Course Descriptions
Classical Studies (Taught in Translation)
Spring 2012
Classical Studies (Taught in Translation)
English Use of Latin and Greek with Dr. William Napiwocki
enrollment restricted to students of St. Joseph's Seminary
CLST 131-K01.....Class # 2590.....M-W-F.....12:35pm-1:25pm.....STJ-202
Classical Mythology with Dr. Laura Gawlinski
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 271-001.....Class # 1102.....M-W-F.....8:15am-9:05am.....DU-119
This course explores the myths of the ancient Greeks primarily through the reading of ancient texts in English translation, from Hesiod’s epic tale of the birth of the gods to Ovid’s poetry presented to a Roman audience. We will do more than just read weird and wonderful stories about ancient Greek gods and heroes, however. We will examine what myths meant to the Greeks, how they were used by them, how they related to religion and ritual, and the methods and theories used to study and interpret them today. We will also touch upon the mutability of myth, including the variety of ways it found expression on the ancient stage, its function in art of different periods, and its treatment in modern cinema.
Classical Mythology with Dr. Laura Gawlinski
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 271-002.....Class # 1103.....M-W-F.....11:30am-12:20pm.....FLAN-105
This course explores the myths of the ancient Greeks primarily through the reading of ancient texts in English translation, from Hesiod’s epic tale of the birth of the gods to Ovid’s poetry presented to a Roman audience. We will do more than just read weird and wonderful stories about ancient Greek gods and heroes, however. We will examine what myths meant to the Greeks, how they were used by them, how they related to religion and ritual, and the methods and theories used to study and interpret them today. We will also touch upon the mutability of myth, including the variety of ways it found expression on the ancient stage, its function in art of different periods, and its treatment in modern cinema.
Classical Mythology with Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 271-003.....Class # 1104.....M-W-F.....2:45pm-3:35pm.....FLAN-7
Classical Mythology, CLST 271-003, which offers core credit for "Literary Knowledge and Experience," and "Critical Thinking Skills," will study the use of myth in literature by selected Greek and Latin authors from the eighth century BCE until the first CE. Myths are stories which encode a society's values, hopes, and fears. They describe how people thought the universe was created, how men and women came into being and suffered or benefited from the intervention of powers personified as gods. They explain the significance of social and religious institutions and reasons for the existing social hierarchies. They dramatize the conflict individuals experience between what they want and are told they have to accept, between what they think is true or good and what others believe is right. They elucidate the power of the human imagination and of love even in the most adverse circumstances, as in the face of failure, death, or oblivion. Providing context for the mythic accounts will be a consideration of how political influences may have been operative and how artistic renditions reflect and supplement the literature.
Classical Mythology with Dr. John Makowski
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 271-004.....Class # 2222.....T-Th.....11:30am-12:45pm.....CC-140
Classical Mythology with Dr. Edith Pennoyer (Penny) Livermore
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 271-005.....Class # 6361.....M-W-F.....12:35pm-1:25pm.....CC-141
Heroes & Classical Epics with Dr. Jonathan Mannering
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 272-001.....Class # 1105.....M-W-F.....8:15am-9:05am.....DU-118
This course centers upon the key epics of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, their nature and significance, and, especially, the concepts of heroes and heroism. Topics of interest include and are not limited to: power and the construction of individual authority; strife and healing, both interpersonal and societal; ethnicity and cultural identity; family, household and community; gender; leadership and trust; war, its causes and costs; narrative technique. Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate 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, values (such as leadership) beliefs and practices. Writing assignments will emphasize scrupulous analysis and pointed adducement of textual evidence to substantiate broader claims about theme and meaning.
Heroes & Classical Epics with Dr. Jonathan Mannering
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 272-002.....Class # 1106.....M-W-F.....11:30am-12:20pm.....FLAN-7
This course centers upon the key epics of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, their nature and significance, and, especially, the concepts of heroes and heroism. Topics of interest include and are not limited to: power and the construction of individual authority; strife and healing, both interpersonal and societal; ethnicity and cultural identity; family, household and community; gender; leadership and trust; war, its causes and costs; narrative technique. Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate 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, values (such as leadership) beliefs and practices. Writing assignments will emphasize scrupulous analysis and pointed adducement of textual evidence to substantiate broader claims about theme and meaning.
