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Classics & Religious Studies

Course Description Booklet

FALL 2008

UPDATED: 11/04/2008


Classics:
CLAS 141, Sec. 001 - Entertainment: Rome Spectacle
CLAS 180, Sec. 150 - Classical Mythology
CLAS 183 - Heroes, Harlots and Helots
CLAS 252 - Archaeology: World Civilization
CLAS 281 - The World of Classical Greece
CLAS 283 - Epic Tales
CLAS 307/807 - Early Christianity
CLAS 381 - Ancient Novel
CLAS 399 - Independent Study
CLAS 399H - Honors Course
CLAS 409/809 - Religion in Late Antiquity

Greek:
GREK 101 - Elementary Greek I
GREK 301 - 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:
LATN 896 - Reading and Research
LATN 899 - Masters Thesis

Hebrew:
HEBR 301 - Biblical Hebrew Prose
HEBR 399 - Independent Study
HEBR 896 - Reading and Research

Religious Studies:
RELG 108 - World Religions
RELG 150 - Explaining Religion
RELG 181 - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
RELG 205 - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
RELG 219 - Intro to Jewish History
RELG 306 - 2nd Temple Judaism
RELG 307 - Early Christianity
RELG 370 - Religion & Reform: Utopian Communities
RELG 398, Sec. 001 - Special Topics: Arabic I
RELG 398, Sec. 002 - Eastern Orthodoxy
RELG 399 - Independent Study
RELG 409 - Religion in Late Antiquity
RELG 489/889 - Medieval Literature and Theology
CLAS 141, Sec. 001 - ENTERTAINMENT: ROME SPECTACLE    Instructor Schedule and Office Hours
Call# Type Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
2699 Lecture 3 001 1100a-1215p TR OTHM 106 A. Duncan
Description of Material Being Covered:  This is a course on the forms of mass entertainment produced in different historical periods in ancient Rome. It examines Roman drama as one kind of mass entertainment produced in the Republican period of Roman history. It then examines forms of spectacle in the late Republic and early Imperial periods that involved the Roman elite, such as the triumph, the funeral, and the theatrical extravaganzas of some of the "mad" emperors. Finally, it examines the range of blood sports that were produced, and eagerly consumed, throughout the Roman Empire: chariot racing, military reenactments, animal spectacles, public executions of criminals and religious nonconformists, and gladiatorial combat.
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
Method of Instruction:  This course is taught as a lecture. There are occational film clips shown.
Number and Types of Assignments:  Students will take several quizzes, a midterm, and a final exam.
CLAS 180 - CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 
Call# Type Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor Comments
9325 Lecture 3 001 0230p-0320p MWF BURN 203 G. Watley
2700 Lecture A 3 150 1230p-0120p MF LLS 102 R. Gorman Must also take Group A Recitation
2702 Recitation A 152 1230p-0120p W NH W106 Staff
2703 Recitation A 153 0330p-0420p W BURN 119 Staff
2704 Recitation A 154 1230p-0120p W M&N B7 Staff
2706 Recitation A 156 0330p-0420p W OldH 305 Staff
2707 Recitation A 157 1030a-1120a W OldH 305 Staff
2708 Recitation A 158 0930a-1020a W HENZ 203 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. 001): 
Esposito (ed), Euripides: Four Plays, ISBN: 978-1-58510-048-4, Focus, 2004, Required;
Fagles, Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays, ISBN: 978-0-14-044425-4, Penguin Publishers, 1984, Required;
Lombardo (tr),The Essential Homer, ISBN: 978-0-87220-540-6, Hackett Publishing, 2000, Required;
Fagles (tr), Aeschylus: The Oresteia, ISBN: 978-0-14-044333-2, Penguin Publishers, 1998, Required;
Trzaskoma et al. (eds), Anthology of Classical Myth, ISBN: 978-0-87220-721-9, Hackett Publishing, 2004, Required;
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 183 - Heroes, Harlots and Helots
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8267 3 001 1230p-0120p MWF ANDR 11 J. Goecke
Description of Material Being Covered:  Heroes, Harlots and Helots offers students a different 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: 
Mary R. Lefkowitz & Maureen B. Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, ISBN: 0-8018-8310-5, John Hopkins UP, 2005;
Homer, The Odyssey, ISBN: 9780374525743, Farrar, 1998
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, ISBN: 9780872206038, Hackett, 2003
Sophocles, Alas, ISBN: 9780195128192, Oxford, 1999
Euripides, Bakkhai, ISBN: 9780195125986, Oxford, 2001
Euripides, Trojan Women & Other Plays, ISBN: 9780192839879, Oxford, 2001
Hanson, Western Way of War, ISBN: 9780520219113, UCalifornia Press, 2000
Frank M. Snowden, Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks, ISBN: 0-674-06381-3, Harvard UP, 1991.
