CLAS 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
Credits: 3

Winter 2017, CLAS 180-01: Blasts from the Classical Past: Considering the Ancient Canon (3). First-Year Seminar. Prerequisite: First-year class standing. This seminar is about traditions–those of the literary and philosophical cultures with which much of Western society has identified and continues to identify, as well as those of communities that are un(der)represented in the historical canon. Through close-reading, discussion, analysis, and writing, we examine the theatrical, literary, historical, and philosophical traditions represented in the readings and consider our relationship to these traditions as individuals and as members of various modem communities. We also explore the ways in which the works respond to one another as literary and cultural artifacts. Our ultimate goals are to refine our skills as critical readers/thinkers/writers and to enjoy and enrich ourselves and one another in the process. (HL) Dance. Winter 2017 and every third year