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3.00 Credits
Surviving imagery suggests that persons in Minoan and Mycenaean societies engaged in various celebratory performances, including processions, feasts, and ecstatic dance. This course explores archaeological evidence of such celebrations, focusing on sociocultural roles, bodily experience, and interpretive challenges.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines modern representations of ancient Greece and Rome in film. Students will analyze films in both ancient and modern contexts, distinguishing historical fact from artistic choice. Screenings on Monday evenings. Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies.
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2.00 Credits
Through readings of classical and contemporary authors (Herodotus, Hippocrates, Calvino, Saint-Exupery, and others), this course investigates the interrelations between geographical knowledge and non-geographical interpretive categories. In particular, an interdisciplinary perspective will focus on the idea of identity/otherness, from the earliest cartography to the modern sociological studies of usages, customs, and morals. Why was “drawing the World” a matter of daring and the “drawn World” is a daring mirror of ourselves?
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3.00 Credits
(Same course as 040.706) Reading of prose or verse authors, depending on the needs of students. This semester’s focus will be on poetry, in particular Homer. Prerequisites: 040.205-206 or equivalent
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3.00 Credits
(Same course as 040.710) The aim of this course is to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of the Latin language. Intensive reading of Latin texts, with the usual attention to matters of grammar, idiom, translation, etc. This semester’s reading will focus on Cicero's Pro Caelio and Catullus' poems to Lesbia. Prerequisites: 040.207-208 or equivalent
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Athens in the High Classical period, focusing on primary sources read in translation (Thucydides, Plutarch) and archaeological evidence.
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2.00 Credits
Greek and Latin give origin not only to medical and scientific terms, but also to many of the words we use every day. This course will explore the connection between the English vocabulary and its classical origin. Terms derived from Greek and Latin will be analyzed, improving your understanding of the words you already know and expanding your vocabulary.
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3.00 Credits
Limited to juniors and seniors from Classics, History of Art, Archaeology, and Museum and Society. Others with permission of instructor only. This course will examine objects of daily life from the Greco-Roman world in the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum. Students will collaborate on an online catalogue, featuring their research. Cross-listed with History of Art, Near Eastern Studies, and Museums and Society.
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1.00 Credits
What is language? This course explores this question by examining invented languages, from Esperanto to Klingon. In this introductory course for anyone curious about language, we will learn the basics of linguistics, highlighting important commonalities and differences across languages. We will then apply our learning to several invented languages, discuss whether or not they conform to established standards for natural human language, and hypothesize about potential ramifications.
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3.00 Credits
Co-listed as 080.203 in Neuroscience This course surveys theory and research concerning how mental processes are carried out by the human brain. Currently a wide range of methods of probing the functioning brain are yielding insights into the nature of the relation between mental and neural events. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of both the physiological bases of the techniques and the issues involved in relating measures of brain activity to cognitive functioning. Methods surveyed include electrophysiological recording techniques such as EEG, VEP, ERP, single/multiple unit recording and MEG; functional imaging techniques such as PET and fMRI; and methods that involve lesioning or disrupting neural activity such as WADA, cortical stimulation, animal lesion studies, and the study of brain-damaged individuals.
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