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Greek 300-Level Courses (GREK)

327 Topics in Greek Literature. (4)

A selected topic in Greek literature, such as the Attic orators, lyric poetry, the novel, church literature, or prose composition. This course may be repeated for credit if the topics are different.

332 Topics in Greek Historians. (4)

Reading of one or more Greek historians, such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, or Arrian. Emphasis on methodology, style, function of speeches, views of causality, origins of war, and the weighing and presentation of evidence. This course may be repeated for credit if the topics are different.

341 Homer and Epic Poetry. (4)

A detailed analysis of the Odyssey or the Iliad; the entire work in translation, selected readings in the original. The "oral epic" and Homer's influence on Greek morality, culture, and literature.

342 Greek Tragedy. (4)

Reading of one or more plays by Sophocles, Euripides, or Aeschylus read in the original, and several in translation, noting each poet's outlook and dramatic technique.

345 Studies in Plato. (4)

Reading of a Platonic dialogue (Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, etc.) with emphasis on the technique of the Socratic dialogue, prose style, Plato's view of the soul, and the theory of forms.

371 Individual Learning Project. (1-4)

Supervised reading or research at the upper-division level. Permission of department chair and completion and/or concurrent registration of 12 credits within the department required. Consult department for applicability towards major requirements. Not available to first-year students.

398 Honors Senior Essay, Research, or Creative Project. (4)

Required for graduation with "All-College Honors" and "Departmental Distinction in Greek." Prerequisite: HONR 396 and approval of the department chair and director of the honors program. For further information see HONR 398.

399 Senior Project. (1)

All majors must present a senior project in a public forum. In consultation with a faculty adviser students choose a project appropriate to their previous course of study and/or their individual goals.