CLAS 101-01 30164 |
The Classical Mediterranean and Middle East |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: MAIN 009
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Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven
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Why are Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin all taught in the same department at Macalester? Today Islam and the Arab world are often presented in contrast with the West in a sort of timeless and unending 'clash of civilizations.' Classics 101 aims to counter this narrative by exploring the multiple deep, long-term connections among the languages, religions and peoples around the Mediterranean Sea. What were the relationships among speakers of these languages in the past? How did Judaism, Christianity and Islam develop among them? Why are Greek and Roman traditions sometimes seen as in tension with Christian or Arab traditions -- and has that always been the case? Readings include selections from Genesis, Exodus, Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, Vergil, the Gospels, Josephus, Imru Al-Qays, the Qur'an and 1,001 Nights. Legendary and historical figures include Moses, Helen of Troy, Cyrus, Darius, Pericles, Alexander, Cleopatra, Jesus, Augustus, Perpetua, Constantine, Muhammad, Fatima, Aisha and Omar. Suggested subtitles for the course include Before East and West, We Hear Dead People, Great Books Reimagined, and Hey, You Should Know This Stuff. Required for all majors in the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East.
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Internationalism
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Humanities
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CLAS 194-01 30165 |
The Maghreb: History and Cultures of North Africa from Hannibal to 1492 |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: MAIN 111
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Instructor: Andrew Overman
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*Cross-listed with HIST 294-07*
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This course explores the dynamic and diverse cultures and people of the Maghreb – North Africa. From Carthage and other indigenous empires of North Africa, through early Christian centuries, to the arrival of Islam and its various expressions, to the “golden period” when North Africa and Spain came together, in Al -Andalusia; one of the greatest chapters of human creativity and cooperation. We conclude c.1492, and the beginning of the early modern period in North Africa and the Mediterranean.
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Writing WP
Internationalism
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Humanities
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CLAS 212-01 30169 |
Elementary Latin II |
Days: M W F
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Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm
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Room: MAIN 111
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Instructor: Nanette Goldman
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This two-term sequence introduces the grammar and vocabulary of Latin, the language of the ancient Romans. Students learn through reading adapted passages, by breaking down grammatical structures into recognizable patterns, and through tutorials and drills. We aim to cover all basic grammar by the end of the year. In the second semester, students begin to read easy Latin such as the Bible, Pliny, Cornelius Nepos and/or Caesar. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 111.
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CLAS 212-L1 30170 |
Elementary Latin II Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm
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Room: MAIN 011
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Instructor: Nanette Goldman
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This two-term sequence introduces the grammar and vocabulary of Latin, the language of the ancient Romans. Students learn through reading adapted passages, by breaking down grammatical structures into recognizable patterns, and through tutorials and drills. We aim to cover all basic grammar by the end of the year. In the second semester, students begin to read easy Latin such as the Bible, Pliny, Cornelius Nepos and/or Caesar. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 111.
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CLAS 212-L2 30171 |
Elementary Latin II Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am
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Room: MAIN 001
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Instructor: Nanette Goldman
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This two-term sequence introduces the grammar and vocabulary of Latin, the language of the ancient Romans. Students learn through reading adapted passages, by breaking down grammatical structures into recognizable patterns, and through tutorials and drills. We aim to cover all basic grammar by the end of the year. In the second semester, students begin to read easy Latin such as the Bible, Pliny, Cornelius Nepos and/or Caesar. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 111.
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CLAS 214-01 30172 |
Elementary Arabic II |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: Kelly Tuttle
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In this two semester program, students learn to read, write and converse in Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Classical Arabic used in contemporary news media, documents, literature, education and religious practice in the many countries of the Arab world. The purpose of this course is to develop beginning students' proficiency and communication in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 113.
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CLAS 214-L1 30173 |
Elementary Arabic II Lab |
Days: M
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Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm
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Room: HUM 409
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Instructor: STAFF
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In this two semester program, students learn to read, write and converse in Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Classical Arabic used in contemporary news media, documents, literature, education and religious practice in the many countries of the Arab world. The purpose of this course is to develop beginning students' proficiency and communication in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 113.
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CLAS 214-L2 30174 |
Elementary Arabic II Lab |
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm
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Room: HUM 214
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Instructor: STAFF
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In this two semester program, students learn to read, write and converse in Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Classical Arabic used in contemporary news media, documents, literature, education and religious practice in the many countries of the Arab world. The purpose of this course is to develop beginning students' proficiency and communication in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 113.
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CLAS 223-01 30167 |
Introduction to Archaeology |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: THEATR 200
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Instructor: Andrew Overman
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*Cross-listed with ANTH 223-01*
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This course introduces students to archaeology, the study of the material remains of human culture. Students will explore the history of the discipline and profession, its basic methods and theories, and the political and ethical dimensions of modern archaeological practice. Students learn to examine and interpret evidence using specific examples, from artifacts to sites to regions.
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CLAS 235-01 30175 |
Elementary Greek II |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: MAIN 009
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Instructor: Brian Lush
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This two-semester program introduces students to ancient Greek, the language of Greece, Asia Minor, and the Hellenistic world, including several Jewish and early Christian writers. Students will learn the grammar and vocabulary necessary for reading Greek literature and documents of many periods. During the second term, students begin to read extended prose, such as passages from Plato, Xenophon, the New Testament or documentary sources. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 115 .
