Course Description Booklet
FALL 2002
CLAS 180, Sec. 150 - Classical MythologyCLAS 180, Sec. 250 - Classical Mythology
CLAS 182 - Alpha Learning Community: Heroes, Harlots & Helots
CLAS 189H, Sec. 001 - Honors Seminar: Perspectives in Mythology
CLAS 189H, Sec. 002 - Honors Seminar: Know God and When?
CLAS 206G - Ways of Western Religion
CLAS 281 - The World of Classical Greece
CLAS 283 - Epic Tales
CLAS 286 - Literature of the Ancient Near East
CLAS 307/807 - Early Christianity
CLAS 398 - Special Topics: Ancient Warfare
CLAS 399 - Independent Study
CLAS 399H - Honors Course
GREK 101 - Elementary Greek I
GREK 303 - Greek Composition I
GREK 371 - Xenophon
GREK 399 - Independent Study
GREK 399H - Honors Course
GREK 473/873 - Greek Orators
GREK 896 - Reading and Research
GREK 899 - Masters Thesis
GREK 961 - Seminar in Greek Literature
LATN 101 - Elementary Latin
LATN 301 - Latin Prose
LATN 399 - Independent Study
LATN 399H - Honors Course
LATN 446/846 - Roman Satire
LATN 896 - Reading and Research
LATN 899 - Masters Thesis
LATN 941 - Seminar in Latin Literature
HEBR 101 - Elementary Biblical Hebrew
HEBR 399 - Independent Study
HEBR 896 - Reading and Research
RELG 120W - World Religions
RELG 182 - Alpha Learning Community: Biblical Figures Outside the Bible
RELG 206 - Ways of Western Religion
RELG 217 - Israel: The Holy Land
RELG 307 - Early Christianity
RELG 398 - Special Topics: Issues in Science and Religion
RELG 489/889 - Medieval Literature and Theology
CLAS 180, Sec. 150 - CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
| Call# | Type | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 2509 | Lecture A | 3 | 150 | 1230p-0120p | MF | LL 102 | T. Winter |
| 2510 | Recitation A | -- | 151 | 0930a-1020a | T | OLDH 304 | T. Winter |
| 2511 | Recitation A | -- | 152 | 1030a-1120a | R | CBA 306 | Casey Thom |
| 2512 | Recitation A | -- | 153 | 1230p-0120p | T | OLDH 308 | Casey Thom |
| 2513 | Recitation A | -- | 154 | 1230p-0120p | W | LL 102 | Shawn Parmley |
| 2514 | Recitation A | -- | 155 | 1230p-0120p | R | CBA 342 | Shawn Parmley |
| 2515 | Recitation A | -- | 156 | 1230p-0120p | W | HERZ 202 | Casey Thom |
| 2516 | Recitation A | -- | 157 | 1030a-1120a | W | OLDH 204 | Shawn Parmley |
| NOTE: Register for one recitation from sections 151-157 with lecture section 150. |
| Description of Material Being Covered (Sec. 150): This course, in this section, defines archetypal mythology as primitive software for understanding the natural world. The seven texts have an age ranging from about 4,000 to 1,900 years, and we will treat each one as a time capsule to help us understand the times, the people, the cultures, and the modes of thought that produced them and left them for us to find. |
| Required Books
(Sec. 150): The Epic of Gilgamesh, (trs. Gardner & Maier); Homer, The Odyssey, (tr. Cook); Sophocles, Three Theban Plays, (tr. Fagles); Euripides, Ten Plays, (tr. Hadas); Apollodorus, The Library of Greek Mythology; Ovid, Metamorphoses, (tr. Humphries); Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia,, (tr. Watling) |
| Method of Instruction (Sec. 150): Backgrounders to help explain the readings and to put them in a setting, plus hundreds of slides. |
| Number and Types of Assignments (Sec. 150): Daily reading of assigned works and 2 short papers. |
| Examination
Policies and Grading Information (Sec. 150): Each of the two hour examinations will count for 25% of the grade. The two short papers (about 3 pages) will count for 25% of the grade. Attendance, quizzes, and participation in recitation sections will count for 25% of the grade. 96-100 = A+, 90-95.9 = A, 87.5-89 = B+, 80-87.4 = B, 77.5-79 = C+, 70-77.4 = C, 67.5-69 = D+, 60-67.4 = D. Rounding? 9.445 rounds up--9.444 does not. |
| NOTE: Register for one recitation from sections 251, 254, 255 or 256 with lecture section 250. |
| Description
of Material Being Covered (Sec. 250): The stories, gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, monsters and villains, themes and images of ancient Greek and Roman mythology continue to influence Western culture in myriad ways. In this course we will read a representative selection of the great works of ancient literature through which Classical Mythology has come down to us and seek to answer the questions "What is myth?" and "What is it good for?" This course will help students achieve the following goals: familiarity with the main sources, characters, plots and settings of classical myths; familiarity with some of the more influential theories of myth, both ancient and contemporary; awareness of some of the more significant interactions between classical myths and both ancient and contemporary Western culture; and ability to critically evaluate contemporary recitations, citations, and allusions to classical myths. |
| Required Texts (Sec. 250): Apollodorus, The Library of Greek Mythology (tr.Hard); The Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad & the Odyssey (tr. Lombardo); Euripides, Ten Plays (tr. Roche); Greek Drama (ed. Hadas); Hesiod, Works & Days: Theogony (tr. Lombardo); The Homeric Hymns (tr. Sargent); A Short Guide to Classical Mythology (Kirkwood); Virgil, The Aeneid (tr. Humphries) |
