Courses offered in AY 2020-21
Ancient Languages
- YLG1201 Beginning Ancient Greek (Sem1)
- YLG2202 Intermediate Ancient Greek (Sem2)
- YLL2201 Intermediate Latin (Sem1; TBC)
- YIL1201S DLS: Beginning Sanskrit (Sem1; Sem2)
- YIL2201S DLS: Intermediate Sanskrit (Sem2)
- YHU2212 Classical Chinese (Sem2)
Courses in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy
- YHU2211 Roman Literary Cultures (Sem2)
- YHU2315 Classical Indian Philosophy (Sem2)
- YHU3267 Classical Indian Philosophy of Language (Sem1)
- YHU3294 Socrates on Trial (Sem2)
- YHU3313 The Amarna Letters: Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age (Sem2)
- YHU3337 Money and the Rise of the State (Sem2)
- YHU3339 Rome in Antiquity (Sem2)
- YHU3340 The Bacchae of Euripides (Sem2)
- YHU4237 Chinese Prose (Sem2)
- YIL3201S DLS: Advanced Sanskrit: The Mahabharata (Sem1)
- YLG3201 Advanced Ancient Greek Prose (Sem1)
- YSS2208 Ancient Greek Political Philosophy (Sem2)
Some courses also have the option to add a 2MC Independent Language Module based on readings from the course syllabus: contact your professor for more information.
Previous Courses cross-listed with Global Antiquity
Languages
All courses marked with * fulfill the prerequisite for the minor: once Intermediate level or above has been attained in any one language, all additional language classes at any level are also eligible for minor credit. A 2MC ILM at intermediate level or above will also fulfill the prerequisite for the minor provided that the ILM is letter graded.
*YHU2212: Classical Chinese
*YHU3211: Chinese Tales of the Strange
*YHU4218: Chinese Poetry
*YHU4237: Chinese Prose
YLG2201: Beginning Classical Greek (formerly Intensive Elementary Greek)
*YLG2202: Intermediate Ancient Greek
*YLG3201: Advanced Ancient Greek
YLL1201 Beginning Latin (formerly Intensive Elementary Latin)
*YLL2201 Intermediate Latin
*YLL3201: Advanced Latin: Catullus
*YLL3202: Advanced Latin: Catiline in the Roman Elite Imagination
*YLL3XXX: Roman Love Elegy
YLN1201: Beginning Sanskrit 1
YIL1201S: Directed Language Study: Beginning Sanskrit
*YIL2201S: Directed Language Study: Intermediate Sanskrit
Literature
YHU2211: Introduction to Roman Literary Cultures
YHU2214: The Story of the Stone
YHU2230: Dante and the European Middle Ages
YHU2256: Literary Genres: Ancient Epic and Gangster Film
YHU3211: Chinese Tales of the Strange
YHU3222: Ovid the Innovator
YHU3248: Food and Ethics in Roman Literature and Culture
YHU3259: World Religious Poetry
YHU3271: Love in Antiquity: Eros in Translation
YHU4218: Chinese Poetry
YHU4227: Ancient Humor
YHU4237: Chinese Prose
Philosophy
YSS2208: Ancient Greek Political Philosophy
YHU2251: Classical Indian Philosophy of Language
YHU2252: Ancient Greek Philosophy
YHU3214: Indian Buddhist Philosophy
YHU3245: Aristotle
YSS3241: Chinese Political Philosophy
YHU4219: Doing Things with Words
YHUXXX: Socrates on Trial
YHUXXX: Debate and Reasoning in Indian Philosophy
History
YHU2271: The Mediterranean World
YHU2250: Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul
YHU3207: The Interconnected World of 1000 CE
YHU3209: Rome: the Eternal City
YHU3215: China: Neolithic to Yuan through Archaeology
YHU3224: Warring States China: Intellectual and Political History
YHU3225: Pompeii: Art, Urban Life and Culture in the Roman Empire
YHU3252: The Age of Nero
YHU4222: The Historiography of Sima Qian (cross-listed with Literature)