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Classics & Religious Studies

Course Description Booklet

FALL 2007

UPDATED: July 30, 2007


Classics:
CLAS 141, Sec. 001 - Entertainment: Rome Spectacle
CLAS 180, Sec. 150 - Classical Mythology
CLAS 245 - War in the Classical World
CLAS 252 - Archaeology: World Civilization
CLAS 281 - The World of Classical Greece
CLAS 282 - The World of Classical Rome
CLAS 283 - Epic Tales
CLAS 305 - Ancient Greek Religion
CLAS 399 - Independent Study
CLAS 399H - Honors Course
CLAS 410/810 - Gnosticism

Greek:
GREK 101 - Elementary Greek I
GREK 371 - Xenophon
GREK 399 - Independent Study
GREK 399H - Honors Course
GREK 491/891 - Topics in Greek Prose
GREK 896 - Reading and Research
GREK 899 - Masters Thesis

Latin:
LATN 101 - Elementary Latin
LATN 301 - Latin Prose
LATN 303 - Latin Prose
LATN 399 - Independent Study
LATN 399H - Honors Course
LATN 491/891 - Topics in Latin Prose: Cicero's Dialogues
LATN 896 - Reading and Research
LATN 899 - Masters Thesis

Hebrew:
HEBR 101 - Elementary Biblical Hebrew I
HEBR 399 - Independent Study
HEBR 896 - Reading and Research

Religious Studies:
RELG 181 - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
RELG 189H - Univ. Honors: Apocalypticism
RELG 205 - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
RELG 206 - Way of Western Religion
RELG 208 - Intro is Islam
RELG 209 - Judaism & Christianity in Conflict and Coexistence
RELG 219 - Intro to Jewish History
RELG 305 - Ancient Greek Religion
RELG 310 - Great Ideas in Religious Thought: From God to Nothingness
RELG 398 - Special Topics: Arabic
RELG 399 - Independent Study
RELG 410 - Gnosticism
CLAS 141, Sec. 001 - ENTERTAINMENT: ROME SPECTACLE 
Call# Type Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8268 Lecture 3 001 1100a-1215p TH OTHM 106 A. Duncan
Required Books:  
Plautus, Five Comedies by Plautus & Terence, ISBN: 9780872203624, Hackett, 1999; Required
Jones, World of Rome, ISBN: 0-2521386004, Cambridge University Press, 1997; Required
Futrell, Roman Games, ISBN: 0-405115696, Blackwell Publishing, 2006; Required
CLAS 180, Sec. 150 - CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY    Instructor Schedule and Office Hours
Call# Type Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor Comments
2619 Lecture A 3 150 1230p-0120p MF LL 102 R. Gorman Must also take Group A Recitation
2620 Recitation A -- 151 0930a-1020a R NH W106 Staff
2621 Recitation A -- 152 1230p-0120p W OldH 303 Staff
2622 Recitation A -- 153 0330p-0420p W Burn 119 Staff
2623 Recitation A -- 154 1230p-0120p W OldH 305 Staff
XXXX Recitation A -- 155 0330p-0420p R OldH 205 Staff
2625 Recitation A -- 156 0330p-0420p W OldH 305 Staff
2626 Recitation A -- 157 1030a-1120a W OldH 305 Staff
XXXX Recitation A -- 158 0330p-0420p R OldH 305 Staff
NOTE:   Register for one recitation from sections 151-158 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): 
Cicero, The Nature of the Gods, (tr. P. G. Walsh), ISBN: 0-19282-511-9, Oxford University Press, 1998, Required;
Homer, The Iliad, (tr. Stanley Lombardo), ISBN: 0-87220-353-0, Hackett Publishing Co., 1997, Required;
The Homeric Hymns, (tr. Apostolos N. Athanassakis), ISBN: 0-8018-1792-7, John Hopkins Univeristy Press, 1976, Required;
Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, (tr. M. L. West), ISBN: 0-19-283941-1, Oxford University Press, 1988, Required;
Plato, Selected Myths, (Edited by Catalin Partenie), ISBN: 0-19-280508-8, Oxford University Press, Required;
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 essay will count for 15% of the grade. Attendance, quizzes, and participation in recitation sections will count for 35% 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.