Heroes & Classical Epics with Dr. Edith Pennoyer (Penny) Livermore
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 272-003.....Class # 1107.....T-Th.....8:30am-9:45am.....FLAN-7
"Quae regio in terris nostris non plena laboris?"
[What land on Earth is not filled with our Work? - Virgil, Aeneid 1.420]
A beloved verse from Virgil, embedded in mosaic in the vestibule of the Madonna De la Strada Chapel and appropriated, for the Jesuit Order, from its original context with regard to the laborious policies and projects of the expansion of Rome, could also be applied to the majesty and might of the exacting study of ancient Epic. For the Epic has indeed pervaded Western literary tradition in the footprints and the dreams of these enduringly human characters and events which have survived, and shall survive, as long as these songs and stories. The purpose of this Course, with its exacting study through ancillary scholarship, is to raise our consciousness of these enduring human values and of their relevance to the heroic, and even to the non-heroic, in our own quotidian lives -- the heroes, both song and unsung, the singers and the silent, whose labors have extended and survived throughout all corners of earth. Because, as Homer wrote in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, the events in Epic were all ordained by Zeus "in order that there might be a song for those yet to be born."
Heroes & Classical Epics with Dr. Brian Lavelle
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 272-004.....Class # 5325.....T-Th.....2:30am-3:45pm.....CC-114
This course is all about the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid. While we shall want to place these epic poems into their historical, social, and cultural contexts, we shall also want to appreciate them on their own terms and as timeless literature that continues to puzzle, engage, repel, but certainly fascinate (and even enthrall) audiences today. Students will learn about epic poetry, oral tradition, heroes, gods, struggles of every kind, and triumphs, among many other things. They will be able to describe the plots of these epics and human characters, gods, and goddesses. A strong emphasis for this class will be on the vital connections between the past and present and how students can become more aware and understanding of important lasting concepts such as heroism, leadership, self-definition, etc., included in them. The Classical tradition is rich with meaning and significance, even to "modern" 21st-century young adults, and this class will not only be an exploration of the culture and society of the ancient world through the epic poems, but also of why these epics remain so powerfully attractive - and important - today.
Classical Tragedy with Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 273-001.....Class # 1109.....M-W-F.....12:35pm-1:25pm.....DU-123
The course, Classical Tragedy, which provides core credit in the Knowledge Area of "Literary Knowledge and Experience" and for the Skill of "Critical Thinking," examines plays composed and performed first for festivals honoring the god Dionysos in the democratic city of Athens during the fifth century BCE. While enacting stories set in the legendary past, the tragedies publicly dramatized the kinds of characters, situations, and problems relevant to their original audiences. These stories, and the formal characteristics of the ways in which they were presented, continue to raise questions for our contemporary audiences to address in terms of dramaturgy, personal identity, familial and political affiliation, and religious assumptions.
Classical Tragedy with Dr. James Keenan
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 273-002.....Class # 4355.....T-Th.....10:00am-11:15am.....CC-140
This semester critical background to the plays selected for the syllabus will be provided by John Burgess's The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama. Plays will include Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus, and Euripides' Medea. Remaining titles (about ten more) await selection.
Classical Tragedy with Dr. Kirk Shellko
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 273-003.....Class # 2559.....T.....7:00pm-9:30pm.....CC-140
Classical Tragedy introduces students to the authors, social contexts and performances of ancient Greek drama. Students will learn how to interpret the "myth" presented on the ancient Greek stage and how to apply what they have learned to detect and interpret the moral, social and political issues raised in them. They will learn the names, works and careers of the principal tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Students will learn to assess the formal and aesthetic properties of the works of different tragedians. Emphasis will be given to specifics of performance and seeing a play in the "theater of the mind" as well as gaining command of relevant terminology, e.g., parodos, peripeteia, mimesis, catharsis, etc. Students will learn to outline the plot, argument and key themes of each work clearly and will gain an understanding of the historical context and social conditions motivating each work. The main themes of Greek tragedy (e.g., power, gender, justice, violence etc.) invite comparison to themes of contemporary theater and film. Students will acquire an awareness of ancient Greek tragedy in its connection with our own theatrical and literary culture, and will understand the influence of Greek drama on modern stage and literature. They will be able to employ several concepts in the analysis of Classical Tragedy.
