Director: Dr. Teresa Rupp (History)

This sequence of four courses in the core curriculum, to be taken in the first and second year, provides students with a grounding in the Western tradition from its origins in the ancient and medieval eras through the present day. Familiarity with the Western tradition gained in these four courses lays the foundation for later study of philosophy, theology, American Experience and non-Western cultures. The four courses are distributed as follows:

• CVOR 101, Origins of the West, taken in the fall of the first year
• CVHI 102 History of the West: Renaissance to Revolutions, and either CVEN 102  Literature of the West: Renaissance to Revolutions or CVFA 102 Arts of the West: Renaissance to Revolutions, taken concurrently in the spring of the first year
• CV__ 201, West in the Modern World, taken in the fall or spring of the second year