| CLASSICS101G | Advanced Greek: Euripides | Students of this course will intensify their immersion in Classical Greek language and culture through a deep dive into tragedy via the Andromache of Euripides. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, the play focuses on the eponymous widow of Troy's... |
| CLASSICS101L | Advanced Latin: Communication is Key. Cicero's De oratore | Why should we care about (the art of) speaking well? How do we perfect it, and towards what ideal? These are the questions Marcus Tullius Cicero explores in his rhetorical and philosophical masterpiece of 55BC. A fictional dialogue of historical char... |
| CLASSICS102G | Advanced Greek: Plato's Euthyphro | We will read Plato's dialogue, the Euthyphro, in ancient Greek, focusing on the understanding of philosophical prose. Furthermore, we will also discuss the significance of text in the broader context of historiography, Athenian philosophy, and Atheni... |
| CLASSICS102L | Advanced Latin: Roman Elegy: Propertius | In this course we will explore the genre of Latin elegiac poetry as exemplified by one of its finest practitioners, the Augustan era lyric poet, Sextus Propertius. According to the famous rhetorician Quintilian, the elegiac verse of Roman poets such... |
| CLASSICS103G | Advanced Greek: Lyric Poetry | Invectives, love songs, drinking songs, elegies, and choral odes from 700-500 B.C.E. Readings include Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Mimnermus, Alcman, Solon, and Pindar. Classics majors and minors may repeat for credit with advance approval from the... |
| CLASSICS103L | Late Latin | Most of the literature that we read in Latin is from a relatively early period of the language's history; Classics curricula typically stop with Apuleius, who died in 170AD. However, Latin-speaking people wrote sophisticated texts, on every variety o... |
| CLASSICS104A | Latin Syntax I | Intensive review of Latin syntax. See CLASSICS 206A/B for supplemental courses. Students should take both syntax and semantics in the same quarters. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Latin. First-year graduate students register for CLAS... |
| CLASSICS104B | Latin Syntax II | Intensive review of Latin syntax. See CLASSICS 206A/B for supplemental courses. Students should take both syntax and semantics in the same quarters. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Latin. First-year graduate students register for CLAS... |
| CLASSICS105A | Greek Syntax: Prose Composition | The goal of this course is to provide a thorough review of Greek syntax, reinforced by reading selected short passages of Attic Greek in some detail, in order to develop a much greater command of the language and to increase reading skills as well as... |
| CLASSICS107 | Late Greek | This will be a class on Greek literature and language of Roman and Byzantine times. Late Greek has a huge corpus of texts in many genres both secular and Christian. This class will explore this literature and read texts both in translation and in t... |
| CLASSICS109 | Singing Homer | This will be an advanced class on Homer where we learn to recite his verses in their proper meter and with pitch accents. Reading out loud in class will be required, but memorization not required. Class will also cover the linguistics of Homer's arch... |
| CLASSICS110 | Gods and Humans in Greek Philosophical Thought | We will examine several key aspects of Greek religion: the Greek conception of the gods; how humans got messages from the gods through oracles, divination, and epiphanies; and the festival of the Eleusinian Mysteries. We will read fragments of Hera... |
| CLASSICS112 | Introduction to Greek Tragedy: Gods, Heroes, Fate, and Justice | Gods and heroes, fate and free choice, gender conflict, the justice or injustice of the universe: these are just some of the fundamental human issues that we will explore in about ten of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. |
| CLASSICS113 | Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension | Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela... |
| CLASSICS115 | Virtual Italy | Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s. Referring to their journey as the "Grand Tour," travelers pursued intellectual passions, promoted careers, and satisfied wanderlust, all while collecting antiquities to fill museu... |
| CLASSICS116 | Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective | The course examines core human rights concepts and issues as they arise in a variety of contexts ranging from the ancient world to today. These issues include slavery, human trafficking, gender based violence, discrimination against marginalized grou... |
| CLASSICS118 | Slavery, human trafficking, and the moral order: ancient and modern | Slavery and trafficking in persons in the Greco-Roman world were legal and ubiquitous; today slavery is illegal in most states and regarded as a grave violation of human rights and as a crime against humanity under international law. In recent trend... |
| CLASSICS119 | Abject Subjects and Divine Anamorphosis in Byzantine Art | Entering the space of the church immediately interpellated the medieval subject, transforming him/her into an abject self, marred by sin. This psychological effect of pricking the conscience was enhanced by the architectural panopticon channeled thro... |
| CLASSICS11G | Intermediate Greek: Prose | Transition to reading Greek prose. Students will build upon morphology and syntax acquired in beginning Greek to develop confidence and proficiency in reading Greek prose. We will read Plato's Apology, one of the premier examples of Attic prose, a gr... |
| CLASSICS11L | Intermediate Latin: Introduction to Literature | Phonology, morphology, semantics, and syntax. Readings in prose and poetry, including Nepos (Life of Hannibal), Cicero, Catullus, and more. Analysis of literary language, including rhythm, meter, word order, narrative, and figures of speech. |
| CLASSICS121 | The Dome: From the Pantheon to the Millennium | This course traces the history of the dome over two millennia, from temples to the gods to Temples of the State, and from cosmic archetype to architectural fetish. The narrative interweaves the themes of the dome as image of the Cosmos, religious ico... |
| CLASSICS123 | Ancient Medicine | Contemporary medical practice traces its origins to the creation of scientific medicine by Greek doctors such as Hippocrates and Galen. Is this something of which modern medicine can be proud? The scientific achievements and ethical limitations of an... |
| CLASSICS125 | The Hindu Epics and the Ethics of Dharma | The two great Hindu Epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, offer a sustained reflection on the nature of virtuous living in the face of insoluble ethical dilemmas. Their treatment of the concept of dharma, understood simultaneously as ethical action an... |
| CLASSICS126 | The archaeology of death | Death is a universal human experience, but one that evokes a wide range of cultural and material responses. Archaeologists have used mortuary and bioarchaeological evidence to try to understand topics as diverse as paleodemography, human health and d... |
