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A survey of Western thought from the earliest Greek thinkers through the Renaissance, with emphasis upon the rise of a spirit of free inquiry, the growth of humanism and secularism, and debates between science and religion, tradition and innovation. Considered in their social contexts are the pre-Socratics, the Sophists, Plato and Aristotle, Stoics and Epicureans, early Christians, and representatives of medieval scholasticism and Renaissance humanism.

BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, EMCL: Major-Classical Stu Elective, MCLA: Major-Classical Studies, MITA: Major-Italian, NCLA: Minor-Classical Studies, ENMS: Minor-Medieval Study Elective, NMES: Minor-Medieval Studies, NWES: Minor-Western Heritage