The course focuses on one or more key topics to deepen students' understanding of key concepts, methodologies and theoretical approaches in Roman social history. Topics vary from year to year, but may include: family and household; law and society; class, status, and social hierarchies; army and society; demography; work and labour; mobility and connectivity.
Advanced colloquium on selected topics in Ancient Greek and/or Roman History. Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the Department of History website for further details.
A study of two Augustan epics: Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses.
A study of one or more of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides in the original ANCIENT GREEK. The course will include a review of ancient Greek grammar and vocabulary. The course is only suitable for students at an advanced level of language study. See prerequisites below.
This course investigates the origins and development of apocalypticism within ancient Judaism and early Christianity, covering apocalyptic literature (e.g. Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Revelation), ancient millennial movements, and the apocalyptic world-view.
This course explores how Jewish communities and individuals have remembered, interpreted and given meaning to the past to shape identity and values. It studies fiction, non-fiction, photographs, films, liturgy, and other vehicles of memory.
Examines the role and representation of the Christian in popular film. It identifies and analyzes ways in which contemporary cinema reflects, shapes and embodies Christian myths, histories, rituals and doctrines and non-Christian attitudes towards them.
Explores how the colonial encounter shaped the academic study of Buddhism and the image of Buddhism in the West. Reading popular and scholarly accounts of Buddhism written from the early nineteenth century to the present day, the course analyses how the legacy of and response to colonialism have coloured our understanding of Buddhism as a […]
Explores Buddhist responses to the changing conditions of modernity in Southeast Asia. Seeking to understand Buddhism as a living religion, it investigates how Buddhists have drawn on religious narratives, symbols and rituals to respond to social and political challenges from the nineteenth century to the present, including issues of religious reform, colonialism, nationalism and ethnicity.
This course places the development of novels, tales, folk operas and other narratives focusing on the family within the context of changing cultural patterns in modern Korea.