| CLASSICS127 | Dialogues with the Dead | This seminar considers the dynamism and resilience of Greek art and culture. The dialogues in question are not with ancient shades in the underworld but with later artists who build on the creative vision (and blind spots) of the past to addressthe i... |
| CLASSICS128 | Europe Before the Romans: Early Complex Societies | This course will provide a broad introduction to theories of change in early complex societies and polities. Over the course of the quarter, we will examine a series of hotly debated theoretical frameworks. From the beginning, you will develop a case... |
| CLASSICS129 | Human Rights in an Age of Great Power Rivalry, War, and Political Transformation | As is well known, great and emerging power rivalries largely shaped the course of the 20th century through WWI, WWII, and the Cold War. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 21st century been characterized by the geopolitical reco... |
| CLASSICS12G | Intermediate Greek: Plato and Poetry | The goal of this course is to develop a greater fluency in reading Greek prose by reinforcing previously acquired knowledge of morphology and syntax through a reading of Plato¿s Ion and selections from the Republic. We will study Platonic critiques o... |
| CLASSICS12L | Intermediate Latin: The Marvelous World of Pliny the Elder | Pliny the Elder wrote an encyclopedic account of nature in the 1st century CE. Through this text, the Naturalis Historia, we may glimpse the wondrous and strange animals, plants, and minerals that populated the early Roman imperial world and how Plin... |
| CLASSICS12N | Income and wealth inequality from the Stone Age to the present | Rising inequality is a defining feature of our time. How long has economic inequality existed, and when, how and why has the gap between haves and have-nots widened or narrowed over the course of history? This seminar takes a very long-term view of t... |
| CLASSICS130 | The Grandeur of Epic: Poetry, Narrative, and World from Homer to Evolutionary Biology | Explores the mystery and power of epic. This ancient word, which at its root means "what is spoken," first classified certain traditions of archaic Greek poetry, especially Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It now appears everywhere from slang to contempora... |
| CLASSICS132 | Whose Classics? Race and Classical Antiquity in the U.S. | Perceived as the privileged inheritance of white European (and later, American) culture, Classics has long been entangled with whiteness. We will examine this issue by flipping the script and decentering whiteness, focusing instead on marginalized co... |
| CLASSICS133 | Socrates and Social Justice | In this class, we examine whether Socrates is a model for social justice. Socrates presents a complicated figure regarding issues of political action and social justice. Some view Socrates as a champion of liberty and individual conscience. Others se... |
| CLASSICS135 | Ekphrasis in Antiquity and Beyond | What is "Ekphrasis"? How was it theorized and practiced in antiquity and what is its appeal in the Renaissance and in modern times? Description, interpretation, and the senses; the relationship between the verbal and the visual in antiquity from Home... |
| CLASSICS136 | The Greek Invention of Mathematics | How was mathematics invented? A survey of the main creative ideas of ancient Greek mathematics. Among the issues explored are the axiomatic system of Euclid's Elements, the origins of the calculus in Greek measurements of solids and surfaces, and Arc... |
| CLASSICS139 | Refugees, Race and the Greco-Roman World | Who is a refugee and who gets to decide? How does race impact who is welcomed into a new community and who is turned away? And what does the Greco-Roman world have to do this? This course will explore these questions by surveying different forms of f... |
| CLASSICS13G | Intermediate Greek: Homer's Odyssey | This course serves as an introduction to Homeric Greek and to Homer's Odyssey specifically. We will be reading selections from the Odyssey in the original Greek to develop an understanding of the syntax, vocabulary, and dialect of Homeric Greek. Stud... |
| CLASSICS13L | Intermediate Latin: Ovid's Heroides | In this class we will read selections from Ovid's Heroides, a collection of elegiac epistolary poems. Through a focus on grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, the student will develop their fluency in Latin. We will analyze the literary language, includin... |
| CLASSICS13N | Race, Blackness, Antiquity | What was the definition of 'race' twenty-five hundred years ago? What did black skin color indicate in the centuries before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade? In this course, students will investigate the history of black skin color in Greek and Roman a... |
| CLASSICS14 | Greek and Latin Roots of English | (Formerly CLASSGEN 9) Goal is to improve vocabulary, comprehension of written English, and standardized test scores through learning the Greek and Latin components of English. Focus is on patterns and processes in the formation of the lexicon. Termin... |
| CLASSICS141 | Ancient Greek Religion | Survey of the religious practices of the ancient Greeks. Readings will be both from original sources and from modern scholarship. There are no prerequisites. Knowledge of ancient Greek will be useful, but not required. Undergrads should give one... |
| CLASSICS143 | The Use of Classical Antiquity in Modern China | This course examines the roles played by classical antiquity--Greek, Roman, and Chinese--in China's modernization process. Central topics of discussion include: the relationship between tradition and modernity, the relationship between China and the... |
| CLASSICS14N | Ecology in Philosophy and Literature | What can we do to help the environment? How do our conceptions of the environment affect our actions? In this class, we examine the basic principles of ecological thinking in Western culture. We explore the ways that different writers represent an... |
| CLASSICS150 | Majors Seminar: Why Classics? | Required of Classics majors and minors in junior or senior year; students contemplating honors should take this course in junior year. Advanced skills course involving close reading, critical thinking, editing, and writing. In-class and take-home wri... |
| CLASSICS151 | Ten Things: An Archaeology of Design | Connections among science, technology, society and culture by examining the design of a prehistoric hand axe, Egyptian pyramid, ancient Greek perfume jar, medieval castle, Wedgewood teapot, Edison's electric light bulb, computer mouse, Sony Walkman,... |
| CLASSICS152 | The Ancient Anthropocene: An Unnatural History of Roman Environments | This course will reflect on the significance of the Anthropocene over the short- and long-term by casting an environmental lens on the archaeology and history of Rome. It will draw from diverse paleo-environmental, archaeological, art historical, and... |
| CLASSICS154 | Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Maritime Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean | Why do we care about shipwrecks? What can sunken sites and abandoned ports tell us about our past? Focusing primarily on the archaeological record of shipwrecks and harbors, along with literary evidence and contemporary theory, this course examines h... |
