Classics
The Classics Department offers a wide range of courses in ancient civilization, ancient literature, and Greek/Latin language courses.
The courses on this page reflect Summer 2019 offerings.
Courses
Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination –
GRKM S3935D 3 points.
Course Overview: This course examines the way particular spaces—cultural, urban, literary—serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the polis, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces—complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages—and ask: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, site-specific? How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?
Course Number |
Section/Call Number |
Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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GRKM 3935 | 001/11248 | 3 | Open |
Intensive Elementary Greek –
GREK S1121D 6 points.
Equivalent to Greek 1101 and 1102. Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term to prepare the student to enter Greek 1201 or 1202. This is an intensive course with substantial preparation time outside of class.
Course Number |
Section/Call Number |
Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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GREK 1121 | 001/20160 | 6 | Open |