Significant aspects of life get institutionalized, most notably in the religious, political, economic, and social realms. Institutions is a course that focuses on the creation and development of an institution at the core of the Western tradition. While the temporal focus must be in the ‘medieval’ period (i.e.; between the passing of the ancient world with the fall of Rome and the advent of the Enlightenment), the course also draws explicit and extended connections between the medieval period and the modern world.
For transfer students only.