| CLASSICS155 | Sicily and the Sea | Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily has for millennia represented a cultural crossroads and hub for the movement of peoples, objects, and ideas. Much of the island's history is reflected in sites and artifacts of maritime life: an... |
| CLASSICS156 | Design of Cities | Long-term, comparative and archaeological view of urban planning and design. Cities are the fastest changing components of the human landscape and are challenging our relationships with nature. They are the historical loci of innovation and change, a... |
| CLASSICS158 | Theories of the Image: Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West | This seminar explores the role of images in the three major powers of the medieval Mediterranean: the Umayyads, the Carolingians, and the Byzantines. For each the definition of an image- sura, imago, or eikon respectively-became an important means of... |
| CLASSICS15N | Saints, Warriors, Queens, and Cows | The literature of medieval Ireland (600-1400 AD) is rich in tales about war and adventure, pagan gods, and otherworld voyages. The sagas of kings and queens sit side by side (sometimes in the same medieval manuscripts) with stories of holy men and wo... |
| CLASSICS160 | Design Thinking for the Creative Humanities | This class introduces Design Thinking to students in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Under a growth mindset of creative exploration and experiment, we will share a tool kit drawn from design thinking and the arts to develop our imaginative capaci... |
| CLASSICS161 | Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period | The class considers the development of Greek art from 1000-480 and poses the question, how Greek was Greek art? In the beginning, as Greece emerges from 200 years of Dark Ages, their art is cautious, conservative and more abstract than life-like, clo... |
| CLASSICS162 | Introduction to Greek Art II: The Classical Period | The class begins with the art, architecture and political ideals of Periclean Athens, from the emergence of the city as the political and cultural center of Greece in 450 to its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404. It then considers how the Atheni... |
| CLASSICS163 | Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks | The seminar examines a range of topics devoted to the makers of Greek art and artifacts, the men and women who used them in life and the afterlife, and the miscreants - from Lord Elgin to contemporary tomb-looters and dealers - whose deeds have damag... |
| CLASSICS164 | Roman Gladiators | In modern America, gladiators are powerful representatives of ancient Rome (Spartacus, Gladiator). In the Roman world, gladiators were mostly slaves and reviled, barred from certain positions in society and doomed to short and dangerous lives. A fi... |
| CLASSICS165 | Religions of Ancient Eurasia | This course will explore archaeological evidence for the ritual and religions of Ancient Eurasia, including Greco-Roman polytheism, early Christianity, and early Buddhism. Each week, we will discuss the most significant themes, methods, and approache... |
| CLASSICS168 | Engineering the Roman Empire | Enter the mind, the drafting room, and the building site of the Roman architects and engineers whose monumental projects impressed ancient and modern spectators alike. This class explores the interrelated aesthetics and mechanics of construction that... |
| CLASSICS16N | Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos | Preference to freshmen. Sappho's surviving fragments in English; traditions referring to or fantasizing about her disputed life. How her poetry and legend inspired women authors and male poets such as Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Pound. Paintings inspi... |
| CLASSICS170 | History of Archaeological Thought | Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and top... |
| CLASSICS171 | Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. | This course explores the art and architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Damascus, Thessaloniki, and Palermo, 4th-15th centuries. Applying an innovative approach, we will probe questions of phenomeno... |
| CLASSICS173 | Hagia Sophia | This seminar uncovers the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia, the church dedicated to Holy Wisdom in Constantinople. Rather than a static and inert structure, the Great Church emerges as a material body that comes... |
| CLASSICS179 | Dancing in Ancient Greece and Rome | What was the role of dance in Greek and Roman cultures? Who danced and who were their spectators? Dance as an art for its own sake and as a vehicle of meaning; aesthetics and ethics of ancient dance; Philosophical and Anthropological aspects of dance... |
| CLASSICS17N | To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent | (Formerly CLASSGEN 6N.) Preference to freshmen. Tensions inherent in the democracy of ancient Athens; how the character of Antigone emerges in later drama, film, and political thought as a figure of resistance against illegitimate authority; and her... |
| CLASSICS17SC | Classical California | If you counted the many modern guises in which ancient Greece and Rome show up in our lives, how many could you find? You might consider, for example, words we speak, films we watch, buildings we use, political concepts we debate, styles we admire, m... |
| CLASSICS180 | Introduction to Coptic I | For graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Introductory grammar of Sahidic Coptic. Recommended: knowledge of other ancient languages. Enrollment by permission of instructor. |
| CLASSICS181 | Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought | Political philosophy in classical antiquity, centered on reading canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle against other texts and against the political and historical background. Topics include: interdependence, legitimacy, justice; political... |
| CLASSICS185 | Reading the Archimedes Palimpsest | In this course we learn to read Medieval Greek manuscripts, concentrating on the most exciting of them all: the Archimedes Palimpsest. We begin by learning the Greek mathematical language, through a brief reading of Euclid. Following that, we learn h... |
| CLASSICS186 | African Archive Beyond Colonization | From street names to monuments, the material sediments of colonial time can be seen, heard, and felt in the diverse cultural archives of ancient and contemporary Africa. This seminar aims to examine the role of ethnographic practice in the political... |
| CLASSICS187 | Societal Collapse | Sustained economic growth is an anomaly in human history. Moreover, in the very long term, sustained economic decline is common. Following a historical and cross-cultural perspective, we will study the causes of economic decline, the social and polit... |
| CLASSICS188 | Greek Philosophy on Poetry and the Arts | Focus on Plato and Aristotle in English translations; detailed interpretation of both the well-known and the less-known works of the two philosophers on the topic. How their ideas about poetry and the arts were reinterpreted and sometimes misinterpre... |
