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CLASSIC 10A Introduction to Greek Civilization 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2018
Study of the major developments, achievements, and contradictions in Greek culture from the Bronze Age to the 4th century BCE. Key works of literature, history, and philosophy (read in English translation) will be examined in their political and social context, and in relation both to other ancient Mediterranean cultures and to subsequent developments in Western civilization.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC 10B Introduction to Roman Civilization 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2019, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session
Investigation of the main achievements and tensions in Roman culture from Romulus to the High Empire. Key sources for literature, history, and material culture are studied in order to reveal Roman civilization in its political and social context. All materials are read in English.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC 17A Introduction to the Archaeology of the Greek World 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
The physical remains of the Greek world from the Bronze Age to 323 BCE will be studied, with emphasis on its artistic triumphs, as a means of understanding the culture of ancient Greece.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC 17B Introduction to the Archaeology of the Roman World 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This course provides a broad-based introduction to the archaeology of the ancient Romans from Rome’s origins in the Iron Age down to the disintegration of the Roman empire in the sixth century A.D. It aims to
familiarize students with the more significant archaeological sites, monuments, artifact classes and works of art relating to the Roman world, and to introduce them to the important research questions in Roman archaeology and the methods that archaeologists employ to investigate these.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 17A is not prerequisite to 17B

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

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CLASSIC 28 The Classic Myths 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
The society, culture, values and outlook on life of the ancient Greeks as expressed in their mythology; their views on life, birth, marriage, death, sex and sexuality; on culture and civilization, the origin and meaning of the world. Their use of myth to think about, and give order to human experience. The course includes some of the most important works of Western literature in English translation (the 'Odyssey', the 'Theogony', twelve plays by leading Greek dramatists (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides), along with their historical and religious context, as well as drawing on material evidence (vase paintings, sculpture, archaeological sites).
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Classics 28 after completing Classics N28. A deficient grade in Classics N28 may be removed by completing Classics 28.<BR/>

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC N28 The Classic Myths 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
The society, culture, values and outlook on life of the ancient Greeks as expressed in their mythology; their views on life, birth, marriage, death, sex and sexuality; on culture and civilization, the origin and meaning of the world. Their use of myth to think about, and give order to human experience. The course includes some of the most important works of Western literature in English translation (the 'Odyssey', the 'Theogony'), twelve plays by leading Greek dramatists (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides), along with their historical and religious context, as well as drawing on material evidence (vase paintings, sculpture, archaeological sites).
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Classics N28 after completing Classic 28. A deficient grade in Classic 28 may be removed by taking Classic N28.

Hours & Format

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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CLASSIC 29 Introduction to Greco-Roman Magic 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2009
This course will focus on ideas about magic in the Greek and Roman worlds from about 750 BCE through 400 CE. Topics will include witches, holy men, love spells, necromancy, spirits, and mystery religions. We will examine how magic was represented in high literature (by authors like Homer, Ovid, Apuleius, and Lucian). as well as the more practical evidence of curse tablets and the Greek Magical Papyri. Consideration will be given to analyzing the relationship between magic, religion, and philosophy. Our goal will be to study the common threads that connect different Greek and Roman magical practices, as well as to understand them in their cultural contexts.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC 34 Epic Poetry: Homer and Vergil 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016
Greek and Roman epics including the , , .
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC 35 Greek Tragedy 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2015
Greek tragedy with readings of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC 36 Greek Philosophy 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2017
Introduction to the philosophies of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer:
3 weeks - 16 hours of lecture and 4 hours of discussion per week
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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CLASSIC 39A Freshman/Sophomore Seminar - Cleopatras 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 1998, Spring 1996
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. In this seminar we shall scrutinize and discuss representations of the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra from Antiquity to the present day; our sources will include monuments, literature, art, movies, and advertising. The only prerequisites for the course are interests in this (in)famous monarch and in our engagements with (and refashionings of) her over two millennia.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Hickey

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CLASSIC 39D Utopia, Dystopia 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2006, Fall 2002
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students an opportunity to explore intellectual topics with a faculty member and peers in a seminar setting. In this course we will examine utopian literature from its classical beginnings, in Plato's Republic, and in his Timaeus and Critias (which tell the story of the lost world of Atlantis), as well as in some plays of Aristophanes. We will also consider later developments, in Thomas More's Utopia, and in such works as William Morris' News from Nowhere, and Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Towards the end of the semester the seminar participants will be divided into groups, each of which will be asked to devise its own utopia on a particular theme, for oral presentation in class.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: This course is open only to freshman and sophomores

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Instructor: Ferrari

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CLASSIC 39K Fresh/Soph Seminar - Travel and Transport in the Ancient World 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2016
Examination of how people moved both themselves and objects from one place to another in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Drawing on archaeological, literary, and pictorial evidence we consider an array of topics, including transport technology & infrastructure, the organization & costs of travel & transport, routes & travel times, banking, dining & overnighting on the road, packaging, labelling, & handling of cargoes, the roles of both short- and long-distance trade in the economy, reasons why people travelled, extreme travel, and the general travel experience. We also explore new digital technologies that allow us to better recreate and understand the nature and experience of travel and transport in pre-industrial times.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Classics/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Instructor: Peña

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CLASSIC R44 Roots of Western Civilization 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
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