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Prerequisite(s): CIT 592 or equivalent. Relations. Finite automata, regular languages, regular grammars, and applications. Pushdown automatia, trees, context-free grammars, and applications. Turing machines. Introduction to computability and complexity theory.
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Prerequisite(s): CIT 591 or equivalent. Advanced Java programming and programming tools, with emphasis on developing for the Internet. Java topics will include serialization, synchronization, reflection, advanced I/O, and servlets. This course will cover current Internet-related technologies such as XML and JavaScript, and may include JDBC,UML, PHP, SOAP, and others. Substantial programming assignments, many in Java. May be taken by MCIT and CIS graduate students.
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Staff. This course is an introductory-level class in rhetoric and speaking. It has three main goals: to introduce students to ancient rhetoric; to learn how to draw from these Classical principles to put together articulate and persuasive speeches; and to explore the formidable role rhetoric plays in the construction of our own world. Students will study both Classical and contemporary speaking. Assignments will teach students to analyze, compose and deliver public speeches, while weekly oral presentations and peer-review will further their understanding of effective argumentation and criticism.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Romano. Freshman Seminar. An introduction to the study of Greek and Roman city planning systems and techniques. The course includes consideration of literary, historical and archaeological evidence for ancient cities and city planning. There will be a discussion of and practical use of some modern techniques of computer and scientific analysis of cities.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Meyer. An introduction to the major philosophical thinkers and schools of ancient Greece and Rome (The Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics). Topics to be covered include: nature of the universe, the relation between knowledge and reality, and the nature of morality and the good life. We will also examine some of the ways in which non-philosophical writers (e.g., Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, and Thucydides) treat the issues discussed by the philosophers.
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Pittman. This course presents a comparative overview of the ancient civilizations around the world. It is designed as a gateway course for the many specialized courses available at Penn. Its focus is two fold: first, the various forms that ancient cultures have developed are explored and compared and second, the types of disciplines that study these courses are examined. The course has a number of guest lecturers, as well as visits to museums and libraries to examine original documents. This course meets the requirement for the Ancient Studies Minor.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. McInerney. "Greece, the captive, took her savage victor captive", runs the famous line from the Roman poet Horace. Traditionally the complex relationship between Greece and Rome has been seen from the Roman point of view, emphasizing the changes in Roman culture as a result of Rome's contact with the Greeks. This class takes a different approach, considering the impact on Greece. We will use the results of archaeological survey and excavation to chart the economic transformation of Greece, especially in relation to the Roman colony at Korinth. This will involve examining changes in land distribution, the growth of road networks, and the increase in large public works such as theatres, aqueducts and baths. We will also use writers such as Dio Chrysostom and Pausanias to consider the effect on the institutions of the traditional Greek city-state of being incorporated into a single province, Achaia. We will read some of the ancient novels, such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, as well as the essays of Plutarch. There are many avenues into the past, and the particular richness of our sources for Roman imperial history makes it possible for us to approach Greece from a variety of perspectives.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Struck. Dreams can provide an extraordinary window on a culture, its imagination, its social organization, its cultural expectations, and its irrational beliefs. Dreams in literary works reveal what the author thinks dreams are like, and how he expects his audience to interpret them. Explicit dream theories tell us how people in Anitquity dealt with these "irrational" elements in their culture. Apart from ancient literary works, a whole dreambook, full of examples and interpretations, has come down to us. In this seminar we will look at a wide variety of famous texts from Greek and roman literature, pagan and Christian, and some comparative material from the Near East. we will also read some Freud, and some other secondary literature, and think about how Freud's ideas influence our reading of ancient texts, and to what extent that is permissible. All texts studied will be in translation -- no knowledge of Greek or Latin will be necessary. All that is needed for this course is a waking mind and an interest in the psychology of Antiquity.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. A survey and analysis of the origins and development to ancient Greek and Roman religion from the Greek Bronze Age to the advent of Christianity. Students will read both primary and secondary literature.
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