University Curriculum Committee Course Proposal Form
for Courses Numbered 0001 – 4999
Note: Before completing this form, please carefully read the accompanying instructions.
Submission guidelines are posted to the UCC Web site: www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/cu/curriculum.cfm
1. Course Prefix and Number:
CLAS 3300
2. Date:
January 26, 2012
3. Requested Action (Check only one type):
New Course
Revision of Active Course
Revision & Unbanking of a Banked Course
X
Renumbering of an Existing Course from
from
# 2600
to
# 3300
4. Method(s) of delivery (check all boxes that apply for both current/proposed and expected
future delivery methods within the next three years):
Current or
Proposed Delivery
Method(s):
On-campus (face to face)
X
Expected
Future Delivery
Method(s):
X
Distance Course (face to face off campus)
Online (delivery of 50% or more of the instruction is offered online)
5. Justification for new course, revision, unbanking, or renumbering:
The Classical Studies Faculty, through assessment, discovered that the current CLAS 2600 is too
broad in its scope and pitched at the incorrect level, and that the current CLAS 3400 lacks
sufficient literary material to paint a full picture of Roman culture. The assessments were
conducted by examining senior theses. It was discovered that students sometimes lacked basic
understanding of the relationship between literature and material culture, a problem that we traced
back to flaws in CLAS 2600 and CLAS 3400. The Faculty therefore voted and approved to
modify CLAS 2600 so as to limit its scope to Ancient Greece, and to renumber it as a more
appropriate 3000-level course. At the same time, the Faculty is incorporating CLAS 2600’s
Faculty Senate Resolution #09-44, November 2009; editorially revised April 2011
Roman material into CLAS 3400 and a new CLAS 3405. The new 3000-level courses also meet a
long-term goal of the Classical Studies Faculty to add 3000-level courses to our curriculum, a
necessity because Multidisciplinary Studies majors need 24 s.h. above 2999 to graduate.
6. Course description exactly as it should appear in the next catalog:
3300. Ancient Greek Culture and Civilization (3) (FC:HU) Formerly CLAS 2600
Study of Ancient Greece through its temples, sculpture, pottery and literature.
7. If this is a course revision, briefly describe the requested change:
The subject matter of CLAS 2600 was the material and artistic remains of Greece and Rome in
comparison with literature of the ancient world. The Roman materials are being removed (and
transferred to CLAS 3400 and 3405). This allows for the expansion of formerly compressed
Greek materials, so that, e.g., the full sculptural program of the Parthenon and other buildings of
the Age of Pericles, along with contemporaneous texts such as the tragedies of Aeschylus and
Sophocles, can be considered in the proper amount of depth.
8. Identify if the new/revised course will be a required and/or elective course in one of the
degrees/minors/certificates offered by your unit.
Is this course required (yes/no)?
No
Is this course an elective (yes/no)?
Yes
9. If writing intensive (WI) credit is requested, the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Committee must approve WI credit prior to consideration by the UCC.
Has this course been approved for WI credit (yes/no/NA)?
N/A
If Yes, will all sections be WI (yes/no/NA)?
10. If service-learning (SL) credit is requested, the University Service-Learning Committee
(USLC) must approve SL credit prior to consideration by the UCC.
Has this course been approved for SL credit (yes/no/NA)?
N/A
If Yes, will all sections be SL (yes/no/NA)?
11. If foundations curriculum (FC) credit is requested, the Foundations Curriculum and
Instructional Effectiveness (FCIE) Committee must approve FC credit prior to consideration
by the UCC.
Faculty Senate Resolution #09-44, November 2009; editorially revised April 2011
If FC credit has been approved by the FCIE committee, then check the appropriate box
(check at most one):
X
English (EN)
Science (SC)
Humanities (HU)
Social Science (SO)
Fine Arts (FA)
Mathematics (MA)
Health (HL)
Exercise (EX)
12. Course Credit:
Weekly
or
Per Term
=
Credit Hours
Lab
Weekly
or
Per Term
=
Credit Hours
s.h.
Studio
Weekly
or
Per Term
=
Credit Hours
s.h.
Practicum
Weekly
or
Per Term
=
Credit Hours
s.h.
Internship
Weekly
or
Per Term
=
Credit Hours
s.h.
