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Please note that the "Semester(s) Offered" entry does not guarantee that the course will always be offered in that semester. Please consult the online Schedule of Courses to verify whether a course will be offered in an upcoming semester.

Note:  Courses in classical humanities (190) are open to students with or without a knowledge of the Greek or Latin language.  Some pre-requisites apply, see below.

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Course Descriptions

Title
Semester(s) Offered Credits Core Curriculum

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Courses in Classical Humanities (190)

Title
Semester(s) Offered Credits Core Curriculum

01:190:101 Word Power

 		Spring 3 AHq

01:190:102 Medical Terminology

 		Fall, Spring, Summer 3

01:190:201 Ancient Greece

 		Fall 3

01:190:202 The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

 		Spring 3

01:190:205 Greek Civilization

 		Fall, Spring, Summer 3 AHo, AHp, HST

01:190:206 Roman Civilization

 		Fall, Spring, Summer 3 AHo, AHp, HST

01:190:207 Greek and Roman Mythology

 		Fall, Spring, Summer 3 AHp

01:190:208 Philosophy of the Greeks

 		Fall 3

01:190:209 Ancient Rome

 		3

01:190:211 Greek and Roman Religion

 		Spring 3 AHo, HST

01:190:212 Classical World in Film

 		Fall 3

01:190:213 Science and Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome

 		Spring, Summer 3 HST

01:190:214 Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

 		Fall, Spring 3 AHp, HST

01:190:215 Intro to Greek and Roman Archaeology

 		Fall, Spring 3 AHp, HST

01:190:300 Greek and Roman Slavery

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:190:301 Food and Drink in the Ancient World

 		Fall, Summer 3

01:190:303 Hellenistic World

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:190:305 Crisis of the Roman Republic

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:190:306 Roman Empire

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:190:309 Greek and Roman Athletics

 		Spring 3 HST

01:190:310 Augustan Rome

 		Spring 3

01:190:312 The Search for the Historical Socrates

 		3

01:190:315 Latin Poets in English

 		3

01:190:317 Ancient Painting

 		Fall 3

01:190:318 Cleopatra

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:190:320 Women in Antiquity

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:190:321 Classical Rhetoric

 		3

01:190:323 Criminals and Saints: Power in Greek Political Life and Imagination

 		Fall 3 WCd, WCr

01:190:324 Race and Ethnicity

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:190:325 Cults, Magic, and Witchcraft

