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Category VI: Social Issues Category I : Cultures and Civilizations These courses are based on the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions from their origins through modern European and American culture.
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Category VI: Social Issues Category I : Cultures and Civilizations These courses are based on the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions from their origins through modern European and American culture.
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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%
CLASSICS 280g
Classical Mythology
Woodard
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%
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.
HISTORY 101g
The Ancient World
MWF, 9:00-9:50
Rorlich
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 for Spring of 1999 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, 9:30-10:50
Please contact the department for course description.
HISTORY 104g
Europe and Its Influence Since 1750
Lerner
MW, 9:00-10:50
In this course we explore selected themes in the history of modern Europe, a period inaugurated by the philosophical innovations of the Enlightenment, the political achievements of the French Revolution and the economic and social consequences of industrialization.
The first part of the course covers what historians often call the "long nineteenth century", the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. In this section we will be chiefly concerned with the development and dissemination of the major nineteenth-century ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Nationalism and Imperialism, as the lands of Europe were consolidated into nation-states with modern political and economic systems. The second half of the course asks how the nineteenth-century's vision of progress led to a twentieth century marked by global wars, genocide, Fascism and dictatorship. Key themes we will stress include: the role of minorities and women in European society; changing ideas of national identity and citizenship; the divisions between Eastern and Western Europe; the idea of European unity and Europe's shifting place in the world. One course goal is to understand the roots of current political, social and economic values -- and problems --
in Europe's tumultuous past.
This course addresses the major political and cultural movements in modern European history.
Readings and Assignments: Students taking this course are required to enroll in one weekly discussion section. Readings consist largely of primary source material, such as novels, documents and political tracts, which will be discussed in the Friday sessions. These sources are supplemented by a textbook.
HISTORY 200g
The American Experience
Seip
MWF 8:00-8:50
History 200g explores the rise of the United States of America from its base of prehistoric native civilizations to its current development as a modern, pluralistic society. The factual, interpretive, and analytic emphases given to key events, personalities, culture, ideas, and social forces in the life of the nation are intended to serve both as a foundation for upper division courses in the U.S. history and as an introduction to independent study of the complexity and richness of the American past. The course is presented in twice-weekly lectures and a weekly discussion session. A few short papers on thought-provoking aspects of history as the record of the American past and history as a discipline permit critical engagement of the subject.
History 200g engages the western cultural traditions of Greece and Rome, the Judaic and Christian religions, liberty and enslavement; democracy and republicanism; scientific methods; technological prowess; industrialization and mass consumption; mass education and the secularization of life.
Readings and Assignments:
Woods and Gatewood, AMERICA INTERPRETED: A CONCISE HISTORY WITH READINGS
Hyser and Arndt, VOICES OF THE AMERICAN PAST, VOLUMES I AND II, Hawthorne, N., BLITHEDALE ROMANCE
Dyson, Freeman, DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE and
www sites in primary documents of American History.
Note: The readings and assignments list for Spring of 1999 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.
Please contact the department for the reading and assignments list for Spring 1999.
PHILOSOPHY 220g
Science, Religion and the Making of the Modern Mind
Damnjanovic
TTh, 12:30-1:50
Course Summary:
Philosophical and religious implications of the scientific revolution of the 17th century and the Darwinian revolution in the 19th century.
Please contact the department for the reading and assignments list for Spring 1999.
PHILOSOPHY 262g
Mind and Self: Modern Conceptions
Vihvelin
TTh, 9:30-10:50
Please contact the department for course description.
RELIGION 111g
The World of the Hebrew Bible
Adler
TTh, 12:30-1:50
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