World of Classical Greece with Dr. Brian Lavelle
Historical Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 275-001.....Class # 3466.....T-Th.....1:00pm-2:15pm.....DU-118
The course is about the history, literature, art, culture and society of Classical Greece from (before) 480 B.C.E. to c. 320 B.C.E., the headwaters of so much that has impacted western civilization; its focus will be the city of Athens. The course is structured chronologically and is reliant upon primary source-material as represented primarily by contemporary historical literature. To comprehend that information and the ways of reading and interpreting it is a primary aim of the course: we shall want to understand the world of Classical Greece as it is conveyed by Greeks themselves. Its primary aim is to attain a vivid sense of what it was to have been alive and participant in Greek and Athenian society during the Classical period. A further aim of this course is to draw students toward comparing the world of classical Greece with the modern world and their understanding of it, its institutions, thoughts, and practices, so leading them to deeper evaluation of their own lives, their world and their values.
World of Late Antiquity (cross-listed with CATH 200, MSTU 298) with Dr. Jacqueline Long
Historical Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 277-001.....Class # 3467.....M-W-F.....9:20am-10:10am.....FLAN-7
This course will investigate the historical development of the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries C.E., when the Mediterranean basin and Europe re-evaluated their Classical past and decisively set their course toward Medieval and later governmental, religious, and cultural history. Students will learn and practice the work of historical inquiry as directly as possible, on literary, documentary, and material sources; by integrating different approaches they will better understand the complexity of lived experience and the interaction of historical forces. Sequential developments in Roman government establish a chronological framework for our study: why did the Principate's administration of the Roman Empire spin out of control? How did late imperial governments, amid chaotic rivalries, evolve a new system? As later Roman governments switched from persecuting to promoting Christianity, how did religious sensibilities change - and what remained constant? How were Classical cultural ideals like piety, family, public service and education maintained and re-colored? How did individual men and women, Christians and pagans and Manichees, emperors and soldiers and citizens and sophists, martyrs and bishops and monks and philosophers see their world? Do we agree?
Classical Rhetoric (Writing Intensive) with Dr. Jonathan Mannering
departmental elective
CLST 279-01W.....Class # 5326.....M-W-F.....1:40pm-2:30pm.....IC-112
Art of Ancient Greece (cross-listed with FNAR 336) with Dr. Laura Gawlinski
Artistic Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 306-001.....Class # 5327.....M-W-F.....10:25am-11:15am.....CC-114
This course explores the art of ancient Greece chronologically, from the incised ceramics of Neolithic cave dwellers to the Parthenon of the Athenians, concluding with the artistic transformations following the conquest of Alexander the Great. We will examine different forms of art and architecture and how they were produced, including painted vases, bronze and marble sculpture, and public and private buildings. In addition to recognizing technical and aesthetic qualities, we will also seek to understand the art in its context: its relationship to a particular moment in time, use as political propaganda and a representation of values, expression of status or gender, and interpretation by different audiences. We will also place Greek art in its geographical and historical framework by considering how it affected and was affected by its neighbors and how even today it continues to influence how we view what art is.
Roman Law (cross-listed with HIST 300B, PLSC 371, ROST 362) with Dr. James Keenan
departmental elective
CLST 362-001.....Class # 5328.....T-Th.....11:30am-12:45pm.....MUND-408
An introduction to the general principles and basic concepts of Roman civil law (law of procedure, persons, obligations [with stress on delicts], and inheritance) from the Twelve Tables (ca. 450 BC) to Justinian's codification (6th century AD). Special attention is directed to Roman law in its classical phase and especially to the role of the praetor in shaping the strict rules of civil law to fit the demands of a great empire. The stress this semester will be on Roman family law (marriage, divorce, inheritance).
