Course. Two-semester introduction to Ancient Greek emphasizing the grammatical foundations of classical prose: vocabulary, grammar, syntax. Mostly translation from Greek to English; some English to Greek. Memorization of paradigms and basic vocabulary. Enhanced by Greek culture, English derivatives, classical literature.

Objectives. To take your first step toward reading original Ancient Greek literature; to learn more about the Greek contribution to English; to build a foundation for bridging the centuries between the us and ancient humanity.

Texts. Peckett and Munday, Thrasymachus, and a recent college-edition English dictionary.

Course. Two-semester introduction to Latin emphasizing the grammatical foundations of classical prose: vocabulary, grammar, syntax. Mostly translation from Latin to English; some English to Latin; nominal Latin conversation. Memorization of paradigms and basic vocabulary. Enhanced by Roman culture, English derivatives, classical literature.

Objectives. To take the first step toward reading original Latin literature; to learn more about the large Latin contribution to English; to build a foundation for bridging the centuries between the us and ancient humanity.

Texts. Genovese, Quo usque? A College Latin Course, and a recent college-edition English dictionary.

Course. General (from Lat., applying to a group) philology (from Gk., love of words): Greek and Latin bases and their English derivatives. Etymology, word analysis and construction, language history and structure.

Objective. To increase the quantity and quality of our English vocabulary and its best use by discovering classical Greek and Latin word origins and the rationale of word construction.

Texts. Genovese, English from Latin and Greek, and a recent edition of The American Heritage College Dictionary or Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

Course. Classical Greek and Roman literature, art, and institutions; their persistence and influence in our Western traditions.

Objectives. To better appreciate our incomparable debt to classical antiquity.

Texts. Genovese, Our Classical Heritage: Readings for Classics 140; Finley, The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction to Their Life and Thought; Grant, The World of Rome; Euripides, Medea, trans. Jeffers; a recent-edition college English dictionary.

Course. Translation of selections from Lysias 1 and 12.1–52, On the Murder of Eratosthenes and Against Eratosthenes. Historical, literary, and grammatical analysis. Emphasis on verbal vocabulary and forms.

Objectives. To increase your facility in Classical Greek as preparation for further translation and to become familiar with prose genres and styles.

Texts. Campbell, A Greek Prose Reading Course for Beginners: Forensic Oratory: Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes; a translation of Lysias; abridged or intermediate Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon; and a Greek grammar (such as Morwood).

Course. Translation of abridged selections of Cena Trimalchionis from Petronius, Satyricon 26–78. Historical, literary, and grammatical analysis. Emphasis on verbal vocabulary and forms.

Objectives. To increase facility in Classical Latin as preparation for further work in translation and to become familiar with narrative prose style in the early Roman Empire.

Texts. Baume, The Millionaire's Dinner Party; a Latin-English dictionary (such as Bantam); a translation of the Satyricon; and a Latin grammar (such as Alllen and Greenough).

Course. Translation and discussion of Homer’s Odyssey; book 1.1–25 and book 21 (459 lines). Literary and grammatical analysis. Sounds and principles of Greek verse. Emphasis on verbal vocabulary and forms. Literary history and criticism.

Objectives. To read, translate, and enjoy Homeric poetry, and to learn a little about classical scholarship.

Texts. Homer’s Greek (as supplied) and Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, or Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (Abridged or Intermediate).

Course. Translation and discussion of poems by Catullus and Horace. Grammatical analysis. Sounds and principles of Latin verse. Emphasis on verb vocabulary and forms. Literary history and criticism.

Objectives. To read, translate, and enjoy Latin poetry, and to learn a little about classical scholarship.

Texts. Aronson and Boughner, Catullus and Horace; a Latin-English dictionary (such as Cassell’s); and a Latin grammar (such as Hale and Buck).

Course. A survey of the gods and heroes in classical literature, art, and religion. Myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome selected from original sources. Literary analysis and mythological interpretations.

Objectives. To become familiar with classical mythology and to enjoy some well-told tales.

Texts. Powell, Classical Myth; Ovid, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, trans. Innes; Genovese, Classics 310, Classical Mythology: Supplement; a recent-edition college English dictionary.

Course. Comparison of epic and prose classics translated from ancient Greek and Latin: Homer, Iliad and Odyssey; Vergil, Aeneid; Apuleius, Metamorphoses. Literary criticism through classical analysis and contemporary interpretation.

Objectives. To become familiar with the classical epic and novel genres; to begin to appreciate ancient literature as did the ancients; and to criticize that literature with discipline and intelligence.

Texts. Genovese, Classics 320, Classical Literature: Supplement; Homer, The Iliad of Homer, trans. Lattimore; The Odyssey of Homer, trans. Lattimore; Virgil [Vergil], The Aeneid, trans. McCrorie; Apuleius, The Golden Ass [Metamorphoses]: A New Translation, trans. Kenney; a recent-edition college English dictionary.

Course. Contemporary translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides; comedies of Aristophanes and Plautus; selections from Aristotle’s Poetics. Literary, dramatic criticism, historical context. Greek and Roman theater.

Objectives. To become critically familiar with the development, scope, and nature of classical drama.

