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Department of Classics 1 Department of Classics 1 Please note that for Tracks B and C, students must complete study of DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS either Greek or Latin to at least the intermediate level. Mather House Each track requires 10 courses (30 hours), and at least two of these http://classics.case.edu courses must be at the 300 level. For students who elect to complete Phone: 216.368.2348; Fax: 216.368.4681 their junior and senior year SAGES requirements in Classics, two Paul Iversen, Department Chair additional courses (6 hours) are required, CLSC 320 Alexander the Great: [email protected] Materials and Methods and CLSC 381 Classics Senior Capstone. (CLSC 320 may count as one of the Classics 300-level courses, provided the The Department of Classics introduces students to the culture, life, and student takes his or her junior SAGES requirements outside of classics.) legacy of ancient Greece and Rome through courses in the Greek and Latin languages and literatures, in ancient history, archaeology and In the Philology Concentration (Track A), students can earn one of three medicine, in the visual and material cultures of the ancient Mediterranean degrees: BA in Classics: Greek; BA in Classics: Latin; or BA in Classics: world, and a focus on the classical tradition in Europe and beyond. The Greek and Latin. Students in Track A are required to take CLSC 231 department faculty represents a range of academic disciplines and Athens to Alexandria: The World of Ancient Greece and CLSC 232 Gods is committed, where appropriate, to an interdisciplinary approach in and Gladiators: The World of Ancient Rome, then any combination of teaching and research. eight GREK or LATN courses, at least two of which (6 hours) must be at the 300-level. To receive the BA in Classics: Greek and Latin, students The core purpose of the department is to offer the opportunity for study must complete at least one year of their second language. of the ancient classical languages, as a crucial point of entry into the conceptual worlds of Greece and Rome. Students are also exposed to In the Classical Civilization Concentration (Track B), students are required the various facets of antiquity, particularly its mingling of cultures and to take CLSC 231 Athens to Alexandria: The World of Ancient Greece and belief systems, that made the ancient Mediterranean world the progenitor CLSC 232 Gods and Gladiators: The World of Ancient Rome; at least one of the modern West. The different sub-disciplines and methodologies 200-level or higher GREK or LATN course (for most students, this will represented in the department involve multiple ways of exploring and mean taking GREK or LATN 101, 102 and 201); and any combination of understanding antiquity. Our students explore the philological, literary, GREK, LATN, or CLSC courses to bring their course total to 10 (30 hours), historical, social, and philosophical dimensions of ancient texts, and at least two of which must be at the 300 level. The elective CLSC courses they engage with material and visual culture and city form through should consist of courses that focus on the period before the 6th century archaeology, epigraphy, and art and architectural history. Further, they of the Common Era and not the Classical Tradition (Track C). study major moments of the revival of antiquity and the various lenses In the Classical Tradition Concentration (Track C), students are required through which subsequent eras understood or appropriated the past. to take and at least one course in Greek or Latin at the intermediate level Knowledge of classical antiquity constitutes the backbone of a liberal or higher (students who enter the program without any Greek or Latin education and is useful for further professional training in whatever field are required to take the introductory sequence in either language, which a student may ultimately pursue. It also provides an excellent basis for count toward the ten-course requirement) The department offers four informed engagement with the political, social, and cultural issues of our 200-level courses in Classical Tradition, focusing respectively on the turbulent times, as well as for the appreciation and enjoyment of artistic Renaissance and Baroque, the Enlightenment, Architecture and Urbanism and cultural achievement. A major or minor in Classics may be profitably from the Renaissance to the 20th Century, and Classics in Film (see list combined with programs aimed toward law, medicine, management, below). Students are required to take at least two of these courses. diplomatic service, banking, journalism, library science, or politics; religious, philosophic, literary, or historical studies; careers in the fine arts CLSC/WLIT 220 Art & Literature in the Classical (visual or performing); or museum and archival work. Tradition, Pt 1: Renaissance and Baroque (14th to 17th centuries) Undergraduate Programs CLSC/WLIT 222 Classical Tradition 2: Birth of Archaeology Major CLSC/ARTH 221 Building on Antiquity The core of the Classics major is the study of the languages and CLSC/WLIT 224 Sword and Sandal: The Classics in literatures of ancient Greece and Rome and the societies that spoke Film Greek and Latin until the end of the ancient world (usually taken as the Students must take at least one course at the 300 level 3 5th century of the Common Era). The major uniquely offers exposure to from the following list: a range of approaches: literary, philological, historical, archaeological, art historical, philosophical, and anthropological. Further, the scope of the CLSC/ARTH 311 Rome: City and Image department has expanded to embrace the classical tradition in and even CLSC/WLIT 314 The Poetics of Eros: Love Poetry 3 beyond Europe, with courses on literature and art and architecture up to from Sappho to Shakespeare and the 20th century. Beyond CLSC 323/ Angels and Daimons: The Origins of Concentrations WLIT 423 Inspiration There are three separate tracks in the Classics major. Philology (Track CLSC 324/ The Sublime and Grotesque in A) is devoted to ancient languages and their associated literatures WLIT 424 Literature in the original languages (Greek, Latin, or Greek and Latin). Classical CLSC 330 Topics in Classical Tradition 3 Civilization (Track B) focuses on ancient history, literature in translation, CLSC/WLIT 331 Dante and the Classical Tradition: 3 and archaeology. Classical Tradition (Track C) explores the legacy of Middle Ages into Modernity antiquity from the European Middle Ages to the contemporary world. 2 Department of Classics CLSC/COGS 340 Seminar in Enlightenment Art and bulletin.case.edu/bulletinarchives/2017-18/collegeofartsandsciences/ Literature: Piranesi and Vico worldliteratureprogram) (WLIT). Classics courses at the 300 level may be taken for graduate credit in this way. Keeping in mind that the student should have at least two 300-level courses out of ten, the remaining courses (two to four, depending on Department Faculty whether the student is required to take the beginning language sequence) Paul A. Iversen, PhD may be chosen from the above lists or, subject to advisor's approval, from (Ohio State University) the Classics, Greek, or Latin courses in general. Associate Professor and Chair Study in Related Fields Greek and Latin epigraphy; Hellenistic history and culture; Greek and Roman New Comedy Each student completing the Classics major is strongly advised to choose a related minor, selected in consultation with and approved by Florin Berindeanu, PhD the departmental advisor, in such closely related fields as anthropology, (University of Georgia) art history, philosophy, comparative literature, history, theater, or Instructor; Director, World Literature Program; Secondary Appointment, English. The association between the department and the World Department of Cognitive Science Literature Program (http://bulletin.case.edu/bulletinarchives/2017-18/ European literature; literary and semiotic theory; mysticism collegeofartsandsciences/worldliteratureprogram) is especially close. Peter E. Knox, PhD Departmental Honors (Harvard University) Departmental honors are given to students who earn the grade of A for Eric and Jane Nord Family Professor at the Baker-Nord Center for the their senior dissertation in CLSC 382 Senior Honors Thesis and maintain Humanities a GPA in the major of 3.5. Greek poetry of the Hellenistic period, Latin poetry, Roman culture, ancient epic and classical reception. The Minor Rachel Hall Sternberg, PhD A minor in Classics is designed to acquaint the student with aspects of (Bryn Mawr College) the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome by means of 15 hours of Associate Professor course work. These 15 hours may be any combination of Greek, Latin, and Greek language and literature; Greek social history; history of emotion; Classics courses, at least 3 hours of which must be at or above the 300 reception of the classical tradition in the age of Jefferson level. While the study of either Greek or Latin is encouraged, neither is required for the minor. Timothy R. Wutrich, PhD (Tufts University) Graduate Study Senior Instructor Graduate Certificate Program/Post-Baccalaureate Vergil; trojan-cycle plays of Euripides; Homeric hero in drama since antiquity The purpose of a graduate certificate program in Classics, known in our wider discipline as a post-baccalaureate certificate—or “post-bac” for short—is to prepare students who started “late” with Greek and Latin (i.e., after high school) for graduate work in Classics and related fields such Secondary Faculty as Philosophy, Art History and Medieval Studies. As a rule, such students Maggie L. Popkin, PhD need to solidify their language skills and gain experience in reading large (The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) quantities of Greek and/or Latin at an advanced speed. Students planning Robson Junior Professor; Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and graduate study will have a way to prepare themselves without impossible Art pressures and time constraints. It takes many years of patient study to Ancient Roman art and archaeology master Greek and Latin; one must devote hours to the project every single Deepak Sarma, PhD day.
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