HUM 102 — Rome to the Renaissance
The Canon · 2 units · Required core — everyone takes it
The Two Registers
- Catalog register: Roman, medieval, and Renaissance texts — Aurelius, Augustine, Dante, Machiavelli, da Vinci’s notebooks.
- Teaching frame: Aurelius + Dogtown and Z-Boys; da Vinci’s notebooks as the founding model of the artist-engineer.
Outcomes Served
- Judgment
- Articulation
- Breadth of Mind
What This Course Is About
From the Stoic emperor to the workshop of Verrocchio — the long arc that ends in the bottega, where art and engineering were one job. Da Vinci’s notebooks are the founding documents of this institution’s premise.
The Made Thing
A made response defended in seminar.
The Daily Path
One session per course day — each one designed to look easy and pull you in. This course is at syllabus stage — the daily path is not yet written, so it is not yet live.
- Day 01 — to be written
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- Day 15 — to be written
Every course here is built to one standard: it ends in a made thing you can show, and it ships day by day.