| CLASSICS189 | Et in Arcadia Ego: The Pastoral Ideal, from Antiquity to the Present | In this seminar we will explore ancient Greek and Roman ideas and images of the idealized landscape, reading examples of the pastoral ideal from Greek authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Theocritus, and Longus and Roman authors such as Vergil, Hora... |
| CLASSICS18N | The Artist in Ancient Greek Society | Given the importance of art to all aspects of their lives, the Greeks had reason to respect their artists. Yet potters, painters and even sculptors possessed little social standing. Why did the Greeks value the work of craftsmen but not the men them... |
| CLASSICS192 | Latin (and Its Speakers) in Time and Space | What do we mean by "Latin"? Our earliest Latin-language texts date to 600BC or earlier; our latest, to centuries after Rome's decline. We also have an astonishing range of Latin texts by people of every background: women, the enslaved, soldiers, merc... |
| CLASSICS193 | Archaeology and Environmental Aesthetics | What do archaeologists have to say about long-term human relationships with the environment? How might archaeology inform our understanding of current concerns with agency and climate change? In this seminar we will explore the key concepts and conce... |
| CLASSICS194 | Greece and Rome: A new model of antiquity | Join archaeologist Michael Shanks in a tour through more than a thousand years of history, 700 BCE to 450 CE, debunking a host of myths and misconceptions about Graeco-Roman antiquity and offering a fresh view of what was driving the motor of ancient... |
| CLASSICS197 | Aristotle's Logic | In this seminar we read through Aristotle's Prior Analytics, paying close attention to the relation between Aristotle's logic to Greek mathematics, and to its place within Aristotle's overall philosophy. Knowledge of Greek is not required. Open to ad... |
| CLASSICS198 | Directed Readings (Undergraduate) | (Formerly CLASSGEN 160.) May be repeated for credit. |
| CLASSICS199 | Undergraduate Thesis: Senior Research | (Formerly CLASSGEN 199.) May be repeated for credit |
| CLASSICS19N | Eloquence Personified: How To Speak Like Cicero | This course is an introduction to Roman rhetoric, Cicero's Rome, and the active practice of speaking well. Participants read a short rhetorical treatise by Cicero, analyze one of his speeches as well as more recent ones by, e.g., Kennedy, Martin Luth... |
| CLASSICS1G | Beginning Greek | No knowledge of Greek is assumed. Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. |
| CLASSICS1L | Beginning Latin | Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. No previous knowledge of Latin is assumed. |
| CLASSICS200G | Special Topics: Greek Magic Texts | This is a graduate level survey of magic and magic practices in Greek literary sources. We will read primary sources discussing magic, witchcraft, erotic spells, and ghosts from Herodotus through Lucian. |
| CLASSICS201G | Greek Core 1: Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle on Poetry and Education | Students will do close readings of Plato's Symposium, Republic 2, 3 and 10, Isocrates' Antidosis, and Aristotle's Poetics and Politics 8. Students will translate and analyze the Greek and gain a solid mastery of these texts in terms of diction, synta... |
| CLASSICS201L | Latin Core I: Catiline | In-depth reading (in selection or parts) of Cicero's Catilinarians, Pro Caelio, letters, the Rhetorica ad Herennium, and Sallust's Bellum Catilinae. In class we'll translate and analyze these texts, reviewing grammatical issues as needed and concentr... |
| CLASSICS201LA | Survey of Latin Literature: Special Topics | One-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years. Focus is on translation, textual criticism, genre, the role of Greece in shaping... |
| CLASSICS202G | Greek Core II: History of Literature | Partial coverage of the reading lists for translation and general reading exams, within a framework that introduces philological method, history of scholarship, hermeneutics and various approaches to the construction of literary histories. Emphasis o... |
| CLASSICS202GB | Survey of Greek Literature: Special Topics | Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years. |
| CLASSICS202L | Latin Core II: Age of Nero | In-depth reading of a major poet or a themed selection of poetry, e.g. Vergil, Horace or Ovid. Courses may be theme-based, e.g. Aeneas in Vergil and Ovid, or genre-based, combining representative selections of epic, elegy or satire from various autho... |
| CLASSICS203G | Greek Core III: Aeschylus and Euripides | In this course, students will translate and analyze two ancient Greek tragedies: Aeschylus' Suppliants (c. 463 BCE) and Euripides' Medea (431 BCE). As the only extant tragedy from Greek antiquity featuring characters who explicitly reflect on their b... |
| CLASSICS203L | Latin Core III: History of Literature | Selected coverage of the translation/general reading list, with readings chosen so as to broaden experience beyond Core I-II, and to plac texts from those courses in a broader frame. Overall, this course will help prepare students for translation and... |
| CLASSICS204A | Latin Syntax I | Intensive review of Latin syntax. See CLASSICS 206A/B for supplemental courses. Students should take both syntax and semantics in the same quarters. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Latin. First-year graduate students register for CLAS... |
| CLASSICS204B | Latin Syntax II | Intensive review of Latin syntax. See CLASSICS 206A/B for supplemental courses. Students should take both syntax and semantics in the same quarters. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Latin. First-year graduate students register for CLAS... |
| CLASSICS205A | Greek Syntax: Prose Composition | The goal of this course is to provide a thorough review of Greek syntax, reinforced by reading selected short passages of Attic Greek in some detail, in order to develop a much greater command of the language and to increase reading skills as well as... |
| CLASSICS206A | The Semantics of Grammar I | Some theoretical linguistics for Classics students, particularly Latin teachers. Concentrates on the meaning of the inflectional categories. 206A: Sets and functions, Tense, Aspect, Argument Structure, Location. 206B: Quantification, Plurality, Modif... |
| CLASSICS206B | The Semantics of Grammar II | Some theoretical linguistics for Classics students, particularly Latin teachers. Concentrates on the meaning of the inflectional categories. 206A: Sets and functions, Tense, Aspect, Argument Structure, Location. 206B: Quantification, Plurality, Modif... |
| CLASSICS207 | Late Greek | This will be a class on Greek literature and language of Roman and Byzantine times. Late Greek has a huge corpus of texts in many genres both secular and Christian. This class will explore this literature and read texts both in translation and in t... |
| CLASSICS208L | Latin 400-1700 CE | Readings in later Latin, drawing on the vast bodies of texts from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Each week students will prepare selections in advance of class meetings; class time will be devoted to translation and discussion.... |