| Method of Instruction (Sec. 250): Lecture and discussion. |
| Number and Types of Assignments (Sec. 250): Daily reading of assigned works, participation in recitation discussion, and two short papers. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information (Sec. 250): Mid-term exam (20%); final exam (20%); two short papers (20% each = 40%); attendance, pop quizzes, and participation in recitation discussions (20%). |
| CLAS 182 - ALPHA LEARNING COMMUNITY: HEROES, HARLOTS & HELOTS | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 2525 | 3 | 001 | 1230p-0120p | MWF | BURN 119 | R. Gorman |
| PREQ: CLAS 182 requires enrollment in the Alpha Learning Community Program. Open to Freshman Learning Comm. students ONLY. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Heroes, Harlots & Helots offers students in the Alpha program a new approach to learning about the ancient world. Relying upon the most recent research in the field, students will be introduced to this exciting area of study by examining the many sides of private life among the ancients. The division between public and private was perhaps the most fundamental idea which underlay the organization of society in the ancient world. Though often overlooked in courses on ancient civilizations, the importance of the private sphere was such that no one can adequately understand the public actions and achievements of the Greeks and the Romans, without a thorough familiarity with their private lives. In Heroes, Harlots and Helots students will learn about these lives in all their fascinating details. Topics of study will include: the family as the economic basis of ancient life; the roles of men at home and at war; slavery; the lives of women; family-centered religious practices; sex and sexuality; and children and education. Students will learn to draw on the evidence of literature, archaeology and art to fashion for themselves a sophisticated and richly textured picture of the ancient world. |
| Required Books: Readings for this class may include Euripides, Medea; Sophocles, Antigone; selections from the Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the Homeric Hymns; F. Snowden, Before Color Prejudice; B. Shaw, Spartacus and the Slave War; and perhaps other works to be announced. |
| Method of Instruction: Classes will proceed through a combination of lecture and discussion. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Frequent quizzes, at least two papers and at least two exams will make up the grade. |
| CLAS 189H - HONORS SEMINAR: PERSPECTIVES IN MYTHOLOGY | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 2526 | 3 | 001 | 1030a-1120a | MWF | OLDH 303 | R. Gorman |
| PREQ: Good standing in the University Honors Program. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: This course is intended to serve the highly motivated student as an introduction to the study of ancient Greek and Roman culture. Entry into this complex and difficult but highly influential and rewarding discipline will be eased by taking as our point of approach a subject familiar to many students from the high school curriculum: Greek and Roman Mythology. We will look at these myths not simply as entertaining stories but will examine them in the context of the idea of mythology as a cultural phenomenon. |
| CLAS 189H - KNOW GOD AND WHEN? | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8922 | 3 | 002 | 1100a-1215p | TR | CBA 208 | S. Lahey |
| PREQ: Good standing in the University Honors Program. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: This is a course on learning to use philosophical reasoning about problems in religion. Subjects will include arguments for the existence of God, the problem of evil, the relationship of faith and reason, miracles, and life after death. No previous familiarity with philosophy is expected, but some general familiarity with religion is helpful. |
| Required Books:
Smith, Huston, Why Religion Matters; Peterson, Michael L. (editor), Reason and Religious Belief; Peterson, Michael L. (editor), Philosophy of Religion |
| CLAS 206G - WAYS OF WESTERN RELIGION | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8386 | 3 | 001 | 0200p-0315p | TR | AND 33 | J. Turner |
| Cross-Listed with Religious Studies 206. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Introduction to the academic study of religion through the reading and analysis of 15 significant literary works from the Bronze Age to the present. These works either reflect or have crucially shaped the western religious consciousness, and each in its own way raises the root questions concerning human existence in an incisive and memorable way: life and death, mortality and immortality, human excellence and failure, ambiguity and paradox versus the logical and straightforward, and the relation between God, man and world, reason and revelation, what can and cannot be known. Each week of the semester will be devoted to the study of a single author in his or her historical context, and how the work invites the reader to perceive and attach significance to the world of human experience. Short weekly papers will be submitted by the student, which may be used as the basis for contributing to class discussion. |
