Courses

Below you will find descriptions for courses offered in this field of study. You will find a general overview of the topics covered and any prerequisite course(s) or grade requirements, credit value and exclusions.

Some courses are listed as exclusionary to one another. This means that students may not take both courses for academic credit. Graduate courses which have undergraduate exclusions may be co-located (delivered in parallel). Some courses are restricted to enrollment in specific graduate programs, or may require instructor/graduate coordinator permission to register.

Not all courses are offered each year, and offerings may be cancelled in the event of low registration. Please consult the current timetable for this year's offering. For further information, please contact the program.

Course Descriptions


Greek and Latin Literature

CLAS 5022.03: Reading and Research in Greek Epic II
CLAS 5035.03: Advanced Latin Seminar: Latin Literature II
CLAS 5036.03: Advanced Latin Seminar: War and Peace
CLAS 5038.03: Advanced Latin Seminar: Myth and History
CLAS 5041.03: Advanced Latin Seminar:  Roman Poetry I
CLAS 5042.03: Advanced Latin Seminar:  Roman Poetry II
CLAS 5120.03: Advanced Greek Seminar: Greek Authors II
CLAS 5121.03: Advanced Greek Seminar: Epic I

Ancient History

CLAS 5037.03: Advanced Latin Seminar: Human and Divine
CLAS 5531.03: Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
CLAS 5540.03: Ammianus Marcellinus and his World
CLAS 5545.03: Roman Culture and Roman Politics in the Transition to Autocracy
CLAS 5552.03: Reading and Research in Ancient History I
CLAS 5559.03: Advanced Greek Seminar:  History II

Classical Philosophy

CLAS 5060.03: The Consolation of Philosophy
CLAS 5606.03: Greek Philosophical Texts
CLAS 5609.03: Advanced Greek Seminar:  Philosophy II
CLAS 5610.03: Latin Philosophical Texts
CLAS 5611.03: Hellenistic Philosophy:  Stoics and Epicureans
CLAS 5612.03: Hellenistic Philosophy:  From Skepticism to Neoplatonism
CLAS 5613.03: The Dialogues of Plato
CLAS 5614.03: Aristotle
CLAS 5616.03: Advanced Greek Seminar:  Philosophy
CLAS 5623.03: Plato's Republic
CLAS 5624.03: Plato's Late Dialogues
CLAS 5817.03: Islamic Philosophy: al-Ghazali

Patristics

CLAS 5060.03: Boethius and Prosimetrum: Poetry and Prose in the Consolation of Philosophy
CLAS 5070.03: A Study of the Latin Text of Augustine's 'Confessions'
CLAS 5708.03: Reading and Research: Christian Beginnings and the Early History of the Church
CLAS 5818.03: Christian Theology in the Lands of Islam: John of Damascus
CLAS 5819.03: Philo Judaeus


CLAS 9000.00: Master's Thesis
CLAS 9530.00: Doctoral Thesis