| CLASSICS209 | Singing Homer | This will be an advanced class on Homer where we learn to recite his verses in their proper meter and with pitch accents. Reading out loud in class will be required, but memorization not required. Class will also cover the linguistics of Homer's arch... |
| CLASSICS20N | Technologies of Civilization: Writing, Number and Money | The technological keys to the growth of civilization that enabled the creation of complex societies and enhanced human cognition. The role of cognition in shaping history and the role of history in shaping cognition. Global perspective, emphasizing t... |
| CLASSICS210 | Latin Prose Composition | Latin Prose Composition pursues two goals: to help students consolidate their knowledge of Latin syntax by way of translating English sentences and (short) passages into Ciceronian Latin; and to help them appreciate differences in style by way of imi... |
| CLASSICS213 | Proseminar: Documentary Papyrology | The focus will be on documentary papyrology. Students will be introduced to the basics of the discipline. |
| CLASSICS214 | Proseminar: Ancient Numismatics | Graduate proseminar. Introductory overview of the heterogeneous coinages of antiquity, from the earliest coins of the Mediterranean to classical and Hellenistic Greek coins, Roman Republican, Imperial and provincial coinages as well as various ancien... |
| CLASSICS216 | Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective | The course examines core human rights concepts and issues as they arise in a variety of contexts ranging from the ancient world to today. These issues include slavery, human trafficking, gender based violence, discrimination against marginalized grou... |
| CLASSICS218 | Slavery, human trafficking, and the moral order: ancient and modern | Slavery and trafficking in persons in the Greco-Roman world were legal and ubiquitous; today slavery is illegal in most states and regarded as a grave violation of human rights and as a crime against humanity under international law. In recent trend... |
| CLASSICS219 | Methods and approaches for ancient historians | The interests and evidence used by classical historians have evolved over the past 50 years from a discipline based largely on literary texts and interested in political and military history. In recent decades interest have shifted to include a heav... |
| CLASSICS21Q | Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe | Preference to sophomores. Focus is on excavation, features and finds, arguments over interpretation, and the place of each site in understanding the archaeological history of Europe. Goal is to introduce the latest archaeological and anthropological... |
| CLASSICS220 | Pedagogy Workshop for Graduate Teachers | The primary goal of this course is to prepare graduate students for teaching Humanities-centered courses, both at Stanford and at other institutions. Instruction will emphasize the pedagogy of courses typical to Classics departments (and similar), in... |
| CLASSICS221 | The Dome: From the Pantheon to the Millennium | This course traces the history of the dome over two millennia, from temples to the gods to Temples of the State, and from cosmic archetype to architectural fetish. The narrative interweaves the themes of the dome as image of the Cosmos, religious ico... |
| CLASSICS233 | Socrates and Social Justice | In this class, we examine whether Socrates is a model for social justice. Socrates presents a complicated figure regarding issues of political action and social justice. Some view Socrates as a champion of liberty and individual conscience. Others se... |
| CLASSICS240 | Historiography | For History and Classics MA and coterm students. This course explores how historians have explored the past, and the strengths and limits of the methods they have employed. Beginning with a survey of non-western historiography, we then investigate th... |
| CLASSICS241 | Ancient Greek Religion | Survey of the religious practices of the ancient Greeks. Readings will be both from original sources and from modern scholarship. There are no prerequisites. Knowledge of ancient Greek will be useful, but not required. Undergrads should give one... |
| CLASSICS256 | Design of Cities | Long-term, comparative and archaeological view of urban planning and design. Cities are the fastest changing components of the human landscape and are challenging our relationships with nature. They are the historical loci of innovation and change, a... |
| CLASSICS258 | Theories of the Image: Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West | This seminar explores the role of images in the three major powers of the medieval Mediterranean: the Umayyads, the Carolingians, and the Byzantines. For each the definition of an image- sura, imago, or eikon respectively-became an important means of... |
| CLASSICS260 | Design Thinking for the Creative Humanities | This class introduces Design Thinking to students in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Under a growth mindset of creative exploration and experiment, we will share a tool kit drawn from design thinking and the arts to develop our imaginative capaci... |
| CLASSICS262 | Sex and the Early Church | Sex and the Early Church examines the ways first- through sixth-century Christians addressed questions regarding human sexuality. We will pay particular attention to the relationship between sexuality and issues of gender, culture, power, and resista... |
| CLASSICS26N | The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall | Preference to freshmen. Explore themes on the Roman Empire and its decline from the 1st through the 5th centuries C.E.. What was the political and military glue that held this diverse, multi-ethnic empire together? What were the bases of wealth and h... |
| CLASSICS273 | Hagia Sophia | This seminar uncovers the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia, the church dedicated to Holy Wisdom in Constantinople. Rather than a static and inert structure, the Great Church emerges as a material body that comes... |
| CLASSICS279 | Dancing in Ancient Greece and Rome | What was the role of dance in Greek and Roman cultures? Who danced and who were their spectators? Dance as an art for its own sake and as a vehicle of meaning; aesthetics and ethics of ancient dance; Philosophical and Anthropological aspects of dance... |
| CLASSICS280 | Introduction to Coptic I | For graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Introductory grammar of Sahidic Coptic. Recommended: knowledge of other ancient languages. Enrollment by permission of instructor. |
| CLASSICS286 | African Archive Beyond Colonization | From street names to monuments, the material sediments of colonial time can be seen, heard, and felt in the diverse cultural archives of ancient and contemporary Africa. This seminar aims to examine the role of ethnographic practice in the political... |
| CLASSICS289 | Et in Arcadia Ego: The Pastoral Ideal, from Antiquity to the Present | In this seminar we will explore ancient Greek and Roman ideas and images of the idealized landscape, reading examples of the pastoral ideal from Greek authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Theocritus, and Longus and Roman authors such as Vergil, Hora... |
