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Spring 1999

Courses Requiring No Knowledge Of Greek Or Latin

CLA 131-201 Medical Terminology. Meeting times: R 6:00 pm-8:30 pm at the Carnahan Conference Center. Instructor: David Wilson (fredjw at pop.uky.edu). It is the purpose of this course to introduce the student to a word building system for Medical & Scientific Terminology. As a means to that end, the class will concentrate on learning the vocabulary (i.e. word roots, suffixes, prefixes, etc.) necessary to a basic understanding of the terminology.

CLA 131-401 Medical Terminology, computer-assisted instruction. John Cetrone (jvcetr0 at pop.uky.edu) TBA This course covers Latin and Greek roots, prefixes, suffixes, and principles of word-formation in the technical vocabulary of the health sciences. Primarily for students planning careers in those fields. Class attendance required only three times a semester; students set their own pace and work independently. University computing facilities are used for review, drill, and self-testing. No previous experience with computers expected. Be sure you check the Spring 1999 Schedule of Classes for dates and times of the required organizational meetings.

CLA 210-001 Ancient Greek & Roman Art. Meeting times: MWF 9:00am-9:50am. Professor Louis Swift. A study of Greek and Roman Art from Minoan and Mycenaean times (the "heroic age" of Greece) up through the period of the early Roman Empire. The focus of the course will be the political, social and religious dimensions of sculpture, architecture and painting in the Ancient World. Particular emphasis will be placed on the Greek treatment of the human body and on the Romans' use of art for propagandistic purposes. One of the principal objectives of the course will be learning how to analyze art forms and to distinguish one period of art from another. We will also examine ways in which classical models, such as the Parthenon and monuments in Rome, have influenced later forms of sculpture and architecture. All lectures will be illustrated, and since this is a foundation course, it is assumed that students have not had any prior experience in art history. With CLA 135 this course satisfies the Humanities requirement in University Studies. With CLA/HIS 229 or 230 this course satisfies the Cross-Disciplinary Requirement in University Studies.

CLA/HIS 230 The Hellenistic World and Rome to the Death of Constantine. Meeting times: MWF 11:00 am-11:50 am Professor Daniel Gargola (djgarg01 at ukcc.uky.edu). This course covers the conquests of Alexander the Great, the main features of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire to the death of Constantine.

This course can be used to fulfill the USP Humanities Requirement and the Cross-Disciplinary Requirement (both Options A and B), and forms part of the Common Core required for all Classics majors.

CLA 261-001. Literary Masterpieces of Greece and Rome. Meeting times: TR 11:00 am-12:15 pm. Professor Jane E. Phillips (claphil at pop.uky.edu). Focus: The slave in the literature of ancient slave-owning societies. In this course we will sample some of the highlights of our Greek and Roman legacy in literature, including Homer’s Odyssey, tragedy by Aeschylus and Euripides, comedy by Aristophanes, something of Plato, a lot of comedy by Plautus and Terence, and satire by Horace and Petronius. In reading, discussion, and writing we will be asking two kinds of questions:

• First, how does each piece of writing work as literature? What does it expect of and what does it offer to its reader? In general, what is the cultural context in which it occurs?

• Second, how does this literature represent to us the assumptions, values, and experiences of a slave-owning society in which the existence of slavery was never seriously questioned? In what ways might that view have had an influence on our inheritance from the Greco-Roman world, for instance in traditional Western philosophical and religious thought?

All reading will be in English. Three hour exams and a final; several 1-3 page papers.

With CLA 135 this course satisfies the Humanities requirement in University Studies. This course partially fulfills USP requirements in Disciplinary Requirements, Cross-Disciplinary Requirements, and Clustered Courses.

CLA 313 Roman Art. Meeting times: TR 9:30am-10:45. Professor Alice Christ. Study of the art and architecture of Rome from the early Republic through the age of Constantine. Attention will focus on painting, sculpture and architecture as reflections of political, social and cultural developments in the Roman world.

CLA 450G-001 Special Topics in Classical Literature: Fourth-Century Greece and the Hellenistic World. Meeting times: MWF 9:00am-9:50am. am Professor Daniel Gargola (djgarg01 at ukcc.uky.edu) A history of Greece and the Greek world from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest of Egypt.