CLAS 245 - WAR IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7813 3 001 0930a-1045a TR BH 108 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: 
Plutarchus, The Age of Alexander, ISBN: 0-14-044286-3, Penguin, 1995; Required
Caesar, Gallic War Commentaries, ISBN: 0-19-283120-8, Oxford UP, 1999; Required
Strassler, The Landmark Thucydides, ISBN: 0-684-82790-5, Simon & Schuster, 1996; Required
John Warry, Warfare in the Classical World, ISBN: 0-8061-2794-5, University of Oklahoma Press, 1995; Required
Xenophon, A History of My Times, ISBN: 0-14-044175-1, Penguin, 1985; Required
Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, ISBN: 0-14044007-0, Penguin, 1970; Required
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 252 - ARCHAEOLOGY:  WORLD CIVILIZATION 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
2634 3 001 1100p-1215p TR BH 108 E. Athanassopoulos
Cross-Listed with Anthropology 252. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  An introduction to the study of complex societies, called civilizations, in both the Old and the New Worlds. Examines anthropological theories and models dealing with the evolution of cultural complexity and reviews archaeological data from specific regions, e.g. Near East, Far East, Mediterranean, Europe, Mesoamerica, Peru, etc.
Required Books: 
To be announced.
Method of Instruction:  To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced.
This class has been cancelled!
CLAS 281 - THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL GREECE:
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8267 3 001 1130a-1220p MWF FERG 111 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, Iliad Prose Translation, (tr. Rieu), ISBN: 0-14-044794-6, Penguin, 2003; Required
Lattimore, Greek Lyrics, Revised Edition, ISBN: 0-226-46944-1, Univ. of Chicago, 1960; Required
Aeschylus, Aeschylus I: Complete Greek Tragedies, (ed. Grene/Lattimore), ISBN: 0-226-30778-6, Univ. of Chicago, 1969; Required
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound & Other Plays, ISBN: 0-14-044112-3, Penguin, 1961; Required
Sophocles, Sophocles II, (tr. Grene/Lattimore), ISBN: 0-226-30786-7, Univ. of Chicago, 1969;
Euripides, Euripides IV: Complete Greek Tragedies, (ed. Grene/Lattimore), ISBN: 0-226-30783-2, Univ. of Chicago, 1968; Required
Euripides, Euripides V: Three Tragedies, (ed. Grene/Lattimore), ISBN: 0-226-30784-0, Univ. of Chicago, 1969; Required
Aristophanes, Complete Plays of Aristophanes, (tr. Hadas), ISBN: 0-553-21343-1, Bantam, 1984. Required
Method of Instruction:  Lectures and discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  Reading of assigned works.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  Mid-term and final essay, four quizzes, and one presentation make up the grade.
CLAS 282 - WORLD OF CLASSICAL ROME 
Call# >Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room >Instructor
7814 3 001 0900a-1020a MWF AND 11 N. Adkin
PREQ:   Sophomore standing. 
Cross-Listed with English 240B. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course covers many of the most important works of Latin Literature in English, with two main purposes:  A. To study the literature per se; B.  To use the literature as documents from which to see the culture of the Romans.
Required Books: 
Horace, Horace: Complete Odes & Epodes (tr. Shepherd), ISBN: 0-14-044422-X, Penguin, 1983, Required;
Juvenal, Satires of Juvenal (tr. Humphries), ISBN: 0-253-20020-2, Indiana UP, 1958, Required;
Plautus, Pot of Gold & Other Plays (tr. Watling), ISBN: 0-14-044149-2, Penguin, 1965, Required;
Rudd, Satires of Horace & Persius, ISBN: 0140442790, Penquin, Required;
Ovid, Metamorphoses, ISBN: 0-253-20001-6, Indiana UP, Required;
Terence, Comedies, (tr. Bovie), ISBN: 0-14-044324-X, Penquin, 1992, Required;
Catullus, Poems of Catullus, (tr. Radice), ISBN: 0-14-044981-5, Penguin, Required;
Virgil, Aeneid of Virgil (tr. Humphries), ISBN: 0-02-358500-5, Prentice Hall, 1997, Required.
Examination Policy:  There will be a test at the end of each of the seven source documents. Each student will do a paper and a presentation. There will be a comprehensive final exam.
