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Brian W. Ogilvie: Teaching interests and courses

Teaching interests

My teaching interests are broad, and I offer a wide range of courses and independent studies in the following areas: Renaissance and early modern Europe; history of science, especially natural history and biology; humanism, scholarship, and the classical tradition; historiography and philosophy of history; and history of religions.

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Courses I have taught recently and will teach at UMass

Note: the titles of these courses have varied from time to time. I have posted syllabi for previous versions of the courses. This table indicates when I intend to next teach these courses, but my plans may change.

Course	Level	Last taught	Will teach in
First Year Seminar: People and Insects	freshman	Fall 2010	?
Western Thought to 1600	survey	Spring 2007	Spring 2015?
Introduction to World Religions	survey	Fall 2009	Fall 2013
Western Science and Technology I	survey	Fall 2012	Fall 2014?
Western Science and Technology II	survey	Spring 2008	Spring 2013
Renaissance and Reformation Europe	upper-level	Fall 2012	Spring 2014
Witchcraft, Magic, and Science (honors)	upper-level	Spring 2003	Spring 2013
Junior Writing Seminar (topic varies)	junior	Spring 2004	Fall 2013
Topics in Early Modern European History	graduate	Spring 2011	Fall 2014?
The Scientific Revolution	graduate	Spring 2006	Fall 2014?

Courses I have taught earlier at UMass Amherst

European Witchcraft in Comparative Perspective (last taught Spring 2001)
Italian Renaissance* (last taught Fall 2002)
Northern Renaissance and Reformation* (last taught Spring 2002)
GRAD: European Historiography to the Enlightenment (last taught Fall 2002)
GRAD: Introduction to History (last taught Fall 2007)

*Note: These two courses have been combined into one, Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

Courses taught at the University of Chicago

HiPSS 191, Winter 1994: Humanism and Science, 1450-1600
History 199, Autumn 1994-Winter 1995: B.A. Essay Seminar

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