Humanism of Antiquity II with Dr. John Makowski
departmental major capstone: permission of instructor or chairman required
CLST 384-001.....Class # 1111.....Th.....4:00pm-6:30pm.....CS-301
Classical Backgrounds II: Augustine (Writing Intensive; cross-listed with HIST 300B) with Dr. Jacqueline Long
departmental elective
CLST 389-01W.....Class # 5329.....M-W-Th.....10:25am-11:15am.....MUND-308
Aurelius Augustinus grew from (by his own account) a brainy, competitive child of an African small town in the later fourth century to one of the most important thinkers of the Western Christian tradition. This Writing-Intensive class will examine translated texts of Augustine’s own writings and other sources for the world in which he lived, in order to develop an understanding of how late Roman provincial culture and Christian society formed Augustine’s intellect and its enduring responses to contemporary challenges. Students will pursue research independently and collaboratively in seminar format.
Ancient Greek II with Dr. Kirk Shellko
pre-requisite: 1 semester of college-level Greek, or the equivalent
GREK 102-001.....Class # 2231.....M-W-F.....1:40pm-2:30pm.....CC-141
A student-centered and hands-on initiation into Ancient Greek. You will gain the basic vocabulary and skills to read the original texts of Homer, Herodotus, Plato, the New Testament, and Church Fathers. Our textbook "From Alpha to Omega" (Ann Groton, Focus) is user-friendly and accessible. Along the way, you will learn a great deal about language in general.
Xenophon with Dr. Brian Lavelle
pre-requisite: 3 semesters of college-level Greek, or the equivalent
GREK 236-001.....Class # 6531.....M.....4:15pm-6:45pm.....CC-572
Latin II with Dr. Jonathan Mannering
pre-requisite: 1 semester of college-level Latin, or the equivalent
LATN 102-001.....Class # 2230.....M-W-F.....9:20am-10:10am.....DU-228
Mastering the fundamentals of Latin yields great rewards: you'll become able to read terrific literature in all its original glory for yourself. Getting that mastery can open up valuable insights into how all languages operate. Patterns of sound bridge the gaps between people, by representing ideas: it's humanity's most powerful tool. We will cross some two millennia, an ocean, and from sublime to ridiculous and back again, building skills and understanding of Latin with the texts of famous ancient comedies. Clever slaves, deluded old men, and hapless young lovers will lead you into deeper and more productive familiarity with words, forms, and syntax - till we're ready to take on Roman political corruption, and learn even more about how everything changes while everything remains the same. The Latin language will be your vehicle to Roman literature, history, and culture; it will also give you tools to acquire other new languages more easily and to use well the languages you know.
Latin II with Dr. William Napiwocki
enrollment in this section restricted to students of St. Joseph's Seminary
pre-requisite: 1 semester of college-level Latin, or the equivalent
LATN 102-K01.....Class # 2681.....M-W-F.....10:25am-11:15am.....TBA
This course continues your introduction to the language and literature of the Roman Catholic Church. Primarily, it intends to develop, at an appropriate level, a reading competence in the target language of Latin. This ultimately will lead to an understanding and appreciation of literature in the original language and the authors who produced it. Grammatical forms and concepts, syntactical analysis and the retention of a basic vocabulary are the foundations for the acquisition of a skill in reading Latin.
Age of Caesar with Dr. John Makowski
pre-requisite: 3 semesters or more of college-level Latin, or the equivalent
meets jointly with LATN 388-001
LATN 283-001.....Class # 5335.....T-Th.....1:00pm-2:15pm.....DU-124
Latin Composition with Dr. Jacqueline Long
pre-requisite: 4 semesters or more of college-level Latin, or the equivalent
LATN 303-001.....Class # 2232.....TBA.....TBA.....TBA
For the advanced student ready to take mastery of syntax to the next level: hands-on Latin. Make yourself strong.
St Augustine's Works: Confessions (cross-listed with CATH 361)with Dr. Jacqueline Long
pre-requisite: 4 semesters or more of college-level Latin, or the equivalent
LATN 361-001.....Class # 6714.....M-W-F.....2:45pm-3:35pm.....CC-572
One of the most talented public speakers of the Christianizing late Roman world brings the full resources of his art to an account of himself and his place as a person within the created world. Augustine's Latin is highly readable. His engrossing story is populated with indelible characters: an indomitable mother, dearly loved friends, the arresting bishop Ambrose. Not least, the Confessions presents the questing, questioning, contending intelligence of Augustine himself. It offers fascinating material for anyone interested in the traditions and profession of literature in classical antiquity, the social history of Roman North Africa and Italy amid the flowering of the Christian Church, and the philosophical influences and theological inquiry that shaped one of the fifth-century Church's most important Fathers.