| CLASSICS292 | Latin (and Its Speakers) in Time and Space | What do we mean by "Latin"? Our earliest Latin-language texts date to 600BC or earlier; our latest, to centuries after Rome's decline. We also have an astonishing range of Latin texts by people of every background: women, the enslaved, soldiers, merc... |
| CLASSICS293 | Archaeology and Environmental Aesthetics | What do archaeologists have to say about long-term human relationships with the environment? How might archaeology inform our understanding of current concerns with agency and climate change? In this seminar we will explore the key concepts and conce... |
| CLASSICS297 | Dissertation Proposal Preparation | This course is to be taken twice during the third year of the Classics PhD program. It takes the form of a tutorial based on weekly meetings, leading to the writing of the dissertation prospectus. To register, a student obtain permission from the pro... |
| CLASSICS298 | Directed Reading in Classics (Graduate Students) | This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the Classics Department and the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.... |
| CLASSICS29N | Ancient Myth in Modern Poetry | For millennia, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome have been objects of fascination and tools for exploring humanity's most abiding concerns: self, society, birth, death and the afterlife, the cosmos and the divine. In the 20th and 21st centuries, t... |
| CLASSICS2G | Beginning Greek | Continuation of CLASSICS 1G. Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. |
| CLASSICS2L | Beginning Latin | (Formerly CLASSLAT 2.) Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. Prerequisite: CLASSICS 1L or equivalent placement. |
| CLASSICS303 | The Proverb in Ancient Greek Literature | This course explores the use of the proverb in ancient Greek poetry and prose. We will examine the role proverbs play across the many different genres of Greek literature as part of a larger 'quotation culture' in antiquity, as evinced in oral perfor... |
| CLASSICS304 | Developing a Classics Dissertation Prospectus | This workshop concentrates on the development process of writing a successful dissertation proposal and clarifies expectations of the defense process. Includes peer reviews of draft proposals with an aim to present provisional proposals by the end of... |
| CLASSICS305 | Post-humanism: archaeological perspectives | What is the object of archaeological research? Do archaeologists reconstruct the human past? This seminar answers these questions by focusing on the concept of humanity. Challenging the radical separation of people and objects, culture and nature, va... |
| CLASSICS30N | Making fun of History: Insults, Mockery and Abuse Language in Antiquity | People have mocked one another for as long as there has been language with which to do it, but insults can be difficult to pin down: a word or phrase may seem mocking to one person and funny or friendly to another. Even praise can be insulting, in so... |
| CLASSICS31 | Greek Mythology | The heroic and divine in the literature, mythology, and culture of archaic Greece. Interdisciplinary approach to the study of individuals and society. Illustrated lectures. Readings in translation of Homer, Hesiod, and the poets of lyric and tragedy.... |
| CLASSICS311 | The Poetics of the Odyssey | An intensive study of the entire poem, with particular attention given to problems of narrative construction, characterization, diction, and themes. Basic knowledge of Homeric language and versemaking is a prerequisite. Reading will cover about 500 l... |
| CLASSICS313 | Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension | Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela... |
| CLASSICS314 | Through a broken lens? Reading fragments from the 2nd century | The Romantics treated the fragment as an art form; as students of antiquity, we tend to mourn the loss they represent and strive to recover as much of that loss as possible through them. In this course, we'll read a selection of poetic (epic, drama,... |
| CLASSICS318 | Aristophanes: Comedy, and Democracy | Intensive study of three plays in Greek (Knights, Peace, Ecclesiazusae) and the rest of the corpus in English, with reference to formal features and a focus on how Old Comedy related to the democratic practices of Athens. |
| CLASSICS319 | Abject Subjects and Divine Anamorphosis in Byzantine Art | Entering the space of the church immediately interpellated the medieval subject, transforming him/her into an abject self, marred by sin. This psychological effect of pricking the conscience was enhanced by the architectural panopticon channeled thro... |
| CLASSICS324 | Plato on the Soul: Phaedo, Republic, and Phaedrus | In this seminar, we will analyze Plato's conceptions of the soul in the middle period dialogues. We will read the Phaedo and the Phaedrus in full, and Republic books 4-7. We will examine the incorporeality, temporality, rationality, desires, and divi... |
| CLASSICS328 | Time, Narrative and the Self in Augustine's Confessions | The course focuses on Augustine's conceptions of time, memory, narrative, and the self in the Confessions. We will analyze the genres of autobiography, biography, and autofiction. We will examine Augustine's theory of time and memory in relation to... |
| CLASSICS331 | Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship | How have scholars used ancient texts and objects since the revival of the classical tradition? How did antiquarians study and depict objects and relate them to texts and reconstructions of the past? What changed and what stayed the same as humanist s... |
| CLASSICS332 | Theories of the state, violence, nationalism, and social order | This seminar aims to provide a combination of broad overview and foundation intheoretical discussions relevant to state formation, empire, war and violence, thedisplacement of populations, and related issues. Needless to say such a course mustby natu... |
| CLASSICS34 | Ancient Athletics | How the Olympic Games developed and how they were organized. Many other Greek festivals featured sport and dance competitions, including some for women, and showcased the citizen athlete as a civic ideal. Roman athletics in contrast saw the growth o... |
| CLASSICS347 | Greek Epigram | Greek verse inscriptions first appeared in the 8th century BCE and have been found throughout the Greek speaking Mediterranean. Their popularity continued until the early Byzantine periods. This course will treat the unique dynamics of epigram as a f... |
| CLASSICS348 | Philodemus: An Epicurean Thinker on Poetry and Music | We will read and discuss Philodemus¿ surviving works on poetry and music as well as the particularly stimulating debates his influential ideas have inspired in classical scholarship over the last decades. An approach to Epicurean aesthetic thought wi... |
| CLASSICS349 | Introduction to Ancient Aesthetics | How was aesthetics conceptualized in Greek thought and what was its role and importance in lived experience at large? The major aesthetic debates in the areas of performance, literature, philosophy, and the visual arts. Extensive readings of the rele... |
