Texts:

• Pomeroy, Burstein, & Donlan, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
• Lattimore, Homer's The Iliad
• Grene and Lattimore, Greek Tragedies volume 3
• Athanassakis, Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days
• Apollonius of Rhodes, The Voyage of the Argo
• Additional readings are posted on this site (see the "Additional Reading Assignments" link on the left)

General Information:

This course will introduce you to Greek culture (from the Dark Ages to the early Hellenistic era) through close readings of Greek literature in translation and through an examination of some of the archaeological remains of the Greek world.

Web Site:

This web site is designed to supplement the course by providing study questions and materials to help you course material and review for exams. Take a few minutes now to navigate through the site and to familiarize yourself with its features. In particular you will want to access the resources under the Archaeology, Study Tools and Links buttons above. Also follow the links to the left to access special materials for this particular section of CLAS 1000. This is where you will find, for example, special review materials, special writing instructions and the additional reading assignments for the course. The reading assignments are in a password protected part of the site: see me for instructions on how to access them.

Course Requirements & Testing:

The requirements for this course are really quite simple: Preparation and Participation! (Do not confuse attendance with participation.) It is imperative that you do the reading when it is assigned and that you come to class prepared to discuss what you have read. During the course of the term, there there will be a midterm exam (including a map), multiple unannounced in-class quizzes, and a cumulative final exam. Some sections will also have various writing assignments; consult the syllabus.

Grading:

Your final grade for this course will be based on your performance on the unannounced in-class quizzes, the midterm test, and the final exam (see syllabus for dates) and will be weighted as follows:

quizzes: 20%
midterm test (no make-ups given): 40%
final exam: 40%

If your section includes writing assignments, the grades will be weighted as follows:

quizzes: 15%
writing assignments: 25%
midterm test (no make-ups given): 30%
final exam: 30%

I grade on a 100 point scale, as follows:

100-96: A
95-90: A-
89-86: B+
85-83: B
82-80: B-
79-76: C+
75-73: C
72-70: C-
69-66: D+
65-63: D
62-60: D-
59-0: F

Writing Assignments:

The following writing assignments are integral to the course:

• postmortems of classroom discussions on authors or material culture
• synopses of assigned reading for the course
• analysis of secondary texts (i.e., labeling sentences as either evidence, conclusion, hypothesis etc.)
• formal essay

All assignments will be evaluated but not all will be graded.

Late assignments will not be accepted under any circumstances.

Important Additional Information for this Course:

I expect you to attend and participate in class every day. During the summer short session, we must fit a semester=s worth of reading, thinking, discussion, and lecture into just four weeks. Thus the reading assignments are often quite long for each class. All of the assigned reading must be done before the class meeting, not afterward. This also means that we will not be able to discuss in class all of your reading assignments; this is especially true of the Pomeroy Burstein, & Donlan book. You are, nonetheless, responsible for all reading assignments for quizzes and tests.

It is crucial that you keep up with the assigned reading and that you master the material as we go along; there is no time in a short session to go back over material or review it in class. Start memorizing names and learning how to spell them today!

To help prepare for tests you will want to consult the study questions on the web site (under Study Tools) and the map quiz (under Additional Materials in my section of the web site.)

Things that shouldn’t have to be said: do not be late for class and do not leave early; come to class prepared; do all of the assigned work; turn off your cell phones when you enter the classroom and keep them off.

Attendance Policy:

Excessive absences (more than two un-excused) may result in your being dropped from the course; please note that I will assign a grade of WF even if you drop or are dropped from the course before the midpoint of the semester, if you are failing the course at that time you drop it. If you enroll in this section of CLAS 1000, you have made a commitment to attend and to do the work. If you are not prepared to do that, drop the course now.

Academic Honesty:

As a UGA student you are required to follow the UGA Student Honor Code. A complete description of the University’s Academic Honesty policy can be found at http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/academic_honesty.htm. Familiarize yourself with the policy today if you have not already done so.