Courses
Offered: Fall of odd years
Credits: 3
Introduction to classical Greek and Roman culture and to the methods of studying the ancient world. Topics from history, literature, epigraphy, papyrology, medicine, religion, and technology.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 4
Major political, cultural, social and economic developments and themes from the ancient civilizations to the late Middle Ages. Mesopotamia and Egypt. Greece and Rome. Charlemagne and the Franks. Normans and Crusaders. Popes and feudal monarchs. Bubonic plagues. The early Renaissance.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 4
Arts and humanities of the ancient world examined through the frame of urban and intellectual life. Literature, visual arts, music, religion and philosophy presented in historical context. Selected regions and themes. Variable by term.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 4
Fundamentals of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. Translation of elementary readings.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 4
Continued study of the fundamentals of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. Translation of elementary readings.
Offered: Fall of even years
Credits: 3
Selected lives of Cornelius Nepos in the original Latin, with readings in other early and Republican prose authors.
Offered: Spring of odd years
Credits: 3
Readings from Catullus’s poems and from Lucretius’s “De Rerum Natura” in Latin with additional readings.
Offered: Fall of odd years
Credits: 3
Selections form Livy’s “Ab Ubre Condita” in the original Latin.
Offered: Spring of even years
Credits: 3
Readings from Virgil’s “Eclogues”, “Georgics”, and “Aeneid” in Latin. Additional readings from other Latin poets of the later Republic and Augustan periods.
Offered: Fall or spring of every year
Credits: Variable from 1 to 4
Special projects arranged by an individual student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings.
Offered: Fall or spring of every year
Credits: Variable from 1 to 4
Special projects arranged by an individual student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings.
Offered: Fall or spring of every year
Credits: 1
Senior thesis capstone under the direction of a faculty member.
Offered: Fall of even years
Credits: 4
Fundamentals of orthography, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. Translation of elementary readings.
Offered: Spring of odd years
Credits: 4
Fundamentals of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. Translation of elementary readings.
Offered: Fall and spring of every year
Credits: Variable from 1 to 4
Special projects arranged by an individual student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings.
Offered: Fall and spring of every year
Credits: Variable from 1 to 4
Special projects arranged by an individual student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Major social, cultural and political themes in the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to Alexander the Great. Minoan and Mycenaean civilization, rise of the polis, Athenian democracy, Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, Alexander’s empire. Consideration of art, architecture, literature, religion, women, and gender.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Social, economic, and political history of Rome from its origins until the collapse of the Mediterranean empire.
Offered: Fall and spring of every year
Credits: 3
A specific problem or theme in the history of Greece and Rome.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Theory, methodology, and techniques of archaeology. Applications to questions about past human behavior. History and concepts of archaeology as an anthropological subdiscipline.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Great discoveries in archaeology that have captured the public’s imagination and shaped Western thought, from Olduvai Gorge and Stonehenge to Macchu Pichu.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Archaeological evidence for the appearance and development of the world’s earliest prehistoric civilizations. The nature of complex societies and the comparative evolution of states.
Offered: Fall of even years, Summer of every year
Credits: 3
The archaeology of ancient Egypt from the Neolithic through the Greco-Roman period.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 4
Arts of Greek antiquity. The Bronze Age to the Roman conquest, including archaeological sites.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 4
Arts of ancient Rome from the foundation of the city to the fall of the empire, including archaeological sites.
*Open to juniors and seniors within the James Madison College, may require override/departmental approval for non-JMC students
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 4
Theory and practice of popular government in classical Greece and Rome. Rebirth of such forms in the cities and monarchies of Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Philosophical problems of existence, knowledge, and action as addressed in selected readings from the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophers.
Offered: Fall of odd years
Credits: 4
A selection of themes (ontology, epistemology, method, ethics) from Plato’s Socratic and constructive dialogues. Variable by term in content.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 4
Aristotle’s major works and his major contributions to the metaphysics, psychology, ethics, the arts, and politics. Variable by term in content.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Examination of major themes in classical political philosophy as represented by such Greek and Roman philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, or Cicero.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
A critical survey of biblical texts, including the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and writings found in the Apocrypha/Deuterocanon, that combines historical and literary analysis with attention to the ancient religious context of this literature.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
The historical setting and types and meaning of the text of the New Testament explored through various techniques of historical, literary, and textual analysis.