Fall 2025

What is known as the Renaissance was a period of intense cultural transformation, and it is a history whose legacy we have inherited. From the construction of the liberal arts to the Doctrine of Discovery (only rejected by the Vatican in 2023), we live...

An introduction to major works of art and architecture from around the world, co-taught by a team of six HAA professors, two of whom will co-lead the course. Each week consists of one 75-minute lecture by a faculty member, 60-minute looking labs in the...

Objects are essential primary sources for the study of the past. They are imbued with tales of their makers, of societies in which they took shape, of customs and beliefs that lent them meaning, and of routes that facilitated their dissemination. In this...

This class invites you to practice a new kind of plant-consciousness. Our guides will be contemporary artists and thinkers who are encouraging new relationships between human and vegetal life, or recalling very old ones. Suddenly, we have plant...

How can one small, remote country change the way we think about the culture of the world? Being wedged between superpowers might seem like a recipe for ethnic assimilation and cultural conformity. Yet what if it made you stronger? In the case of Armenia...