Don't miss out on the exciting, innovative courses on offer through the Classical Studies Program (CLST) in Spring 2023. Our award-winning faculty will teach interdiscplinary courses cross-listed with art history, gender studies and English. The courses cover a wide range of topics, including sex(uality) and gender; retail history and virtual reality; digital humanities; poetry, politcs and translation; history of architecture; and game design and mythology, which will appeal to a broad range of majors and minors across departments and colleges.

Some of the courses teach students digital skills (e.g., ArcGIS StoryMaps, Twine, podcasting), while others have opportunities for engaging with authentic ancient art (e.g., the Greek vase collection at the University Museum). Consider making space for one — or more — of our CLST courses in your spring schedule. In addition to our cultural studies courses taught in English, we are also offering Latin and Ancient Greek language classes.

CLST faculty have active, student-centered research programs in addition to their teaching. Check out the Virtual Pompeii Project, Virtual Roman Retail Project and the Marzuolo Archaeological Project.

CLST 1003/1003H: Introduction to Classical Studies: Greece — MW, 3:05-4:20 p.m. (Daniel Levine) 

An introduction to the world of ancient Greece, from the Trojan War to Alexander the Great. Progresses chronologically, focusing on the literary, artistic, political and philosophical ideas of the Greeks. Who were they and how are we like them?

LATN 2013/ENG 3903: Dirty Pretty Romans: An Interactive Fiction Set in Ancient Rome — TTH, 4-5:15 p.m. (David Fredrick)

This course will develop an interactive poetic fiction, in graphic novel style, based on the poestry of Catullus (1st century BCE), set in ancient Rome. The course will immerse students in the life and culture of Rome and introduce them to ArcGIS StoryMaps and the interactive fiction platform Twine. The course will be in English, and no prior Latin study is required. 

CLST 2323: Greek and Roman Mythology: Mythos Unbound — Online (David Fredrick) 

A game-based study of the stories, figures and motifs in the mythology of Greece and Rome. Prerequisite:  ENGL 1013 and ENGL 1023.

CLST 3003/3003H/GNST 4983: Sex & Gender in the Ancient World — TTH, 2-3:15 p.m. (Joy Reeber)

This course introduces the constructions and representations of love, sex, gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome by looking at their poetry, prose and material culture. It explores the diversity of ancient thought on these issues and compares ideas of love and desire to modern views.

CLST 4003H: Honors Colloquium - Shopping in Ancient Rome — MWF, 12:55-1:45 p.m. (Rhodora Vennarucci)

This course explores shopping in ancient Rome as a meaningful cultural practice to answer the questions of where, how and why Romans shopped. But to explore these questions, we will need to map distribution networks, trace the evolution of the retail trade, scrutinize Roman attitudes toward various forms of retailing, analyze commercial art and architecture, and embody the Roman shopkeeper as well as the ancient consumer to investigate evidence for marketing strategies, shopping behaviors and consumption practices. Other topics may include politics and religion in the shop, enslaved labor, shopping with the senses and virtual reality (VR) applications.

CLST 4413/ARHS 4413/4413H/6413: Greek Art and Archaeology — MW, 3:30-4:45 p.m. (Rhodora Vennarucci) 

Greek Art and Archaeology focuses on how visual and material culture shaped and were shaped by Greek society (religion, politics, military, economy, gender, etc.) from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period. Masterpieces of Greek art are analyzed alongside the material remains of everyday Greeks in civic and domestic spaces.

LATN 1013: Elementary Latin II — MWF, 10:45-11:35 a.m. or 12:55-1:45 p.m. (Joy Reeber)

A continuation of the rudiments of classical Latin, with concentration on grammar, vocabulary and syntax. Short selections from ancient authors lead to basic reading ability.

GREK 1013: Elementary Greek II — MWF, 10:45-11:35 a.m. (Daniel Levine)

A continuation of the rudiments of classical Greek, with concentration on grammar, vocabulary and syntax. Short selection from ancient authors lead to basic reading ability.