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These courses form a yearlong introduction to Latin. Students gain familiarity with morphology, syntax, and essential vocabulary; achieve sufficient fluency for selected readings in ancient and medieval texts; and explore the literary, cultural, and historical contexts in which the language is embedded.
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Students in this course concentrate on the Roman historian Livy. Particular attention is paid to consolidating grammatical understanding, expanding vocabulary, and learning to appreciate the metrical and syntactical elegance of Latin. Students also consider the historical and literary contexts of the late republic and early empire, including the issue of Livy's famous Patavinitas and clarissimus candor. The class is open to all students who have completed Latin 102 or its equivalent.
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This course examines, through readings in Latin and English, the complex and tortured relationship between the emperor Nero and his chief adviser, the philosopher Seneca. How did a morally enlightened man like Seneca reconcile himself to the cruelties and abuses of Nero's regime? Seneca's own works are the main focus, but short readings from Tacitus, Petronius, and Suetonius are also examined. Students conclude by reading large portions of Octavia, a Roman historical drama in which Seneca and Nero are central characters.
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Lucretius's De rerum natura is one of the fullest surviving accounts of Epicurean philosophy and, equally, a work of astonishing artistic achievement. In approaching this difficult and rewarding poem, students gain greater fluency in reading Latin and consider, from a variety of critical perspectives, issues raised by the poem's form and content. Topics considered include Lucretius's language and style; the poem's structure,imagery, and themes; Epicurean and other ancient philosophies; prehistory, anthropology, and evolution; and Lucretius's impact on Roman and other poetries and the role played by his manuscript tradition in the development of textual criticism.
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Students trace the evolution of Latin prose and prosimetric satire from Neronian Rome (Seneca and Petronius) through the Renaissance. Readings are drawn from authors such as the Emperor Julian, Alberti, Sir Thomas More, and Erasmus.
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Students read selected writers and discuss general writing principles. Student work is examined through group response, analysis, and evaluation. The course is open by permission of the instructor; a writing sample is required.
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4.00 Credits
This workshop is for students who desire to learn the discipline of creating works of art and experiment with making their own writing a means of learning about literature and poetry. It stresses growth in the student's work; individual awareness of activities, rhythms, and tellings that are possible in poetry; and an understanding of how poets go about learning from their own work. The focus is the student's own writing, along with the articulation (private and shared) of responses to the writing of others. Readings in contemporary and traditional poetry develop familiarity with poetic form, movement, and energy. Attendance at poetry readings and lectures is required. Open by permission of the instructor; a writing sample is required.
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4.00 Credits
Kafka can be read as the chronicler of modern despair in an unidentifiable, timeless landscape. He can also be read as a representative of his era, his "existential anguish" springing from the culturaland historical conflicts (anti-Semitism and theories of sexuality) that agitated Prague at the turn of the century. The course covers Kafka's shorter fiction (fragments, parables, sketches) and longer tales ("The Metamorphosis" and"The Judgement"). Students also examine thenovels The Trial and The Man Who Disappeared ( Amerika), and excerpts from his diaries and letters. The course is taught in English. Students with an advanced proficiency in German can read selections in the original for extra credit.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, SRE The period after World War I was an exciting time for American artists who chose to come of age and discover their own Americanness from other shores. Students read writers of the so-called Lost Generation, including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The course also includes expatriate writers (such as Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and Jessie Fauset) who are best known for their participation in the Harlem Renaissance.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar examines 20th-century satiric writing and its context. Writers studied include Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy Parker, NathanaelWest,W. H. Auden, Mary McCarthy, and David Lodge. Students may experiment with satiric forms in two of their three papers. Prerequisite: some familiarity with the traditions of satire (for example, Literature 240).
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