Greek (GREEK)

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Courses

GREEK 1 Elementary Greek 4 Units

Beginners' course.

GREEK 2 Elementary Greek 4 Units

Beginners' course.

GREEK 10 Intensive Elementary Greek 8 Units

Beginners' course (intensive); equivalent to Greek 1-2.

GREEK 15 The Greek Workshop 10 Units

Designed primarily for prospective and beginning graduate students wishing to complete as early as possible a requirement in the classical languages or to gain rapidly a basic control of Greek in order to proceed directly into intermediate courses in Homer, Plato, and Euripides. Lectures, discussions, drills and tutorial sessions on grammar and vocabulary; readings in Attic prose and poetry (Plato and Greek Tragedy). A grade of B enables the students to enroll directly in upper division Greek.

GREEK 40 Intermediate Greek Prose Composition 4 Units

. Development of skills in writing Attic prose and sight reading; grammar review.

GREEK 98 Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores 1 - 4 Units

GREEK 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units

GREEK 100 Plato and Attic Prose 4 Units

Readings from Plato's or , and from other Attic prose authors (e.g., Xenophon, Lysias); some review of grammar.

GREEK 101 Homer 4 Units

Selected readings in the or .

GREEK 102 Drama and Society 4 Units

Reading of one Greek tragedy, and of further selections from the dramatists and/or prose literature of fifth century Athens.

GREEK 105 The Greek New Testament 4 Units

Readings in the Gospels and/or Acts and/or Epistles.

GREEK 115 Archaic Poetry 4 Units

Readings in various Greek poets.

GREEK 116 Greek Drama 4 Units

Selected readings from Greek tragedy and/or comedy.

GREEK 117 Hellenistic Poets 4 Units

Readings in various Hellenistic poets.

GREEK 120 Herodotus 4 Units

Readings in Herodotus.

GREEK 121 Thucydides 4 Units

Readings in Thucydides.

GREEK 122 Attic Oratory 4 Units

Readings in oratory.

GREEK 123 Plato and Aristotle 4 Units

Readings in Plato and Aristotle.

GREEK 125 Greek Literature of the Hellenistic and Imperial Periods 4 Units

Selected readings in Greek prose or poetry written by authors active during the Hellenistic Age and the Roman Empire (3rd century BCE to 6th century CE).

GREEK H195 Honors Course in Greek 4 Units

Largely independent study for one semester building on work in a previous upper-division course used in fulfillment of the Greek major; the work will result in the writing of a thesis, to be evaluated by an honors committee of three members. Written thesis due the Monday of the 13th week of the semester in which the course is taken.

GREEK H195A Honors Course in Greek 2 - 4 Units

This is a two-semester Honors course [H195A-B]. The work for the Honors course may either build on work in a previous upper division course used in fulfillment of the Greek major or may be a newly conceived project. The work will result in the writing of a thesis, to be evaluated by an Honors committee of three members. Written thesis due the Monday of the 13th week of the semester in which the course is taken.

GREEK H195B Honors Course in Greek 4 Units

The work for the Honors course may either build on work in a previous upper division course used in fulfillment of the Greek major or may be a newly conceived project. The work will result in the writing of a thesis, to be evaluated by an Honors committee of three members. Written thesis due the Monday of the 13th week of the semester in which the course is taken.

GREEK 198 Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units

GREEK 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units

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