CLAS 283 - EPIC TALES 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
2635 3 001 1030a-1120a MWF BURN 204 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:  
Lombardo, S. (tr.), Iliad, ISBN: 0-87220-352-2, Hackett Pub. Co., 1997;
West, David (tr.), Aeneid: New Prose Translation, ISBN: 0-14-044932-7, Penguin, 2003;
Gardner, J., Gilgamesh, ISBN: 0-394-74089-0, Random Books, 1985;
Johnson, John W., The Epic of Son-Jara, ISBN: 0-253-20713-4, Indiana Univ. Press, 1994;
Heaney, Seamus, Beowulf, ISBN: 0-393-32097-9, W.W. Norton, 2001;
Homer, Odyssey, (tr. Walter Shewring), ISBN: 0-19-283375-8, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998;
Hesiod Theogony and Works and Days, (ed. West), ISBN: 0-19-283941-1, Oxford Univ. Press, 1999;
Dalley, Stephanie, Myths from Mesopotamia, ISBN: 0-19-283589-0, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998;
Chakravarthi V. Narassimhan, Mahabharata: An English Version, ISBN: 0-231-11055-3, Columbia Univ. Press, 1997;
Nabokov, Vladimir (tr.), The Song of Igor's Campaign, ISBN: 0-87501-061-X, Ardis Publishers, 1989.
Method of Instruction:  Lectures and class discussions on these works; oral presentations in class by members of the class.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
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 305 - ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7815 3 001 0930a-1045a TR AND 11 S. Crawford
Cross-Listed with Religious Studies 305. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  The purpose of the course is to learn about the religious practices and beliefs of the ancient Greeks, through their literary and documentary texts and archaeological remains.
Required Books: 
Jon D. Mikalson, Ancient Greek Religion, ISBN: 978-0631232230, Blackwell Publishers, 2005, Required;
John E. Stambaugh, Sources for the Study of Greek Religion, ISBN: 978-0891303473, Society of Biblical Literature, 1979, Required;
Norman O. Brown, Hesiod Theogony, ISBN: 0-02-315310-5, Macmillan, Required;
Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, ISBN: 0446607258, Warner Bros., Inc., 1999, Required;
Richmond Lattimore (tr), The Iliad of Homer, ISBN: 0-226-46940-9, Univ. of Chicago Press. 1961, Required.
Method of Instruction:  Lecture and discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  Daily reading assignments; weekly quizzes; mid-term; final; and one short paper.
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) 
CLAS 410/810 - GNOSTICISM
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7816/8877 3 001 0330p-0445p TR AND 11 J. Turner
Cross-Listed with Religious Studies 410. 
Description of Material Being Covered: A survey of the secret writings of the Egyptian Gnostics and their relation to Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the first three centuries. The question of the nature, origin, development, and influence of Gnosticism will be discussed.
Required Books: 
James M. Robinson, editor, The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ISBN: 0-06-066935-7, Harper, 1992;
Marvin Meyer, editor, The Nag Hammadi Scriptures. ISBN: 0-06052378-6, Harper Collins, Required;
Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis, ISBN: 0-06-067018-5, Harper, 1987;
Elaine H. Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, ISBN: 0-679-72453-2, Random, 1989;
Bentley Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures, ISBN: 0-385-47843-7, Bantam, 1995.
Method of Instruction: The course will be conducted as a seminar with occasional lectures by the instructor and presentations by students on selected Gnostic texts.
Examination Policies and Grading Information: The student's work will be evaluated on the basis of a term paper, oral class presentation, and class participation.
GREK 101 - ELEMENTARY GREEK I 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
4022 5 001 1130a-1220p MTWRF M&N B7 T. Winter
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course will lay the foundation of Classical and Koine Greek; the grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and structure of the language.
Required Books: 
Schoder, R. V., A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, ISBN: 1-58510-175-7, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co., Inc., 2004, Required;
Method of Instruction: 
1) 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.
2) Presentation and explanation of vocabulary, grammar, syntax and structure; in-class and homework exercises.
Number and Types of Assignments:  2 chapters a week, each with exercises and sentences to be handed in, or assigned for quizzes; a quiz or assignment nearly every day.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  Thorough daily drills and frequent quizzes; 90-100 = A, 86-89 = B+, etc. Mid-term and final.
GREK 371 - XENOPHON 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7825 3 001 1230a-0120a MWF AND 241 T. Rinkevich
PREQ:  Greek 102 
Description of Material Being Covered:  Reading and translation from Xenophon's Anabasis.
