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CLASSGEN 5N: The Nile and its Life-cycles

Studying the Nile River, in all its aspects involving antiquity. Particular focus on the period between 500 BC and AD 500, with limited materials before and after said period. Is it useful or misleading to think of the river itself as ancient? What happens when we consider the Nile spatially as a whole? Since only a part of the river flows through Egypt we will also focus on Ethiopia, the Sudan and equatorial Africa, which were also objects of ancient Greek and Roman fascination.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Parker, G. (PI)

CLASSGEN 6N: Antigone: From Ancient Democracy to Contemporary Dissent (DRAMA 12N)

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 relevance to contemporary struggles for women's and workers' rights and national liberation. Readings and screenings include versions of Antigone by Sophocles, Anouilh, Brecht, Fugard/Kani/Ntshona, Paulin, Glowacki, Gurney, and von Trotta.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER

CLASSGEN 9: Greek and Latin Roots of English

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. Terminology used in medicine, business, education, law, and humanities; introduction to principles of language history and etymology. Greek or Latin not required.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3
Instructors: Porta, F. (PI)

CLASSGEN 16N: New Worlds from Homer to Columbus

Preference to sophomores. What did the ancient Greeks and Romans imagine far away places and peoples to be like? What did they think the world looked like? What was the modern afterlife of these ancient travel experiences? Focus on Greek and Roman travels and encounters with alien peoples and exotic places (from Homer's Odyssey to the Roman historian Tacitus' descriptions of Britain and German), accounts of the New World and its peoples by both explorers and missionaries (from Columbus to Las Casas) and visual representations.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: Writing 2, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Ceserani, G. (PI)

CLASSGEN 18: 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, Herodotus, and the poets of lyric and tragedy.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

CLASSGEN 24N: 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 inspired by Sappho in ancient and modern times, and composers who put her poetry to music.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
Instructors: Peponi, A. (PI)

CLASSGEN 81: Philosophy and Literature (COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENGEN 181, GERGEN 181, ITALGEN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVGEN 181)

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

CLASSGEN 107: The Black Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and Antiquity (AFRICAAM 107C, CSRE 107)

Explore problems of race and ethnicity as viable criteria in studying ancient societies and consider the question, What is the Mediterranean?, in relation to premodern evidence. Investigate the role of blackness as a marker of ethnicity; the demography of slavery and its roles in forming social identities; and environmental determinism as a factor in ethnic and racial thinking. Consider Greek and Roman perspectives and behavior, and their impact on later theories of race and ethnicity as well as the Mediterranean as a whole.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom

CLASSGEN 119: Gender and Power in Ancient Rome

Ideals, norms, and transgressions of behavior. Masculinity and femininity in founding legends and public rituals; the ambiguous status of vestal virgins; the masculinity of the Roman Forum; the spatial logic of Roman prostitution; gendered accounts of good and bad emperors in ancient texts. Practices of gender and power in life and death, public and private space, religion, spectacles, and sex in the urban landscape of ancient Rome
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors: Trimble, J. (PI)

CLASSGEN 123: Urban Sustainability: Long-Term Archaeological Perspectives (CLASSGEN 223, URBANST 115)

Comparative and archaeological view of urban design and sustainability. How fast changing cities challenge human relationships with nature. Innovation and change, growth, industrial development, the consumption of goods and materials. Five millennia of city life including Near Eastern city states, Graeco-Roman antiquity, the Indus Valley, and the Americas.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Shanks, M. (PI)
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