An intensive introduction to Ancient Greek for students who have no knowledge of the language; preparation for the reading of Ancient Greek literature.

A continuation of the intensive introduction to Ancient Greek in GRK 101H1. Also appropriate for students who have some training in Ancient Greek, but have not completed a whole credit course at University or a final-year (Grade 12) course in secondary school.

Reading of selections of Ancient Greek prose works with systematic language study.

Continued language training with readings in Ancient Greek prose and verse.

Readings from one or more philosophical texts.

Readings from one or more Greek Historians.

Readings from Greek prose authors (e.g., biography, novels, essays, texts in koine).

Readings from Greek epics, including Homer.

Readings from Greek tragedy and/or comedy.

Readings from Greek verse (e.g., elegy, iambics, lyric).

Readings from one or more Greek texts, in prose or poetry, from Athens of the 5th-4th centuries BCE.

Readings from one or more Greek texts, in prose or poetry, from the Hellenistic and/or Roman Period.

Independent Studies. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Independent Studies. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Advanced readings from one or more philosophical texts.

Advanced readings from one or more Greek historians.

Advanced readings from Greek prose authors (e.g., biography, novels, essays, texts in koine).

Advanced readings from Greek epics, including Homer.

Advanced readings from Greek tragedy and/or comedy.

Advanced readings from Greek verse (e.g., elegy, iambic, lyric).

Advanced readings from one or more Greek texts, in prose or poetry, from Athens of the 5th-4th centuries BCE.

Advanced readings from one or more Greek texts, in prose or poetry, from the Hellenistic and/or Roman Period.

People have made the Arctic home for millennia, creating circumpolar cultures in its challenging climate. This course compares and examines connections in the contested polar region through several themes: cultures in contact, trade and exploration, environment, crime and punishment, and defense and sovereignty.

Ranging widely chronologically and geographically, this course explores the phenomenon of violence in history. It examines the role and meanings of violence in particular societies (such as ancient Greece and samurai Japan), the ideological foundations and use of violence in the clash of cultures (as in slavery, holy wars, colonization, and genocide), and the effects and memorialization of violence.

Can we speak of “international relations” before the modern concept of nation-states was established? What forms did globalization take in the pre-modern era? How did early global exchange shape our world today? Students in this course study interactions among peoples, empires, and cultures, in multiple regions of the world (specific areas and time periods will change depending on the professors teaching in any given year). Topics include the impact of new goods and technologies; dissemination of ideas and religions; voyages of migration and exploration; and episodes of conquest and colonization. Analysis of primary sources and intensive focus on becoming strong writers.

This course explores the history of the international state system, encouraging students to consider how this system has been constantly adapting and evolving for hundreds of years as states compete for power. It examines how wars between European states, along with diplomacy, empire-building, and the quest for wealth, led—unintentionally in many ways—to a broader, international system not confined only to European “great powers.” Students will study themes such as strategy and war, empire and imperialism, and trade, diplomacy, and state-building to understand the rise and fall of major states and empires over the centuries.

Key events include the Thirty Years War in Europe; the global implications of the Seven Years War and Napoleonic Wars; and the roles of non-European regions like China, India, Japan, and the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. The course also considers the effects of imperial competition in Africa and Asia, both for the imperial powers and the peoples and states of those continents; the diplomacy and competition that led to the First World War; and the global impact of the Second World War, with the rise of “superpowers” and the collapse of the European and Japanese empires.

This course introduces the history of the African Diaspora in the Americas, from 1492-1804. Lectures and readings will draw from primary sources and historical scholarship to focus on a range of topics, including slavery and the slave trade, race relations, gender and sexuality, religious and cultural practices, and liberation struggles.

This course draws on the history of China, Korea and Japan between 1600 to 1950 to explore historical issues of gender, nationalism, war and relations with the West.

This course offers an introduction to history as a discipline - to the history of the discipline itself, to the questions, categories, and methodologies that constitute it, to the ways these interrogations and methods have evolved in varied times and places, and to the methodologies students need to acquire to engage in historical inquiry and writing. The course will be part methodological workshop, part epistemological reflection. Designed for any students interested in the study of the past or considering the History major.

The shape of traditional society; the forces at work on the social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual structures of Western Europe since the high Middle Ages: the Structure of Traditional Society; the First Period of Challenges, 1350-1650; the Second Period of Challenges, 1650-1815; Confidence, Stability and Progress, 1815-1914; the Collapse of the Old Order and the Condition of Modern Europe, 1914-1945.