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GENTRAIN 8/408: LATE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION - 1520-1600
February 2, 4, 9, 11
The Church in turmoil and revolt: Martin Luther and Leo X and the beginnings of the European wars of religion. The flowering of Renaissance culture in England, Spain, and Italy in history and the arts: Michelangelo, Holbein, Palestrina, Rabelais, Cervantes, and Shakespeare.
GENTRAIN 9/409: FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN WORLD - 1600-1690
February 16, 18, 23, 25
The age of religious wars. Louis XIV and Versailles. The beginning of modern philosophy with Hobbes and Descartes, modern painting with Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, and modern literature with the work of the metaphysical poets and John Milton.
GENTRAIN 10/410: AGE OF REASON - 1690-1775
March 2, 4, 9, 11
Neoclassicism and the "Smile of Reason." Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Swift, Voltaire, Johnson. The triumph of Whiggism, the Bourgeoisie, and the Evangelical Movement in English politics and the American Revolution. The establishment of the basis of the neoclassical style in government-sponsored academies in France.
GENTRAIN 11/411: REACTION AND REVOLUTION - 1775-1815
March 16, 18, 23, 25
The age of the French Revolution and its Napoleonic aftermath; the Romantic Movement in art, literature, and music, including the massive figures of Rousseau, Kant, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Goya.
GENTRAIN 12/412: AGE OF PROGRESS - 1815-1870
April 6, 8, 13, 15
The Industrial Revolution and the coming of the railroads. Beethoven and romanticism in music. Constable, Turner and Delacroix in art. The unification of Germany and Italy and the beginnings of realism in literature with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
GENTRAIN 13/413: END OF INNOCENCE - 1879-1918
April 20, 22, 27, 29
World War I and the age of "isms": impressionism, expression cubism, fauvism, Marxism, and Freudianism. The great Russian realists and the Russian Revolution. Nietzsche, the beginnings of psychological realism in literature, and the rise of stylism and art-for-art’s sake.
GENTRAIN 14/414: BETWEEN WORLD WARS - 1918-1945
May 4, 6, 11, 13
The Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age; the Great Depression; the rise of Communism, Stalinism, and fascism in Italy and Germany; the age of expatriates and Bohemians. James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
GENTRAIN 15/415: WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT - 1945-Present
May 18, 20, 25, 27
Wars and Cold Wars. Existentialism, absurdism, and post-modernism. Vietnam, social protest, and the electronic revolutions. The collapse of the Communist Bloc and the emerging international economy.
