| GRK 100 | High School Greek | UNITS: 0 |
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| GRK 101 | Elementary Greek I | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Introduction to Classical Greek. Greek alphabet, basic grammar and syntax. Readings based on Greek mythology, philosophy, and literature. |
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| GRK 102 | Elementary Greek II | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: GRK 101 |
| A second course in Classical Greek, continuing and expanding the work of GRK 101, and completing the study of grammar. Readings from major authors including Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. |
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| GRK 201 | Intermediate Greek I | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Odd Years, Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: GRK 102 |
| Introduction to Greek prose. Emphasis upon improvement of reading skill through vocabulary acquisition and study of complex grammar. Introduction to Attic dialect through reading Plato, and Koine Greek through reading the New Testament. Examination of the importance of these works to Western literature and culture. |
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| GRK 202 | Intermediate Greek II | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: GRK 201 |
| Reading in Homer's Iliad and the New Testament. Techniques of oral poetry. Study of the use of myth, and of the literary and historical significance of the Iliad. Analysis of differences between classical and Koine Greek in the New Testament. |
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| GRK (LAT) 310 | Classical Mythology | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Greek and Roman mythology through the writings and art of the Classical period. Discussion of creation stories, the major gods and heroes, the underworld and afterlife. Intellectual religious and educational role of myth and of the most important theories of interpretation and classification. All readings and discussion in English. |
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| GRK 320 | Greek Tragedy in Translation | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in translation. Literary and social aspects of individual plays and tragic genre in fifth century. Selections from Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle and Seneca on Greek tragedy. |
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| GRK 333 | Medical Terminology | UNITS: 2 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Study of the formation of medical terms from their Greek and Latin roots designed both to build vocabulary and to teach the uses of a medical dictionary. |
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| GRK 371 | The Origins of American Mythology | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Odd Years, Offered in Spring Only |
| Oral-traditional literature, formulaic myth composition and the Indo-European origins of the American folk hero. Readings include Iliad, Gilgamesh, Sanskrit Puranas and Beowulf; films such as Stagecoach and Superman. |
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