Method of Instruction:  Lecture and discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced.
CLAS 252 - ARCHAEOLOGY:  WORLD CIVILIZATION 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8344 3 001 0930a-1045a TR BESY 108 C. Sanchez
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: 
Scarre, Ancient Civilizations, 3rd Ed., ISBN: 13-978-0131928787, Prentice Hall, 2007, Required
Method of Instruction:  To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced.
CLAS 281 - THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL GREECE
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
2711 3 001 1130a-1220p MWF TEAC 112 J. Goecke
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 283 - EPIC TALES 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
2713 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: 978014447941, VP, 2003;
West, David (tr.), Aeneid: New Prose Translation, ISBN: 9780024277800, PH, 1987;
Gardner, J., Gilgamesh, ISBN: 0-394-74089-8, Random Books, 1984;
Johnson, John W., The Epic of Son-Jara, ISBN: 0-253-20713-5, Indiana Univ. Press, 1992;
Heaney, Seamus, Beowulf, ISBN: 0-393-32097-8, W.W. Norton, 2000;
Homer, Odyssey, (tr. Rieu), ISBN: 9780140449112, Viking Press, 2003;
Hesiod Theogony and Works and Days, (ed. West), ISBN: 9780023153105, PH;
Dalley, Stephanie, Myths from Mesopotamia, ISBN: 0-19-283589-5, Oxford Univ. Press, 1989;
Chakravarthi V. Narassimhan, Mahabharata: An English Version, ISBN: 0-231-11055-6, Columbia Univ. Press, 1998;
Nabokov, Vladimir (tr.), The Song of Igor's Campaign, ISBN: 0-87501-061-8, 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 307/807 - EARLY CHRISTIANITY 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8364/8365 3 001 1100a-1215p TR ANDR 11 J. Turner
Cross-Listed with Religion 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: 
Duling and Perrin, Introduction to the New Testament 4th Edition, ISBN: 0-15-507856-7, 2003;
Dungan and Cartlidge, Documents for the Study of the Gospels Revised, ISBN: 0-8006-2809-3, Fortress, 1994;
Throckmorton, Gospel Parallels 5th Edition NRSV, ISBN: 0-8407-7484-2, Nelson, 1993;
Holy Bible (RSV), ISBN: 0-452-00647-8, Plume, 1974.
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 381 - ANCIENT NOVEL
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8269 3 001 0930a-1020a MWF ANDR 11 T. Winter
Description of Material Being Covered:  Reading and discussion of works of Romans Apuleius and Petronius, Greeks Achilles Tatius, Chariton of Aphrodisias, Heliodorus of Emesa, Longus, Xenophon of Athens, and Xenophon of Ephesus. Attention given to their classical borrowings, and to the authors' times.