| Method of Instruction: Daily discussion sessions. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Fourteen 2-3 page weekly papers; no exams or term papers. |
| CLAS 281 - THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL GREECE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 2528 | 3 | 001 | 1030a-1120a | MWF | AND 11 | N. Adkin |
| Cross-Listed with English 240A. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Some of the greatest works of Greek literature are read in English translations as an introduction to the world of classical Greece. |
| Required Books:
Homer, The Iliad (tr. Rieu) (Penguin); Greek Lyrics (tr. Lattimore) (Chicago); Aeschylus, Oresteia (tr. Lattimore) (Chicago); Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (tr. Anderson) (Library of Liberal Arts); Sophocles I, II, (tr. Greene & Lattimore) (Chicago); Euripides IV, and V (tr. Greene & Lattimore) (Chicago); Aristophanes, The Complete Plays (tr. Hadas) (Bantam). |
| Method of Instruction: Lectures and discussion. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Reading of assigned works. |
| Requirements: Mid-term and final essay, four quizzes, and one presentation make up the grade. |
| CLAS 283 - EPIC TALES | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8388 | 3 | 001 | 0930a-1020a | MWF | M&N B5 | T. Rinkevich |
| PREQ: Sophmore standing. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Reading and discussion of selected representative epics from a variety of cultures, chiefly in the ancient world: including Gilgamesh, Iliad, Odyssey, Theogony, Enuma Elish, Mahabharata (selections!), Aeneid. Investigation and lectures regarding the themes, motifs, and structures of epic, and their appearance in other cultures (including later) epics. |
| Required Books: Translations of the above-named works will be ordered. |
| Method of Instruction: Lectures and class discussions on these works; oral presentations in class by members of the class. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: Occasional quizzes, mid-term, final, 2-3 short papers (2-4 pages) on the readings. Quizzes count 10%, mid-term 25%, final 25%, papers 30%, attendance and participation 10%. Performance counts!. |
| CLAS 286 - LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8384 | 3 | 001 | 1100a-1215p | TR | M&N B7 | S. Crawford |
| PREQ: Sophmore standing. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: The course will cover texts from various civilizations of the Ancient Near East, including Mesopotamia (Gilgamesh), Egypt (Isis and Osiris), Israel (Genesis), and Asia Minor (Hesiod's Theogony). We will also investigate these cultures through archaeological and art historical evidence. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the world view of these literary works, as well as their cross- cultural continuities. |
| Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion. |
| CLAS 307/807 - EARLY CHRISTIANITY | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 2529/2536 | 3 | 001 | 1230p-0145p | TR | AND 11 | J. Turner |
| Cross-Listed with Religious Studies 307 and History 307/807. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Introduction to the history, institutions and thought of early Christianity from the beginnings until A.D. 150 as reconstructed from the New Testament and other early Christian literature. |
| Required Books:
The New Testament (RSV); Duling and Perrin, Introduction to the New Testament; Dungan and Cartlidge, Documents for the Study of the Gospels; Throckmorton, Gospel Parallels |
| Method of Instruction: Mostly lecture, but ample opportunity for discussion. |
| Number and Types of Assignments : To be announced. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: Short quizzes, mid-term, and final exam. |
| CLAS 398 - SPECIAL TOPICS: ANCIENT WARFARE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8385 | 3 | 001 | 0230p-0320p | MWF | AND 11 | T. Winter |
| Description of Material Being
Covered: This course will use the richly available primary source materials. Greek
soldiers and generals could write, and they did, and we profit from their hard-won lore. Xenophon
was in a Greek mercenary force attempting to wrest control of the Persian Empire. He leaves us an
on-the-ground, almost day-by-day account of the military adventure, The Anabasis. Xenophon
also was a military leader, and a student of the best Greek general of his time, Agesilaus, king
of Sparta. He put what he learned about military leadership into his "biography" of Cyrus the Great,
The Cyropedia. He also wrote an essay on cavalry, and a history of the warfare of his time.
