GREEK (GREK)

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Courses

GREK 101.  Elementary Classical Greek I.  4 Credits.  

Comprehensive coverage of basic grammar and syntax in two semesters, preparing students for reading Plato or Xenophon in GREK 203 (and with the instructor's permission, New Testament Greek in GREK 205).

Rules & Requirements  
Making Connections Gen Ed: FL.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 1.  
GREK 102.  Elementary Classical Greek II.  4 Credits.  

Comprehensive coverage of basic grammar and syntax in two semesters, preparing students for reading Plato or Xenophon in GREK 203 (and with the instructor's permission, New Testament Greek in GREK 205).

Rules & Requirements  
Making Connections Gen Ed: FL.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 2.  
IDEAs in Action General Education logoGREK 203.  Intermediate Greek I.  3 Credits.  

Review of fundamentals; reading primarily in selected prose texts, such as Xenophon, Plato, Lysias, or others.

Rules & Requirements  
IDEAs in Action General Education logo IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: GLBL-LANG.
Making Connections Gen Ed: FL.  
Requisites: Prerequisites, GREK 101 and 102; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 3.  
GREK 204.  Intermediate Greek II.  3 Credits.  

Reading primarily in selected poetic texts, such as Homer, Euripides, or others.

Rules & Requirements  
Making Connections Gen Ed: FL.  
Requisites: Prerequisite, GREK 203; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 4.  
GREK 205.  Introductory Greek New Testament.  3 Credits.  

Readings from the Greek New Testament and related texts, with particular attention to grammar and syntax and consideration of their literary and cultural context.

Rules & Requirements  
Making Connections Gen Ed: FL.  
Requisites: Prerequisite, GREK 203; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 5.  
GREK 221.  Advanced Greek I.  3 Credits.  

Readings from classical Greek poetry or prose, with attention to their syntax, style, and cultural and historical context.

Rules & Requirements  
Making Connections Gen Ed: LA, WB.  
Requisites: Prerequisites, GREK 204 or 205; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 5.  
GREK 222.  Advanced Greek II.  3 Credits.  

Readings from classical Greek poetry or prose, with attention to their syntax, style, and cultural and historical context.

Rules & Requirements  
Making Connections Gen Ed: LA, NA.  
Requisites: Prerequisite, GREK 221; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 5 & 6 combined.  
GREK 351.  Classical Greek Prose.  3 Credits.  

Readings in Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, or other authors, with attention to their style and cultural/historical context. With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

Rules & Requirements  
Making Connections Gen Ed: LA, NA.  
Requisites: Prerequisite, GREK 221 or 222; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite.  
Repeat Rules: May be repeated for credit. 6 total credits. 2 total completions.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 6.  
GREK 352.  Greek Poetry.  3 Credits.  

Readings from Homer, Greek tragedy, or other Greek poetry. With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

Rules & Requirements  
Making Connections Gen Ed: LA, WB.  
Requisites: Prerequisite, GREK 221 or 222; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite.  
Repeat Rules: May be repeated for credit. 6 total credits. 2 total completions.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 6.  
IDEAs in Action General Education logoGREK 395.  Independent Research in Greek.  3 Credits.  

This course allows a student to design and execute an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Although the specifics will be determined on a case-by-case basis by the student and the faculty supervisor, the project will normally involve the careful study of key primary sources and engagement with relevant scholarship, and culminate in a major research paper (around 25 pages) or a suitable equivalent in another format (e.g., website, video). Permission of the Instructor.

Rules & Requirements  
IDEAs in Action General Education logo IDEAs in Action Gen Ed: RESEARCH.
Making Connections Gen Ed: EE- Mentored Research.  
Repeat Rules: May be repeated for credit. 6 total credits. 2 total completions.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 396.  Special Readings in Greek Literature.  3 Credits.  

Special Readings in Greek Literature.

Rules & Requirements  
Requisites: Prerequisite, GREK 222.  
Repeat Rules: May be repeated for credit. 6 total credits. 2 total completions.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Global Language: Level 6.  
GREK 409.  Greek New Testament.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Requisites: Prerequisite, GREK 222; Permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
Same as: RELI 409.  
Global Language: Level 6.  
GREK 710.  Greek Prose Composition.  3 Credits.  

Review of Attic grammar and idiom, exercises in composition, introduction to stylistics.

Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 711.  Readings in Early Greek Poetry.  3 Credits.  

Selections from Homer, Hesiod, and/or the lyric and elegiac poets of the Archaic period, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 712.  Readings in Greek Literature of the Fifth Century.  3 Credits.  

Selections from tragedy, Old Comedy, and/or historiography, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 713.  Readings in Greek Literature of the Fourth Century.  3 Credits.  

Selections from philosophy, oratory, historiography, and/or New Comedy, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 722.  Greek Epigraphy.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 744.  An Introduction To Greek Law.  3 Credits.  

This class has three goals: familiarizing students with Greek language, introducing them to concepts of Greek law by reading secondary literature, and directing them to current debates in the field.

Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 750.  Homer.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 753.  Greek Lyric Poetry.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 755.  Greek Tragedy.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 757.  Sophocles.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 759.  Greek Comedy.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 761.  Greek Philosophical Literature.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 763.  Greek Historical Literature.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 765.  Thucydides.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 767.  Greek Rhetoric and Oratory.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 769.  Demosthenes.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 771.  Hellenistic Poetry.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 775.  Later Greek Prose.  3 Credits.  
Rules & Requirements  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 841.  Special Reading.  3 Credits.  

With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

Rules & Requirements  
Repeat Rules: May be repeated for credit.   
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 901.  Greek Seminars.  3 Credits.  

Topics vary from year to year.

Rules & Requirements  
Repeat Rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics.  
Grading Status: Letter grade.  
GREK 993.  Master's Research and Thesis.  3 Credits.  

Fall and spring. Staff.

Rules & Requirements  
Repeat Rules: May be repeated for credit.   
GREK 994.  Doctoral Research and Dissertation.  3 Credits.  

Fall and spring. Staff.

Rules & Requirements  
Repeat Rules: May be repeated for credit.