040.105

ELEMENTARY ANCIENT GREEK (4) Renberg deBrauw    Year course; must complete 040.106 in order to receive credit.   Cannot be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory  This course provides a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the study of ancient Greek. During the first semester, focus is on morphology and vocabulary; emphasis in the second semester is on syntax and reading.

Sec. 01

MTW 10,

plus1 hour-TBA

040.107

ELEMENTARY LATIN (3.5)  Webber / Perriello  
Year course; must complete 040.108 in order to receive credit.   Cannot be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory  This course provides a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the study of Latin for new students as well as a systematic review for those students with a background in Latin. Emphasis during the first semester is on morphology and vocabulary; during the second semester, the focus is on syntax and reading.

Sec. 01

02

MTW 9

MTW 10

040.109 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN GREEK (4) Staff      For students with no knowledge of modern Greek.  Basic oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing.  Language instruction supplemented by reading simple literary passages and other texts.  A fourth hour for conversation and laboratory will be scheduled at a mutually agreeable time. Course canceled 04/26/05

Sec. 01

MTW 11

plus 1 hour-TBA

040.112 (H)

ROMAN CIVILIZATION (3) Roller Limit 30 (15 per section)   This course examines important social, political, and cultural developments in the ancient Roman world, primarily through a study of literary texts, from Rome’s beginnings as a small city-state to the high empire.

Lec.

Sec. 01 & 02

F 10:30-12

Th 10:30-12

040.205 (H)

INTERMEDIATE ANCIENT GREEK (3) Driver     Prereq: 040.105-106    Reading ability in classical Greek is developed through a study of various authors, primarily Plato (fall) and Homer (spring).

Sec. 01

MTW 10

040.207 (H)

INTERMEDIATE LATIN (3) Catania Prereq: 040.107-108 or equivalent  Although emphasis is still placed on development of rapid comprehension, readings and discussions introduce student to study of Latin literature, principally through texts of Cicero (fall) and Virgil (spring).

Sec. 01

MTW 11

040.301 (H)

              (W)

ART AND SOCIETY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS (3) Shapiro   The course studies Athens from the Persian Wars to the Peloponnesian War (490-404 B.C.) using primary texts and archaeological remains.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

T 2-4

Th 2

Th 3

040.305 (H)

ADVANCED ANCIENT GREEK (3) Detienne   (Same as 040.704)  Reading of prose or verse authors, depending on the needs of students.  This semester's focus is on Euripides, Bacchae.

Sec. 01

W 12-2

040.308 (H)

ADVANCED LATIN POETRY (3) Valladares  Prereq: 040.207-208 or equivalent   (Same as 040.710)
The aim of this course is to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of the Latin language.  Intensive reading of Latin texts, with the usual attention to matters of grammar, idiom, translation, etc. The focus of this semester's course will be Ovid's Heroides, poetic epistles exchanged between mythological lovers.

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

plus 1 hour- TBA

010.378 (H)

ROMAN HISTORICAL ART (3) Koortbojian
Limit 25    
Cross-listed with History of Art

Sec. 01

MTW 12

360.133 (H)

              (W)

GREAT BOOKS: WESTERN TRADITION (3) Patton/Bett/Celenza/Biddle     Limit 20 per section

Cross-listed with Romance Languages, Interdepartmental, Philosophy, and the Humanities Center

Sec. 01

02

03

04

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

010.390 (H)

ART MUSEUM POLICY AND PRACTICE (3) Maguire, E.   Limit 12  Perm. Req’d.
Hands-on seminar looks behind the scenes at displays and exhibitions, museum operations and programs, as signs of current thinking about what art, past and present, may be.
Cross-listed with Classics and Near Eastern Studies

Sec. 01

T 2-5

040.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY

040.519

HONORS RESEARCH

040.687

CLASSICAL PROSEMINAR  Roller/Shapiro     An overview of research areas in Classics, including epigraphy, papyrology, textual transmission, numismatics, metrics, and critical approaches centering on literary theory, reception, gender theory, visual culture, and anthropology.

Sec. 01

M 1-3
2-4

040.692

GREEK AND LATIN EPIGRAPHY  Renberg    This course will explore the various uses of Greek and Latin incriptions for the study of the Greco-Roman world, introducing methods of analyzing and interpreting a broad range of documents. Course added 05/25/05

Sec. 01

T 2-4 3-5

040.693

BACCHUS AND DIONYSUS TODAY  Detienne       Face and mask; wine and mysteries; sexuality and gender; Dionysus with the philosophers.  Readings:  Euripides, F. Nietzsche, J. Burckhardt, W. F. Otto, Ch. Segal, etc.
Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, the Humanities Center,Romance Languages, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

W 3-5

040.697

GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION  deBrauw    Course begins with intensive review of Greek grammar and syntax.  Students then attempt Greek prose compositions in styles of Attic authors.  Greek reading assignments serve to illustrate stylistic features. Course canceled 06/13/05

Sec. 01

T 3-5

040.699

ROMAN LANDSCAPES: TEXT AND IMAGE Valladares  Course added 04/06/05

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

040.704

READING ANCIENT GREEK Detienne (Same as 040.305)   Prereq: Greek This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources.  This semester's focus is on Euripides, Bacchae. 

Sec. 01

W 12-2

040.710

READING LATIN POETRY Valladares  (Same as 040.308) Prereq: Latin   This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources.  The focus of this semester's course will be Ovid's Heroides, poetic epistles exchanged between mythological lovers. This semester's focus has not yet been determined. 

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

plus 1 hour TBA

010.664

TRIUMPHAL FORMS Koortbojian    
Cross-listed with History of Art

Sec. 01

M 3-5

040.801

INDEPENDENT STUDY

040.814

DISSERTATION RESEARCH