Postbaccalaureate Studies
The courses below are offered through the Department of Classics.
Departmental Chair: James Zetzel, 611 Hamilton
212-854-5682
zetzel@columbia.edu
Departmental Adviser: Elizabeth Scharffenberger, 617 Hamilton
212-854-7822
es136@columbia.edu
Departmental Administrator: Gerry Visco, 617 Hamilton
212-854-7821
gwv1@columbia.edu
Departmental Office: 617 Hamilton
212-854-3902
classics@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 AM-6 PM
Web: www.columbia.edu/cu/classics
Hellenic Studies Program
hg2252@columbia.edu
Co-Directors: Professor Karen Van Dyck and Professor Stathis Gourgouris, 606 Hamilton
212-851-0297
vandyck@columbia.edu
Course scheduling is subject to change. Days, times, instructors, class locations, and call numbers are available on the Directory of Classes.
Fall course information begins posting to the Directory of Classes in February; Summer course information begins posting in March; Spring course information begins posting in June. For course information missing from the Directory of Classes after these general dates, please contact the department or program.
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For students who have never studied Greek. An intensive study of grammar
with reading and writing of simple Attic prose.
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to
enter second-year Greek (GREK V1201 or V1202).
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be
repeated for credit.
Since the content of the course changes from year to year, it may be taken
in consecutive years.
Readings in Greek literature from Homer to the 4th century B.C.
Continuation of grammar study begun in GREK V1101; selections from Attic prose.
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to
enter second-year Greek (GREK V1201 or V1202).
Detailed grammatical and literary study of several books of the Iliad and
introduction to the techniques or oral poetry, to the Homeric hexameter,
and to the historical background of Homer.
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be
repeated for credit. Topic for 2006-2007: Aristophanes
Greek literature of the 4th century B.C. and of the Hellenistic and
Imperial Ages.
An intensive review of Greek syntax with translation of English sentences
and paragraphs into Attic Greek.
This is the first semester of a year-long course designed for students
wishing to learn Greek as it is written and spoken in Greece today. As well
as learning the skills necessary to read texts of moderate difficulty and
converse on a wide range of topics, students explore Modern Greece's
cultural landscape from "parea" to poetry to politics. Special attention
will be paid to Greek New York. How do "our," "American," "Greek-American"
definitions of language and culture differ from "their", "Greek"
ones?
This course is designed for students who are already familiar with the
basic grammar and syntax of modern Greek language and can communicate at an
elementary level. Using films, newspapers, and popular songs, students
engage the finer points of Greek grammar and syntax and enrich their
vocabulary. Emphasis is given to writing, whether in the form of film and
book reviews or essays on particular topics taken from a selection of
second year textbooks.
For students in GRKM V1201, but also open to students not enrolled
in GRKM V1201, who wish to improve their spoken Modern
Greek. For more information, contact Prof. Vangelis Calotychos at
ec2268@columbia.edu.
In this course, we read back and forth through Greek literary history from
the 1980s to the 1930s, 1920s, 1880s and 1820s, mapping contemporary
critical concerns and contemporary literary works onto earlier works, as
well as examining how previous generations of writers influence
contemporary writers. We will focus on questions of women's writing, gender
and sexuality, as well as how translation conceals and reveals these
questions. Texts include works by Anghelaki-Rooke, Cavafy, Dimoula, Elytes,
Laina, Mastoraki, Ritsos, Sachtouris, Seferis, Sikelianos and Solomos. This
method of reading back and forth not only highlights what is linguistically
familiar about contemporary writing and more foreign about earlier writing,
but makes questions of canon formation and literature as a national
institution integral to the process of studying Modern Greek poetry.
Students will create portfolios of their own translations of the poems we
read and discuss them with poets and translators over the course of the
semester. No knowledge of Greek is necessary, although an extra-credit
tutorial will be offered for Greek speakers wishing to read the poetry in
the original. Class discussion and texts will be in English. Works also
available in Greek for those students wishing to read in Greek. Assignments
may be completed in English or Greek.
Continuation of GRKM V1101. Introduction to modern Greek language
and culture. Emphasis on speaking, writing, basic grammar, syntax and
cross-cultural analysis.
Continuation of GRKM V1201. Students complete their knowledge of the
fundamentals of Greek grammar and syntax while continuing to enrich their
vocabulary.
For students in GRKM V1201, but also open to students not enrolled
in GRKM V1201, who wish to improve their spoken Modern
Greek. For more information, contact Prof. Vangelis Calotychos at
ec2268@columbia.edu.