Classics
The Department of Classics offers courses in modern Greek, ancient Greek, and Latin, as well as courses in Greek literature and poetry, Augustan poetry, Latin literature, Medieval language and literature, classical myth, and women in antiquity.
For questions about specific courses, contact the department.
For questions about specific courses, contact the department.
Courses
Course Number
LATN1101V001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-11:25Th 10:10-11:25Fr 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/11310Enrollment
8 of 15Course Number
LATN1101V002Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:00We 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
002/11311Enrollment
5 of 15Prerequisites: LATN UN1101. A continuation of LATN UN1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted.
Course Number
LATN1102V001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Tu 18:10-20:00Th 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/11312Enrollment
4 of 15.
Course Number
LATN1121V001Points
4 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Fr 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/00448Enrollment
8 of 18Instructor
Darcy KrasnePrerequisites: LATN UN1101 & UN1102 or LATN UN1121 or equivalent. Selections from Catullus and Cicero.
Course Number
LATN2101V001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-11:25Th 10:10-11:25Fr 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/11313Enrollment
5 of 15Prerequisites: LATN UN1101 & UN1102 or LATN UN1121 or equivalent. Selections from Catullus and Cicero.
Course Number
LATN2101V002Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:00We 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
002/11314Enrollment
9 of 15Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.
Course Number
LATN2102V001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Tu 18:10-20:00Th 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/11315Enrollment
11 of 15Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Selections from Vergil and Horace. Combines literary analysis with work in grammar and metrics.
Course Number
LATN3012V002Points
3 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
002/00994Enrollment
5 of 25Instructor
Darcy KrasneCourse Number
LATN3309V001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Tu 08:40-09:55Th 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
001/11316Enrollment
10 of 15Instructor
Rosalie StonerThis seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.
Course Number
LATN3980W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Th 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/11317Enrollment
0 of 15Instructor
Elizabeth ScharffenbergerPrerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in Classics and Classical Studies. The topic changes from year to year but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.
Course Number
LATN3996V001Points
3 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Th 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/00450Enrollment
6 of 15Instructor
Ellen MorrisCourse Number
LATN3997V001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2025
Section/Call Number
001/11318Enrollment
2 of 5Instructor
Gareth WilliamsCourse Number
LATN3997V002Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2025
Section/Call Number
002/11321Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Katharina VolkCourse Number
LATN3998V001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2025
Section/Call Number
001/14802Enrollment
1 of 5Instructor
Gareth WilliamsPrerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
Course Number
LATN4009W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/11325Enrollment
8 of 15Instructor
Gareth WilliamsThis course is designed to provide incoming first-year graduate students in Classics with a small reading class that will allow a faculty instructor to assess students’ needs before they advance further into the graduate program.
Course Number
LATN5100G001Format
In-PersonPoints
2 ptsFall 2025
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/11319Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Gareth WilliamsThis class considers the work of Catullus in the context of the history of Latin personal poetry.A master of multiple genres and meters, Catullus wrote poems ranging in length from two to 408 lines and in topic from love to political invective to mythological narrative and beyond. Of profound influence on subsequent Latin poetry, Catullus was also part of a vibrant literary scene in mid-first-century BCE Rome, of whose productions (with the exception of Lucretius) only fragments survive. We will read Catullus in tandem with his predecessors, his contemporaries (including notably the so-called Neoterics), and his immediate successors, in order to gain a sense of his significance and place within the development of Latin literature. The class is open to graduate students, as well as to advanced postbaccalaureate and
undergraduate students with the permission of the instructor.