Readings in Latin Literature: Clodia Metelli with Dr. John Makowski
pre-requisite: 4 semesters or more of college-level Latin, or the equivalent
meets jointly with LATN 283-001
LATN 388-001.....Class # 6617.....T-Th.....1:00pm-2:15pm.....DU-124
Summer 2012
Summer Courses in Chicago; see also the Summer Sessions website
Summer Session I: Classical Mythology (Writing Intensive) with Dr. Greg Dobrov
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 271-01W.....Class # 1497.....M-T-W-Th.....12:20pm-2:00pm.....TBA
This is a literary course in which we will encounter the rich culture of the ancient Greeks through their mythology. We will learn to read the marvelous tales of gods and heroes in order to learn how the ancients --specifically the ancient Athenians-- constructed their world. What were their ideas about divinity, mankind, nature, the universe? How did these ideas develop, survive, and influence later European civilization? With the help of the historical and material record (the writings of historians, art, archaeology etc.) and famous literary witnesses from Homer to Ovid we will consider topics such as cosmology, religion, ethics, social organization, politics, and gender. In light of the lasting vitality of our subject, we will seek to interpret Greek myth from different theoretical perspectives and to understand how it remains relevant to our world at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Summer Session II: Classical Mythology with Dr. Alexander Evers
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 271-001.....Class # 2394.....M-T-W-Th.....10:25am-12:05pm.....TBA
Summer Session II: Heroes and Classical Epics with Dr. Edith Pennoyer (Penny) Livermore
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 272-001.....Class # 1827.....M-T-W-Th.....8:30am-10:10am.....TBA
"Quae regio in terris nostris non plena laboris?"
[What land on Earth is not filled with our Work?]
[Virgil, Aeneid 1.420]
A beloved verse from Virgil, embedded in mosaic in the vestibule of the Madonna della Strada Chapel and appropriated, for the Jesuit Order, from its original context with regard to the laborious policies and projects of the expansion of Rome, could also be applied to the majestic might of the exacting study of ancient Epic. For the Epic has indeed pervaded Western literary tradition in the footprints and the dreams of these enduringly human characters and events which have survived, and shall survive, as long as these songs and stories. The purpose of this Course, with its exacting study of the texts of Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid, in translation, is to raise our consciousness of the enduring human values which live on in these ancient narratives, born in oral tradition, as well as to the heroic, and even to the non-heroic, in our own quotidian lives. For the works and dreams of these heroes, both sung and unsung, the singers and the silent, have extended and survived throughout all corners of Earth. . . Because, as Homer wrote in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, the events in Epic were all ordained by Zeus "in order that there might be a song for those yet to be born."
Summer Session I: Classical Tragedy with Dr. Kirk Shellko
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 273-001.....Class # 1211.....M-T-W-Th.....2:15pm-3:55pm.....TBA
Classical Tragedy introduces students to the authors, social contexts and performances of ancient Greek drama. Students will learn how to interpret the "myth" presented on the ancient Greek stage and how to apply what they have learned to detect and interpret the moral, social and political issues raised in them. They will learn the names, works and careers of the principal tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Students will learn to assess the formal and aesthetic properties of the works of different tragedians. Emphasis will be given to specifics of performance and seeing a play in the "theater of the mind" as well as gaining command of relevant terminology, e.g., parodos, peripeteia, mimesis, catharsis, etc. Students will learn to outline the plot, argument and key themes of each work clearly and will gain an understanding of the historical context and social conditions motivating each work. The main themes of Greek tragedy (e.g., power, gender, justice, violence etc.) invite comparison to themes of contemporary theater and film. Students will acquire an awareness of ancient Greek tragedy in its connection with our own theatrical and literary culture, and will understand the influence of Greek drama on modern stage and literature. They will be able to employ several concepts in the analysis of Classical Tragedy.