| CLASSICS35 | The Good Life: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethical Philosophy | The ancient Greeks longed for happiness, but life often led to suffering and anxiety. In ancient Greece, the traditional value system focused on gaining honor, wealth, power, and success - external goods that could be taken away at any time. The Gr... |
| CLASSICS350 | History of Classical Languages: Dialects of Ancient Greek | An intensive study of the history of ancient Greek through close reading and analysis of selected literary and epigraphic texts. Attention will be paid to developments in phonology and morphology in the light of reconstructed Common Greek and Indo-Eu... |
| CLASSICS351 | Ancient Slavery | Why was slavery so pervasive in the Greco-Roman world? How did it relate to other modes of domination, and how did it compare to practices of enslavement in other times and places? We will explore these questions in ways that take account of the spec... |
| CLASSICS354 | Space and Mapping | How do we define cities and urban space, and why and how does that matter? How did cities and urban space work in the ancient Mediterranean? In this graduate seminar, we will work through some fundamental theoretical writings on cities and urbanism... |
| CLASSICS360 | Ancient Mediterranean Ports | As ¿nodes of density in the matrix of connectivity¿ (Horden and Purcell 2000), ports provided the fundamental infrastructure for interaction on which ancient Mediterranean societies were built. This seminar explores the interrelated cultural and envi... |
| CLASSICS363 | Race in Greco-Roman Antiquity | This course will investigate representations of black people in ancient Greek and Roman antiquity. In addition to interrogating the conflation of the terms "race" and "blackness" as it applies to this time period, students will learn how to critique... |
| CLASSICS364 | Longinus On the Sublime | What is the sublime and what makes this text one of the most influential works of literary criticism, both ancient and modern? Detailed discussion of the text in the context of ancient debates; its reception in early modern and modern times |
| CLASSICS365 | Digital Humanities Methods for Classics | This course will introduce students to methods for computationally analyzing literary, archaeological and historical evidence from the ancient Mediterranean world. Students will acquire programming skills in Python and experience with data science pr... |
| CLASSICS366 | Classical Reception in the Black Diaspora | From the ancient oral epics to contemporary literature from Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA, this seminar will examine the significance of Classics in the literatures and arts of Africa and the Black Diaspora. This course will also investigate the... |
| CLASSICS368 | Gender, family, and household in ancient Rome | The family and household were the fundamental units of production and reproduction in the Roman empire, embodying values and cultural assumptions about hierarchies of gender and status. This seminar will investigate the norms and assumptions as well... |
| CLASSICS369 | Mobility and Migration in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond | Movement is fundamental to the human experience, and few regions and periods were so strongly defined by movement as the ancient Mediterranean. This seminar explores concepts of mobility and migration through their varied material remains, situating... |
| CLASSICS37 | Great Books, Big Ideas from Ancient Greece and Rome | This course will journey through ancient Greek and Roman literature from Homer to St. Augustine, in constant conversation with the other HumCore travelers in the Ancient Middle East, Africa and South Asia, and Early China. It will introduce participa... |
| CLASSICS370 | Topics in Roman Art and Visual Culture | Ancient Roman visual culture both reflected and actively shaped political, social, cultural and economic situations. Artworks, imagery and things seen played roles in constructing experience, intervening in human relationships, representing meaning,... |
| CLASSICS381 | Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought | Political philosophy in classical antiquity, centered on reading canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle against other texts and against the political and historical background. Topics include: interdependence, legitimacy, justice; political... |
| CLASSICS382 | High-Stakes Politics: Case Studies in Political Philosophy, Institutions, and Interests | Normative political theory combined with positive political theory to better explain how major texts may have responded to and influenced changes in formal and informal institutions. Emphasis is on historical periods in which catastrophic institution... |
| CLASSICS384A | Ancient Greek Economic Development | Historians have been arguing about ancient Greek economic development since the 1890s. By the 1980s, opinion had swung toward what is sometimes called - the Cambridge consensus. - This held that the Greek economy was a typical premodern one, in which... |
| CLASSICS384B | Ancient Greek Economic Development | Historians have been arguing about ancient Greek economic development since the 1890s. By the 1980s, opinion had swung toward what is sometimes called - the Cambridge consensus. - This held that the Greek economy was a typical premodern one, in which... |
| CLASSICS390 | Origins of Political Thought | Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and... |
| CLASSICS393 | Ancient inequalities | This seminar explores the history and archaeology of socio-economic inequality in the ancient world (broadly defined) from a comparative and transdisciplinary perspective. |
| CLASSICS395 | Ancient Greek Rationality, Public and Private | In this seminar, we'll consider ancient Greek views about and theories of practical rationality and compare and contrast them with some modern theories, especially theories of instrumental rationality. We'll consider both philosophic authors, especi... |
| CLASSICS399 | Graduate Research in Classics | For graduate students only. Individual research by arrangement with in-department instructors. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research. |
| CLASSICS3G | Beginning Greek | Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. Prerequisite: CLASSICS 2G or equivalent placement. CLASSICS 3G fulfills University language requirement. |
| CLASSICS3L | Beginning Latin | Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. Prerequisite: CLASSICS 2L or equivalent placement. CLASSICS 3L fulfills the University language requirement. |
| CLASSICS40 | The History of Ancient Greek Philosophy | We shall cover the major developments in Greek philosophical thought, focusing on Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools (the Epicureans, the Stoics, and the Skeptics). Topics include epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, ethics and political... |
| CLASSICS42 | Philosophy and Literature | Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel... |
| CLASSICS43 | Exploring the New Testament | To explore the historical context of the earliest Christians, students will read most of the New Testament as well as many documents that didn't make the final cut. Non-Christian texts, Roman art, and surviving archeological remains will better situa... |
