Courses in Classical Humanities (190)

• Course Code: 01:190:300
• Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
• Credits: 3

Social, economic, legal, and political aspects of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome. The sources and numbers of slaves, forms of servitude, manumission, and slave labor.

• Course Code: 01:190:215
• Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
• Credits: 3
• SAS Core Certified: AHp, HST

This course is an introductory survey of the archaeology, architecture and material culture of the Mediterranean world from the Bronze Age throughout the transformation of the Roman Empire following the reign of Constantine. While we consider chronological developments, we will also place Greek and Roman artistic production into its social and cultural settings. Along the way we will think about approaches and methodologies for the study of Classical Art, and how these may tell us more about ourselves than the ancient Greeks and Romans.

• Course Code: 01:190:214
• Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
• Credits: 3
• SAS Core Certified: AHp, HST

Investigates how the ancient Greeks and Romans categorized, depicted, and reacted to different sexual behaviors and identities through the study of visual and literary sources ranging from Homeric Greece to Imperial Rome.

• Course Code: 01:190:213
• Semester(s) Offered: Spring, Summer
• Credits: 3
• SAS Core Certified: HST

Explores the nature and development of science and technology in ancient Greece and Rome, focusing on medicine, physics, mathematics and engineering.