We will also study Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War, and leap centuries to Caesar's
War Commentaries. From these and other sources we will learn the components of the Greek and Roman armed forces, and their combat roles, and how their leaders managed logistics, units, combat, and war commentaries. |
| Required Books: Arrian, The Anabasis of Alexander; Caesar, Gallic War Commentaries, Civil War Commentaries; Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Selections; Tacitus, Agricola; Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War; Xenophon, The Anabasis, The Cyropedia. |
| Method of Instruction: Discussion of readings. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: One fairly major written exercise for each one of the source materials, plus a semester paper. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: The tests/written exercises, final exam, and semester paper will each count roughly 1/3 of the semester grade. |
| CLAS 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 1-6 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). |
| CLAS 399H - HONORS COURSE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 1-4 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Candidate for degree with distinction or with high distinction or with highest distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences. Obtain call # from Classics office (472-2460) |
| GREK 101 - ELEMENTARY GREEK I | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 4395 | 5 | 001 | 1130a-1220p | MTWRF | AND 11 | T. Rinkevich |
| Description of Material Being Covered: This course will lay the foundation of Classical and Koine Greek; the forms, syntax, vocabulary, and grammar of the language. |
| Required Books: A Structure of Ancient Greek |
| Method of Instruction: Every student will have the opportunity to contribute to every class session. This course is not for the faint-hearted or the slack-offs, but it will produce real benefits for those who take it seriously, and efforts will be made to make it a pleasant experience; presentation and explanation of vocabulary and grammar, in-class and homework exercises. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: 6-7 chapters, each with exercises and sentences to be handed in, or assigned for quizzes. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: Thorough daily drills and frequent quizzes; 90-100 = A, 86-89 = B+, etc. Mid-term and final. |
| GREK 303 - GREEK COMPOSITION I | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 7962 | 1 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | T. Rinkevich |
| PREQ: Greek 102 |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Translation of sentences and passages from English into Greek. Discussion of the grammatical principles involved. |
| Required Books: L.W.P. Lewis and L.M. Styler, Foundations for Greek Prose Composition. |
| Method of Instruction: Analysis of student performance. Explanations of grammatical structures. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Weekly translation assignments. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: No examinations. The grade is based on the translation exercises. |
| GREK 371 - XENOPHON | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 4396 | 3 | 001 | 1030a-1120a | MWF | AND 241 | T. Rinkevich |
| PREQ: Greek 102 |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Reading from Xenophon's Cyropedia. |
| Required Books: Cyropedia (Loeb edition). |
| Method of Instruction: In-class translation and discussion. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Quizzes, mid-term, and final exam. |
| GREK 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 1-6 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). |
| GREK 399H - HONORS COURSE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 3 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Candidate for degree with distinction or with high distinction or with highest distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences. Obtain call # from Classics office (472-2460) |
| GREK 473/873 - GREEK ORATORS | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 7960/7961 | 3 | 001 | 1130p-1220p | MWF | AND 241 | T. Winter |
| PREQ: Greek 361 or permission of the Instructor. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Few things take one into the ancient Greek culture better than reading one of the surviving speeches. The speeches selected are good at that, and are on the reading list. One has got to do Demosthenes. And given that, which speech? The one whose circumstances force him to justify his entire career the De Corona. And then, one has to do Lysias, "the purest canon of Attic Greek" according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Besides, his speeches give us real people in local situations. So we will look at Attic life large scale and small scale, telescope and microscope. |
| Required Books: Lysias, Against the Grain-dealers, For the Cripple; Demosthenes, De Corona. |
| Method of Instruction: The Lysias we will simple do in Greek; I will expect everyone to read the De Corona in one's language of fastest reading speed, by the end of February. At this point, we will split up the Greek by individual selection. (When it is your turn, take the rest of the class through your selection.) |
