ELEMENTARY LATIN I
For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sebastiano Belleggia
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ELEMENTARY GREEK II
Prerequisites: GREK UN1101 or the equivalent, or the instructor or the director of undergraduate studies permission. Continuation of grammar study begun in GREK UN1101; selections from Attic prose.
- MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jazmin Novoa Lara
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Instructor:
Wooseok Kim
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ELEMENT. MODERN GREEK II
Prerequisites: GRKM UN1101 or the equivalent. Continuation of GRKM UN1101. Introduction to modern Greek language and culture. Emphasis on speaking, writing, basic grammar, syntax, and cross-cultural analysis.
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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ELEMENTARY LATIN II
Prerequisites: LATN UN1101. A continuation of LATN UN1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Brett L Stine
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Instructor:
Olivier Bordeleau-Lavoie
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).
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Instructor:
Hanna Golab
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY LATIN
Equivalent to Latin 1101 and 1102. Covers all of Latin grammar and syntax in one term to prepare the student to enter Latin 1201 or 1202. This is an intensive course with substantial preparation time outside of class.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Koudounis
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INTERMEDIATE LATIN I
Prerequisites: LATN UN1101 & UN1102 or LATN UN1121 or equivalent. Selections from Catullus and Cicero.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marissa K Swan
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INTERMEDIATE GREEK II: HOMER
Prerequisites: GREK UN1101- GREK UN1102 or GREK UN1121 or the equivalent. Detailed grammatical and literary study of several books of the Iliad and introduction to the techniques or oral poetry, to the Homeric hexameter, and to the historical background of Homer.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK II
Prerequisites: GRKM UN2101 or the equivalent. Continuation of GRKM UN2101. Students complete their knowledge of the fundamentals of Greek grammar and syntax while continuing to enrich their vocabulary.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chrysanthe Filippardos
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INTERMEDIATE LATIN II
Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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Instructor:
Geoffrey Harmsworth
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CLASSICAL LATIN PROSE
Prerequisites: LATN W2202 or equivalent This course is intended to complement Latin V3012: Augustan Poetry in providing students I a transition between the elementary, grammatical study of Latin texts to a more fluent understanding of complex literary style. Latin V3013 will largely concentrate on different styles of writing, particularly narrative, invective, and argument. Text will be drawn primarily from Ciceros orations, with some readings form his rhetorical works.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lien Van Geel
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Readings from the Greek New Testament
Readings - Greek New Test
The New Testament introduces us to a register, or rather registers, of Greek radically unlike those of the high canon of classical texts. In broad terms, all the texts in the collection possess features that link them to the documentary Greek used in early imperial papyri and inscriptions, for example, the obsolescence of the optative, the infrequency of certain particles, and the relative simplicity of the syntax. But there is remarkable variety within these broad constraints: Matthew straightforwardly imitates the language of the Greek Old Testament, Markan prose is pared down to the point of being gnomic, Luke/Acts has some generic markers of historiography without any meaningful indication that the classical historians served the author as a model, and the lively paraenetic/argumentative/hysterical style of the authentic Pauline Epistles resists facile classification. The existence of such texts reminds us of the need to break out of the Atticistic canon if we want to get a full picture of Imperial Greek. We need to determine who in socio-economic terms the writers and readers of such texts may have been and whether there may not have been many more like them. In this way we can complicate the facile view that draws an excessively close connection between the eastern Empire, Greekness and the Greek city, and the Second Sophistic. Not all Greek writing was a vehicle for the dissemination of an exclusivistic Greekness. It will also not be ignored that these texts are important not only for literary scholars and Roman social historians, but also for historians of Christianity and Judaism, for reasons too obvious to require explication. But no texts analyze themselves: students will be introduced to the central problems raised by the texts and the main methodological and theoretical approaches used to solve them.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age
SOCIETY/POWER HELLENISTIC
This course explore the Hellenistic world (not to be confused with the “Hellenic world”)— the spaces and communities in the Mediterranean, Africa and Western Asia, in the centuries following the destruction of the Achaimenid empire. The themes studied include the formation of large tributary empires, and their strategies for implementing control; local political agency; cultural interaction, within frameworks of imperial power, between Greek and non-Greek; social relations; economic history; and more. This world seems created by a historical accident, but might equally be described as the result of deep structural features (the convergence of polis institutions, the rise of a connected economy, the spread of Greek cultural forms). The interpretation of this extraordinary period has been influenced by a number of factors, some intrinsic to the field (the availability of rich documentary evidence), some extrinsic (the rise and fall of European colonialism); it also has been characterised by paradigm shifts (from decline to vitality to diversities). This course will offer the occasion to test paradigms of “globalization” across many ancient contexts. It will do so by close reading of courses, broader surveys, and constant engagement with historical problems. Its main focus will be on the third and early second centuries BCE (“high Hellenistic period”), with some attention paid to the following century. The historian Polybios (ca. 200 BCE-after 118 BCE) will serve as a guide for both periods, especially his narrative of the year 217 BCE which culminates in the narrative of the battle of Raphia (as well as the arrival of the Roman Republic on the political scene of the Eastern Mediterranean).
