18 courses with the subject GREK, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
GREK 121Elementary Classical Greek I1.00
The first semester of an introductory study of the elements of the Greek language. A thorough and methodical approach to the basics is supplemented, as students progress, by reading selections from ancient authors. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
The second semester of an introductory study of the elements of the Greek language. A thorough and methodical approach to the basics is supplemented, as students progress, by reading selections from ancient authors. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Elementary-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Completes the study of grammar and introduces readings from a range of writers in prose and poetry. Students also develop skills of formal analysis and interpretation. Familiarity with a variety of styles and genres provides the foundation for further study at the advanced level. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Intermediate-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
An introduction to Greek literature that provides an overview of major authors – e.g. Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Xenophon – through selected reading from their works. Aims to develop fluency in reading the language and appreciation for literary design and meaning. Provides a foundation for advanced coursework. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Close reading and analysis of at least one complete play from the works of the 5th century Athenian dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Students study the text within the genre of Greek tragedy, considering its broader historical framework, the dramatic festivals, and aspects of performance (music, dance, costume, and staging). Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
Close reading and analysis of at least one play of the Athenian comic poet Aristophanes. Students consider the relationship between the comedies of Aristophanes and Athenian tragedy, the language of Aristophanic comedy, the social and political background, and aspects of performance (music, dance, costume, and staging). Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Close reading and analysis of selections from the Iliad or the Odyssey in the context of the epic genre. These poems formed the foundational texts of ancient Greek education; with their vivid characters, both human and divine, profound explorations of how to live and die, and often sublime poetry and memorable imagery, they still serve well as foundation texts for us today. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Close reading and analysis of selections from one or more of the historical works of Herodotus, Xenophon, and Thucydides. Coursework introduces students to the study of Greek historiography and the language, style, and outlook particular to each author. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Is it true that the Greek lyric poets discovered the individual and mapped yet unknown areas of the soul? Greek lyric poetry comes after the great Homeric epics and leads into the invention of tragedy. It celebrates the present moment, contemplates the agonies of erotic love, searches for being over appearance, argues with conventional values, and appreciates private aims and experience. It arises together with the polis- where individual lawgivers, tyrants, leaders of political parties, religious thinkers, philosophers, and known artists came to the forefront. Close reading and analysis of selections from the poetry of Archilochus, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, Sappho, Alcaeus, Alcman, Bacchylides, and Pindar will suggest that this poetry indeed articulates a new post-epic self-awareness and a new self-reliant idea of how to live in a world of constant flux. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Close reading and analysis of selections from the works of Plato. Students consider the revolutionary figure of Socrates and why all Greek philosophy before him is called "pre-Socratic," questions of moral, ethical, or political philosophy, the nature of dialogic prose, and Plato's influence on later philosophy and Christianity. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Advanced-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Independent study, open to candidates for honors. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