| Number and Types of Assignments: I require a log of readings. Unleash the hounds upon the surviving orations. I envision having 30 minutes a week, or a regular session, for your hunting trophies. The orators are full of vignettes, slices of life, time machines into the ancient past. Find a good spot; take us all there. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: The final exam will cover all Greek covered in the semester: a consequence is that one must pay attention to one's fellow students, and work to follow along. The final exam will also include an essay. Two or three weeks before the exam, we will democratically arrive at a topic. The topic then becomes the "essay question for the exam". Rehearse it all you like, and allow 30 minutes of the examination time for writing it. The final exam will conclude with a single passage to read at sight, open book. |
| GREK 896 - READING AND RESEARCH | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 1-6 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). |
| GREK 899 - MASTERS THESIS | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 4402 | 1-10 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Admission to the Masters Degree Program and permission of Major Advisor. |
| GREK 961 - SEMINAR IN GREEK LITERATURE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 4403 | 3 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| LATN 101 - ELEMENTARY LATIN | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 4885 | 5 | 001 | 0930a-1020a | MTWRF | AND 11 | V. Leinieks |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Latin is primarily a written language and the goal of the one-year sequence Latin 101-102 is to train the student to read Latin. Toward the end of Latin 102 students begin to read the prose works of Caesar and Cicero. |
| Required Books : Leinieks, The Structure of Latin. |
| Method of Instruction: Daily translation and analysis of grammatical structures. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Daily quizzes. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: The course grade will be based on the daily quizzes and possibly a final examination |
| LATN 301 - LATIN PROSE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 4886 | 3 | 001 | 0230p-0320p | MWF | AND 39 | R. Gorman |
| PREQ: Latin 102 or permission from the instructor. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Latin 301 is a continuation of Latin 101 and 102. There will be some review to start. We will pick up where the class left off at the end of 102 on our way to reading the letters of Cicero. A new textbook is not required. |
| Required Books : Leinieks, The Structure of Latin (Irvington). |
| Method of Instruction: Reading and translation under correction from the instructor. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Each class period will have reading assignments. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: Regular quizzes, mid-term and final make up the grade. |
| LATN 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 1-6 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). |
| LATN 399H - HONORS COURSE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 3 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Candidate for degree with distinction or with high distinction or with highest distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences. Obtain call # from Classics office (472-2460) |
| LATN 446/846 - ROMAN SATIRE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8009/8010 | 3 | 001 | 0400p-0450p | M | AND 241 | N. Adkin |
| 0400p-0450p | W | AND 241 | N. Adkin | |||
| 0130p-0220p | F | AND 241 | N. Adkin | |||
| Description of Material Being Covered: Selections from Juvenal and Persius, the world's two most stinging satirists. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: Quizzes, mid-term and final exam. |
| LATN 896 - READING AND RESEARCH | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 1-6 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). |
| LATN 899 - MASTERS THESIS | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 4893 | 1-10 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| LATN 941 - SEMINAR IN LATIN LITERATURE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8389 | 3 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| HEBR 101 - ELEMENTARY BIBLICAL HEBREW | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8011 | 5 | 001 | 0930a-1020a | MTWRF | AND 241 | S. Burnett |
| Description of Material Being Covered: This course will introduce you to the language of the Hebrew Bible, which Jews refer to as the Tanak and Christians as the Old Testament. In this course you will learn to recognize and form Hebrew nouns and will study part of the verbal system. By the end of the semester you will be able to read simple Hebrew sentences. You will then be prepared to take the next semester in which you will master the remainder of the verbal system and learn to read extensive passages from the Bible. |