The course aims to achieve the following goals. First, to impart familiarity with events in a crucial period of ancient history. Second, to impart with the physical, historical, and human geographies of the area covered by the “Hellenistic world”— in the longue durée. This means spaces and regions from Spain to Central Asia: ancient Afro-Eurasia.Thirdly, to learn how to read fragmentary or indirect sources, often documentary, and in conjunction with material and visual evidence. Fourthly, to read historical studies by modern scholars, evaluate academic argument (notably in the deployment of evidence but also of theoretical models), and to produce historical argument in exams and paper. Fifthly, to evaluate the history of the Hellenistic age from a
Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age
Society/Power Hellenistic
Discussion Sections for CLCV UN3069
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John T Ma
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Jose M Romero Lotero
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Araceli T Rizzo
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Isiac cults in contexts; Egyptian cults
Isiac Cults In Contexts
This course looks at the long history of the “Egyptian” cults (cults of Isis, Osiris, Anubis, Sarapis, and Harpocrates) mainly outside of Egypt and in periods much later than the Pharaonic heyday of Ancient Egypt, that is, the Hellenistic and the Roman empire. By looking at and closely reading primary documents in translation, visual evidence, and archaeological remains, we aim to explore critical issues in the study of ancient polytheism, such as sacred space, the role of priests, religious sociology problems, forms of religious, ritual dynamics, construction of emotions religious and the sense of self and community. An issue of particular interest is the relationship between religious ethos and economic life and the relationship with various forms of power. Questions of gender will be central to the
problematique
. In addition to the seminar, there will be frequent visits to the Met, individually or as a group.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT
Almost a century after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman past lives on in contemporary Greece, often in unexpected sites. In the built environment it appears as mosques, baths, covered markets, and fountains adorned with Arabic inscriptions. It also manifests itself in music, food, and language. Yet Ottoman legacies also shape the European present in less obvious ways and generate vehement debates about identity, nation-building, human rights, and interstate relations. In this course, we will be drawing on history, politics, anthropology, and comparative literature as well as a broad range of primary materials to view the Ottoman past through the lens of the Greek present. What understandings of nation-building emerge as more Ottoman archives became accessible to scholars? How does Islamic Family Law—still in effect in Greece—confront the European legal system? How are Ottoman administrative structures re-assessed in the context of acute socio-economic crisis and migration?
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
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GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II
GREEK LIT SELEC II: COMED
Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lien Van Geel
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS
This course examines various literary, artistic, and cultural traditions that respond to some of the most recognizable Greek motifs in myth, theater, and politics, with the aim of understanding both what these motifs might be offering specifically to these traditions in particular social-historical contexts and, at the same time, what these traditions in turn bring to our conventional understanding of these motifs, how they reconceptualize them and how they alter them. The overall impetus is framed by a prismatic inquiry of how conditions of modernity, postcoloniality, and globality fashion themselves in engagement with certain persistent imaginaries of antiquity.
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
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DIRCTD READING-ANCIENT STUDIES
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. Program of readings in some aspect of ancient studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering courses in the program in Ancient Studies. Evaluation by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s).
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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John T Ma
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Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Greek literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.
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Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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John T Ma
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Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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DIRECTED READINGS
Designed for undergraduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.
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Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Stathis Gourgouris
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Dimitris Antoniou
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Karen Van Dyck
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Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 1-4 points
DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Latin literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT
DIRECTED LATIN READINGS
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Latin literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.
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Instructor:
Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Latin literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
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Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
DIRCTD RSRCH-ANCIENT STUDIES I
Program of research in ancient studies under the direction of an advisor associated with the program, resulting in a research paper. Outline and bibliography must be approved by the director of undergraduate studies before credit will be awarded for ANCS V3995.