Required Books: 
Xenophon, Anabasis, (edition to be announced);
A Greek-English dictionary is also highly recommended: e.g., H.G. Liddell, A Lexicon: Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, ISBN: 0-19-910207-4, Oxford UP, 1966, or H.G. Liddell, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, ISBN: 0-19-910206-6, Oxford UP, 1945.
Method of Instruction:  In-class translation of the text and discussion of linguistic, grammatical and syntactic matters and the author's ideas.
Number and Types of Assignments:  Frequent quizzes on FORMS and sentence translation and analysis, assignments, mid-term, and final exam.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  Frequent quizzes, pro re nata; mid-term; 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 491/891 - TOPICS IN GREEK PROSE 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
4026/4027 3 001 0130p-0220p MWF And 241 T. Rinkevich
NOTE:  Greek 491 can be repeated for credit towards the degree. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  To be announced.
Required Books: 
To be announced.
Method of Instruction:  To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced.
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
4029 1-10 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff
PREQ:  Admission to the Masters Degree Program and permission of Major Advisor. 
LATN 101 - ELEMENTARY LATIN 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
4511 5 001 1230p-0120p
1230p-0120p		 MWF
TR		 BURN 205
AVH 19		 S. Lahey
4512 5 002 0230p-0320p
0230p-0320p		 MWF
TR		 OLDH 205
OLDH 209		 R. Gorman
The Use of Latin for Today's Student:  For fifteen hundred years or more the Latin language was the life-blood of the intellectual development of western Europe. Subjects as diverse as history, government, law, rhetoric, literature, philosophy, religion, medicine, physics, astronomy and mathematics were written about, talked about and thought about in Latin. For people of that time, not to know Latin was to be largely cut off from the life of the mind. Likewise, for students of today, to lack all knowledge of Latin language and culture is to remain forever intellectually "childish": enjoying the fruits and suffering the consequences of our intellectual heritage without even recognition or acknowledgment, not to mention insight and understanding. In addition to its place as an invaluable key to the story of intellectual development in the West, knowledge of Latin may help to unlock for the student much of the modern world as well. In a vast swath across our planet, from the southern tip of South America to the coast of the Black Sea, the languages spoken are essentially Neo-Latin. Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese and Catalan are all directly descended from Latin. Much of the grammar, morphology, vocabulary and syntax are readily transparent to those who have studied Latin. A good Latin student can, without any further formal training, learn to read these languages with facility.
Description of Material Being Covered: Accordingly, it is the goal of the beginning Latin sequence to introduce the student to the achievements of Latin culture by the most direct route: unmediated confrontation with the monuments of Latin literature. Latin 101/102 will familiarize the student with the elements of the grammar of Classical Latin, the standard by which previous and subsequent developments in the Latin language are measured. In Latin 101 the student will learn the morphology and syntax of the Latin case system as well as a substantial part of the Latin verb system. Knowledge of morphology will be demonstrated in daily quizzes. Knowledge of both morphology and syntax will be developed and tested in daily translation exercises. The beginning Latin sequence also aims to develop in the student an increased level of linguistic sophistication. This improvement will arise not only willy-nilly from the simple fact of the learning of a second language, but is the product of a continual practice of explicit analysis of both Latin and English grammar.
Required Books: 
Andrew Keller & Stephanie Russell, Learn to Read Latin (Set:Txt/Wkbk), ISBN: 0-300-10354-9, Yale UP, 2003, Required;
Gildersleeve, Latin Grammar, ISBN: 9780865163539, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2003, Recommended for Prof. Lahey's class only.
Method of Instruction:  To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced.
LATN 301 - LATIN PROSE 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
4513 3 001 1230p-0120p MWF AND 11 T. Winter
PREQ:   Latin 102. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  We shall be reading Plautus: Phormio in addition with vocabulary and student helps.
Required Books: 
Coury, Elaine, Phormio (A Comedy by Terence), ISBN: 0-86516-014-7, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Required
Method of Instruction:  Daily translation and analysis of grammatical structures.
Number and Types of Assignments:  Daily reading assignments.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  The course grade will be based on quizzes, mid-term and final.
LATN 303 - LATIN PROSE 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
4514 3 001 0200p-0315p TR M&N 203 A. Duncan
PREQ:   Latin 102. 
