History of Ideas and Creativity I

Explore the origins of free thought and human creativity through an intellectual journey from classical antiquity to major moments of cultural progress. This course examines how some of history’s most influential ideas emerged, focusing on the golden ages of Greece and Rome, where philosophy, science, art, politics, and medicine flourished. You will analyze how these civilizations broke from myth, practiced early democracy, and laid the foundations of critical and rational thought, while reflecting on the forces that can weaken or destroy a society.