Credit is given only upon completion of a year's work. Intermediate Greek Reading ability in classical Greek is developed through a study of various authors in prose and verse. Advanced Latin A major goal of this course remains to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of the Latin language. Hence, it involves intensive reading of Latin texts, with the usual attention to matters of grammar, idiom, translation, etc. Therefore, this course also involves substantial reading of secondary materials, and significant class time is devoted to the discussion of the literary, historical, and social issues that the texts raise.
Specific offerings vary year by year.
For Fall 1999, readings in Ovid's Metamorphoses . The history of virginity belongs to medicine, fiction, anthropology, religion and philosophy in different cultures. This course will examine how these forms of discourse deal with sexual integrity and its loss. Readings will include classical texts, the church fathers, American and Latin American fiction. Cross-listed with Romance Languages and Literatures and Women, Gender and Sexuality.