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CLAS 235-L1 30176 |
Elementary Greek II Lab |
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Time: 01:50 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: MAIN 002
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Instructor: Brian Lush
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This two-semester program introduces students to ancient Greek, the language of Greece, Asia Minor, and the Hellenistic world, including several Jewish and early Christian writers. Students will learn the grammar and vocabulary necessary for reading Greek literature and documents of many periods. During the second term, students begin to read extended prose, such as passages from Plato, Xenophon, the New Testament or documentary sources. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 115 .
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CLAS 235-L2 30919 |
Elementary Greek II Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm
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Room: MAIN 002
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Instructor: Brian Lush
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This two-semester program introduces students to ancient Greek, the language of Greece, Asia Minor, and the Hellenistic world, including several Jewish and early Christian writers. Students will learn the grammar and vocabulary necessary for reading Greek literature and documents of many periods. During the second term, students begin to read extended prose, such as passages from Plato, Xenophon, the New Testament or documentary sources. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 115 .
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CLAS 294-01 30920 |
Art and Architecture of Ancient Near East |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: ARTCOM 102
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Instructor: Serdar Yalçin
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*Cross-listed with ART 281-01*
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This course explores the art and architecture of the Ancient Near East from the earliest agricultural societies in the 10th millennium BCE to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century CE. Within this historical framework the lectures and class discussions will focus on culturally specific concepts of design, representation and aesthetics in ancient Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia and Syro-Palestine, and explore their uses in politics, imperialism, burial practices, private rituals and state cults. The lectures will explore topics such as the development of narrative representation, monumental public art, portraiture, small-scale glyptic arts and the design, and production of personal ornaments such as jewelry.
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Writing WA
Internationalism
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CLAS 294-02 30921 |
Art and Architecture of Byzantium and Medieval Europe |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: ARTCOM 102
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Instructor: Serdar Yalçin
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*Cross-listed with ART 284-01 and RELI 294-04*
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This course will explore the art and architecture of the medieval Christian world from the time of Constantine the Great (306-337 CE) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The lectures and class discussions will focus on the role of images and relics in Christianity as well as the developments in sacred and secular architecture across Europe and the Byzantine empire. Special emphasis will be given to certain trends such as the foundation of monasteries, pilgrimage, icon and relic worship, and the emergence of Romanesque and Gothic styles in architecture, which changed the urban and rural topography of the continent.
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CLAS 332-01 30177 |
Intermediate Latin II: Poetry |
Days: M W F
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: MAIN 010
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Instructor: Nanette Goldman
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A course in the poetic literature of the Republican and/or Augustan Ages with concentrated study on one or two authors. Students work toward grammatical and lexical mastery while learning about the forms, styles and cultural aspects of Latin poetry. Authors to be studied may include Plautus, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, or Ovid. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 231or equivalent.
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Writing WP
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CLAS 342-01 30178 |
Intermediate Arabic II |
Days: M W F
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: Kelly Tuttle
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This course introduces students to more authentic texts and samples a variety of authors and genres from around the Arab world. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 241 or equivalent.
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CLAS 342-L1 30179 |
Intermediate Arabic II Lab |
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: OLRI 270
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Instructor: STAFF
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This course introduces students to more authentic texts and samples a variety of authors and genres from around the Arab world. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 241 or equivalent.
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CLAS 394-01 30898 |
Bodies in Stone: Gender, Sexuality and Empire in Roman Sculpture |
Days: R
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Time: 01:20 pm-04:20 pm
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Room: MAIN 002
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Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven
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*Cross-listed with ART 394-01 and WGSS 394-01*
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Art reflects, refracts and helps construct a society’s culture. Thousands of pieces of sculpture survive from the ancient Roman period and can provide valuable information to the historian. Material from Rome includes looted Greek, Etruscan and Egyptian sculpture, copies of antique masterpieces, and new creations combining different styles for varied purposes. After we develop a basic history and understanding of Roman sculpture, this course will examine select pieces each week to explore questions that may be productively brought to bear on this unusual historical source. For example, the popularity and adaptations of masterpieces of Venus, Dionysus and Apollo will be used to explore the way artists shaped differences between male and female and the cultural assumptions about sexuality and the body these works communicate (Knidian Aphrodite, Praxitelean youths, Sleeping Hermaphrodite). In turn, we will investigate how these artistic conventions for gender could be employed to communicate the subjugation of enslaved or conquered people and the authority of the emperor (Antinoos Sculptures, Suicide Gauls, Dying Gaul, Marcus Aurelius reliefs, Portonaccio Sarcophagus). We will also look at self-representation, including how former slaves chose to present themselves in hyper-realistic portraits on their tombs; how this may have impacted Roman portraiture as a whole; and what it meant for some members of the elite to put such hyper-realistic portrait heads onto the bodies of gods and goddesses (Tomb of the Haterii, Tomb of Rabiria, Tivoli General, Flavian Matron as Venus). What can these varied representations of the human form tell us about the complex interplay of legal status, citizenship, gender, nudity, ethnicity, power, vulnerability and identity in the Roman Empire? The course will meet once a week during the day to allow for two field trips to see sculpture in the round. Responses to the weekly readings will be due every week. During the last third of the course, students will direct our classwork as they build toward a final project. No formal prerequisites, but some prior experience with ancient art, art history or Roman history is recommended.
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CLAS 487-01 30181 |
Advanced Reading in Greek |
Days: M W
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Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am
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Room: MAIN 002
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Instructor: Brian Lush
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Students who pursue ancient Greek at the advanced level will study closely one or more works and explore relevant problems in literary or textual criticism, linguistic, social or cultural history, and/or reception. Offered upon consultation with department. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 362 or equivalent.
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Writing WA
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Humanities
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