CLA 170 WHAT IS BEAUTY?
This new course challenges students and faculty to meet at the intersection of past and present, and to bring their own disciplinary knowledge to bear on the evidence from different cultures and historical periods. We will examine a wide range of media from primary sources and scholarship in several fields to works of visual art, architecture, music, theatre, and dance. Creatively bringing together classics, neuroscience, and other fields, this course offers a space for students and faculty to to think and learn about the past, particularly for the ways in which it is intimately connected to the present and to questions of timeless, ubiquitous relevance.