| Required Books: Seow, C.L., A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew, Abingdon, 1995; Hebrew Scriptures, ed. N. Snaith, United Bible Societies; Holladay, William L., A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. |
| Method of Instruction: Seminar style; in-class recitation. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Frequent short quizzes on grammar and vocabulary, frequent homework assignments. |
| Examination Policies: Three examinations. |
| HEBR 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 1-3 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). |
| HEBR 896 - READING AND RESEARCH | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 1-6 | 001 | Arranged | Arranged | Arranged | Staff |
| PREQ: Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). |
| RELG 120W - WORLD RELIGIONS | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| **** | 3 | 001 | 1030a-1145a | TR | 308 Old Main | Rita Lester |
| NOTE: This course is taught at NE Wesleyan University. |
| PREQ: Permission from Classics office (472-2460). |
| Description of Material Being Covered: This course is a study of the cultural settings, lives of founders when appropriate, oral or written traditions and literature, worldviews, myths, rituals, ideals of conduct and development of some of the world's religions. Following a brief examination of possible evidence of religious practice among prehistoric peoples, religions studies will typically include tribal religions, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and Bahai. Readings, visitations to differing religious communities, videotapes and World Wide Web sites will help introduce and illustrate not only the cultural settings in which these religions appear, but also the voices and faces of contemporary religious practitioners. |
| Required Books : Lewis M. Hopfe, Mark K. Woodward, Religions of the World (8th edition). |
| Method of Instruction: Lecture/discussion. 50% of the class is primary documents. |
| Course Requirements: As indicated above, course requirements will not only include the elements you have previously listed, but also two 3-4 page reports on visits to religious communities different from the student's own. At least one, if not both of these visitations must be to a differing faith community, i.e. not just different "denomination" of the same religious faith community to which the student may belong. For instance, although Catholic students might choose to attend a Protestant or Eastern Orthodox service for one of these visitation reports, any type of Christian student must also visit at least one (and may choose to visit two) of the following differing faith communities that are also available in Lincoln-Native American, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Muslim or Bahai. |
| Examination Policies
and Grading Information: The final semester's grade will be derived from the
following: Ten 1-2 page Video Responses, posted to the WEB site fot the course 20% Test 1 on Pre-historic and Tribal Religions and the Religions of India 20% Test 2 on Religions of China and Japan 20% Test 3 on Religions of the Middle East 20% Two 3-4 page visitation reports, as described above 20% Total Grade 100% |
| RELG 182 - ALPHA LEARNING COMMUNITY: BIBLICAL FIGURES OUTSIDE THE BIBLE | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8473 | 3 | 001 | 1230p-0145p | TR | AND 241 | G. Watley |
| PREQ: RELG 182 requires enrollment in the Alpha Learning Community Program. Open to Freshman Learning Comm. Students ONLY. |
| Description
of Material Being Covered: The books that are in the Bible were
not, of course, the only ones that were written (and read) by Jews and
Christians in antiquity. In this course we will read stories about Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Solomon, and Job, Jesus, Joseph and Mary, Pontius Pilate, Paul, and Peter-stories that go considerably beyond what we know about these persons from the Bible. Unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library, the texts in which these stories are told were not (for the most part) lost only to be rediscovered in modern times. They were known all along and have influenced western art, theology, & ethics in more ways than most people realize. Any yet, although some Jews and Christians in antiquity read them as scripture, these books are not in our Bibles. They are in two modern collections of ancient Jewish and Christian texts, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament Apocrypha. Stories about biblical figures outside the Bible are also to be found in an often neglected but essential (and certainly timely) source: the "bible" of Islam, the Qur'an. At times the Qur'an follows the biblical narratives quite closely, while at others there are significant & telling differences, including some interesting similarities to texts in the Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha. Over the course of the semester we will read several texts from the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament Apocrypha, as well as relevant sections of the Qur'an. Our tasks will be to become familiar with these texts, examine their impact on western civilization generally and Christianity in particular, and reflect on their usefulness for opening up constructive dialogue between Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Along the way we will ask (and try to answer!) such questions as who wrote these stories and why, what their relations to the biblical narratives are, and what significance they might have for us today. We will also want to find out why these books where not included in the Bible-or, in the case of the Qur'an, why Jews and Christians do not regard it as scripture-and how the books that are in the Bible got there. |
