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ART HISTORY 121g
Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern
Olson
TTh, 12:30 - 2:00
Please contact the department for course description.
ART HISTORY 201g
Digging Into the Past: Material Culture and the Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean
Pollini
TTh, 12:30 - 2:00
Please contact the department for course description.
CLASSICS 151g
Civilization of Rome
Boyle
TTh, 11:00-12:20
This course surveys the social, political and intellectual history of the Roman world from 240 BCE to 138CE. The lectures focus on the political, social, literary and artistic achievements of the late Republic and early Empire, when contact with the countries of the civilized east, especially Greece, spurred Rome to produce a radically new socio-intellectual image. The discussion sections, in addition to attending to the main issues of the course, examine works of literature treated more summarily in the lectures and the relationship between the modern and the ancient world. The purpose throughout is to provide the historical, literary an artistic understanding necessary for an appreciation of the importance and contemporary relevance of Rome's major cultural achievements. No knowledge of Latin is required.
Required Texts:
PLAUTUS. The Pot of Gold and Other Plays, trans EF Watling. Penguin.
VIRGIL. The Eclogues of Virgil, trans AJ Boyle. Hawthorn.
VIRGIL. Virgil The Aeneid, trans C Day Lewis. Oxford. The World's Classics.
ROMAN POETS OF THE EARLY EMPIRE, ed AJ Boyle & JP Sullivan. Penguin Classics.
SENECA. Seneca's Phaedra, trans AJ Boyle. Cairns.
RAMAGE N & A, Roman Art. Romulus to Constantine. Harry Abrams.
Also and most importantly:
Roman Civilization Reader:Spring 1997. Available from a Copy Center or TAs.
Grading and Course Requirements:
Midterm Examination 20%
Final Examination 30%
First Paper 20%
Second Paper 20%
Section Participation & Quizzes 15%
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
CLASSICS 280g
Classical Mythology
Vasunia
MWF, 1:00 -1:50
Classical Mythology is an investigation of the mythic traditions, heroes, and deities of ancient Rome and Greece. An emphasis is placed upon comparing Roman and Greek myths with those of other Indo-European peoples -- the Hittites, the Indo-Europeans of India and Iran, the Irish, and the Norse.
Required Texts:
Early Irish Myths and Sagas. Translated by J.Gantz. London: Penguin. 1981
Hesiod's Tragedy. Translated by R. Caldwell. Newburyport, Mass.: Focus 1987
Ovid: Metamorphoses. Translated by R. Humphries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1955.
Ovid's Fasti. Translated by A. Boyle and R. Woodard. London: Penguin. 1998.
Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda. Translated by J. Young. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1954.
The Rig Veda. Translated by W. Doniger O'Flaherty. London: Penguin. 1981.
Grading and Course Requirements:
Midterm Examination 40%
Final Examination 40%
Weekly Quizzes 10%
Journal 10%
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
CLASSICS 320gm
Diversity and the Classical Western Tradition
Habinek
MW, 2:00-3:20
The goal of the course is to understand the historical context from which contemporary discussions of diversity have emerged. How have past ideas and experiences shaped the way contemporary society views issues of race, ethnicity, gender and class? What do the past experiences of the West have to teach us about better ways to approach such questions today? Since the course fulfills the diversity requirement as well as the general education requirement in cultures and civilizations, students must be prepared for open and challenging discussion of sensitive issues. We study chiefly works of literature and the mythic patterns that recur in them. We consider the continuing tension between tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Western society, their representation in literature and culture and their relationship to issues of diversity. We also examine cultural myths as strategies of both inclusion and exclusion.
Readings:
Sophocles, Antigone
Plato, Republic (selections)
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
Melville, Benito Cereno,
Anna Deavere Smith, Twilight Los Angeles 1992
Rigoberta Menchu, I Rigoberta Menchu
plus selected analytical writings
Assignments:
2 short papers, one on a historical/literary topic, one on a contemporary issue, one hour exam, one final, both emphasizing the readings and lectures occasional short worksheets for discussion sections.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 151xg
Literature and Western Civilization II
Farenga
TTh, 12:30 - 2:00
Please contact the department for course description.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 374gm
Women Writers in Europe and America
Rosenthal
TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Please contact the department for course description.
HISTORY 101g
The Ancient World
Nagle
TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
History 101 aims to provide a broad survey of the social, political, cultural and intellectual history of the ancient Middle East, Mediterranean and Europe, from the Agricultural Revolution to the rise of Islam. It emphasizes themes of class; ethnicity; gender; religion; war and warfare and the development of ideas and institutions that have had an impact in the modern world. This course aims to develop an understanding of how modern western concepts of ethics, gender, religion, politics, philosophy and science developed. It discusses the origin of institutionalized Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Readings:
Primarily original documents from the ancient world supplemented by a textbook.
