Arts For Everyone

Courses for Winter 2025!

With Arts for Everyone, the Faculty 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 Arts For Everyone page on Brightspace.

Coming up in Winter 2025:  

• The Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome 
  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 
• Monsters
  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 Arts For Everyone on Brightspace. 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.