| Required Books: The Apocryphal Old Testament (ed. Sparks); The Apocryphal New Testament (ed. Elliott); Al-Qur'an (tr. Ahmed Ali) Optional Book: The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books |
| Number and Types of Assignments: The class will be divided into two groups (A & B), each of which will write a short (4-5 page) paper every other week on the text under discussion, (example: Week 4, students in Group A will turn in papers on Sibylline Oracles 1-2). In addition, each student will select a text not discussed in class and prepare a 10-minute (maximum) oral presentation, to be delivered before the class sometime during weeks 13-15. Finally, students will write a short (4-5 page) paper discussing what they have learning over the course of the semester, due on the last day of class. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: 6 short (4-5 page) papers 60%, oral presentation 20%, attendance & participation 20%. |
| RELG 206 - WAYS OF WESTERN RELIGION | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8387 | 3 | 001 | 0200p-0315p | TR | AND 33 | J. Turner |
| Cross-Listed with Classics 206G |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Introduction to the academic study of religion through the reading and analysis of 15 significant literary works from the Bronze Age to the present. These works either reflect or have crucially shaped the western religious consciousness, and each in its own way raises the root questions concerning human existence in an incisive and memorable way: life and death, mortality and immortality, human excellence and failure, ambiguity and paradox versus the logical and straightforward, and the relation between God, man and world, reason and revelation, what can and cannot be known. Each week of the semester will be devoted to the study of a single author in his or her historical context, and how the work invites the reader to perceive and attach significance to the world of human experience. Short weekly papers will be submitted by the student, which may be used as the basis for contributing to class discussion. |
| Method of Instruction: Daily discussion sessions. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Fourteen 2-3 page weekly papers; no exams or term papers. |
| RELG 217 - ISRAEL: THE HOLY LAND | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 7974 | 3 | 001 | 0130p-0220p | MWF | CBA 140 | S. Burnett |
| Cross-Listed with History 217 and Judaic Studies 217 |
| Description of Material Being Covered: The land of Israel has long been considered holy by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. Throughout its turbulent history a variety of conquerors including the Persians and the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, the Turks, and the British have ruled the land and left traces of their passage. Most recently, the modern state of Israel has emerged there, born out of the tragedy of the Second World War and the Holocaust. This couse will trace the succession of conquerors who ruled the land and the ways they sought to make it their own, such as creating architectural monuments and instituting religious changes, and we'll also consider the importance of the state of Israel in the modern Middle East. |
| Required Books: Ludwig, Theodore, Sacred Paths of the West, Prentice-Hall, 1994; Peters, F.E., Jerusalem, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1985; Smith, Charles D., Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, New York: St. Martins, 1996. Any Bible translation. |
| Method of Instruction: Lecture with discussion of texts. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Three examinations and three reading reports upon assigned primary source texts. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: Examinations will be given on the date noted unless announced previously in class. Students are expected to take exams at the scheduled time; make-up exams will be permitted only in cases of illness, injury, or at the discretion of the instructor. It is the responsibility of the student to contact the professor in order to schedule make-up examinations. |
| RELG 307 - EARLY CHRISTIANITY | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 7087 | 3 | 001 | 1230p-0145p | TR | AND 11 | J. Turner |
| Cross-Listed with Classics 307/807 and History 307/807. |
| Description of Material Being Covered: Introduction to the history, institutions and thought of early Christianity from the beginnings until A.D. 150 as reconstructed from the New Testament and other early Christian literature. |
| Required Books:
The New Testament (RSV); Duling and Perrin, Introduction to the New Testament; Dungan and Cartlidge, Documents for the Study of the Gospels; Throckmorton, Gospel Parallels |
