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  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed to provide an overview of United States Latina/o Theater. Through a variety of delivery methods, students are instructed on the various categories that directly impact U.S. Latina/o Theater such as political theatre, gay/lesbian theatre, border issues, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Dual listed with CHST 4100. Cross listed with WMST 5100. Prerequisites: 6 hours of CHST or WMST coursework.
  • 3.00 Credits

    From an international context and perspective, examines the gendered transformations immigrant women experience. Gender, theories of international migration, assimilation, race, ethnicity, and identity transformation serve as categories of analysis. From a cross-discipline comparative approach, we focus on women's lives to examine differences and similarities to complicate notions of immigration. Dual listed with CHST 4650. Cross listed with WMST/INST/AMST 5650. Prerequisites: Junior standing and 6 hours of AMST, CHST, INST, and/or WMST coursework.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Reading and study of Homer's Iliad, Vergil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy. Examines each epic on its own terms, but knowing Homer is an important aid to understanding Vergil, and knowing Vergil likewise helps in understanding Dante. Helps students improve their ability to interpret literary texts and gives them close first-hand acquaintances with these sweeping, complex and influential classics. Prerequisite: W1<>WA. (Offered fall semester)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines some of the most important developments of ancient Greek culture. Includes development of government in the city-states, with particular attention to Athenian democracy; tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; comedies of Aristophanes; crisis of values of the Peloponnesian War; and philosophy of Plato. Prerequisite: WA.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines some of the most interesting political, legal, artistic, literary, and engineering developments of the Republic and Principate (510 BC-AD 212). These include representational government, citizens' rights, sanctioned violence, Rome's infrastructure, and major literary works of oratory, comedy, history, epic, and philosophy. Prerequisite: WA or COM1
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines democratic government in ancient Athens: its origins and development, its practical workings, how politics were conducted and power was gained and exercised, citizen participation, law courts, and evaluations of democracy in the ancient world and since. Cross listed with HIST/POLS 3050. Prerequisite: WB or COM2.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will reexamine Socrates' trial in 399 BCE, widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice, in its total historic context, seeking to understand the reasons for Socrates' conviction. In the process, it will impart a broad understanding of the cultural, philosophical, political, and legal life of classical Athens. Prerequisite: WB or COM2.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Reading and discussion of major plays by Aeschulus, Sophocles, and Euripides, together with examination of the performance and social context of Greek drama, its use of traditional myths, and selected issues in contemporary scholarship on the tragedies. Cross listed with ENGL 4230 and THEA 4230 Prerequisite: WB or COM2.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Reading and discussion of major works of Greek and Latin epic poetry, centered on Homer and Vergil. Also includes consideration of the background of these works (both mythological and historical) and the development of the epic tradition in the ancient world. Cross listed with ENGL 4270. Prerequisite: WB or COM2.
  • 1.00 - 4.00 Credits

    Specialized study in aspects of Greek and Roman civilization of interest to the student, with topic and plan of work to be worked out byt the student and the instructor together. Prerequisite: 6 hours of classics courses.