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3.00 Credits
This is a survey course of the history and culture of from the Islamic World in connection with the West, with a special emphasis to the history of Islamic Sicily. It is taught by lectures/seminars & fieldtrips, and is based on the required readings. The collaborative and involving character of the lectures will also enhance students' analytical, presentation and disucssion skills.
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3.00 Credits
This course is very intensive beginners course in Modern Standard Arabic, that is the language of international (and often) Arabic media, diplomacy and high culture. Participants will learn to read and write Arabic, and will acquire the necessary grammatical and lexical knowledge to be able to lead simple conversations and correspondences.
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1.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of Sicily from hte prehistoric period to the (re)conquest of the island by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian. Classes deal in turn with each of the major cultures that have developed in or imposed themselves on Sicily, and thus provide an introduction to many of the most important civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean (e.g. the Mycenaeans, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Ostrogoths and Byzantines) via a single geographically defined focus. This approach enables an appreciation to be made of the fundamentals similarities and differences between these cultures, and the continuities and changes in methods of control and exploitation of the island and its resources that they each employed. Close reading of primary and secondary sources will be conbined with archaeolgical site visits to provide a complete overview of the available evidence. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of the Roman world from the creation of the Republic to the death of the Emperor Constantine. The guiding theme of the course is the changing political character of Rome (from Monarchy to Republic to Empire), which will be carefully placed into its historical, social, economi and cultural contexts, and discussed with reference to both Rome itself, and the experience of the continually expanding territories over which it exerted control. Class discussion will be guided by careful reading of selected literary texts (in translation), and by examination of the material culture as represented by a selection of archaeological sites in Sicily. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the archaeologcial remains of Greek and Roman Sicily from the prehistoric period to the late Roman period. After an introduction on early modern travellers & collectors this class examines the archaeological and artistic developments occuring during the kep phases of the history of anicent Sicily, from the prehistoric (Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronza age) to the early Greek colonial period (concentrating on urban developments, religious structures - sanctuaries, burials, temples, sculpture - and artistic production) and then the archaic and classical periods (examining classical architecture, art and coinage). The central section of this class concentrates on the archaeological developments often unique, of Hellenistic & early Roman Sicily (including military architecture, urban planning, sculpture and religious space). We then examine the Roman influence on the island, from the Republican period to the Imperial age and conclude with the monuments of late Roman & early Christian Sicily. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which the Classical past, Greek & Roman, has been appropriated, used or abused, in subsequent ages. We concentrate on the following areas: art & architecture; theatre & drama; cinema; literature; politics & nationalism. The course examines the reuse of clissical models in western art and artitecture (from the Renaissance to 21st century); theater and literature (examining the influences of epic, tragedy and comedy, their role as the foundational texts of western Literature and their reproduction in the modent age); cinema (considering both siltent Italian and Hollywood epics, from films such as Ben Hur and Quo Vadis to the recent productions Gladiator and Alexander); and, more problematically sometimes, poltics. In this last topic we look at the examples of the birth of Modern Greece (and the selection of a certain type of past) and the Italian Fascist period (with the creation of a new Roman political propaganda). Syracuse provides an excellent locations for this class, with the monumental classical Greek Theater-transformed under the Romans, used as source of building materials under the spanish and reconstitued by the inauguration of the International Festival of Anicent Drama (which continues to this day) at the beginning of the 20th century. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of medical knowledge in ancient Greece and Rome. After a survey of the earliest notions of health and disease as god-sent, we move to the attempt to distinguish medicine from religion, and indeed from magic. The course covers the discussion of the doctrines of individual figures and schools; Sicily, notably, orginated some of the greatest figures in the early history of Greek medicine and the 'Sicilian' medical school (which was the greatest rival to the Hippocratic school of Kos) was highly influential. The course concludes with some discussion of the medical schools in Alexandria, where for a brief period anatomists had the opportunity (which did not arise again til the 15th century) to practice not only human dissection but also vivisection and contrast scientific advances with ethical considerations.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed for students whi wish to begin the study of anicent Greek and who have no (or very little) experience of the language. The course starts with the alphabet and gives a thorough grounding in the language through the study of grammar and supportive readings. The set ext for this course is: Maurice Balme and Gilbert Lawall (1995) Athenzae: An introduction to Anicent Greek Student's Book I revised Edition, Oxford University Press. This course would be suitable for students of philosophy, religion and history as well as classical studies majors.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed for students who wish to begin the study of Latin, or to re-acquaint themselves with the basic elements of the latin language, and who have no (or very little) experience of the language. This course introduces the basics of latin grammar and syntax, including" nouns (the 5 declensions), pronouns (relative, demonstrative, personal, reflexive_, adjectives (comparison of adjective, irregular superlative), verbs (the four conjugations, all times and modes, volo and nolo, fero, passive voice, semi deponent verbs, impersonal verbs, gerunds, gerundive). The course concludes with reading of sentences and very brief passages from adapted latin authors.
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