His 211 Western Civilization: Ancient to 1492. The beginning of a four-semester sequence in Western Civilization, this course is an introduction to the history of the Mediterranean world and Europe from ancient times to the end of the Middle Ages, with particular attention given to classical Greece and Rome and the High Middle Ages. The purpose of the Western Civilization sequence is to provide students of history and the liberal arts with a solid foundation in the principal ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Western civilization. It seeks to promote an understanding of historical context and perspective and to encourage the skills essential to historical inquiry, including the capacity to define historical questions, analyze primary documents, evaluate alternative interpretations, develop coherent arguments, and write clearly and effectively. The course is organized in chronological sequence, with emphasis given to the close relationship between economic, social, political, religious, and intellectual developments of the same immediate historical period. Instructor: Frank Luttmer

His 234 Studies in American Culture: "Mood Noir." In this course we will study the "noir" mood which figured prominently in many American books and Films from the 1920's to the 1950's. Noir heroes and heroines, often detectives or criminals living on the wrong side of the law, inhabited a dark, lonely, and morally ambiguous urban landscape. Noir was America's contribution to Existentialism. We will read books by Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich and H.P. Lovecraft. We will watch films like TOUCH OF EVIL, DOUBLE INDEMNITY and THE MALTESE FALCON. What will we be looking for in this class? - the stuff that dreams are made of. Instructor: Dan Murphy

His 346 The Reformation. This seminar is designed to introduce students of the liberal arts to the sources and historiography of the European Reformation. It treats the Reformation both as a significant social and political revolution and as a defining moment in the history of Christian theology. Major themes include: late Medieval Christendom and the origins of the Reformation; the Reformation and Renaissance humanism; Martin Luther and the Lutheran Reformation; John Calvin and the Reformed Church; the Radical Reformation; the Reformation and the family; and the Catholic Reformation. In addition to increasing your understanding of the Reformation, the course is designed to strengthen your skills of historical analysis and interpretation and improve your research and writing skills. Instructor: Frank Luttmer

His 366 Sudies in Historiography: The Ancient Historians. In this course we will examine the ancient Greek and Roman historians who founded the discipline of history in the West. We will discuss readings from the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Caesar, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius and Plutarch. These historians produced some of the greatest books in Western literature, combining literary elegance with high moral purpose. They also knew how to tell good stories. We will revel in war, murder, intrigue and sex. This course is not for the faint-hearted.