Summer Session II: Romance Novel in the Ancient World (Writing Intensive) with Dr. Jonathan Mannering
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 280-01W.....Class # 1652.....M-T-W-Th.....10:25am-12:05pm.....TBA
In this literature course students will encounter ancient masterworks of Greek and Roman prose fiction in the form of the novel. These novels, dating to the first centuries of the common era, are the earliest examples of the genre in world literature, and focus in the main on romantic relationships between young adults. Together these works constitute a ripe literary field for the exploration of the psychology of love, human sexuality, the relationship of lovers to each other, to family and to society, as well as philosophical thought on human erotics. Furthermore, these works will be read in the context of a Writing Intensive course, which will challenge students on a regular basis to write close analytical readings of the primary texts according to the terms of their genre. Critical technique and interpretative method will also come under scrutiny in the process of their application to the texts for the purpose of empowering the students' own readings.
Summer Session I: Women in the Classical World (cross-listed with WSGS 295) with Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul
Societal and Cultural Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 295-001.....Class # 2708.....M-T-W-Th.....10:25am-12:05pm.....TBA
In this Core course in Societal and Cultural Knowledge, we examine the places held by women in ancient Greece and Rome, their identities, and the "trajectory" by which they both desire and are desired. Careful attention is paid to how individuals speak: How do they address and respond to others? How do they express their concerns and objectives? How do they influence the attitudes and reactions of others? Additional attention is directed to body cues: Do a person's physical expressions and movements reinforce or undermine the content of that person's speech? Still further questioning seeks to identify what we might call the territory in which a person speaks and acts. What do we know about the expectations, limitations, and opportunities for individuals in that society--as we can determine from the text or from external sources? How might literary conventions, i.e., the types of stories told and the ways these stories are told, influence the representation of individuals and their interaction with one another? We read with an awareness of how women may be represented as archetypes or stereotypes and how their positions may be restricted by hierarchical stratification. Nonetheless, we read also how women can subvert stereotypical expectations. We seek to determine the emotional impulses and intellectual resources which empower an individual to transcend the limitations imposed from without--or from within, to achieve integrity, and to enjoy mutual affect.
Summer Courses in Rome and Greece; see also web-pages of the John Felice Rome Center
Rome Center Session I: Classical Mythology with Dr. Alexander Evers
Literary Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 271-A01.....Class # 1855.....M-W.....9:00am-12:20pm.....TBA
Rome Center Session I: Topography of Rome with Dr. Sharon Salvadori
departmental elective
CLST 395-A02.....Class # 2544.....M-T-W-Th.....2:30pm-5:30pm.....TBA
Rome Center Inter-Session: Art of Ancient Greece (cross-listed with FNAR 336) with Dr. Brian Lavelle
Art Historical Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 306-A01.....Class # 2561.....M-T-W-Th-F.....9:00am-4:00pm.....on-site in Greece
This course surveys the highlights of ancient Greek art and archaeology from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era, focusing on major Greek sites like Athens and on developments in ancient Greek architecture, sculpture and painting. We want to place the artifacts in the broader context of ancient Greek culture so we shall consider aspects of history, myth, religion, sociology, etc. as expressed in the literature of the period. Classes will involve many images and much discussion, but students will be asked to focus on the significant artistic and archaeological remains, not minutiae or technical intricacies. In addition to being an introduction to Greek art and archaeology, this course is a supplement to other studies in Classical civilization and to the Humanities in general.
Rome Center Session II: World of Classical Rome (cross-listed with ROST 276) with Dr. John Makowski
Historical Knowledge - Skills of Critical Thinking
CLST 276-A01.....Class # 1859.....T-Th.....8:30am-12:40pm.....TBA
The course is a survey of the history of ancient Rome from Romulus and Remus to the fall of the Roman Empire, with special focus on the first centuries B.C. and A.D., namely the Ages of Julius Caesar and of the Julio-Claudian emperors from Augustus to Nero. Besides providing historical data the course will explore social and cultural history, biography, political and economic developments, and the interaction of pagans, Jews, and Christians. Individual student projects will include research into Roman religion, architecture, art, and society.
Revised on 11 January 2012 by jlong1@luc.edu