Required Books: 
Apulieus, The Golden Ass, (tr. Robert Graves), ISBN: 9780374505325, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998;
Petronius, The Satyricon and Seneca the Apocolocyntosis, (tr. Sullivan), ISBN: 9780452010055, Penguin, 1983;
Xenophon, The Education of Cyrus, (tr. Ambler), ISBN: 9780801487507, Cornell University Press, 2001;
B. P. Reardon, Collected Ancient Greek Novel, ISBN: 9780520256552, University California Press, 2008.
Method of Instruction: To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments: To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information: To be announced.
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 409/809 - RELIGION IN LATE ANTIQUITY 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8370/8371 3 001 0330p-0445p TR ANDR 11 J. Turner
PREQ:   Junior standing. 
Cross-Listed with Religious Studies 409 and History 409/809. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  A survey of the religions and religious philosophies of Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman times from Alexander to Constantine. The student will be exposed to primary sources and the problem of their interpretation.
Topics Include: 
Hero-cults, mystery religions, Gnosticism, the Platonic, Stoic and Epicurean religio-philosophical traditions, Graeco-Oriental syncretism, popular culture, and their influence on Judaism and Christianity.
Required Books: 
Helmut Koester, Introduction to the New Testament: History, Culture and Religion of the Hellenistic Age Vol 1, ISBN: 3-11-014692-4, Walter De Gruyter Inc., 1995;
Luther H. Martin, Hellenistic Religions, ISBN: 0-19-504391-X, Oxford UP, 1987;
Jason L. Saunders, Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle, ISBN: 0-684-83643-2, The Free Press, 1961;
Marvin Meyer, ed., The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, ISBN: 0060523786, Harper.
Method of Instruction: The course will be conducted as a seminar with occasional lectures by the instructor and presentations by student participants on selected topics.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  The student's work will be evaluated on the basis of the class presentation and a research paper.
GREK 101 - ELEMENTARY GREEK I 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
4157 5 001 0930a-1020a MTWRF NH W185 A. Duncan
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: 
Hansen, Hardy, Greek: An Intensive Course, ISBN: 978083216632, Fordham University Press, 1992, 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 301 - XENOPHON 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
10361 3 001 0130p-0220p MWF ANDR 241 T. Winter
PREQ:  Greek 102 
Description of Material Being Covered:  Reading and translation from Xenophon's Anabasis.
Required Books: 
Xenophon, Anabasis, ISBN: 9780806113470; Oklahoma Press, 1962;
**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
4161/4162 3 001 1130a-1220p MWF ANDR 241 A. Duncan
NOTE:  Greek 491 can be repeated for credit towards the degree. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  Students will read Greek prose at an advanced level. In addition to the philological work of translation, consideration is given to an author's style, as well as to issues of genre and historical context.
Required Books: 
Barbour, Amy L., Selections From Herodotus, ISBN: 9780806114272, University of Oklahoma Press, 1977, Required.
Method of Instruction:  To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments:  There are frequent quizzes, a midterm, and a final exam. In addition, students will present a brief oral report on a topic of their choice. Graduate students will write a short paper as well.
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
***** 1-10 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff
PREQ:  Admission to the Masters Degree Program and permission of Major Advisor. 
HEBR 301 - BIBLICAL HEBREW PROSE 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
10362 3 001 0200p-0315p TR ANDR 241 S. Crawford
Description of Material Being Covered: Passage of prose from the Hebrew Bible, and review of grammar.
Required Books: 
C.L. Seow, A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew, ISBN: 0-687-15786-0, Abingdon Press, 1995;
Francis Brown, S. Driver, Briggs, A Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament, ISBN: 1-56563-206-6, Hendrickson, 1996.
Method of Instruction:  In-class recitation, quizzes, and examinations.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies:  To be announced.
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). 
LATN 101 - ELEMENTARY LATIN 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
4649 5 001 1230p-0120p
1230p-0120p		 MWF
TR		 BURN 205
AVH 19		 G. Watley
4650 5 002 0230p-0320p
0230p-0320p		 MWF
TR		 OLDH 205
OLDH 209		 T. Rinkevich
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: 9780300103540, 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
4651 3 001 0230p-0320p MWF ANDR 11 R. Gorman
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
4652 3 001 1230p-0145p TR CBA 118 T. Winter
PREQ:   Latin 102. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  Students will read Latin prose at an intermediate level. The course focuses on daily translation, as well as on review of grammar and on stylistic concepts.
