Fall 2021 - HUM 110 D100
The Greek World (3)
Class Number: 4429
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 8 – Dec 7, 2021: Fri, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
David Mirhady
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Instructor:
Sabrina Higgins
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Instructor:
Eirini Kotsovili
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Instructor:
James Horncastle
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Instructor:
Dionysia Eirini Kotsovili
dkotsovi@sfu.ca
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Instructor:
David Mirhady
dmirhady@sfu.ca
1 778 782-3906
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Instructor:
James Horncastle
jhorncas@sfu.ca
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Instructor:
Sabrina Higgins
shiggins@sfu.ca
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An interdisciplinary introduction to the Greek culture in different periods. Using various sources and materials the course explores continuities and ruptures, evolutions and revolutions, and the impact such issues have on the imagination of people today. Students with credit for HS 100 may not take this course for further credit. Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course is a study of the Greek World at large from the time when civilization first stirred in the Aegean Sea through the modern age. Starting with the dawn of civilization in the Near East we move to Homer’s heroic times, and then examine the rise of city-states, study the vibrancy of the Athenian Democracy and the stark might of Sparta. Alexander the Great takes us to the rich Hellenistic world of the east. We then explore the lives of the Greeks and the afterlife of their ideas in the Roman era when the teachings of Jesus are recorded in Greek into the New Testament and preached by St Paul by the Acropolis. We then visit Byzantium’s palaces, where Christian Roman emperors speak Greek. By the time of the Renaissance Byzantine intellectuals teach Greek philosophy to Italian aristocrats in Florence while merchants link, by way of trade, new and old Greek communities in Ottoman Constantinople, Venice, and Odessa. Our journey ends in the present, reflecting on the economic crisis, cutting age cinema and refugee movements.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
- Students will gain an interdisciplinary insight into the history and culture of Greece and Hellenism from antiquity to the present through examination of sources from this era and the study of modern scholarship on the subject at hand.
- Students will learn to analyze art, architecture and literature from diverse periods of Greek history, and interpret it in wider cultural and historical contexts.
- Students will evaluate our ideas about identity, history, and culture from diverse perspectives (historical, artistic, literary), and how these ideas shape our beliefs today.
Grading
- Class Participation 15%
- Weekly Quizzes 10%
- Test 1 25%
- Test 2 25%
- Test 3 25%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Class Readings and other study materials (videos, images, lecture power-point presentations, study questions, maps and more), will all be provided in PDF form on CANVAS. There is no assigned textbook.
Registrar Notes:
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TEACHING AT SFU IN FALL 2021
Teaching at SFU in fall 2021 will involve primarily in-person instruction, with approximately 70 to 80 per cent of classes in person/on campus, with safety plans in place. Whether your course will be in-person or through remote methods will be clearly identified in the schedule of classes. You will also know at enrollment whether remote course components will be “live” (synchronous) or at your own pace (asynchronous).
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Students with hidden or visible disabilities who may need class or exam accommodations, including in the context of remote learning, are advised to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as early as possible in order to prepare for the fall 2021 term.