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Courses for Winter 2025!

With Arts for Everyone, the É«»¨Ìà of Arts at Saint Mary’s University is opening our doors to the community. Members of the public are invited to attend a selection of courses on a drop-in basis. For all current offerings, visit our .

Coming up in Winter 2025:  

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  Mondays and Wednesdays, starting January 8
  10–11:15 a.m. in Burke Theatre B (B on campus map)
  Instructor: Dr. Sveva Savelli of the Department of Languages and Cultures 
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  Wednesdays, starting January 8; weekly class topics are listed below
  1–3:30 p.m. in Loyola 275 (LA on campus map)
  Instructor: Dr. Lindsay Macumber of the Department for the Study of Religion

For course descriptions, instructor bios and more information, visit . If you'd like to take a course and engage with the material more deeply, you can choose to register via Brightspace and complete a suite of assignments. Those who register and do the assignments can also earn a digital badge to showcase their accomplishment. 

Arts courses are for everyone – come join us!

Weekly course topics for Winter 2025

MONSTERS

• January 8 — The Monstrous Classroom / Course Intro
• January 15 — Religion, Horror, and the Uncanny 
• January 22 — Monster Theory
• January 29 — Constructing the Monstrous Other
• February 5 — The Monstrous Feminine
• February 12 — Queer for Fear
• February 17-21 — WINTER BREAK
• February 26 — Horror Noire 
• March 5 — Film Panel Presentations 
• March 12 — Serial Killers and Mass Murderers 
• March 19 — Monstrum
• March 26 — Monster Workshop 
• April 2 — Monster Fair 

THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF GREECE AND ROME 

• Week 1; January 8 — Introduction
• Week 2; Jan. 13 & 15 — Coastal Civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean: Aegean Civilizations
• Week 3; Jan. 20 & 22
  • Coastal Civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean: The Iron Age in the Eastern Mediterranean: Iron and Iron Age; The Phoenicians
  • Iron Age Empires
• Week 4; Jan. 27 & 29 — Greece in the Dark and Archaic Ages
• Week 5; Feb. 3 & 5
  • Greece in the Dark and Archaic Ages
  • Sparta, Athens and the Classical Age: The Spartan Way; The Rise of Athens; The Greeks and Persia
• Week 6; Feb. 10 & 12 — Sparta, Athens, and the Classical Age: The Golden Age of Athens; The Peloponnesian War
• February 17-21 — WINTER BREAK
• Week 7; Feb. 24 & 26  — Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
• Week 8; March 3 & 5 — The Rise of Rome
• Week 9; March 10 & 12 — The Roman Republic
• Week 10; March 17 & 19 — Crisis, Recovery, and the Creation of the Principate
• Week 11; March 24 & 26
  • Crisis, Recovery, and the Creation of the Principate
  • The Roman Peace
• Week 12; March 31 & April 2
  • The Roman Peace
  • Crisis, recovery, and the Creation of the Late Roman Empire: Diocletian, Constantine, and the late Roman Empire
• Week 13; April 7 & 9
  • The Christian Empire and The Late Roman World
  • The Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire

Arts for Everyone launched in September with these Fall 2024 courses, which have now concluded: 

• Ancient Literature with Dr. Luke Hathaway
• Writing for Performance with Dr. Luke Hathaway
• Beckett and the Idea of Zionism with Dr. Seán Kennedy 

Watch this space for more courses in Fall 2025.