Renaissance to Revolution: The Individual and the World

Associate Professor Carmela Mattza Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures

HNRS 2406 is an interdisciplinary course that explores European conceptions of the individual and the world during the eventful period from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. Classes alternate between lectures and seminars, aiming to uncover the historical and philosophical “back story” of the texts studied in relation to debates that are shaping life in our time.