CLA 450G-002 Special Topics In Classical Literature: Christians In The Roman Empire. Meeting times: W 6:00 pm-8:30pm. (Same as His 352) Professor Bruce Holle. This course will investigate the changes that Christianity underwent from being a persecuted sect in the second century to the state religion of the Roman Empire by the end of the fourth century. Topics included are: martyrdom, persecution, development of Christian creeds, heresy and the role of the state in church affairs.

This course counts toward Field of Concentration requirements for a variety of majors and toward the A&S requirement for upper-level courses.

COURSES IN THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGE

CLA 102-001,002 & 003. Meeting times: Section 001 MW 12:00pm-12:50pm and TR 12:30pm-1:20pm, section 002 MTWR 2:00pm-2:50pm and section 003 MTWF 1:00pm-1:50pm. We will move from reading Latin that has been somewhat modified, to reading powerful and elegant passages taken from Vergil, Horace and Augustus. We will also continue to explore the ancient world, with emphasis placed on the fall of the Roman Republic, and the rise of the Roman Empire. As regards grammar, we will begin examining Latin syntactic structures in more detail, while we finish learning the Latin noun system and begin delving more deeply into the Latin verb system. As in CLA 101, students will read aloud, read for meaning, render Roman ideas in clear Latin, and participate in small-group work, class discussions and drill. There will also be frequent worksheet assignments, quizzes and exams.

Fulfills the USP I.Basic skills,Part B foreign language requirement.

CLA 152-001 Elementary Greek, Part II. Meeting times: MW 12:00 pm-12:50 pm , TR 12:30 pm -1:20 pm . Professor Jane E. Phillips (claphil at pop.uky.edu. This course is the continuation of CLA 151. We will continue work in Athenaze Vol. 1. Prerequisite is CLA 151 or equivalent.

This course fulfills the USP I. Basic Skills, Part B Foreign Language Requirement.

CLA 202-001 Intermediate Latin. Meeting times: MWF 1:00 pm-1:50 pm. Professor Robert J. Rabel (rrabel at pop.uky.edu). We will read some selections from the prose and poetry of the Golden Age of Latin literature. Our textbook will be the Oxford Latin Reader, which is designed to complement the Oxford Latin Course as a first reader. Our goal will be to expand our understanding both of the Latin language and of the literature, history, thought, and cultural values of the people who spoke that language.

This course partially fulfills the Arts & Sciences Foreign Language Requirement

CLA 252 Intermediate Greek. Meeting times: MWF 3:00pm-3:50pm. Professor Hubert Martin (hmartin at pop.uky.edu). Our textbook will again be Athenaze II, which we will complete as we continue to expand our knowledge of the vocabulary, grammar, and prose idiom of Ancient Greek. We will also continue to engage in our brief considerations of the art, literature, history, thought, and cultural values of the people whose language we are studying.

CLA 512 Studies in Roman Philology. Meeting times: MWF 11:00am-11:50am. Professor Terence Tunberg (clatot at pop.uky.edu). This course can be taken at two levels. On the upper level, CLA 512 is designed as a follow-up to Latin composition (CLA 511). Upper-level participants will find that CLA 512 provides an extended opportunity to sharpen their skills at writing and speaking in Latin, while reading Latin texts written at various periods from the ancient world to modern times, all of which provide excellent examples of different genres and styles.

CLA 522/603 Roman Republican Prose: Cicero's De Officiis. Meeting times: TR 4:00pm-5:15pm. J. Francis (jafran1 at pop.uky.edu). One of the most frequently read and discussed of the author's works. This seminar seeks to breathe new life into this timeworn text by focusing on its Stoic context and the development of Roman Stoicism generally, and by examining it as an artifact of Republican aristocratic ideology. In addition to reading, translating, and commenting upon the grammatical and literary aspects of the text, students will be asked to complete various bibliographical assignments and oral reports on the philosophical and cultural context of the work. Graduate students will be required to submit an end-of-the-term research paper.

CLA 556-601 Greek Dramatic Literature: Sophocles. Meeting times: MW 4:00pm-5:15pm. Hubert Martin (hmartin at pop.uky.edu). Our primary texts will be Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and Milton's Samson Agonistes, as we examine from a comparative perspective the presentation of the religious personality in two grand dramatic works that are intimately related to each other in both form and theme. We will also pay considerable attention to prosody and style.