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Archaeology course schedule

Undergraduate Courses
1. Introductory level courses:
Classical Civilization 221-223. Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World (fall: Egypt and Mesopotamia; winter: Greece; spring: Rome).

2. Advanced level courses:
In alternate years advanced courses in historical archaeology are offered to advanced undergraduates and to beginning graduate students.

Year 1: Classical Civilization 403-405. Intensive Greek Archaeology (fall: Protogeometric through Archaic; winter: late Archaic and Classical; spring: Hellenistic).
Year 2: Classical Civilization 401-402. Intensive Roman Archaeology (fall: Iron Age through mid-Republic; winter: the Gracchi to Nero; spring: Flavians through Constantine).

Graduate Instruction
1. Courses (2-3 year alternating sequence)

Year 1: Classical Civilization 741-742. The Minoans (fall: Neolithic through Old Palace Period; winter: New Palace Period)
Year 2: Classical Civilization 743-744. The Mycenaeans (fall: Earliest Prehistory through Middle Bronze Age; winter: Late Bronze Age).

Year 1: Classical Civilization 944. Archaeological Theory and Ethics
Year 2: Classical Civilization 945. Archaeological Field Methods
Year 3: Classical Civilization 941. Quantitative Methods

Year 1: Bronze Age Seminar 954. Minoan Topic
Year 2: Bronze Age Seminar. Mycenaean Topic
Year 3: Bronze Age Cyprus

Year 1: Classical Civilization 403-405. Intensive Greek Archaeology (fall: Protogeometric through Archaic; winter: late Archaic and Classical; spring: Hellenistic).
Year 2: Classical Civilization 401-402. Intensive Roman Archaeology (fall: Iron Age through mid-Republic; winter: the Gracchi to Nero; spring: Flavians through Constantine).

2. Graduate Seminars
Every year, we offer 4-5 graduate seminars in Archaeology.

Recent seminars include:

• Numismatics (Burrell)
• Archaeology and Gender (Burrell)
• Archaeology of Hadrian (Burrell)
• Greek Colonization (Davis)
• The Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age (Davis)
• Travellers to Greece (Davis)
• Greek Pottery (Lynch)
• The Archaeology of Troy (Rose)
• Augustan Rome (Rose)
• Roman Architecture (Rose)
• Aegean Prehistory (Walberg)
• Prehistoric Cyprus (Walberg)
• The Chalcolithic and Early CypriotBronze Age (Walberg
• Late Bronze Age Cyprus (State Formation, Trade and Economy) (Walberg)
• Greek Dark Age Archaeology (Walberg and Christopherson)
• Computers and Archaeology (Wallrodt).

Other Courses
In addition to courses and seminars in the Classics Department, graduate students specializing in Classical and pre-Classical archaeology in recent years have taken courses in Anthropology, Geology, and Geography, including Human Osteology, Dental and Skeletal Analysis, Anthropological Theory, Economic Anthropology, Social Theory and Anthropology, Social Variablity in Pre-state Societies, Petrology and Mineralogy, and Geological Information Systems.

Philology course schedule:

1. Introductory (100, 200) level courses:
Greek 104/105/106 Intensive introduction to Greek (5 days a week)
Latin 101/102/103 Introduction to Latin (3 days a week, multiple sections)
Latin 201/202/203 Introduction to reading Latin (3 days a week)
Latin 104/105/106 Intensive introduction to Latin (5 days a week)

2. Intermediate (300) and advanced (400) level courses:

Fall quarter (every year)
Greek 301: Attic Prose. (Review of grammar, introduction to reading.)
Greek 401: Plato (e.g. Symposium)
(Graduate students needing extra work to catch up sometimes take both of these together)

Latin 301: Latin Prose. (Review of grammar, introduction to reading.)
Latin 401: Roman Epistolography (Letters of Cicero, Younger Pliny)
(Graduate students needing extra work to catch up sometimes take both of these together)

Winter & Spring quarters (two-year alternating sequence)
After the Fall quarter, intermediate and advanced students sit in the same class, but sign up for different course numbers. Advanced students are assigned extra tasks, such as secondary or additional primary readings, to develop their knowledge and skills further.

