Current and Previous Coursework

Winter 2009:

Autumn 2008:

Summer 2008:

Spring 2008:

Winter 2008:

Autumn 2007:

Spring 2007:

Winter 2007:

Autumn 2006:

 

Autumn, 2006

Byzantine Empire, 1025-1453

'The Role of the Byzantine State in the Economy'

Final exam

Calculus

Do you really want to see my problem sets? No, I thought not.
But just to convince you of that, here's PS 6.

Greek Thought and Literature

Untitled paper on gods in the Iliad

'Herodotus: Happiness or Wisdom?'

'Sovereignty and Divine Right in the Agamemnon'

Turkish
Nothing here...

 

Winter, 2007

Calculus

Still don't want to see my problem sets, comrade.

Greek Thought and Literature

'The Threefold Failure of Athens in Sicily'

'The Birds and Athenian Policy'

'Stories in the Republic'

Dante in Contemporary Literature

'Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel”: A Thought-Experiment '

'“The Aleph”: Infinity and the Divine Comedy'

'Amour Fou'

Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology

Midterm

Final

 

Spring, 2007

Old English

These are not the translations you're looking for.

Strategy

Um... This class didn't really involve anything besides reading.

Greek Thought and Literature

'Group Politics, Individual Morality'

'Tacitus' Dialogue on Oratory'

'Historical Narrative in Tacitus and Syme'

International Relations and Statecraft in [Ancient] Mesopotamia

We had to summarize something in a haiku. Yeah.

A note on “Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta."

A note on Levy's essay on the distinction between political historians and political theorists.

'Zimri-Lim and Hammurabi: Balancing and Opportunism in the Ancient Near East'

 

Autumn, 2007

Classics of Social and Political Thought

'Justice: Internal Harmony or External Behavior?'

Untitled paper on the Republic (not the same as preceding)

'Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in Alfarabi and Aquinas'

'Citizenship and the Ends of the Polis'

Latin

These, too, are not the translations you're looking for.

Greek Art and Archaeology

Looking Paper 1: A Corinthian Wine-Jug

Looking Paper 2: The Parthenon Frieze

Cell and Molecular Biology

'Fluorescence Microscopy and the Cell'

'DNA Restriction Mapping'

'Mitochondrial Respiration and Oxidative Phosphorylation'

'BCR-Abl Cell Signaling'

 

Winter, 2008

Classics of Social and Political Thought

Republics and Extraordinary Actions

Sovereignty in Locke and Hobbes

Latin

Yeah yeah. We read Thyestes and some letters. Go find your own translation.

Greek Sculpture

The East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (and my presentation outline)

The Artemision Bronze ( Zeus) (and outline)

Beowulf

Yeah, we just did a bunch of translation, really. And also a really, really bad paper.

 

Spring, 2008

Classics of Social and Political Thought

Equality in Europe

Liberté, Égalité, Nietzsche

Social Contract vs. M&M

Latin

Aeneid.

Hellenistic Art and Aesthetics

Ekphrastic Epigram Analysis: Nos. 119-21

Hellenistic Ekphraseis and Art

Review of G. Zanker 2004, Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art

Money in Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander

Some Unusual Sources of Revenue in Classical Greece

 

Autumn, 2008

Intermediate Greek

We read Plato's Protagoras (the first 45%, anyway)

Introduction to Religious Studies

What is Religion?

Ancient Sparta

Is Plutarch’s Life of Lykourgos of Any Conceivable Value to the Historian?

The Study of Ancient Sparta is Ultimately Only an Exercise in Self-Discovery

Modern Greek & German

Nothing for these.

 

Winter, 2009:

Intermediate Greek

Sophocles' Trachiniae.

Heraclitus

Logos, phusis, harmonia

Introduction to Greek Epigraphy

Paper -- Bibliography -- Inscriptions (all separate files)
Roman Satire

Juvenal, Horace, etc.