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Undergraduate courses in Classics Greek

In this section:

CLASSGRK 1. Beginning Greek

CLASSGRK 2. Beginning Greek

CLASSGRK 3. Beginning Greek

CLASSGRK 5. Introduction to New Testament Greek

CLASSGRK 101. Intermediate Greek: Plato's Apology of Socrates

CLASSGRK 102. Intermediate Greek: Greek Tragedy

CLASSGRK 103. Intermediate Greek: Homer

CLASSGRK 111. Advanced Greek: Scientific Writings

CLASSGRK 112. Advanced Greek: Lyric Poetry

CLASSGRK 113. Advanced Greek: Thucydides

CLASSGRK 175A. Greek Syntax: Prose Composition

CLASSGRK 175B. Greek Syntax: Prose Composition

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Classics Greek (CLASSGRK) Courses

CLASSGRK 1. Beginning Greek

No knowledge of Greek is assumed. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. Separate section for Biblical Greek.

3-5 units, Aut (Porta, F)

CLASSGRK 2. Beginning Greek

Continuation of CLASSGRK 1. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. Separate section for Biblical Greek.

3-5 units, Win (Porta, F)

CLASSGRK 3. Beginning Greek

Continuation of CLASSGRK 2. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. Separate section for Biblical Greek. CLASSGRK 3 fulfills University language requirement.

3-5 units, Spr (Porta, F)

CLASSGRK 5. Introduction to New Testament Greek

Vocabulary, grammar, morphology, and syntax of koinê Greek, the original language of the writings gathered in the New Testament. Students read selections from Luke, John, the Pauline epistles, and Acts. No previous knowledge of Greek required.

3-5 units, Sum (Staff)

CLASSGRK 101. Intermediate Greek: Plato's Apology of Socrates

Focus is on grammar, syntax, style, and comprehension of a literary text. Literary and cultural contexts. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Aut (Simonton, M)

CLASSGRK 102. Intermediate Greek: Greek Tragedy

The tragedy of Euripides. Emphasis is on literary and historical analysis. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. May be repeated for credit.

4-5 units, Win (Duncan, A)

CLASSGRK 103. Intermediate Greek: Homer

The language and poetry of Homer. Readings in Greek and English. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Spr (Boterf, N)

CLASSGRK 111. Advanced Greek: Scientific Writings

Reading texts from Greek mathematics, physics, and biology. The relationship between form and meaning in the presentation of scientific information. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Aut (Staff)

CLASSGRK 112. Advanced Greek: Lyric Poetry

Invectives, love songs, drinking songs, elegies, and choral odes from 700-500 B.C.E. Readings include Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Mimnermus, Alcman, Solon, and Pindar. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Win (Peponi, A)

CLASSGRK 113. Advanced Greek: Thucydides

Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Topics include the style and language in which themes of community crisis and empire were first turned into history by this master of Athenian prose. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Spr (Ceserani, G)

CLASSGRK 175A. Greek Syntax: Prose Composition

(Same as CLASSGRK 275A.) (First-year graduate students register for 275A,B.) Review of Greek grammar and instruction in Greek prose composition skills. Begins sixth week of Winter Quarter and continues through Spring Quarter. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Greek.

2 units, Win (Clayton, B)

CLASSGRK 175B. Greek Syntax: Prose Composition

(Same as CLASSGRK 275B.) (First-year graduate students register for 275A,B.) Review of Greek grammar and instruction in Greek prose composition skills. Begins sixth week of Winter Quarter and continues through Spring Quarter. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Greek.

4 units, Spr (Clayton, B)

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