13 courses with the subject CSTS H, 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.
CSTS H119AGE OF ATHENS1.0
This course examines the social and political life of Athens in the 5th century BCE. We will explore Athenian ideas of democracy, citizenship, science, education, and religion, with special attention to their legacies in modern culture. The course alternates between lectures and a multi-week historical role-playing game. You will be assigned an ancient character and play through simulations of key moments of political crisis in Athenian history. Crosslisted: Classical Studies, PJHR
An introduction to what it meant to be a Roman by exploration what made the Romans revolutionary (in politics, military, philosophy, literature, art, and more) in their time and of lasting influence thereafter. The course culminates in a three-week role playing game, in which you will embody a particular Roman persona during a particular socio-political flashpoint in 63 BCE. All readings will be in English
An introduction to the primary characters and stories of Greek and Roman mythology including cosmic creation, Olympian and other deities, and heroes both as they appear in Greek and Roman literature and art and as they are later represented in modern art, music, and film. Crosslisted: Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Religion
This course explores how contemporary writers and artists can help us re-learn the way we understand the ancient world. Each week students will examine a contemporary creative practice (e.g. creative writing, installation and multi-media art, music, photography, and performance) alongside a selection from ancient Greek literature or art. We will focus on both the works themselves and the practices of writers and artists—we’ll talk about how one gives us a way into the other. We will pay particular attention to how research, archives, and “interdisciplinarity” are an inherent part of the creative process. Our goal is twofold: to explore 21st century responses to the ancient world, and to examine how 21st century practices challenge and question notions of the “classics” and how we study them. Crosslisted: Classical Studies, Comparative Literature
CSTS H222CREATING CLASSICS: A VISUAL WORKSHOP ON PASOLINI & GREEK DRAMA1.0
Can our engagement with the past be a creative action? A reclaiming of ancient ideas and media? This seminar-workshop hybrid answers such questions through collaborative scholarship and experiments with Greek tragedy and its afterlife in cinema.
How do intersecting identities (race, ethnicity, class, gender) contribute to labelling a woman or group of women as dangerous? In this course we will examine various types of “dangerous” women from antiquity, and explore how these women embody both the idea of repressed sexuality, hidden knowledge, and peril. We’ll first investigate mythological and legendary figures such as Medusa and Clytemnestra, then turn to more historical figures such as Cleopatra and Boudicca. Lottery Preference: Classics Majors and Minors
CSTS H251ARCHIVE ENCOUNTERS: ANCIENT SEXUALITIES AND MODERN QUEER POLITICS1.0
We will examine the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the way that we talk about sex and sexuality today. In reviewing the foundations of queer theory and historiography alongside the texts from the ancient world that inspired them, we will face a series of questions: Why have Greece and Rome taken the role they have in queer history? What is at stake in writing queer histories? How has queer theory shaped Classics and vice versa? Pre-requisite(s): Anti-requisite: Students who have taken WRPR 151 are not eligible to take this course. Lottery Preference: Classics majors and minors, Gen/Sex minors
CSTS H257ANTIGONE’S ECHOES: ACTIVISM AND THE LAW FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO TODAY1.0
Where should the law come from, the individual or the state? How can you protest an unjust system, and how can an ancient story help you do it? Who owns a “Classic”? These are just a few questions that Sophocles’ Antigone has raised for philosophers and playwrights from the Enlightenment to today. We'll read several versions of the Antigone myth and explore this character’s enduring relevance to theories of gender, performance, world literature, and politics. Crosslisted: COML,PEAC.
This course explores the visual and poetic life of sports, ancient and modern. It brings together cultural criticism, visual analysis, and historical study to theorize the beauty of athletics. Concepts of the body, gender, race and performance, and tropes such as "for the love of the game," "feel for the game" and "poetry in motion" will organize our work on the sensory and aesthetic dimensions of sports. No prior expertise in classics, art or sports necessary. Crosslisted: COML,VIST.
This course is taken concurrently with a 200-level CSTS course to give majors an opportunity to engage in mentored research and practice with scholarly writing. In addition to the work for the 200-level course, students will research and write a substantial final project.
A bi-college seminar focused on refining the ability to read, discuss, and analyze classical culture and the scholarship of various sub-fields of Classical Studies (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy, law, social history), leading towards the completion of a prospectus for the senior thesis.
