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The Honours Classics program is designed for students who plan to pursue graduate studies in Classics or related discipline. The program is highly interdisciplinary. It emphasizes the study of ancient Greek and Latin, requiring proficiency in both languages and advanced coursework in at least one, combined with a strong foundation in ancient history, literature and material cultural studies. Honours students are encouraged to begin coursework in both Greek and Latin as soon as possible, and to meet with the classics program adviser to map out their courses and program.
According to Faculty regulations, Honours students must maintain a minimum CGPA of 3.00 and maintain a minimum program GPA of 3.00.
Classics : Introduction to ancient Greek and Roman civilization, focusing on key themes, problems, and methods of the discipline of classical studies.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Gladhill, Charles; An, Natalie; Mark, Sarah (Fall)
Classics : Survey of ancient Greek literature in translation, covering the key genres and texts in their social and historical contexts. The material to be discussed includes Archaic epic, lyric, and elegy; Classical tragedy, comedy, and historiography; Hellenistic poetry, and literature of the Roman Imperial period.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Kaloudis, Naomi (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 200.
Classics : An exploration of Roman texts written during the Republican and Imperial periods (200 BCE-400 CE) and the study of social contexts in which they were written.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Brisson, Pierre-Luc (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 208.
Classics : Continued mastery of the language, with emphasis on translation of Latin texts.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Sirois, Martin (Winter)
Prerequisite: CLAS 310 or permission of the instructor.
Classics : Review of grammar, vocabulary, and syntax of Ancient Greek through translation of selected ancient texts.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Sirois, Martin (Fall)
Prerequisite: CLAS 220 or permission of instructor
Classics : Continued mastery of the language, with emphasis on translation of ancient Greek texts.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Kaloudis, Naomi (Winter)
Prerequisite: CLAS 320 or permission of the instructor
Classics : Seminar on a topic in ancient Greek or Roman literature and society. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Gladhill, Charles (Winter)
Restriction(s): Open to U2 or U3 Honours students and MA students or by permission of instructor
30 credits classics (CLAS) or related courses according to the following stipulations:
Minimum 6 credits advanced ancient Greek and/or Latin.
Classics : Translation and discussion of selections from ancient Latin literature written by a single author or several authors closely linked by genre or historical period. Emphasis on developing reading proficiency. Texts change from year to year. Course may be taken more than once.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Fronda, Michael (Fall)
Pre-requisite(s): CLAS 312 or permission of instructor
This is a language course. Reading knowledge of Latin is expected.
Classics : Examination of a theme or problem in Roman literature, culture or history through the translation and discussion of ancient Latin texts. Emphasis on close reading and analysis of ancient Latin. Texts change from year to year. Course may be taken more than once.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Gladhill, Charles (Winter)
Pre-requisite(s): CLAS 312 or permission of instructor
This is a language course. Reading knowledge of Latin is expected.
Classics : Translation and examination of Latin text(s) from the Late Antique, Medieval or Renaissance period.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits of 300-level Latin or permission of instructor.
Classics : Translation and discussion of selections from ancient Greek literature written by a single author or several authors closely linked by genre or historical period. Emphasis on developing reading proficiency. Texts change from year to year. Course may be taken more than once.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Wendt, Heidi (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): CLAS 322 or permission of instructor
Classics : Examination of a theme or problem in ancient Greek literature, culture or history through the translation and discussion of ancient Greek texts. Emphasis on close reading and analysis of ancient Greek. Texts change from year to year. Course may be taken more than once.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Menn, Stephen (Winter)
Prerequisite: CLAS 322 or permission of instructor
This is a language course. Reading knowledge of Ancient Greek is expected.
Classics : Readings by Greek authors writing during the Late Imperial through Byzantine periods
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): CLAS 312 or permission of instructor
Minimum 3 credits advanced classical literature courses:
Classics : A synchronic study of ancient Drama from Greece to Rome with a focus on historical and performance context in addition to literary interpretation.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Kaloudis, Naomi (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 300.
Classics : A study of ancient Greek and Roman comedy, including authors such as Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence. Issues connected to performance, textual interpretation and the social role of comedy will be explored.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 307.
Classics : The cultural legacy of Hellenistic Alexandria, with focus on scientific, mathematical, literary, philological, philosophical, and religious developments and innovations.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Sirois, Martin (Winter)
Classics : A study of the ancient novel, including Petronius, The Satyricon, Apuleius, The Golden Ass and Longus, Daphnis and Chloe. Issues connected to the novel's development and generic formations, its social and historical contexts, and influence will be discussed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 309.
