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Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS) 1 Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS) 1 Hellenistic, and Roman empires, the Bible is not merely a product of its CLASSICS AND ANCIENT original contexts. Millennia of transmission and interpretation have made it a product of history in a much more extended and dynamic sense. In MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES this course, we will examine larger questions raised by the biblical writers and consider the ways that the Bible has shaped, informed, and guided (CAMS) Jewish and Christian ways of life. Cross-listed with: JST 4, RLST 4 CAMS 1: Greek and Roman Literature Bachelor of Arts: Humanities Bachelor of Arts: Other Cultures 3 Credits International Cultures (IL) United States Cultures (US) CAMS 1 Greek and Roman Literature (3) (GH)(BA) This course surveys General Education: Humanities (GH) the traditions of classical literature exemplified by the masterworks of GenEd Learning Objective: Crit and Analytical Think Greek and Roman authors. The choice of readings (in English translation) GenEd Learning Objective: Integrative Thinking may vary from semester to semester, but the curriculum typically GenEd Learning Objective: Key Literacies covers mythological epic (Homer, Virgil, and Ovid); tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca); and comedy (Aristophanes and Plautus). The course may also examine minor poetic genres such CAMS 5: Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations as lyric, elegy, and satire; or the development of prose genres such as historiography, philosophical dialogue, rhetoric and oratory, and 3 Credits biography. The principal objective of CAMS 1 is to acquire knowledge Survey of the history and cultures of ancient Mediterranean civilizations of the story world of Greek and Roman literature, whose characters in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syro-Levant, Anatolia, Greece, and Rome. CAMS include the gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines of classical mythology. (HIST) 5 Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (3) (GH;IL) This course A second objective is to understand the rules that govern the genres provides an introduction to the history and cultural traditions of the of Greek and Roman literature. Third, students learn how to interpret ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. From the origins of cities and classical literature within its social and historical context as well as the invention of writing, it surveys the intellectual, artistic, and political through the application of both ancient and modern literary theory. traditions that laid the foundations for the later civilizations of Europe CAMS 1 is an introductory course that may be credited toward every and western Asia. Students will acquire a basic historical framework Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies major, option, and minor. for the ancient Mediterranean from the third millennium BCE through CAMS 1 meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements and is a General the end of antiquity in the first millennium CE. Within this framework Education course in the Humanities (GH). cross-cultural relationships of time and ideas will be established among Bachelor of Arts: Humanities religious texts, epic literatures, and political and legal traditions. In the General Education: Humanities (GH) part of the world where the division between Asia and the East and GenEd Learning Objective: Effective Communication Europe and the West was born, the course will examine the development GenEd Learning Objective: Crit and Analytical Think of regional and ethnic identities along with the historical development GenEd Learning Objective: Key Literacies of concepts of the universal nature of humanity. This course is designed to serve as the foundation course for all majors in the department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS). CAMS 4: Jewish and Christian Foundations Cross-listed with: HIST 5 3 Credits International Cultures (IL) General Education: Humanities (GH) This course seeks to help students better understand the Bible and GenEd Learning Objective: Crit and Analytical Think appreciate its role as an authoritative collection of sacred texts for GenEd Learning Objective: Global Learning Jews and Christians. The Bible is a difficult book, one that is demanding GenEd Learning Objective: Integrative Thinking on many levels. In order to read the Bible intelligently, it is important GenEd Learning Objective: Key Literacies to understand the historical and cultural backgrounds of the biblical writings. This course explores the history and geography of ancient Near Eastern civilizations that shaped the experience of ancient Israel and, CAMS 5Z: Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations later, the Greek and Roman imperial contexts that shaped Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. The focus of the course, however, is on 3 Credits the biblical narrative itself and the particular ways that the story of Israel Survey of the history and cultures of ancient Mediterranean civilizations and its covenant with God was represented in scripture: in tales, poems, in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syro-Levant, Anatolia, Greece, and Rome. hymns, dialogues, and genealogies. A basic goal of the course, then, is to CAMS 5Z Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (3) (GH;IL), linked to promote intelligent, well-informed reading of the Bible. Also important is ARTH 111Z. This course provides an introduction to the history and the willingness to read the Bible closely and critically, with a view toward cultural traditions of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. larger questions raised by biblical texts: how is God to be known and From the origins of cities and the invention of writing, it surveys the understood? What is the purpose of human life in the world? What moral intellectual, artistic, and political traditions that laid the foundations for obligations ought to structure our common life? Does human history the later civilizations of Europe and western Asia. Students will acquire a have direction and purpose? What is the good and how do we follow it? basic historical framework for the ancient Mediterranean from the third The Bible takes up these questions and many more. Though an ancient millennium BCE through the end of antiquity in the first millennium CE. anthology shaped by the succession of Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, 2 Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS) Within this framework cross-cultural relationships of time and ideas will of Mesopotamia, and, in general, the whole Syro-Mesopotamian region. be established among religious texts, epic literatures, political and legal Furthermore, the connections between this region and other areas of traditions, and their representations in art and architecture. In the part of the Ancient near East (Iran, Anatolia, Syro-Palestine, and Egypt) will be the world where the division between Asia and the East and Europe and explored. the West was born, the course will examine the development of regional and ethnic identities along with the historical development of concepts International Cultures (IL) of the universal nature of humanity. This course is designed to serve as General Education: Humanities (GH) the foundation course for all majors in the department of Classics and Honors Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS) and to provide a cultural and GenEd Learning Objective: Creative Thinking historical framework for interpreting the visual productions in art and GenEd Learning Objective: Crit and Analytical Think architecture of these ancient cultures as they are examined in more detail GenEd Learning Objective: Global Learning in the linked ARTH 111Z course. GenEd Learning Objective: Key Literacies Bachelor of Arts: Humanities CAMS 12: Lands of the Bible International Cultures (IL) General Education: Humanities (GH) 3 Credits General Education - Integrative: Linked GenEd Learning Objective: Crit and Analytical Think Utilizing the textual and archaeological evidence, this course introduces GenEd Learning Objective: Global Learning students to the lands, cultures, and peoples associated with the Hebrew GenEd Learning Objective: Integrative Thinking Bible, New Testament, and Qur'an. Geographically, the lands of the Bible GenEd Learning Objective: Key Literacies encompass what is often referred to as the Cradle of Civilization or Fertile Crescent - an arc-shaped region defined by the Nile, Jordan, Tigris and Euphrates river valleys. Today this crescent includes the modern CAMS 10: Mesopotamian Civilization countries and regions of Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, 3 Credits Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Iraq. Spanning ten millennia of history (ca. 9000 BCE-750 CE), this course explores a series of landmarks in This course will introduce students to the history of the civilization and the history of human development, which are considered together with the culture of Ancient Mesopotamia (Modern Iraq), which contributed Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. These include the birth of to shape both the Western world and the modern Middle East. Ancient religion and the agricultural revolution (Garden of Eden), the first cities Mesopotamia was a land of contrasts between city and countryside, and the invention of writing (Tower of Babel; Patriarchal/Matriarch between sedentary and nomadic populations, between official cult and traditions), Egyptian imperial rule in Canaan (Exodus), the collapse of popular religion, between royal ideology and political skepticism. This the Bronze Age (Emergence of Israel), impact of empire (united and course will encompass the variegated nature of this civilization and all divided
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