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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how ancient Greeks and Romans practiced and interrogated the 'craft of speech' (rhetorike techne), specifically persuasive speech, especially as it would be delivered in public settings. Outcome: Students will learn to assess the relationship of Classical rhetorical literature to the world that produced and used it.
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This course introduces students to the ancient masterworks of Greek and Roman fiction in the form of the novel. Outcome: Students should be able to appreciate and explain the ancient romance novel, including the components of structure, characterization, theme, narrative technique, style, and meaning.
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This course focuses upon the institution of war and its effects upon individuals, especially in ancient Greece and modern times. Outcome: Students should be able to understand better and demonstrate knowledge of the many levels of active and passive war experience, including participant/observer, combatant/non-combatant, and various groups in and out of war, ancient and modern.
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In this course, students engage with great literary works of the ancient world that combine social criticism with humor. Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of such authors as Aristophanes, Menander, Terence, and Petronius, and their works, including the components of plot, characters and themes in the main works of ancient comedy and satire; as well as understanding of the historical, social and cultural conditions implicated with each work.
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Students study a selected range of masterworks in ancient Greek literature. (This is a special topics course.) Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate deeper knowledge and understanding of selected Greek literature and its possible interpretations.
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Students study a selected range of masterworks in Latin literature. (This is a special topics course.) Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate deeper knowledge and understanding of selected Latin literature and its possible interpretations.
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This course investigates the social roles available to women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, together with beliefs, behaviors, and cultural expressions supporting ancient Greek and Roman constructions of womanhood. Outcome: Students should be able to identify and discuss distinctive Classical patterns of thought and behavior regarding women and gender. .
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses more deeply on Greek and Latin literature involving myth and how ancient and modern peoples use traditional narratives, characters, images and conceptions to explore, explain and experiment with ideas about themselves and their surroundings in their historical, social and cultural contexts. Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate a deeper, more comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the myths of the ancient Greek and Roman world, their language and possible meanings, and how myth reflected important cultural, social, and other concerns then even as modern myth does now.
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This course focuses more deeply upon the epics of the ancient Mediterranean world. Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate a deeper, more comprehensive knowledge of ancient epic as a literary genre, what heroes are and why they are featured in epics, and how epics began and evolved to reflect audiences and their social, cultural, political and other concerns, beliefs and practices.
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3.00 Credits
Students learn about extant Greek and Roman drama and comedy in depth. Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate deeper, more comprehensive knowledge of the plots, characters and themes in the main Greek and Roman /tragedies and comedies, and understanding of the historical, social and cultural conditions informing each work.
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