 		Fall 3

01:190:328 Ancient Law in Action

 		3

01:190:350 Greek Society

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:190:352 Plato

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:190:353 Aristotle

 		3

01:190:355 Ancient Mythology and Society

 		Spring 3

01:190:356 Oedipus: A Survey of the Myth from Antiquity to Freud

 		3

01:190:358 Odysseus in Literature, Drama & Film

 		Spring 3

01:190:372 Cities of the Classical World

 		Fall, Summer 3

01:190:373 Pompeii: The Life and Death of a Roman Town

 		Spring 3

01:190:375 Masterpieces of Greek and Roman Art

 		Fall 3

01:190:377 The Hero in Ancient Greece and Rome

 		Spring 3

01:190:381 Greek Drama in Translation

 		3

01:190:391 Roman Drama in Translation

 		3

01:190:393 Greek and Roman Satire

 		3

01:190:395 Transgression in Ancient Greek Society and Culture

 		Spring, Winter 3

01:190:397 The Ancient Novel

 		Spring 3

01:190:421 Indo-European Origins of the Classical Languages

 		Fall 3

01:190:431 Sanskrit I

 		4

01:190:432 Sanskrit II

 		4

01:190:491 Independent Study in Classics

 		Fall, Spring, Summer By arrangement

01:190:492 Independent Study in Classics

 		Fall, Spring By arrangement

01:190:493 Special Topics Seminar

 		Fall 3

01:190:494 Special Topics Seminar

 		Spring 3

01:190:495 Honors Project

 		Fall, Spring 4

01:190:496 Honors Project

 		Fall, Spring, Summer 4

Classical Humanities Courses in Other Departments

Title
Semester(s) Offered Credits Core Curriculum

01:082:301 Ancient Architecture

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:082:306 Roman Art

 		Spring, Summer 3 AHp

01:082:314 Etruscan Art

 		Spring 3

01:082:342 Early Greek Art

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:082:343 Later Greek Art

 		Spring 3

01:510:201 Ancient Greece

 		Fall 3

01:510:202 Ancient Rome

 		3

01:510:205 Byzantium: The Imperial Age

 		Spring 3 HST

01:510:207 Byzantium: The Last Centuries

 		Spring 3 HST

01:510:301 Early Greece

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:510:302 Classical Greece

 		Spring 3

01:510:303 Hellenistic World

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:510:304 Roman Republic

 		Fall 3

01:510:305 The Crisis of the Roman Republic

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:510:306 Roman Empire

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:510:307 The Roman World in Late Antiquity

 		Fall 3

01:510:320 Women in Antiquity

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:510:350 Greek Society

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:510:403 Ancient Warfare and Diplomacy

 		3

01:730:208 Philosophy of the Greeks

 		3

01:730:301 Socrates and Plato

 		Fall 3

01:730:302 Plato and Aristotle

 		Spring, Summer 3

01:730:352 Plato

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:730:401 Plato

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:730:402 Aristotle

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:730:403 Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle

 		Fall 3

Courses in Greek, Ancient (490)

Title
Semester(s) Offered Credits Core Curriculum

01:490:101 Elementary Greek I

 		Fall, Summer 4

01:490:102 Elementary Greek II

 		Spring, Summer 4

01:490:207 Classical Greek Prose

 		Fall 3 AHq

01:490:208 Euripides

 		Spring 3

01:490:211 Introduction to New Testament Greek

 		Summer 3

01:490:304 Aristophanes

 		Spring 3

01:490:305 Greek Drama

 		Spring 3

01:490:306 From Athens to Alexandria

 		3

01:490:308 Greek Historical Writings

 		Fall 3

01:490:309 Lyric Poetry

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:490:310 Greek Heroic Poetry

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:490:311 New Testament Greek

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:490:312 Socratic Literature

 		3

01:490:315 Menander

 		3

01:490:335 Greek Prose Composition

 		3

01:490:352 Readings in Plato

 		Fall 3

01:490:353 Readings in Aristotle

 		3

01:490:391 Readings in Greek Prose

 		Fall 3

01:490:392 Readings in Greek Poetry

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:490:400 Demosthenes

 		3

01:490:402 Plato and Aristotle

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

Courses in Latin (580)

Title
Semester(s) Offered Credits Core Curriculum

01:580:101 Elementary Latin I

 		Fall, Spring, Summer 4

01:580:102 Elementary Latin II

 		Spring, Summer 4

01:580:203 Intermediate Latin Prose

 		Fall 3 AHq

01:580:204 Intermediate Latin Poetry

 		Spring 3

01:580:302 Medieval Latin

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:580:303 Cicero: Philosophical Writings

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:580:304 Cicero: Orations

 		Fall 3

01:580:310 Prose and Poetry in the Age of Augustus

 		Spring 3

01:580:321 Roman Comedy

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:580:323 Lucretius

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:580:324 Sallust

 		3

01:580:325 The History of Livy

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:580:327 Latin Elegy

 		Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 3

01:580:328 Roman Satire

 		Spring 3

01:580:329 Tacitus

 		Fall 3

01:580:335 Latin Prose Composition

 		3

01:580:369 The Seminar in Latin

 		Fall 3

01:580:370 The Seminar in Latin

 		Fall, Spring 3

01:580:401 Advanced Study of the Poetry of Ovid

 		Spring 3

01:580:402 Advanced Study of Vergil's Aeneid

 		Spring 3

01:580:403 Readings in Latin Literature I: Literature of the Republic

 		Spring 3

01:580:404 Readings in Latin Literature II: Literature of the Empire

 		Spring 3

01:580:407 Advanced Study of the Poetry of Horace

 		Fall, Spring, Winter 3