Required Books: 
Fagan, From Augustus to Nero, ISBN: 0-521528047, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Method of Instruction: 
Number and Types of Assignments:  There are frequent quizzes, a midterm, and a final exam. In addition, students will present a brief oral report on a grammatical topic of their choice.
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:  
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
4655/4656 3 001 1100a-1215p TR ANDR 241 T. Rinkevich
PREQ:   Latin 302 or permission from the instructor. 
Description of Material Being Covered:  As of this notice we have a tacit agreement to engage in a reading in Latin of Taciti Annales, quam maximum, with discussion of the text, and the other works of Tacitus. A paper may be in the proposition queue, midterm and final examinations are de rigore. Full participation guaranteed.
Required Books: 
Tacitus, Annales, ed. C. D. Fisher, ISBN: 9780198146339, Oxford University, 1922, 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
***** 1-10 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff
PREQ:  Admission to the Masters Degree Program and permission of Major Advisor. 
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 108 - WORLD RELIGIONS 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8362 3 001 1030a-1120a MWF HAH 102 S. Wood
Cross-Listed:
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course surveys the main classical religious traditions of the world, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. The approach taken is academic and comparative. We will examine methodologies for religious studies, and the worldviews and practices of each tradition's followers. In addition, we will compare and contrast religion in the pre-modern world with religion in the modern world. This will include investigations into how followers of each religion reconcile the demands of religious tradition with the demands of modern culture.
Required Books: 
Mary Pat Fisher, Living Religions, 7th Edition, ISBN: 0-13-614105-1, Prentice Hall, 2008, Required;
Mary Pat Fisher, Lee W. Bailey, An Anthology of Living Religions, ISBN: 0-13-206059-2, Prentice Hall, 2008, Required;
plus various articles.
Method of Instruction:  Lecture and discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced.
RELG 150 - EXPLAINING RELIGION 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8375 3 001 1100a-1215p TR NH W129 S. Lahey
Description of Material Being Covered:  The field of Religious Studies incorporates a number of methodologies into the analysis of religion, borrowing approaches from history, social sciences, literature, and philosopy. The aim of this course will be to provide the student with an overview of these methods of examining religion, with attention to the role of myth, ritual, transformative experience, and ethics in religion. Following an overview of some theories of religion, the focus of the class will shift to analysis of a specific religious tradition, with the idea of testing the respective strengths and weaknesses of the varying theories.
Required Books: 
Daniel Pals, Eight Theories of Religion, 2nd Ed., ISBN: 9780195165708, Oxford, 2006;
Eric A. Eliason, Mormons & Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion,
ISBN: 9780252069123, Univ. of Illinois, 2001
Method of Instruction:  Lecture and discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  Students will be divided into groups of five or six and expected to give a brief weekly presentation, and submit a brief description paper online, for each chapter covered in Pals. In addition, there will be a final essay examination.
Examination Polices and Grading Information:  To be announced.
RELG 181 - SPECIAL TOPICS: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8368 3 001 0130p-0220p MWF ANDR 11 S. Burnett
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course offers an introductory survey of the three major monotheistic relgious traditions originating in the Middle East: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will explore each tradtition in some depth, paying attention to the historical development, scripture, doctrine, and practice.
Required Books: 
John Corrigan, Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions,
ISBN: 9780023250927, Prentice Hall, 1997, Required;
John Corrigan, Readings in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, ISBN: 9780023250989, Prentice Hall, 1998, Required;
Mark R. Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross, ISBN: 9780691010823, Princeton, 1995, Required.
Method of Instruction: Lecture with discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  1 book review essay, three in-class examinations and a final exam.
