This team-taught, interdisciplinary course focuses on the literature, history and art of particular historical periods: Classical Greece, Byzantium, the Renaissance, and Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe. Each period is studied through the great works that it produced and the people who produced them. These civilizations are studied with concern for the great themes that surface repeatedly. Students will develop their critical thinking skills through a variety of written assignments, oral presentations and creative projects. Students may choose to take the course for one or both years of the two-year cycle and may choose to earn either English or Social Studies credit. A unique feature of the course is the opportunity for extensive field study. There are several required field study trips within Greece, and one optional trip each year to either France or Italy.