia, and South America (e.g.  Lagos,  Nagasaki, Lima, Cairo).  The final assessment will be a multimedia project in which students collaborate in groups to explore a city of their choosing.