Description of Material Being Covered: 
Required Books: 
Fagan, From Augustus to Nero, ISBN: 0-521528046, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Method of Instruction: 
Number and Types of Assignments:  Daily assignments, frequent quizzes.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  The grade in the course is the average of the daily assignments, quizzes, mid-term and final exams.
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 491/891 - TOPICS IN LATIN PROSE: CICERO'S DIALOGUES 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7821/7822 3 001 1230p-0145p TR And 11 R. Gorman
PREQ:   Latin 302 or permission from the instructor. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  To be announced.
Required Books: 
D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, ISBN: 0-02-522580-4, John Wiley & Sons, 1968, Required;
Charles E. Bennett, New Latin Grammar, ISBN: 0-865-16261-1, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1994, Required;
James P. Humphreys, Graphic Latin Grammar, ISBN: 0-86-516460-6, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1995, Required;
Method of Instruction:  To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced.
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
4520 1-10 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff
PREQ:  Admission to the Masters Degree Program and permission of Major Advisor. 
HEBR 101 - ELEMENTARY BIBLICAL HEBREW I 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7824 3 001 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: 
C.L. Seow, A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew, ISBN: 0-687-15786-2, Abingdon Press, 1995;
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia 5th Edition, ISBN: 3-43805-222-9, American Bible Society, 1997;
Brown, Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew & English Lexicon, ISBN: 1-5656-3206-0, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.
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). 
JUDS 205 - INTRO TO HEBREW BIBLE 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7829 3 001 0200p-0315p TR AND 11 S. Crawford
Description of Material Being Covered: 
Required Books: 
Gary Kessler, Studying Religion: An Introduction Through Cases, ISBN: 0-07-298619-0, McGraw Hall, 2005;
Plato, Plato:  Euthyphro, Apology & Crito, (tr) F. J. Church, ISBN: 0-02-322410-X, Prentice Hall, 1956;
Karen Armstrong, Buddha, ISBN: 0-14-303436-7, Penguin, 2004.
Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: 
JUDS 219 - INTRO TO JEWISH HISTORY 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8439 3 001 1030a-1120p MWF TEACH 139 S. Burnett
Description of Material Being Covered: 
Required Books: 
Gary Kessler, Studying Religion: An Introduction Through Cases, ISBN: 0-07-298619-0, McGraw Hall, 2005;
Plato, Plato:  Euthyphro, Apology & Crito, (tr) F. J. Church, ISBN: 0-02-322410-X, Prentice Hall, 1956;
Karen Armstrong, Buddha, ISBN: 0-14-303436-7, Penguin, 2004.
Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: 
RELG 181 - SPECIAL TOPICS: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
6672 3 001 1030a-1120p MWF ARCH 127 S. Lahey
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course will introduce the three major monotheistic religious traditions originating in the Middle East: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. We will discuss the historical origins, scriptures, beliefs and practices of each tradition and also their historical interactions up to the present.
Required Books: 
John Corrigan, Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions, ISBN: 0-02-325092-5, Prentice Hall, 1997, Required;
John Corrigan, Readings in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, ISBN: 0-02-325098-4, Prentice Hall, 1998, Required;
Armstrong, Jeruslem: One City, Three Paths, ISBN: 0-345-39168-3, Ballentine Books, 2005, Required.
Method of Instruction: Lecture with discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  There will be two in-class examinations and a final examination. There will also be two short papers written in response to primary or secondary source readings.
Examination Policies and Grading Information: 
1. Examinations will be graded according to the following scale: A+=99-100%; A=92-98%; A-=90-91%; B+=88-89%; B=82-87%; B-=80-81%; C+=78-79%; C=72-77%; C-=70-71%; D+=68-69%; D=62-67%; D-=60-61%; F=59% and below.
2. If over the course of the semester a student improves his/her grade average a full letter grade over the first exam score then the instructor may recognize such improvement through a somewhat higher final course grade.
3. When determining final grades the instructor may take class attendance into account if a student's average grade is very close to the borderline.
4. Examination Policy: 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 student's responsibility to contact me, preferably before the exam, both to alert me and to schedule a make-up examination.