Classics : The course covers major epics of the Mediterranean world such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Apollonius' Argonautica, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Statius' Thebaid. Issues connected to social and cultural context, performance, literary theory, and interpretation will be discussed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 371.
Texts taught in translation, no knowledge of ancient Greek or Latin required.
Classics : Seminar on the works of the Greek and Roman historians (in translation) who founded a new literary genre for the exploration of past and present events; interpretation of their approaches towards history and theories for their study.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in Classics at the 300 level or up or permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 490.
Classics : This course examines the Lyric and Elegiac genres from Greece (700 BCE) to Imperial Rome (100 CE). Authors such as Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Callimachus, Catullus, Propertius and Ovid will be situated in their social and historical contexts as the class addresses issues of poetics, politics, sexuality, and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Classics : Greek and Roman Oratory situates the works of authors such as Plato, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Cicero and Tacitus in their social and historical contexts, in addition to examining ancient oratorical theory, education, political science, and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Classics : Ancient Didactic Poetry examines the works of authors such as Hesiod, Empedocles, Aratus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Manilius. The works are set in their original historical and social contexts while issues related to intellectual history, ancient cosmology, poetry and culture are considered.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Classics : Examination of works of Greek and Roman literature that either deal extensively with theology and religion as themes or were implicated directly in religious practice. Authors or texts such as Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, Plato, the Derveni Papyrus, Varro, Cicero, Philo and Augustine will be considered.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Minimum 3 credits courses in ancient history or classical civilization:
Classics : Focus on the history of Greek religion in the Classical Period. Particular attention will be paid to the Greek concept of divinity, local pantheons, civic festival calendars, the topography of myth and ritual, ideas concerning the afterlife, mystery cults, oracles and games and the literary representations of religion.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Classics : Examines the conceptual history of popular government in the context of Greek political culture, from the 6th century BCE to the Roman conquest of Greece.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Classics : Approaches to and problems of Roman religion. The formation of religious topography, problems of religion and empire, the religious interaction between Rome and other Mediterranean peoples, the complex discourse between religion and philosophy, the reformulation of Roman religion during the imperial period, and the rise of Christianity within a pagan Roman world.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 381.
Classics : Receptions of the classical paradigm of Ancient Greece and Rome in modern media, the classical tradition, and current scholarship.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 206.
Classics : An exploration of gender roles in the Ancient Mediterranean world.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 370.
Classics : Examines the evolution of Classical Antiquity's social and cultural status from the 17th c. to the present day. Particular consideration is given to the processes of the ongoing professionalization of history and archeology as academic disciplines, the emergence of new political usages of the past, the transformation of cultural practices from the Grand Tour to the modern museum and tourism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite: CLAS 202 or related courses or permission of instructor
History : An introduction to the history of the ancient Mediterranean world, focusing on Greek and Roman civilization.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Kleinman, Brahm; Yates, Rebecca; Tsiptsios, Lukas Stefano Wassili; Bennett-Flammer, Briar (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 275.
History : A survey of Roman history from the foundation of Rome to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken HIST 205.
History : Historical study of the period from the Mycenean Age to the end of the Archaic Age.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
History : Roman history from the Gracchi to the death of the emperor Nero, 133 BCE to 68 CE. The collapse of the Roman republic, the reorganization of the Roman state under Augustus, and the Roman empire and society under the early emperors.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
History : Transformation of the Roman world, 1st-7th CE. Considers various perspectives and narratives of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire based on historical and material evidence.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
History : Rome's rise from city-state to world power, 338 - 133 BCE, the nature Roman conquest, and the impact of empire on Roman society.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
History : A comparative analysis of the political cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and China, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE, exploring societal distinctions through topics such as the role of historical traditions, power configurations, public oratory, elite representation, funerary rites and political spaces.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
History : An in-depth look at various topics in ancient history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Ancient history at the 300-level or permission of instructor.
History : Different methods and strategies employed by Ancient historians, including numismatics, epigraphy, and papyrology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite: 3 credits at the 300-level in Ancient history or permission of the instructor.
History : The history and culture of the Hellenistic period, from the Age of Alexander to the rise of the successor kingdoms and their interactions with Rome; discusses the development of a new sense of globality and its impact on the local horizon of cities across the Mediterranean and beyond.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in Ancient history at the 300-level or permission of instructor.
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 407 in winter 2015 or winter 2017.