Year 1 = Academic year 2002-3, 2004-5, 2006-7, etc.
Winter:
Greek 302/402 Greek Epic. Homer: Iliad.
Latin 302/402 Roman Rhetoric. Cicero. (e.g. pro Caelio)
Spring:
Greek 303/403 Greek History: Herodotus.
Latin 303/403 Latin Lyric and Horace.

Year 2 = Academic year 2003-4, 2005-6, 2007-8, etc.
Winter:
Greek 305/405 Greek Epic. Homer: Odyssey.
Latin 305/405 Latin elegy (Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid).
Spring:
Greek 306/406 Greek Tragedy.
Latin 306/406 Vergil: Aeneid.

3. Graduate level courses (three-year alternating sequence)

Year 1 = Academic Year 1999-2000, 2002-3, 2005-6, etc.
Fall quarter
Greek 581 Sophocles.
Latin 507 Historians: Livy, Sallust.
Winter quarter
Greek 586 Hellenistic Poetry.
Latin 508 Vergil: Eclogues, Georgics.
Spring quarter
Greek 587 Philosophical Prose.
Latin 509 Silver Age Latin.

Year 2 = Academic Year 2000-1, 2003-4, 2006-7, etc.
Fall quarter
Greek 583 Euripides.
Latin 501 Cicero.
Winter quarter
Greek 571 Greek Lyric.
Latin 502 Lucretius.
Spring quarter
Greek 577 History of early Greek Prose.
Latin 503 Plautus and Terence.

Year 3 = Academic Year 2001-2, 2004-5, 2007-8, etc.
Fall quarter
Greek 584 Aristophanes.
Latin 504 Tacitus.
Winter quarter
Greek 585 Greek Epic.
Latin 505 Horace.
Spring quarter
Greek 573 Thucydides.
Latin 506 Satire.

In addition to the above, we regularly schedule courses in linguistics (Comparative Grammar, Greek Dialects) and in palaeography (Latin Manuscripts, Greek Papyri); and our cooperative relationship with Hebrew Union College allows study in languages and literatures of the eastern Mediterranean (Akkadian, Hittite, Aramaic, Hebrew, etc.).

4. Graduate Seminars

Every year, we offer 4-6 graduate seminars in philology, at least two in Greek and two in Latin, on a wide range of topics.

Recent seminar offerings, per exemplum:
Cicero: the Caesarian Speeches (H. Gotoff), Plato, Phaedrus (A. Michelini), Sex as a Category (H. Parker), Ancient Literary Criticism (K. Gutzwiller), Pliny and the Construction of Culture (W. Johnson), Propertius (K. Gutzwiller), Homer (A. Michelini), Herodotus (W. Johnson), Euripides (A. Michelini), Theocritus (K. Gutzwiller), Ancient Libraries (W. Johnson), Cicero (H. Gotoff), Lucian and Historiography (W. Johnson), The Power of Words in the Age of Augustus (H. Parker)

History course schedule

1. Introductory courses:

History 101 Ancient History: Near East and Greece to 450 BC.
History 102, Ancient History: Greece 450-Rome Punic Wars
History 103, Ancient History: Rome to Constantine

2. Advanced and graduate courses
These six courses are taught in sequence over three years, and are scheduled so as to align with the archaeology course sequence:

History 471/771 Early Rome
History 472/772 Late Republic
History 473/773 Roman Empire
History 474/774 Early Greece
History 475/775 Classical Greece
History 476/776 Hellenistic Greece

3. Graduate Seminars

There are two yearly seminars, normally one Greek and one Roman, on various topics.

Recent seminar offerings, per exemplum: Problems in the Greek Dark Age (A. Christopherson, with G. Walberg), Hellenistic Palestine (G. Cohen), The Julio-Claudians (M. Sage), Documentary Papyri from Alexandria (P. van Minnen).