RELG 189H - UNIV HONORS SEMINAR:  APOCALYPTICISM 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8813 3 001 1230p-0145p TR CBA 208 G. WATLEY
PREQ:   Good standing in the University Honors Program. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  A historical, political, and theological survey of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim apocalypses and apocalyptic movements, from antiquity to today. Topics to be covered include, among others, the biblical books of Daniel and Revelation, non-canonical early Jewish and Christian apocalpses, apocalyptic movements in the Middle Ages, the Left Behind series, and the modern Muslim apocalyptic movements.
Required Books: 
Clouse, The End of Days ISBN: 0-59473-170-5, Skylight Paths, 1007;
Greensburg, The End of Days, ISBN: 0-19-515205-0, Oxford University Press, 2002;
Hill, In God's Time, ISBN: 0-8028-6090-7, Gerdmans Publishing, 2002;
McGinn, Visions of the End, ISBN: 0-231-11257-2, Columbia University Press, 1998;
Nickelsburg, 1 Enoch: A New Translation, ISBN: 0-8006-3694-5, Fortress, 2004;
Reddish, Apocalyptic Literature: A Reader, ISBN: 0-56563-210-9, Henrickson, 1990.
Method of Instruction:  To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information: To be announced.
RELG 205 - INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7827 3 001 0200p-0315p TR And 11 S. Crawford
Description of Material Being Covered:  The purpose of this course is to provide the texts in a historical context, and to learn the methods of interpretation which scholars use when working with the text. The class will include material on the history of Ancient Israel, society and culture, gender roles, and archaeology. No prior knowledge of the Bible is assumed.
Required Books: 
Michael D. Coogon, The Old Testament: A Historical & Literary Introduction, ISBN: 978-0-19-513911-2, Oxford University Press, 2006, Required;
James A. Michener, The Source, ISBN: 0-375-76038-5, Random House, 2002, Required;
Attridge, Harper Collins Study Bible, ISBN: 978-0060786854, Harper Collins Publishers, Required;
Beach, The Jezebel Letters, ISBN: 0-8006-3754-2, Augsburg Fortress Canada, 2005, Required.
Method of Instruction:  Lecture/discussion.
Course Requirements:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  Mid-term, final, and two short papers.
RELG 206 - WAY OF WESTERN RELIGION 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7828 3 001 1100a-1215p TR AND 11 J. Turner
Description of Material Being Covered: 
Required Books: 
Gary Kessler, Studying Religion: An Introduction Through Cases, ISBN: 0-07-298619-0, McGraw Hall, 2005;
Plato, Plato:  Euthyphro, Apology & Crito, (tr) F. J. Church, ISBN: 0-02-322410-X, Prentice Hall, 1956;
Karen Armstrong, Buddha, ISBN: 0-14-303436-7, Penguin, 2004.
Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: 
RELG 208 - INTRO TO ISLAM 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7829 3 001 1130a-1220p MWF AND 11 S. Wood
Description of Material Being Covered: 
Required Books: 
Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Isalm: Faith and History, ISBN: 0-85168-350-X, Oneworld, 2004, Required;
F. Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Isalm, ISBN: 0-201-63221-7, Perseus Books Group, 1992, Required;
Marmaduke Pickthall (trans), The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'an, ISBN: 0-879402-16-5, Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an Inc., 1999, Required;
Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future, ISBN: 0393329682, W.W. Norton, 2007, Required;
Ron Geaves, Key Words in Islam (Key Words), ISBN: 0826480497, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006, Required.
Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: 
RELG 209 - JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY IN CONFLICT AND COEXISTENCE 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7830 3 001 0230a-0320p MWF AND 11 S. Burnett
Cross-Listed with Judaic Studies 209. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  Anti-semitism has been called the "longest hatred" and has been a factor in Jewish life from Classical times to the present. In this course students will have the opportunity to study the nature of Christian rivalry with Judaism, a fundamental component of most forms of anti-Semitism. We will consider the religious, political, and social rivalries between the two faiths, beginning with their parting of ways in first century CE, through the Middle Ages and Reformation, the secularization of modern times, Jewish-Christian relations in the United States, the Holocaust and foundation of the State of Israel. However, Jewish-Christian relations have not been invariably bleak and consideration of the themes of tolerance and coexistence will be an important part of this course.
