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HONORS SEMINAR: THE ARTS OF EGYPT AND NORTH AFRICA - FROM THE ANCIENTS THROUGH EARLY CHRISTIANS
This interdisciplinary course will deal with the visual culture, religions, death and other rituals, and cosmologoies of the Ancient Egyptians through the Early Christians of Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Sinai peninsula. The questions and the fields that this course will prove will necessitate sophisticated research, collaborative work, and critical analysis. Students will conduct discussions of a pre-arranged image or series of images of their choice and will work in learning groups, in order to involve them in the conversation and to build an interactive scholarly community. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Students must be honors program participants at sophomore or higher class standing.