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. Ma ke-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 205 - INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
9247 3 001 1030a-1120a MWF NH W129 G. Watley
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: 
Berlin & Brettler (eds), The Jewish Study Bible, ISBN: 978-0-19-529754-6, Oxford University Press, 2003, Required;
Gillquist et al. (eds), The Orthodox Study Bible, ISBN: 978-0-7180-0359-3, Thomas Nelson, 2008, Required.
Method of Instruction:  Lecture/discussion.
Course Requirements:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information :  Mid-term, final, and two short papers.
RELG 219 - INTRODUCTION INTO JEWISH HISTORY
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
7004 3 001 1130a-1220p MWF CBA 128 S. Burnett
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course traces the history of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present, examining Jewish experience under the rule of ancient empires, Christian Europe, the Islamic world, and in Western Europe, North America, and the State of Israel during the modern era. While maintaining a focus on Jewish history, the course will also place Jewish experience within a broader historical context.
Required Books: 
David Biale, Cultures of the Jew, vol. 2: Diversities of Diaspora, ISBN: 9780805212013, Schocken, 2006, Required;
Lloyd Gartner, History of the Jews In Modern Times, ISBN: 9780192892591, Oxford UP, 2001, Required;
Hershel Shanks, Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple, 2nd ed.,
ISBN: 9780130853639 , Prentice Hall, 1999, Required.
Method of Instruction: Lecture
Number and Types of Assignments: 2 short essays, two in-class examinatins and a final examination.
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. Ma ke-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 306 - 2ND TEMPLE JUDAISM 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
9195 3 001 0930a-1045a TR AND 11 S. Crawford
Cross-Listed with Classics 306 and Judaic Studies 306. 
Description of Material Being Covered: This course will examine the history and throut of the land of Israel and the Jewish people between the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 587BCE and the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in 70CE. The course thus falls between Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Classics 205) and Early Christianity (Classics 307). We will read works from the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Required Books: 
Murphy, Early Judaism: The Exile to the Time of Jesus, ISBN: 1565630874, Hendrickson, 2002, Required;
Nickelsburg, Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah, Revised, ISBN: 9780800637798, Fortress, 2005, Required;
Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Revised, ISBN: 9780140449525, Penguin Classics, 2004, Required;
Nickelsburg, 1 Enoch, ISBN: 9780800636944; Fortress, Required;
Attridge, The HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised, ISBN: 9780060786854, HarperCollins, 2006. Recommended;
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, ISBN: 0440238153, Laurel Leaf.
Method of Instruction:  Lectures and discussion.
Number and Types of Assignments:  Reading of assigned works, class attendance and participation.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  Three in-class exams and a short paper.
RELG 307 - EARLY CHRISTIANITY 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8363 3 001 1100a-1215p TR ANDR 11 J. Turner
Cross-Listed with Classics 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: 
Duling and Perrin, Introduction to the New Testament, 4th Edition, ISBN: 0-15-507856-7, 2003;
Dungan and Cartlidge, Documents for the Study of the Gospels Revised, ISBN: 0-8006-2809-3, Fortress, 1994;
Throckmorton, Gospel Parallels 5th Edition NRSV, ISBN: 0-8407-7484-2, Nelson, 1993;
Holy Bible (RSV), ISBN: 0-452-00647-8, Plume, 1974.
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 370 - RELIGION & REFORM: UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8872 3 001 0200p-0315p TR AVH 110 P. Demers
Description of Material Being Covered:  The desire to reform religious practice and create new social orders has been a long and enduring feature of the American experience. Many of these movements resulted in the founding of new splinter communities often referred to as "utopian", "communal" or "intentional" societies. This course examines the belief systems, organization, and spiritual and secular challenges to these groups. In turn, the course will also examine the impact of these societies and their beliefs on American society as a whole.
Required Books: 
Schaefer, Richard Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles, 8th Edition, ISBN: 0716770342, Worth Publishers, 2007, Required;
Pitzer, Donald E., America's Communal Utopias, ISBN: 0807846090, University of Carolina Press, 1997, Required;
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective, ISBN: 00674145764, Harvard University Press, 2005, Required.