Required Books: 
Jeremy Cohen (ed), Essential Papers on Judaism and Christianity in Conflict from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, ISBN: 0-8147-1443-9, NY Univ Press, 1991, Required;
Naomi W. Cohen (ed), Essential Papers on Jewish-Christian Relations in the United States: Imagery and Reality, ISBN: 0-8147-1446-3, NY Univ Press, 1990, Required;
Michael Phayer, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, ISBN: 0-25321-471-8, Indiana UP, 1991, Required.
Method of Instruction:  Lecture, discussion of texts.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  Two examinations (mid-term and final), three short essays will be required.
RELG 305 - ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8876 3 001 0930a-1045a TR AND 11 S. Crawford
Cross-Listed with Classics 305. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  The purpose of the course is to learn about the religious practices and beliefs of the ancient Greeks, through their literary and documentary texts and archaeological remains.
Required Books: 
Walter Burkert, Greek Religion, ISBN: 0674362810, Harvard Univ. Press, 1987, Required.
Method of Instruction:  Lecture and discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  Daily reading assignments; weekly quizzes; mid-term; final; and one short paper.
RELG 310 - GREAT IDEAS IN RELIGION:  FROM GOD TO NOTHINGNESS 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7831 3 001 0200p-0315p TR TEAC 205 D. Crawford
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course is a study of six traditions in the history of religious thought: Greek conceptions of deity, medieval theology, rationalism and the secularization of religion, skepticism and atheistic traditions, religious existentialism, and Buddhist thought; it also deals with some twentieth-century figures against the background of these traditions.
Through readings selected from representative figures from each of these traditions, the course examines central religious ideas such as conceptions of God (both personal and non-personal) and God's relation to the self and the natural world: religion and ethics; existential, humanistic, and atheistic responses to religion; Buddhist conceptions of the ultimate (nothingness) and no-self; religious pluralism.
Required Books: 
Plato, Timaeus, (tr. Zeyl), ISBN: 0-87220-446-4, Hackett Pub., 2000, Required;
Augustine, Confessions, (tr. Pine-Coffin), ISBN: 0-14-044114-X, Penguin, 1961, Required;
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, ISBN: 0-87220-402-2, Hackett, 1998, Required;
Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, ISBN: 0-664-25556-6, Westminster/John Knox, 1994, Required;
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science ISBN: 0-394-71985-9, Vintage Books, 1974, Required;
Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught, ISBN: 0-8021-3031-3, Grove Press, 1986, Required;
Martin Buber, I and Thou, ISBN: 0-684-71725-5, Free Press, 1971, Required.
Method of Instruction:  To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments: 
Requirements include six short papers on each of the six traditions, an oral presentation of one of these, and either a final paper or a final exam.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced.
RELG 398 - SPECIAL TOPICS: ARABIC 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7832 3 001 0230p-0320p MWF AVH 108 S. Wood
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course will lay the foundation of modern standard Arabic; the grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and structure of the language.
Required Books: 
Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi, Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Package Edition, ISBN: 1-589-9011023, Georgetown University Press, 2004, Required;
Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi, Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Arabic, Part One , ISBN: 1-589-01104-X. Georgetown UP, 2004, Required.
Method of Instruction:  Presentation and explanation of vocabulary, grammar, syntax and structure; in-class and homework exercises. Students will have the opportunity to contribute to class sessions.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information: To be announced.
RELG 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
**** 1-12 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff
PREQ:   Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). 
RELG 410 - GNOSTICISM 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8878 3 001 03:30p-0445p TR AND 11 J. Turner
Cross-Listed with Classics 410/810. 
Description of Material Being Covered: A survey of the secret sritings of the Egyptian Gnostics and their relation to Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the first three centuries. The question of the nature, origin, development, and influence of Gnosticism will be discussed.
Required Books: 
James M. Robinson, editor, The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ISBN: 0-06-066935-7, Harper, Required;
Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis, ISBN: 0-06-067018-5, Harper, Required;
Elaine H. Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, ISBN: 0-679-72453-2, Random, Required;
Marvin Meyer, editor, The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ISBN: 0-06052378-6, Harper Collins, Required.
Bentley Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures, ISBN: 0-385-47843-7, Bantam, Required.
Method of Instruction: The course will be conducted as a seminar with occasional lectures by the instructor and presentations by students on selected Gnostic texts.
Examination Policies and Grading Information: The student's work will be evaluated on the basis of a term paper, oral class presentation, and class participation.
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