| Method of Instruction : Mostly lecture, but ample opportunity for discussion. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: To be announced. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: Short quizzes, mid-term, and final exam. |
| RELG 398 - SPECIAL TOPICS: ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 8012 | 3 | 001 | 1030a-1120a | MWF | TEAC 247 | D. Crawford |
| Description of Material Being Covered: This course will examine the growing conflict between science and religion from the perspective of religious studies. As science has progressed in the modern era, religion has been in retreat. Religion has had to conform its doctrines to advances in scientific knowledge. We will ask whether science and religion are fundamentally opposed. Are current theories of the beginning of the universe, and of the evolution of matter, life, and mind consistent with belief in a creator-God? We'll consider ways of integrating religious beliefs with what science tells us about the natural world. To help us understand the present, we will look at past clashes between science and religion, beginning with the discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo, through Darwin's evolutionary theory and the Scopes trial, to modern Big Bang cosmology, as well as the various ways in which religion has responded to these challenges--sometimes resisting change, and sometimes incorporating scientific theory into its theology. (The course will not presuppose any special knowledge in science or religious studies, although some background in either or both of these areas will help. Our study will focus entirely on western religions, but we will ask whether the same conflicts between science and religion occur in non-western religions.) |
| Required Books: Barbour, Ian, When Science Meets Religion; Swinburne, Richard, Is There A God?; Gould, Stephen, Wonderful Life Davies, Paul, Mind of God; Van Till, Howard J., Fourth Day |
| Readings: Besides the above books there will be selected readings from Darwin and Galileo, philosopher Michael Ruse (The Evolution Wars), and theologian Ernan McMullin. |
| Number and Types of Assignments: Requirements include: several short papers (including one class presentation) a longer paper, and a final exam. |
| CLAS 489/889 - MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND THEOLOGY | ||||||
| Call# | Cr Hrs | Sec | Time | Days | Bldg/Room | Instructor |
| 7091/7092 | 3 | 001 | 1030a-1120a | MWF | AND 122 | P. Olson |
| Cross-Listed with English 489/889 |
|
Description of Material Being Covered: Theology was
sometimes, in the Middle Ages, dissolved into the terms theos and
logos or the word about God. So understood, it was an effort to
achieve definitive understanding of dogmatic positions. Theology was also
said to be "faith seeking understanding," a definition that places more
emphasis on the autobiographical and contemplative. Literature in the hands
of writers like Hildegard of Bingen, Chretien, Alanus, Dante, Petrarch and
Bocaccio, Chaucer at least part of the time, and the writers of medieval
English lyrics and plays was thought to perform a similar function. This
course will place more emphasis on the autobiographical and literary than
on the technical-theological, the second rather than the first definition,
because, for a first encounter with this area, the autobiographical and
literary are a good deal more interesting than the technical. There is
ample reason to look at the influence on medieval literature of theologians
like Augustine, Boethius, Alanus, Thomas Aquinas (for Dante), Wyclif and so forth.
There is also ample reason to examine the claim made in various forms by Dante,
Petrarch, Bocaccio, and others that poetry is a kind of theology. This course will
examine the back-and-forth. Medieval theologians and writers seem to fall into three groups: (1) Those of the 400s-700s who write in the context of various threats of the fall of the Roman empire in which the church had spread. The primary figures here are Augustine and Boethius who write works that become both the basis of literary theory and provide ideology that is incorporated into or subverted by later writers. (2) Those of the 12th and 13th centuries when monastic theology achieves its heights and also when the great schools of the Paris area became the basis of the University of Paris, perhaps the first university in the world and the citadel of early scholasticism (e.g. Hugh of St. Victor and Chretien; Bernard and Hildegard; Alanus of Insulis and the Roman de la Rose writers; Thomas Aquinas and Dante). (3) Those of the 14th and 15th centuries that play out from under the intellectual hegemony of the church in various ways and prepare for a kind of splintering within much of Christendom. The primary figures likely to be studied here would be Julian of Norwich and Margery Kemp as both writers and theologians; Ockham and Wycliff as theologians and Chaucer and the lyricists and craft-cycle writers as literary figures. |
| Requirements: Attendance, discussion, one 10-20 page paper, quizzes, journals. |
| Examination Policies and Grading Information: Attendance and discussion 25%; paper 25%; quizzes 25%; journals 25%. |