Method of Instruction: To be announced.
Number and Types of Assignments: To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information: To be announced.
RELG 398, Sec. 001 - SPECIAL TOPICS: ARABIC I 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8136 3 001 0130p-0220p MWF CBA 120 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: 97815899011021, 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: 9781589011045. 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 398, Sec. 002 - EASTERN ORTHODOXY 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8880 3 002 1130a-1220p MWF OTHM 105 J. Garza
Description of Material Being Covered:  This course will discuss the theology and history of the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity as well as the expression of the faith in the countries where Orthodoxy is predominant, such as Russia, Greece, Romania, and Syria. Among the topics that will be discussed in this class are the Great schism in 1054, the Old Believers, and the survival of the faith under communism.
Required Books: 
Ware, Orthodox Church, New Edition, ISBN: 0140146563, Penguin, 1997, Required;
Harakas, The Orthodox Church , ISBN: 9780937032565, Light and Life Publishing, 1988, Required;
Michalopulos, The American Orthodox Church, ISBN: 9781928653141, Regina Orthodox Press, Required;
Speake, Mount Athos, ISBN: 0300103239, Yale UP, 2004, Required;
Pospielovsky, Orthodox Church in History of Russia, ISBN: 0881411795, St. Vladimir's Seminary, 1998, Required;
Kamil, Christianity in the Land of the Pharoahs, ISBN: 0415242533, Routledge, 2002, Required;
Behr-Sigel, The Ministry of Women in the Church, ISBN: 9780961854560, St. Vladimir's Seminary, 2000, Required.
Method of Instruction: 
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 409 - RELIGION IN LATE ANTIQUITY 
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8374 3 001 0330p-0445p TR ANDR 11 J. Turner
Cross-Listed with Classics and History 409/809 
Description of Material Being Covered:  A survey of the religions and religious philosophies of Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman times from Alexander to Constantine. The student will be exposed to primary sources and the problem of their interpretation.
Topics Include: 
Hero-cults, mystery religions, Gnosticism, the Platonic, Stoic and Epicurean religio-philosophical traditions, Graeco-Oriental syncretism, popular culture, and their influence on Judaism and Christianity.
Required Books: 
Helmut Koester, Introduction to the New Testament: History, Culture and Religion of the Hellenistic Age Volume 1;
Luther H. Martin, Hellenistic Religions;
J. M. Robinson, editor, The Nag Hammadi Library in English (=NHLE).
Method of Instruction: The course will be conducted as a seminar with occasional lectures by the instructor and presentations by student participants on selected topics.
Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.
Examination Policies and Grading Information:  The student's work will be evaluated on the basis of the class presentation and a research paper.
RELG 489 - MEDIEVAL LITERATURE & THEOLOGY
Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor
8369 3 001 0200p-0315p TR TEAC 205 S. Lahey
Description of Material Being Covered:  Scholars in the European Middle Ages considered Theology to be the Queen of the Sciences, and devoted as much attention to articulating Christianity in a systematic and coherent philosophical manner as we devote to Science. In this course, the student will become familiar with the structure of Christian theology as defined by Peter Lombard's Sentences, and using that familiarity, will approach of an individual Medieval thinker to be determined by the instructor.
Required Books: 
Philipp Rosemann, The Story of a Great Medieval Book, ISBN: 9781551117188, Broadview Press, 2007;
Peter Lombard, Book One of the Sentences: They Mystery of the Trinity, Giulio Silano, translator
ISBN: 9780888442925, Pontificial Institute, 2007;
Stephen Lahey, John Wyclif, Great Medieval Thinkers, ISBN: 9780195183320, Oxford Press, 2008;
Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion
Number and Types of Assignments: One or two short papers, with one in class presentation, and a final exam.
Examination Policies and Grading Information: To be announced.
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