This course takes a site-based approach to the history, culture, and archaeology of ancient Greece. Throughout this class, you will journey to seven of Greece's most famous and historically influential archaeological sites. These sites will serve as a launching point for you to gain an understanding of Greece's historical trajectory, from the rise of Bronze Age citadels at sites like Mycenae to the creation of democracy in the Athenian Agora. You will also gain an understanding of some of Greece's fundamental cultural institutions: investigating athletics at the stadium of Olympia, religion at the Temple of Apollo of Delphi, and medicine at the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus.

The course examines the mythology and practice of medicine in Greek and Roman times from Asclepius to Hippocrates and Galen, medical instruments and procedures, the religious manifestation of healing in Greek and Roman sanctuaries, the votive dedications by patients and cured, midwifery and child care, public hygiene and diseases. The topics cover a large spectrum of the medical practice and public health in the ancient societies of Classical antiquity, as well as how ancient worldviews, including religion and religious practice, shaped health and medicine in Greek and Roman civilization.

Animals were central to the ancient world, and present everywhere. The literature of antiquity is filled with animal allegories, and stories of emotional attachment among humans and animals. Other voices argue its opposite: that animals exist for the use of humans, and that they do not possess an intellect compatible with our own. These two relationships, utilitarian and affectionate, give rise to many of the questions we will address in this course as we consider ancient behavior toward animals in these literary presentations and then compare that behavior with our own modern thinking on such topics as: Do animals differ from humans intellectually? Were animals created for the use of humans? Do we have an obligation to protect animals? Should animals be used for food, sport, or sacrifice? Can animals be our friends? These are all questions that formed the ancient ethical debates about animals and informed behavior toward them. Arguments cover the full gamut, from ideas that humans owe animals nothing to imputing rational sentience to them. Beyond the debates about animals that survive in extant literature, in this course we also examine animals in material culture, e.g., animals in art or carved on monuments. In addition, we will consider a variety of modern ideas about animals by reading a children's book about animals (list will be provided) as a way of developing a comparative framework for interpreting the literature about animals in antiquity. These readings will form the basis of student presentations. CLAS 312 is a General Education Tier 2 Humanities course.

Although Greece was more than just Athens, a familiarity with the religious, civic, and private material culture of Athens is essential for all students of Classical antiquity. This course will follow the urban development of Athens, especially its religious center, the Acropolis, and its civic center, the Agora, from the Prehistoric through the Golden Age of the fifth century BCE to the Byzantine and Ottoman times. In our search of ancient Athens, our primary focus will be how people in Athens carried out their social, political, and religious activities. The history of the Parthenon, from a Classical temple to house the statue of Athena Parthenos, to a Byzantine church for six centuries (6th-12th centuries C.E.) to a mosque from the 15 to the 19th centuries C.E. encapsulates the continuous adaptation of the landscape to the needs of its ever-changing population. In the last part of the course, we will focus on the "rediscovery of Athens" in the wake of the independence of the modern Greek nation with Athens as its capital city and on the conservation and preservation of key monuments in the landscape of modern Athens.

A grand tour of Rome in film, beginning with the epic themes of ancient history-the Caesars, Cleopatra, and Mark Anthony-through the modern period . Films in their thematic, stylistic, and narrative range invite students to explore both Rome's unique status in the west as well as Rome's place in the national Italian consciousness.

A parallel study of ancient and modern entrepreneurial initiatives, this team taught Classics course/ management seminar will compare the first global economy and its first C.E.O., Augustus, Emperor of Rome, with modern counterparts.

This course investigates the emergence of Christianity in the first four centuries of the Greco-Roman milieu. Topics may include: the interaction of early Christians with Jews, Romans, and Greeks; as well as differences and debates within the various forms of early Christianity itself.

Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.

This is a course about travel writing for students participating in a study abroad program centered around the Humanities. Together, we will examine the tropes and conventions of the literature that documented travel by authors relevant to the places we are travelling, and put this travel literature in conversation with our own writing about travel.

This course explores the history of criminal justice systems in the ancient Mediterranean through close examination of select primary sources. Its primary focus is Greece and Rome, but it will also cover Pharaonic Egypt and the Ancient Near East. We shall move chronologically, geographically, and topically, treating a broad range of literary and archaeological evidence. Of central importance to the course will be the issue of boundaries: between right and wrong, imprisonment and freedom, individual and state. Law codes from Mesopotamia, tomb robbery in the Egyptian New Kingdom, the trial and execution of Socrates, police in the streets of Rome, execution by gladiator, spiritual and allegorical punishment: the course encompasses it all!