| CLASSICS43N | The Archaeological Imagination | More than excavating ancient sites and managing collections of old things, Archaeology is a way of experiencing the world: imagining past lives through ruins and remains; telling the story of a prehistoric village through the remains of the site and... |
| CLASSICS44 | Epic! Life, death, and glory in the Iliad and Odyssey | The two epics attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer enshrine a vivid world of experience centered on the deeds and misdeeds of warriors and divinities, kings and queens, in the last days and aftermath of the Trojan War. The course examines these... |
| CLASSICS47 | Ancient Knowledge, New Frontiers: How the Greek Legacy Became Islamic Science | What is the relation between magic and science? Is religion compatible with the scientific method? Are there patterns in the stars? What is a metaphor? This course will read key moments in Greek and Islamic science and philosophy and investigate the... |
| CLASSICS4L | Intensive Beginning Latin | Equivalent to a year of beginning Latin (three quarters; CLASSICS 1L, 2L and 3L), this course is designed to teach the fundamentals of the Latin language in one quarter. We will focus primarily on acquiring the basics of Latin grammar, morphology, an... |
| CLASSICS52 | Introduction to Roman Archaeology | (Formerly CLASSART 81.) This course will introduce you to the material culture of the ancient Roman world, from spectacular imperial monuments in the city of Rome to cities and roads around the Mediterranean, from overarching environmental concerns... |
| CLASSICS54 | Introduction to World Architecture | This course offers an expansive and wide-ranging introduction to architecture and urban design from the earliest human constructions to the mid-20th century. The examples range from the Americas to Europe, the Middle East, South and East Asia. The di... |
| CLASSICS56 | Decolonizing the Western Canon: Introduction to Art and Architecture from Prehistory to Medieval | Traditional Art History viewed the Renaissance as its pinnacle; it privileged linear perspective and lifelikeness and measured other traditions against this standard, neglecting art from the Near East, Egypt, the Middle Ages, or Islam. This course wi... |
| CLASSICS57 | Introduction to Digital Archaeology | While the tools of Digital Archaeology frequently change, using digital tools has been part of the discipline for decades. These tools and approaches provide new forms of research, visualization, and outreach to archaeological investigations. This... |
| CLASSICS58 | Egypt in the Age of Heresy | Perhaps the most controversial era in ancient Egyptian history, the Amarna period (c.1350-1334 BCE) was marked by great sociocultural transformation, notably the introduction of a new 'religion' (often considered the world's first form of monotheism)... |
| CLASSICS60 | Reading Aristotle's Ethics: Happiness and the Virtues of Character | How should I live? What should I do to live a happy life? And what does happiness have to do with ethics? What might the best human life look like? What kind of friendships contribute to happiness--and to justice? In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle... |
| CLASSICS6G | Biblical Greek | This is a one term intensive class in Biblical Greek. After quickly learning the basics of the language, we will then dive right into readings from the New Testament and the Septuagint, which is the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. No... |
| CLASSICS6L | Latin 400-1700 CE | Readings in later Latin, drawing on the vast bodies of texts from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Each week students will prepare selections in advance of class meetings; class time will be devoted to translation and discussion.... |
| CLASSICS76 | Global History: The Ancient World | World history from the origins of humanity to the Black Death. Focuses on the evolution of complex societies, wealth, violence, hierarchy, and large-scale belief systems. |
| CLASSICS7G | Biblical Greek | This is a continuation of the Winter Quarter Biblical Greek Course. Pre-requisite: CLASSICS 6G or a similar introductory course in Ancient Greek. |
| CLASSICS801 | TGR M.A. Project | (Formerly CLASSGEN 801.) |
| CLASSICS802 | TGR Ph.D. Dissertation | (Formerly CLASSGEN 802.) |
| CLASSICS81 | Ancient Empires: Near East | Why do imperialists conquer people? Why do some people resist while others collaborate? This course tries to answer these questions by looking at some of the world's earliest empires. The main focus is on the expansion of the Assyrian and Persian Emp... |
| CLASSICS82 | The Egyptians | This course traces the emergence and development of the distinctive cultural world of the ancient Egyptians over nearly 4,000 years. Through archaeological and textual evidence, we will investigate the social structures, religious beliefs, and expre... |
| CLASSICS83 | The Greeks | 250 years ago, for almost the first time in history, a few societies rejected kings who claimed to know what the gods wanted and began moving toward democracy. Only once before had this happened--in ancient Greece. This course asks how the Greeks did... |
| CLASSICS84 | The Romans | How did a tiny village create a huge empire and shape the world, and why did it fail? Roman history, imperialism, politics, social life, economic growth, and religious change. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required; enroll in secti... |
| CLASSICS88 | Origins of History in Greece and Rome | What's the history of `History'? The first ancient historians wrote about commoners and kings, conquest and power - those who had it, those who wanted it, those without it. Their powerful ways of recounting the past still resonate today and can be ha... |
| CLASSICS92 | Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology | This course will introduce students to the art and archaeology of Greece and the Greek world from the Neolithic through Early Roman periods. By integrating both historical and current approaches to the archaeology of Greece, this course aims to suppl... |
| CLASSICS93 | Pots, People, and Press: Greek Archaeology in the Media | Archaeological discovery has long captured the popular imagination, and the media undoubtedly plays a crucial role in this phenomenon. In the case of Greek archaeology, much of this imagination has been intertwined with the legacies of ancient Greek... |
| CLASSICS96 | The Secret Lives of Statues | Statues-human-shaped sculptures-populate the uncanny valley that separates inert matter from living entities. For humans, this 'other population' can engender profound emotional responses, embody potent ideas, and entangle the politics of the past an... |
| CLASSICS9N | What Didn't Make the Bible | Over two billion people alive today consider the Bible to be sacred scripture. But how did the books that made it into the bible get there in the first place? Who decided what was to be part of the bible and what wasn't? How would history look differ... |
| CLASSICS9R | Humanities Research Intensive | Everyone knows that scientists do research, but how do you do research in the humanities? This seven-day course, taught over spring break, will introduce you to the excitement of humanities research, while preparing you to develop an independent summ... |