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Spring 2025 Course Flyers

Featured flyers for some Spring 2025 courses. A complete list of all available courses offered for Spring 2025 can be found on the Spring 2025 course list.

  • CLAR

  • CLAR 120: Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology. Prof. Sheira Cohen. MWF 12:20-1:10. Can't stand your roommates? Learn how ancient people dealt with the same problems! Travel back in time to the ancient Mediterranean and uncover the earliest cities in the world, from Rome to Babylon.

 

  • CLAR 242: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Prof. Jennifer Gates-Foster. TTh 12:30-1:45. IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: FC-AESTH or FC-PAST. Making Connections Gen Ed: HS, BN, WH. Unlock the mysteries of ancient Egypt! Dive into the rich history of one of the world’s oldest civilizations and discover the secrets of hieroglyphs, mummification, and monumental architecture.

 

  • CLAR 243: Minoans and Mycenaeans: The Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece. Prof. Donald Haggis. TR 11:00 – 12:15. Life, death, climate crises, natural disasters, and human sacrifice in the Bronze Age. In 1700 B.C. the temple priest held a dagger in his hand, one engraved with the image of a wild boar, as he let the youth’s blood flow into the vessel that would serve as an offering to the gods, in vain efforts to save the palace of Knossos from certain destruction. He was too late (sound familiar?). IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: FC-AESTH or FC-PAST.

 

  • CLAR/ARTH 247: Roman Art and Archaeology. Prof. Hérica Valladares. TTh 9:30 – 10:45. Is the Roman Empire your Roman Empire? If so, this is the course for you! CLAR/ARTH 247 surveys the art, architecture, and archaeology of the ancient Romans from the beginnings of the city of Rome to late antiquity, including sites in Italy and in the provinces. IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: FC-AESTH or FCPAST. Making Connections Gen Ed: VP, NA, WB.

 

  • CLAS

  • CLAS 61H: Writing the Past (Honors). Prof. Emily Baragwanath. MWF 2:30 – 3:20. IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: FY-SEMINAR, FC-KNOWING or FC-PAST. Making Connections Gen Ed: LA, CI, WB. Are you interested in history, cinema, fiction, news? Come read and discuss the greatest ancient Greek historians Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius – against a backdrop of modern film, documentaries, short stories, and journalism. What should history provide? Warts-and-all truth? Commemoration? Pure entertainment? What did the ancient historians think and how do their strategies of recounting the past compare with ours?

 

  • CLAS 65: FYS: The City of Rome. Prof. Sheira Cohen. MWF 3:35 PM-4:25 PM. IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: FY-SEMINAR. Making Connections Gen Ed: LA. All roads lead to Rome! Explore the wonders of the Eternal City and trace 3000 years of history as Romans reinvented themselves, their city, and even their past. What would you have done differently?

 

  • CLAS 89H: Pagans and Christians (Honors). Prof. Janet Downie. MWF 12:20 – 1:10. What does large-scale culture change look like? What does it feel like? Join this seminar to explore ancient novels, early Christian gospels and acts, religious satires, pagan hymns, religious inscriptions, and theological texts from the late classical world – a period full of new ideas about human beings, the natural world, and the gods. IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: FYS and Focus. Capacities FC-PAST, FC-KNOW.

 

  • CLAS 231: The Theater in the Greek and Roman World. Prof. Al Duncan. MWF 3:35 – 4:25. Release your inner actor! Learn about ancient theater through improvisation games and staged performances while reading some of the world's most influential dramas. Close the semester, and bring down the house, writing and directing original scenes and speeches of your own, inspired by antiquity. IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: FC-CREATE or FC-POWER, COMM-BEYOND. Making Connections Gen Ed: VP, WB.

 

  • CLAS 242: Sex & Gender in Antiquity. Prof. Suzanne Lye. TTh 9:30 – 10:45. What did it mean to be a woman or a man—or something else—in antiquity? In this class, we will explore constructs and habits related to sex, gender, and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean through literary, historical, and archaeological sources. We will also compare these to examples in modern media. Making Connections Gen Ed: HS, NA, WB.

 

  • CLAS 253(H): Pericles and Athens (Honors). Prof. Al Duncan. MWF 12:20 –1:10. (Honors Recitation W 10:10 – 11:00). This class covers many of the 'greatest hits' of ancient Greece through a focused study of what is widely considered its golden age: Athens, under the leadership of the statesman, Pericles. Read some of the world's earliest dramas, histories, and philosophical works and gaze at its vases and sculptures while learning about a culture whose influential highs (e.g., democracy, education, architecture) were matched and marred by many lows (imperialism, slavery, and misogyny). Making Connections Gen Ed: WB.