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.

 

Courses relevant to Global Antiquity

LANGUAGE

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)

 

RELIGION

 

YHU2201: Religions of Abraham

YHU2253: Asian Religions

YHU3223: The Self in Comparative Perspective (cross-listed with Philosophy)