SIS Course Version

A specific version of a SIS course at a particular semester for a particular year.

Attributes

Attribute Name	Type	Required	Default	Ref	Comments
areas	String	true
term	String	true
school	String	true
department	String		Unspecified
credits	Number	true
wi	Boolean	true
bio	String
level	String
tags	String[]
preReq	Array
coReq	Array
restrictions	Array

Example

{
  department: "AS History of Art",
  tags: ["HART-MED"],
  preReq: [],
  coReq: [],
  restrictions: [{ RestrictionName: "New Freshmen", Description: "" }],
  _id: { $oid: "61d123ac0a0c831b9af9aba6" },
  areas: "H",
  term: "Fall 2018",
  school: "Krieger School of Arts and Sciences",
  credits: 3,
  wi: false,
  level: "Lower Level Undergraduate",
  bio: "This course is about the visual representation of built environments and geographical locations during the Middle Ages: architectural sites, cities, regions of the world, and the world itself. It surveys the full range of medieval modes of mapping, including itineraria (road maps), T-O maps, mappaemundi, and portolan charts; and explores dynamic changes in the conventions for depicting cityscapes and urban topography, from Roman antiquity to ca. 1500. In investigating this material, we will pay special attention to scientific and allegorical representations of places foreign to the culture within which they were made––an illuminated depiction of Venice from late medieval Paris; the fresco with representations of six world rulers at Qasr Amra in Jordan. Students will consider in what ways these images help us to understand pre-modern conceptualizations of geographical space, distance, ethnicity, and otherness. And to what extent did these images help shape these notions? Texts from the period, especially guidebooks and accounts written by medieval travelers, will help guide our discussion. The geographical focus of the course is Europe and the Mediterranean basin, but will include comparisons with the art of East Asia, Persia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The course includes a group visit to the Walters Art Museum.",
},