Cross Listing Course Form (4/9/14) I: Criteria To qualify for consideration for cross listing, all courses must: - be requested by both departments or programs; - count as credit toward an existing major, minor, or certificate program; - not be experimental or have a reserved variable content course number (x90-X99) - carry the same title (both parent and sibling courses) and, if possible, carry the same course number; - be implemented within comparable course levels, e.g., (U), (UG), or (G); - be offered under an existing rubric. Under no circumstances will a course have more than three crosslistings. II: Summary of courses requested for crosslisting Requesting Dept / Program (must be MCLG department of parent course) Parent Course Prefix and Number PHIL 363 Sibling Course(s) Prefix (Pre CCN) CLAS 363 and Number LS 363 Course Title Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy II. Endorsement/Approvals Complete the form and obtain signatures before submitting to Faculty Senate Office Please type / print name Signature Date Requestor: Hayden W. Ausland 1/22/15 Phone/ email : Parent Program Chair/Director: Sibling Program Chair(s) / Director(s) Dean(s): hayden.ausland@umontana.edu Liz Ametsbichler Approve * Yes No Matthew Strohl Stewart Justman Yes No Chris Comer Yes No Yes No Yes No *Signatory Comments (required for disapproval): IV. Rationale Do these courses need to be cross listed to fill an external requirement? If YES, define external requirement and attach documentation. I don't think so. HWA If NO, complete narrative: In 500 words or less explain why only cross-listing this course serves the need for delivering academic content. You must identify how both the parent and sibling units contribute to the cross-listed course’s content and how cross listing contributes to the respective units’ missions of serving students. The narrative must also identify additional reasons for cross listing such as a specialized need for advertising to prospective students, sharing resources across departments (equipment, space, instructors, etc.), or mutual contribution to course content. The criteria listed above presuppose a situation unlike the one here. The reasons in this case for cross-listing are simple, and best understood in the light of the background for its being listed as it is currently in the MUS system. History: This course was designed by, and is offered primarily within, the Classics program, which is administered by the faculty of the Classics Section, itself administratively a part of MCLG. It was originally listed primarily as an MCLG course, with cross-listings in Philosophy and Liberal Studies. The penultimate was as a courtesy and convenience to the Philosophy program, which employed it as an alternative to Phil 251 for students who for one reason or another found it hard to take that course, which is required for the BA degree. When the MUS unified course-numbering three things happened: (a) Classics obtained their own rubric (CLAS) instead of the generic one they had used before (MCLG), (b) someone without knowledge of the specifics decided that the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy course belonged under the PHIL rubric, and (c) cross-listing was driven underground. The result is that what is in actual fact primarily a Classics course is being denied any listing whatever as such. In the meantime, what with a couple of retirements, Philosophy seems to have forgotten its earlier sense of the course's usefulness to its program. So, as a further result, what appears (rather than is) the "parent" program of this course is more likely to discourage students from taking it than to promote it as a course. Classics can live with this -- it is a perennial state of affairs between Classics and Philosophy programs -- but it might be nice if the course were listed under its true parent program as well as under another program that now seems not to want it at all. In order to bring the case to life for university committee members with the unenviable task of considering these applications, a hypothetical illustration: Suppose John DeBoer offered a course on Shakespearian technique that he had cross-listed in English in the hopes of interesting some students there in real drama. Suppose further that this course got FLOCed into an English offering -- say on the ground that Shakespeare wrote in English. Suppose finally that colleagues in English held the course something educationally substandard, concerned with theatrics rather than the drama properly speaking, and even started telling their students it didn't really "count". Well, that's about where things stand with PHIL363. In regard to the criteria listed: (1) Philosophy can hardly object to PHIL363 being listed also as CLAS 363; (2) it counts primarily toward completion of the Classics BA, whereas the current chair in Philosophy now holds it doesn't count in their program; (3) it is an established course; (4) it carried the same title and number in both programs for a number of years; (5) it is an UG course; and (6) it is offered under PHIL, an existing rubric. HWA V. Syllabus Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (CLAS863/PHIL 363/LS863 - CRN 36029/35834/36028) Class Meetings: Liberal Arts 207, Tuesday & Thursday 11:10-12:30 Instructor: Hayden W. Ausland (Classics/MCLL) LA 424 (243-2125) This course surveys the Western philosophical tradition of ancient Greece and Rome. We will examine key works of ancient philosophers from the time of Thales (fl. 585 BC) through Aristotle before studying philosophies of the Hellenistic and Roman eras up to ca. 525 AD. Class will be conducted as a lecture with allowance for some discussion, and the course-work will call upon the student's powers of careful and critical reading, and of written and possibly oral discourse. On Tuesday, March 5 (in week 6) and Thursday, March 28 (in week 9) tests will administered in class on the material covered in the preceding weeks. A two-hour final exam will administered at the time and place provided in the university's official schedule. On Friday of the semester's 4th week (February 22) a short, analytical paper (two pages maximum) will be due on an assignment to be announced a week previous. A more ambitious paper (of up to three pages) will be due on Friday of the semester's 13th week (April 26). Written exams will be marked with an eye mainly to accuracy and critical understanding. Prepared papers will be evaluated rigorously for their mechanical, as well as substantive, elements. Students' individual course grades will be based upon their papers, tests, and other indications of effective academic engagement. It can be helpful to meet all deadlines. Projected order of treatment with coordinated schedule of assigned readings: Week 1: General introduction; natural history before Socrates Fragments of the Presocratics Week 2: (continued, then) the Sophists and Socrates Fragments of the Sophists; Aristophanes, Clouds Week 3: Plato's Socrates Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo Week 4: Plato's understanding of philosophy Plato, Symposium & Phaedrus Week 5: Platonic cosmology & the legend of Atlantis Plato, Timaeus, & Critias Week 6: Aristotelian logic Aristotle, selections from the Organon* Week 7: Aristotelian natural philosophy (specifically, psychology) Aristotle, De Anima II.1-5 & III.3-13 Week 8: Aristotelian first philosophy (theology) Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 12* Week 9: Aristotelian poetics Aristotle, Poetics Week 10: [spring break] Week 11: Hellenistic Greek philosophy & its transfer to Rome Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods Week 12: Roman Stoicism in the first century Selected letters and essays of the Younger Seneca Week 13: Roman Stoicism in the second century Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Week 14: Christian philosophy Augustine, On the Happy Life* Week 15: The end of ancient philosophy Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy Exam week [1st paper] [1st test] [2nd test] [2nd paper] [Final exam] The Bookstore in the University center has been asked to stock various books containing most the works listed above. Several of these, and also some other secondary works, will be available also on traditional reserve at Mansfield. Readings marked with an asterisk (*) above, as also some alternative versions of a few other works, will be made available in electronic form. Grades of incomplete are not recorded in this course. The instructor will assume a familiarity with academic standards, rules and procedures set out in the University Catalogue, the Schedule of Classes, and Student Conduct Code. VI. Justification for third crosslisting: In 500 words or less describe the extenuating circumstances making a third course necessary. Given the composite nature of their program, students in LS tend to need help finding good courses relevant to their humanistic studies. For this reason, this course has been traditionally cross-listed there as well. I doubt whether LS will object to continuing this -- and they may even welcome it and encourage their students to enroll in it as a suitable elective counting toward a BA. (Responses in the terms of the other criteria are as above.) VII Copies and Electronic Submission. After approval, submit signed original, and electronic file to the Faculty Senate Office, UH 221, camie.foos@mso.umt.edu.