|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
08F, 09W: 11 09S: 10A 09F: 11 10W, 10S: 10 This course introduces student to political theory by reading and discussing classic works. We will discuss the meaning and significance of law, justice, virtue, power, equality, freedom and property. Readings may include: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Kant, Hegel, Tocqueville, Mill, Marx and Nietzsche. Dist: TMV. Murphy, Clarke, Kasfir, Swaine.
-
3.00 Credits
Consult special listings
-
3.00 Credits
08F, 09W, 09F, 10W: 9 Study of Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary accompanied by reading of simple Greek prose selections. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive Requirement. The staff.
-
3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S
-
3.00 Credits
08F: 9 09S, 09F, 10S: 2 Readings in Greek prose and poetry at the intermediate level, typically including selections from Plato and/ or Euripides. Prerequisite: Greek 3, or equivalent. Dist: LIT; WCult: W (unless otherwise indicated). Whaley.
-
3.00 Credits
09W: 2 (See Modern Greek section below)
-
3.00 Credits
10W: 2 Reading in Greek and discussion of selections from the Iliad or Odyssey. Reading of the whole poem in translation and discussion of its character, style, and composition. Prerequisite: Greek 10, or equivalent. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. The staff.
-
3.00 Credits
09W: 10 A study of selected poetry from the archaic period of Greek literature. In addition to excerpts from the hexameter poems of Hesiod and the Homeric hymns, readings will include shorter lyric poems such as those of Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho, Theognis, Xenophanes and Anacreon. Discussion will include both literary aspects of the poems and their social and cultural context, including the ways in which gender is figured in their performance. Prerequisite: Greek 10, or equivalent. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Williamson.
-
3.00 Credits
09S: 2 A study of the tragedy and comedy of Classical Greece through detailed reading of at least one play of Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. Prerequisite: Greek 10, or equivalent. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Kretler.
-
3.00 Credits
10S: 2 This course centers on the period of intellectual ferment and enquiry in fifth and fourth century Athens, when traditional beliefs came under scrutiny and many different figures laid claim to truth telling, from orators and sophists to poets and the practitioners of philosophy and history. Texts studied will be taken from the following: philosophy (the sophists, the early dialogues of Plato); history (Herodotus and/or Thucydides); the medical writers; dramatists (Euripides, Aristophanes): orators. Prerequisite: Greek 10 or equivalent. Dist: TMV; WCult: W. The staff.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|