Summer School offers honors seminars for Carolina undergraduates and other interested students. Non-UNC students may also enroll with the permission of the instructor. Honors seminars emphasize class discussion, writing, and the active participation of students in the learning process.
Class size is limited to fifteen students.
Honors students may register for these summer school honors seminars during honors priority registration on Caroline. This course will examine depictions of Hades and Hell in literature, art, and music, with a particular focus on accounts of mortals visiting that grim destination. We will begin with the Epic of Gilgamesh , perhaps augmented with some Sumerian material. We will continue with classical accounts from The Odyssey and particularly Book VI of the Aeneid . Dante's Inferno will be an obvious focus an examination of various illustrations ought to prove interesting.