Texts. Genovese, Classics 330, Classical Drama: Supplement (including selections from Aristotle, Poetics); Aeschylus, Aeschylus I: Oresteia, trans. Lattimore; Sophocles, Sophocles I: Oedipus the King . . . , trans. Grene, 2nd ed.; Euripides, Euripides I: Alcestis . . . , trans. Lattimore et al.; Euripides, The Bacchae, and Aristophanes, The Frogs, trans. Blessington; Plautus, The Braggart Soldier, trans. Segal; a recent-edition college English dictionary.

Course. Ancient Greek and Roman civilization from the Mycenaean Bronze Age to the Late Roman Empire. Major works, themes, figures, epochs.

Objectives. To gain an integrated cultural perspective of classical antiquity from original historical, literary, and philosophic texts and from artistic and architectural remains.

Texts. Genovese, Classics 340, Classical Civilization: Supplement; Herodotus, The Histories, trans. de Sélincourt; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound [etc.], trans. Vellacott; Plautus, Four Comedies [including Menaechmi], trans. Segal; Woodford, The Art of Greece and Rome; and a recent-edition college English dictionary.

Class. Three units, GE credit in Humanities Explorations. Lecture-discussion on assigned readings. Perhaps some brief written assignments. Brief formal paper. Midterm and final exam.

Course. Translating an author or authors on a similar theme, for example, Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Plato, Herodotus. Usually a play or one to two books of a poetic or prose work.

Objectives. Independent facility in Greek and literary criticism.

Course. Translating an author or authors on a similar theme, for example, Vergil, Ovid, Plautus, Cicero, Tacitus, Petronius, Apuleius; or composing Latin prose. Usually a play or one to two books of a poetic or prose work; or for composition, prose translations and essays.

Objectives. Independent facility in Latin and literary criticism.

Course. Interpretive survey of our mythic heritage: origins, mysteries, and quests from ancient, classical, and medieval sources. Investigation into the meaning and function of myth in the context of civilization and the humanities.

Objectives. To discover some of the intellectual and spiritual values of past great civilizations and to assess their humanity by comparing mythic themes and structures.

Texts. Genovese, Mythology: Texts and Contexts, and a recent-edition college dictionary.

Course.  Interdisciplinary survey of great literary, artistic, and intellectual traditions and achievements in America. From Neo-Classicism to Postmodernism.

Objectives. Quest for freedom. The unique importance of American arts and letters to cultural and intellectual history; principles and ideals that inspired a new people in a new world of a new age. Romanticism to Realism, Modernism to Postmodernism. Prerequisites: completion of GE Humanities Foundations and two semesters of college composition.

Texts. Genovese, Humanities 370, Supplement; Thoreau, Walden; Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Miller, Death of a Salesman; Ginsberg, Howl; and a recent-edition college English dictionary. Music. Grofé, Grand Canyon Suite; Copland, Apalachian Spring, Joplin; Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue. Film. Fleming, The Wizard of Oz, Welles, Citizen Kane.

Course. European civilization from the last of the Romans to the stirrings of the Renaissance. The great letters, arts, and reigns of church and state.

Objectives. To appreciate the unique importance of medieval arts and letters to our cultural and intellectual history and to discover the principles and ideals that nurtured European romance, nationhood, and spirituality.

Texts. Genovese, Humanities 401, Supplement (with selections from Augustine’s City of God,the Carmina Burana, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales); Song of Roland, trans. Burgess; Wolfram von Eschenbach,Parzival, trans. Hatto; Dante, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno, trans. Mandelbaum; and a recent-edition college English dictionary.

Course. European civilization of the Renaissance from 14th-century Italy through 16th-century England. The great writers, artists, and princes: their works and their times.

Objectives. Through the arts and letters of the Renaissance, to see its unique importance to our cultural and intellectual history and to discover the principles and ideals that nurtured humanism and classicism and gave birth to the Reformation and modern Europe.

Texts. Genovese, Humanities 402, Supplement (with selections from Machiavelli, The Prince); Letts, The Renaissance; Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, trans. Bull; More, Utopia, trans. Ogden; Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ed. Bryant; and a recent-edition college English dictionary.

Course. Modern European arts and letters and their importance to our cultural and intellectual history; from post-Enlightenment to Postmodernism: 19th-century Romanticism, Impressionism; 20th-century Realism, Surrealism, Existentialism.

Objectives. To dwell briefly on representative masterpieces of 19th- and 20th-century European prose, poetry, art, architecture, music, drama, and film; to consider how the European view of the humanities changes from one century to the next.

Texts.  Genovese, Humanities 404, Supplement; and a recent-edition college English dictionary. Literature: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats (selections); Shelley, Frankenstein; Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, trans. Common (selections); Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, trans. anon.; Owen, Poems; Eliot, The Waste Land; Camus, The Stranger, trans. Ward; Beckett, Waiting for Godot, trans. Beckett. Art: David and Neoclassicists, Turner and Romanticists, Monet and Impressionists, van Gogh and Expressionists, Gaudí and Art Nouveau, Dalí and Surrealists, Picasso and Modernists. Music: Beethoven, Ninth Symphony; Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra; Tchaikovsky, Pathétique; Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring; Britten, War Requiem. Cinema: Fellini, 8½.

Course. Classical Myths and Modern Arts: modern interpretations of Ovidian myths in art, music, drama, and film.

Objectives. To consider the nature and meaning of classical myth in modern artistic interpretations and to review artistic schools and eras through great works from the Renaissance to the present.

Texts. Ovid, The Metamorphoses of Ovid; et al.