IN 365 - Global Cities: Athens

Credits: 4
This course offers an in-depth examination of Athens: Citizens and Citizenry. Athens is a‬ diverse and vibrant public art and culture city, and also the place‬ that gave birth to the idea of the polis, the root of the word politics.‬ The polis (the city), understood by the Greeks as community, that is, the‬ people, not only its buildings, has been the place where ideas of identity and‬ inclusion, social justice and individual responsibilities have been developed‬ through ideas and experiences of the local and global. From ancient Athens,‬ when citizens were only those born there, yet whose most influential‬‭ thinkers were its then non-citizens (e.g. Aristotle, Herodotus, Homer), to‬ current Greece, the gateway to Europe for refugees, this class helps‬ students rethink their idea of community.‬

Course Restrictions: Junior or Senior standing
Liberal Arts Perspective(s): Interdisciplinary
Note(s): Global Pathways students only