CLASS 2020 - GLOBAL ISSUES THROUGH CLASSICS 2

Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course is the continuation of a two-semester graduate proseminar investigating contemporary global issues through ancient Greek and Roman sources in translation. The course proposes that global issues are not only transnational but in fact transhistorical: that is to say, the processes of connection and disruption, inequality, precarity, and violence, associated with the uneven flows of people and power through space and over time can be found operating around the ancient world as much as in the modern. Consequently, not only can ancient texts, sources, and ideas be used to enrich our understanding of today's global issues, but methods from Global Studies can also be usefully applied to probe these same processes in antiquity. Topics may include: poverty and inequality; war, peace, and diplomacy; citizenship and xenophobia; indigeneity and nationalism; migration and mobility; center versus periphery; terrorism; imperialism; conceptions of race and ethnicity; and the organization of knowledge and circulation of information. Students are expected to complete weekly readings of ancient texts, to prepare materials for discussions of ancient and contemporary global issues, and to develop an independent research project or paper.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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