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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Every fall. NICHOLAS LIN AND HONGYUN SUN. An intermediate course in modern Chinese. Five hours of class per week and individual conversation sessions. Consolidates and expands the knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, with 400 additional characters. Rigorous training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Followed by Chinese 204. Prerequisite: Chinese 102 or permission of the instructor.
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5.00 Credits
Every spring. NICHOLAS LIN AND HONGYUN SUN. A continuation of Chinese 203. Five hours of class per week and individual conversation sessions. Further develops students' communicative competence and strives to achieve a balance between the receptive and productive skills. Students learn another 400 characters; read longer, more complex texts; and write short compositions with increasing discourse cohesion. Followed by Chinese 205. Prerequisite: Chinese 203 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every fall. SONGREN CUI. A pre-advanced course in modern Chinese. Three hours of class per week. Upgrades all skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with an emphasis on accuracy and fluency. Followed by Chinese 206. Prerequisite: Chinese 204 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every spring. SONGREN CUI. A continuation of Chinese 205. Three hours of class per week. Focuses on the development of functional skills in reading and writing, particularly dealing with edited and/or media materials such as newspapers, TV broadcasting, and the Internet. Followed by Chinese 307. Prerequisite: Chinese 205 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every fall. NICHOLAS LIN. An advanced course in modern Chinese. Three hours of class per week. Emphasizes vocabulary expansion, faster reading speed, better comprehension, and advanced communicative skills. Prerequisite: Chinese 206 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every spring. NICHOLAS LIN. A continuation of Chinese 307. Three hours of class per week. Designed to prepare students to make a successful transition from "textbook Chinese" to the "real world,linguistically and culturally through independent reading, formal critique, and group discussion. Further enhances the accuracy, complexity, and fluency of students' expressions. Prerequisite: Chinese 307 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. BARBARA WEIDEN BOYD. Focuses on the mythology of the Greeks and the use of myth in Classical literature. Other topics considered are: recurrent patterns and motifs in Greek myths; a cross-cultural study of ancient creation myths; the relation of mythology to religion; women's roles in myth; and the application of modern anthropological, sociological, and psychological theories to classical myth. Concludes with an examination of Ovid's use of classical mythology in the Metamorphoses.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. JENNIFER CLARKE KOSAK. Introduces students to the study of the literature and culture of ancient Greece. Examines different Greek responses to issues such as religion and the role of gods in human existence, heroism, the natural world, the individual and society, and competition. Considers forms of Greek rationalism, the flourishing of various literary and artistic media, Greek experimentation with different political systems, and concepts of Hellenism and barbarism. Investigates not only what we do and do not know about ancient Greece, but also the types of evidence and methodologies with which we construct this knowledge. Evidence is drawn primarily from the works of authors such as Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Plato, and Hippocrates, but attention is also given to documentary and artistic sources. All readings are done in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. JENNIFER CLARKE KOSAK. Examines Greek and Roman notions of responsibility to family, state, and self, and the social ideals and pressures that shaped ancient attitudes towards duty. Readings include works by Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Petronius.
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3.00 Credits
ESD,IP.Augustan Rome
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