Assignments:
Weekly reaction papers (to the original sources); two midterms, a term paper and a final exam.
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
HISTORY 102g
Medieval Civilization
Glenn
MW, 10:00-11:50
Please contact the department for course description.
HISTORY 103g
Emergence of Modern Europe
Silverman
TTh, 8:00-9:20
Please contact the department for course description.
HISTORY 200g
The American Experience
Seip
MWF 9:00 - 9:50
HIST 2OOg explores American history and culture from pre-European contact native civilizations to the nation's present dimensions as a modem pluralistic society. The factual, interpretative, and analytic emphases given to key episodes, personalities, ideas, culture, and social forces in the life of the nation are designed as a foundation for further study. At base we hope to provide students with a useful perspective on the nation's complex and rich past--a central feature of any solid liberal arts education, and, with the family history project, a historical perspective on each student's personal past. The lecture section of the class meets from 8:00 to 8:50 MWF and students are required to enroll in a weekly discussion section led by a teaching assistant.
The class explores the ways in which the patterns of civilizations associated with the Greco--Roman and European traditions have been and are constantly reflected and reshaped in North America (and exported back to Europe and the world). We examine, for example, the Judaic and Christian religions, liberty and enslavement, republicanism and democracy, scientific thought, technological advance, industrialization and mass consumption, mass education and popular culture, secularization, and the like--as well as emergence of increasingly diverse immigration patterns and multiculturalism which continue to shape American society and culture in ways outside the European tradition.
Required Readings:
Divine, et al., America: Past and Present (Brief 4th edition, 1998);
Weisner & Hartford (eds.), American Portraits: Biographies in U.S. History (2 vol., 1998) America Through the Eyes of Its People: Primary Sources (2d edition, 1997)
Kyvig & Marty, Your Family History (I 978)
Requirements:
Three essay examinations (15%, 20%, and 25% of final grade); participation in weekly discussion sections (20%); and the family history project (20%). Extra credit for participation in the Joint Educational Project (JEP) is available.
JUDAIC STUDIES 100
Jewish History
Rubin
MW, 3:30 - 4:50
This course is an introduction to the major trends and themes of Jewish history as well as literary and cultural creations of the Jewish people from their beginnings in the ancient Near East through the biblical, classical, and early rabbinic periods. Special emphasis will be placed on ideas and concepts that evolved among the Jews and that have impacted Western civilization, as well as the way in which Jews have interacted with the peoples and cultures among whom they have lived. The tension between "tradition" and "change" will be traced from the beginnings of Jewish civilization in the ancient Near East through the periods discussed. Through this course you will examine the origins of the religious experience as it has been realized in the West. You will study patterns of thinking that have impacted the meaning of what it is to be human, and you will learn how Judaism evolved out of its Near Eastern context and
established the patterns and paradigms of Western religion and religious thought.
Readings and Assignments:
Shanks, ed., Ancient Israel: A Short History from Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple.
Jaffe, Martin, Early Judaism.
Shanks, ed., Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A parallel History of Their Origins and Early Development.
Schiffman, Lawrence, Texts and Traditions: A source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism.
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
PHILOSOPHY 115g
Ancient Greek Culture and Society
Lewis
TTh, 11:00-12:20
Course Summary:
Focus on the literary achievement from the beginning of Greek literature to the fourth century with a special emphasis on the philosophers.
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
PHILOSOPHY 262g
Mind and Self: Modern Conceptions
Levin
TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Please contact the department for course description.
RELIGION 111g
The World of the Hebrew Bible
Zuckerman
TTh, 9:30-10:50
Please contact the department for course description.
RELIGION 121g
The World of the New Testament
Hock
MWF, 11:00 -11:50
The aim of this course, which satisfies the general education requirements in Cultures and Civilizations I, is to explore the beginnings of the Christian religion in first century Palestine and to trace its ea5rly development as it spreads throughout the Roman Empire during that and the next three centuries. These centuries witnessed the events depicted in the writings that make up the New Testament as well as the formation of the New Testament itself. To give students a first-hand grasp of the world of the New Testament, a wide variety of primary sources is assigned so that the students can reconstruct for themselves the social, intellectual and religious contexts within which the early Christians lived and so allow the student to read the earliest Christian writings in terms of their original place and time. In discussing these early Christian writings, attention will be given to the way Christianity adopted, and adapted the conventions of thought and behavior of the Mediterranean cultures and civilizations they inhabited and, by the fourth century, came to dominate.
Required Texts:
Ehrman, Bart D., ed. The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings.
Reardon, Bryan P. Collected Ancient Greek Novels.
Miller, Norma, ed. Menander, Plays and Fragments.
REL 121 Course Reader
Grading and Course Requirements:
Weekly Quizzes 100 points
Midterm 100 points
Final (non-cumulative) 100 points
First paper 100 points
Second paper 100 points
Total 500 points
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