Philosophy : An examination of the ethical and political theories of ancient Greece, especially those of Plato and Aristotle.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 333
Philosophy : Topics in ancient pure mathematics (geometry and number theory), "mixed mathematics" (astronomy, music theory, optics, mechanics), and/or natural science (including medicine), studied with a view to philosophical issues raised by the content of ancient science and/or by the logic of scientific argument.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Hallett, Michael Frank (Fall)
Philosophy : An examination of the surviving fragments of the presocratic philosophers and schools of philosophy, as well as later reports of their views.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Lewis, Eric (Fall)
Philosophy : An examination of some of the philosophical problems (those in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, e.g.) found in a selection of Plato's dialogues.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Menn, Stephen (Fall)
Philosophy : An examination of selected works by Aristotle. The course considers issues in moral philosophy as well as those found in the logical treatises, the Physics and Metaphysics, and in the philosophy of mind.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Deslauriers, Marguerite (Winter)
Philosophy : An examination of some of the major post-Aristotelian schools of philosophy. Texts from the Peripatetic, Stoic, Epicurean, Sceptical, Platonic, and medical traditions may be considered. Problems in logic, ethics, physics, epistemology, and metaphysics will be addressed.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Menn, Stephen (Winter)
Philosophy : An examination of central themes of ancient metaphysics and/or natural philosophy as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly including some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Philosophy : An examination of central themes of ancient moral theory as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Magal, Oran; Rioux, Jean-François (Fall)
Religious Studies : A critical study of selected ancient and modern accounts of the aims and person of Jesus. Attention will be given also to the question of the historical sources and to the relationship between faith and history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Fall, Winter and Summer
Religious Studies : An introduction to the formation and interpretation of the New Testament, excluding the Gospels.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Wendt, Heidi (Fall)
Fall
Religious Studies : An introduction to the critical study of the Gospels.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Henderson, Ian H (Winter)
Winter
Religious Studies : A social-historical examination of Christians within the complex cultural, political, ethnic and religious contexts of later Greco-Roman antiquity, focusing on changing relations among different varieties of Christian, as well as on interactions and conflicts among Christians, Jews and polytheists. Other topics to be considered include martyrdom, orthodoxy and heresy, and Gnosticism.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Henderson, Ian H (Winter)
Other courses may be counted towards this requirement with the approval of the program adviser.
Minimum 3 credits in classical art or archaeology:
Art History : Survey of ancient art and architecture: pre-historic Europe, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Focus is on issues of political power, gender, sexuality, race, the formation of individual and group identities, and the relation between the body and social space.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Classics : Introduction to the archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman Mediterranean through a survey of major sites, artifacts and monuments. Emphasis on archaeological theory and methodology.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Totten, Darian; Bau-Tremblay, Xavier (Fall)
Classics : A study of Greek history and culture through the sites and monuments of ancient Greece. Includes preparatory meetings, site and museum visits, and specialized lectures on site. A fee is charged of $2400 to cover certain travel expenses within Greece, accommodation including breakfast and entrance fees to all sites visited throughout the tour.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisites:Permission of instructor.
Course includes preparatory class meetings at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº followed by study tour in Greece. Typically offered in alternating summers.
Students are responsible for all expenses associated with travel, accommodation, food, etc.
Classics : Study of a theme, subject, or question, concentrating on selected physical sites, monuments, artifacts, or other case studies in classical archaeology.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Totten, Darian (Winter)
Classics : Field course offering an introduction to archaeological field methods and laboratory work, and discussion of theoretical interpretation of archaeological data in the context of an Italian archaeological site potentially across multiple time periods (prehistoric, pre-Roman, Roman, late antique and medieval). Taught in Italy.
Terms: Summer 2023
Instructors: Totten, Darian (Summer)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Taught in Italy during the summer. Course typically includes visits to cultural, historical or archaeological sites. Students are responsible for their own airfare to Italy.
There is a fee of $2,925.69 for the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Salapia Field School in Italy associated with registration in CLAS 349. The fee includes shared apartment accommodation for groups of four students, meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner M-R and breakfast and lunch M-F), field tools and weekday transportation to and from the dig site. Students are responsible for their own travel arrangements to Puglia and travel insurance costs.
Other courses may be counted towards this requirement with the approval of the program adviser.
NOTE: Maximum 18 credits of complementary courses at the 200 level.
Note: a maximum total of 18 credits of non-CLAS Æ»¹ûÒùÔº courses and/or classics courses not taken at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº (transfer credits) may be counted toward the program.