AP/HUMA 1115 9.0 TRANSFORMATION OF ANCIENC LITERATURE

AP/HUMA 1115 9.00

TRANSFORMATION OF ANCIENC LITERATURE

Note: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
Many great writers have reused the literature of the past in order to create new works of art. In order to understand the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Racine, Montaigne, Sartre, and Shaw, among others, we need to know how they refashioned and transformed the works of classical authors, such as Aeschylus Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, and Plutarch. This course examines works of literature from ancient Greece and Rome and modern adaptations of those works.

Particular attention will be paid to changes linked to differences in religion, politics, and social structure. Topics may include Comedy, Tragedy, Satire, Essays, and Fables. Works may include Sophocles' Antigone and Anouilh's Antigone: Plautus' Amphitryo and Giradoux's Amphitryon; Aeschylus' Agamemnon and James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice; Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Robert Heinlein's Double Star. There will also be some attention to the use of classical themes in visual art. Because this is a Foundations course, there will also be attention to the development of critical skills and writing

AP/HUMA 1110 9.0 GREEK & BIBLICAL TRADITIONS

AP/HUMA 1110 9.00

GREEK & BIBLICAL TRADITIONS

Note: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
A study of early Mesopotamian, Greek, Jewish and Christian literature (1) to understand its original meanings and (2) to explore its relevance to our search for personal ethical norms, images of female and male, models of the just society and conceptions of transcendent reality. The course aims to teach students methods of literary criticism, textual interpretation, historical inquiry, conceptual analysis, and cross-cultural comparisons.
COURSE CREDIT EXCLUSION: AP/HUMA 1710 6.0; AK/HUMA 1710 6.0, AS/HUMA 1110 9.0.

AP/HUMA 1105 9.0 MYTH & IMAGINATION IN GREECE & ROME

AP/HUMA 1105 9.00

MYTH & IMAGINATION IN GREECE & ROME

Note: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
The mythical narratives of the ancient Greeks and the Romans constitute a continuous tradition that extends from before the reach of history to the present day. Myths survive in literary texts and visual art because their narratives have continued proved compelling and fascinating in different languages, historical eras, and social contexts (the myths of Odysseus, Heracles, and Oedipus are just a few examples).
Literature and art of all kinds have been inspired to retell and represent their stories, while the search for the meaning of mythic stories has informed and profoundly influenced a great range of intellectual disciplines including literary criticism, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. In these ways, myths have and continue to exercise a fundamental influence on western culture and, in consequence, even today they maintain a certain cozy familiarity. On the other hand, the historical contexts in which the Greeks and Romans told and retold these mythical narratives are to us in the twenty-first century culturally alien and unfamiliar.

The aim of the course is two-fold: insofar as Greek and Roman culture is fundamental to the development of western culture, students will achieve a deeper historical understanding of the latter; yet because the world of the Greeks and Romans is in many ways radically different to our own, students will develop the conceptual tools for comprehending another culture and so enhance their ability to understand and critique their own cultures. The course is also one of the Foundations courses and as such is intended to provide students with a solid grounding for undergraduate study by cultivating generally applicable and transferable skills; these include the development of clear and logical academic writing, critical and analytical skills for reading and understanding texts, constructive participation in group discussion and debate (in tutorials), and basic methods and techniques of research.

AP/HUMA 1100 9.0 WORLDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

AP/HUMA 1100 9.00

WORLDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

GP/GKM 1000 6.0 INTRODUCTION TO MODERN GREEK

AP/GKM 1000 6.00

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN GREEK

This course teaches the fundamentals of modern Greek: the writing system, pronunciation, basic forms and syntax. It also introduces simple conversation, reading and writing. Note: Not open to students who obtained their high school graduation (apolytirion) from Greece and Cyprus, nor to students with Grade 12 U or M Modern Greek (or equivalent).

AP/GK 1000 6.0 ELEMENTARY CLASSICAL GREEK

AP/GK 1000 6.00

ELEMENTARY CLASSICAL GREEK

This course is designed for those who have little or no training in Classical Greek. In this course, students acquire the fundamentals of reading Classical Greek through practice with translation, vocabulary, grammar, syntax, composition, and pronunciation. At the end of this course, students are able to go on to AP/GK 2000 6.0, the second-year Classical Greek course at York University.
PREREQUISITE: None. No previous knowledge of the language is assumed. No one who has completed an upper-level university Classical Greek course may enroll in this course. No one may enroll in this course and an upper-level Classical Greek course simultaneously.