Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Classical Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ELEMENTARY LATIN I ***** Study of the fundamentals of Latin grammar with emphasis on acquisition of reading skill. ***** Also offered as MDST 101. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace

Department: Classical Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ELEMENTARY LATIN II ***** Continuation of LATI 101. ***** Also offered as MDST 102. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace

Department: Classical Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERMEDIATE LATIN I PROSE ***** Review of grammar and readings in Latin prose. ***** Also offered as MDST 211. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERMEDIATE LATIN II ***** Reading in Vergil's "Aeneid". ***** Also offered as MDST 212. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace.

Department: Classical Studies

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Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED LATIN: LITERATURE OF EXILE IN THE ROMAN TRADITION ***** We will focus upon Latin works on exile in prose and poetry, exploring the actual circumstances of exile in ancient Romes, the relation of exile poetry and elegy, Roman encounters with conceptions of foreigners, and the ways in which exile shaped Roman notions of cultural and individual identity. Authors include Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Seneca, and others. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): McGill

Department: Classical Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED LATIN: ROMAN EPIC ***** The course will read early fragments of epic verse and selections from Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius. Topics will include the nature of the epic genre, the develop of Roman epic and its relation to the Greek tradition, the styles of the individual epic poets, and the works' political and historical contexts. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): McGill

Department: Classical Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED LATIN: PLAUTUS & TERENCE ***** We will read, Plautus, Pseudolus, and Terence, Adelphoe. We will consider the background of Greek comedy and the contemporary social situation in Rome. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED LATIN: VIRGIL ***** Study of the Aeneid in its Augustan context, with special emphasis on books 7-12. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): McGill

Department: Classical Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN PASTORAL POETRY ***** Survey of Latin pastoral, with its idyllic country sides, singing shepherds, and lovely laments. Readings drawn from Virgil's Ecologues, Calpernius, Sirulus, Nemesians,Einsiedel, Eclogues and early Christian pastoral. Principal focus will be stylistic and thematic aspects of individual poems. Late history of pastoral, particularly in English tradition, will also be examined. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): McGill

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED LATIN: OVID ***** Survey of Ovid's elegiac and epic poetry with emphasis on the Metamorphoses. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Mackie

Department: Classical Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CICERO AND CATULLUS: LITERATURE & SOCIETY IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC ***** We will read Cicero's Pro Caeliio and several of Catullus' longer poems as a vehicle for understanding politics and culture in the late Roman Republic. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Yunis

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIRECTED READING ***** Independent work for qualified juniors and seniors in genres or authors not presented in other upper level courses. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIRECTED READING ***** Independent work for qualified juniors and seniors in genres or authors not presented in other upper level courses. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION ***** Reading courses taken by all classics and Latin majors in the spring semester of their senior year in preparation for the comprehensive examination given the last week of the semester. Open to classics and Latin majors only. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff