Courses

An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.