Culture and Values

Lois Fichner-Rathus is a professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History of The College of New Jersey. She holds a combined undergraduate degree in fine arts and art history, an M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and a Ph.D. in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her areas of specialization include contemporary art, feminist art history and criticism and modern art and architecture as well as the theory and foundations of art and design. Dr. Fichner-Rathus is also the author of the Cengage Learning textbooks, UNDERSTANDING ART and FOUNDATIONS OF ART AND DESIGN. She teaches study-abroad programs in Paris, Rome, Spain and Cuba and resides in New York. A native of England, John J. Reich was trained as a classical archaeologist and did both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Manchester. He is an authority on Minoan civilization, pre-Roman Italy, and music. Professor Reich is associated with the Syracuse University study program in Florence, Italy. He lectures frequently in Europe and the United States on history, art, and the humanities and is the author of many scholarly articles and several books, including ITALY BEFORE ROME (1979). Lawrence S. Cunningham is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology (Emeritus) at the University of Notre Dame. The author or editor of over 25 books and hundreds of essays and reviews, his books reflect his interest in the history of Christian spirituality, hagiography, the intersection of theology and culture, as well as the relationship of contemplation and action. Professor Cunningham is the recipient of three honorary doctorates and the winner of Notre Dame's Presidential Award for service to academy and church (2002) and the Christus Magister award from the University of Portland in 2011 for distinguished scholarship and teaching. He has served as a visiting lecturer in this country and in Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

1. Beginnings.
2. The Rise of Greece.
3. Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period.
4. Rome.
5. Early Civilizations of South Asia, China, and Japan
6. The Rise of the Biblical Tradition.
7. Early Christianity: Ravenna and Byzantium.
8. The Islamic World.
9. The Rise of Medieval Culture.
10. The High Middle Ages.
11. The Fourteenth Century: A Time of Transition.
12. The Fifteenth Century.
13. The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy.
14. The High Renaissance in Northern Europe and Spain.
15. The Seventeenth Century.
16. Cultural Centers of the Americas.
17. South Asia, China, and Japan: From Medieval to Modern Times.
18. Africa.
19. The Eighteenth Century.
20. Europe and America: 1800 to 1870.
21. Toward the Modern Era: 1870 to 1914.
22. The World at War: 1914 to 1945.
23. The Contemporary Contour.