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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Instructor:
Francesco de Angelis
CULPA: 10
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Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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Seth R Schwartz
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Ellen Morris
CULPA: 10
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Paraskevi Martzavou
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John T Ma
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Instructor:
Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
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SUPERVISED RSRCH IN GREEK LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Greek literature. Research paper required.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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John T Ma
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Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
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Hanna Golab
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Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Dhananjay Jagannathan
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Ioannis Mylonopoulos
CULPA: 13
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SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR
Designed for students writing a senior thesis or doing advanced research on Greek or Greek Diaspora topics.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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SUPERVISED RSRCH IN LATIN LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Latin literature. Research paper required.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
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Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT
SELECTIONS GREK LIT:THUCYDIDES
Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes each year, it may be repeated for credit.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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SELECTIONS FROM LATIN LITERATURE
Prerequisites: LATN UN3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lien Van Geel
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Survey of Greek Literature
This course provides a survey of Greek literature. It aims to improve students’ reading skills, familiarize them with some of the most canonical works of Greek literature, afford them a sense of Greek literary history, and introduce them to modern methodological approaches. Readings are drawn from the Classics Ph.D. reading list.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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Survey of Latin Literature
This course provides a survey of Latin literature. It aims to improve students’ reading skills, familiarize them with some of the most canonical works of Latin literature, afford them a sense of Latin literary history, and introduce them to modern methodological approaches. Readings are drawn from the Classics Ph.D. reading list.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course covers various topics in Medieval Latin Literature.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
All supervisors will be Columbia faculty who hold a PhD. Students are responsible for identifying their own supervisor and it is at the discretion of faculty whether they accept to supervise independent research. Projects must be focused on Hellenic Studies and can be approached from any disciplinary background. Students are expected to develop their own reading list in consultation with their supervisor. In addition to completing assigned readings, the student must also write a Hellenic studies paper of 20 pages. Projects other than a research paper will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Hellenic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that revolves around two main axes: space and time. Its teaching and research are focused on the study of post-classical Greece in various fields: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art, Archaeology, and in various periods: Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, Modern Greek etc. Therefore, the range of topics that are acceptable as a Hellenic Studies seminar paper is broad. It is upon each supervisor to discuss the specific topic with the student. The work submitted for this independent study course must be different from the work a student submits in other courses, including the Hellenic Studies Senior Research Seminar.
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Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Stathis Gourgouris
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Dimitris Antoniou
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Karen Van Dyck
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Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Multilingual Worlds: Translation, Gender
Translation, Gender, Gree
Moving between different languages and alphabets is a constitutive aspect of the diasporic experience. To remember or forget the mother tongue, to mix up two or more languages, to transcribe one writing system onto another are all modes of negotiating geographical displacement. This course introduces students to literature about and by Greeks of the diaspora in Europe, the Balkans and America over the past two centuries exploring questions of migration, translation and gender with particular attention to the look and sound of different alphabets and foreign accents – “It’s all Greek to me!” Authors include Benjamin, Broumas, Chaplin, Chow, Conan Doyle, Kafka, Kazan, Morrison, Papadiamantis, Queen, Valtinos and Venuti.
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Instructor:
Karen Van Dyck
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
DIRECTED READINGS
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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Erin J Petrella
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Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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Seth R Schwartz
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Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
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John T Ma
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Hanna Golab
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Ellen Morris
CULPA: 10
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DIRECTED READINGS
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
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John T Ma
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
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Nikolas Kakkoufa
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DIRECTED READINGS
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
MA THESIS
This course will enable students to complete a research study of considerable length that will (i) enable them to explore a given area of research in substantive detail; (ii) put them on the path to true competence as independent researchers; and (iii) provide those who go on to apply to PhD programs with a substantial writing sample that shows off their technical abilities to the best advantage.
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Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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GRADUATE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
GRAD RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
The Graduate Research Colloquium is a forum that offers two types of research seminars over the course of the semester. In the first, formerly the Graduate Colloquium, up to six outside speakers are invited by the graduate organizers to present research papers to an audience of graduates, faculty and others interested within the larger NYC Classics community, and afterwards to engage in discussion. The second is a Work-in-Progress seminar in which Columbia Classics graduate students present their research to their graduate peers in whatever format they deem most conducive to conveying their research to their audience and receiving feedback. The audience for these eight seminars is restricted to graduate students, the instructor who presides over the course, and any faculty the graduate student presenters choose should choose to invite. At least one semester of the Graduate Research Colloquium is required for MAO students and PhD students must attend the course in both the Fall and Spring semesters of their first year.
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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GREEK EPIGRAPHY
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points