Lecture Hours
3
3
s.h.
s.h.
Other (e.g., independent study):
Total Credit Hours
3
13. Anticipated yearly student enrollment:
s.h.
75
14. Affected Degrees or Academic Programs:
Degree(s)/Course(s)
PDF Catalog Page
Change in Degree Hours
Classical Studies Minor
82–83
None
15. Overlapping or Duplication with Affected Units or Programs:
Not Applicable
X
Applicable (Notification and/or Response from Units Attached)
16. Approval by the Council for Teacher Education (required for courses affecting teacher
education programs):
X
Not Applicable
Applicable (CTE has given their approval)
Faculty Senate Resolution #09-44, November 2009; editorially revised April 2011
17. Instructional Format(s):
X
Lecture
Technology-mediated
Lab
Seminar
Studio
Clinical
Practicum
Colloquium
Internship
Other (describe below):
Student Teaching
18. Statements of Support:
Please attach a memorandum, signed by the unit administrator, which addresses the
budgetary and personnel impact of this proposal.
X
Current personnel is adequate
Additional personnel are needed (describe needs below):
X
Current facilities are adequate
Additional facilities are needed (describe needs below):
X
Initial library resources are adequate
Initial resources are needed (give a brief explanation and estimate for cost of acquisition
of required resources below):
X
Unit computer resources are adequate
Additional unit computer resources are needed (give a brief explanation and an
estimate for the cost of acquisition below):
X
ITCS Resources are not needed
Following ITCS resources are needed (put a check beside each need):
Mainframe computer system
Statistical services
Network connections
Computer lab for students
Faculty Senate Resolution #09-44, November 2009; editorially revised April 2011
Describe any computer or networking requirements of this program that are not
currently fully supported for existing programs (Includes use of classroom, laboratory,
or other facilities that are not currently used in the capacity being requested).
Approval from the Director of ITCS attached
19. Syllabus – please insert course syllabus below. Do not submit course syllabus as a separate
file. You must include (a) the catalog description of the course as identified in #6 above
(required) followed by an extended course description (optional), (b) the citation of the
textbook chosen for the course including ISBN, (c) the course objectives, (d) the course
content outline, and (e) the course assignments and grading plan. Do not include instructoror semester-specific information in the syllabus.
a) CLAS 3300. Ancient Greek Culture and Civilization (3) (FC:HU) Formerly CLAS 2600
Ancient Greek temples, sculpture and pottery, as related to literature of the period.
b) Required Textbooks.
 Herodotus. The Histories. Tr. de Sélincourt (Penguin Classics rev. ed. 2003) ISBN:
0140449086
 Great Dialogues of Plato. Tr. Rouse. (Signet Classics 2008) ISBN: 0457530853
 Aeschylus I. The Oresteia. Tr. Greene & Lattimore (U. Chicago 1969) ISBN: 0226307786
 Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus. Tr. Affleck, McAuslan (Cambridge UP 2004) ISBN:
0521010721
Additional Reading:
 Website links to images, articles, and primary texts pertaining to each monument
 Coursepack containing: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter; Pindar, Olympian I; Thucydides Bk. 2
“The Funeral Oration of Pericles”
c) Course Objectives:
Foundations Goals:
1) Humanities knowledge of the Classics. Upon completion of the course, students will have
gained greater foundational knowledge of Greek culture and civilization through study of
literature, myth, and philosophical literature as a means of understanding Greek monuments in
Athens, Delphi and Olympia. Specifically, they will be able to:
 identify monuments and describe their meaning and function as discovered in original
literary sources;
 explain the main events in the development of Athenian civilization as discovered in
original literary and mythical sources;
 analyze literary and philosophical sources for evidence of self-conception by Athenians
and other Greeks; and
 synthesize this information to formulate ideas of the role of iconography and literature
in the formulation of identity in Athens and other Greek city-states.
Faculty Senate Resolution #09-44, November 2009; editorially revised April 2011
2) Research methodology in the Classics. Upon completion of the course, students will have
acquired the ability to differentiate primary and secondary sources, and to articulate how
scholars use primary sources to create knowledge. Specifically, they will be able to:
 demonstrate an ability to use primary sources, and to engage in close reading and
analytical critique of literary, mytho-historical and philosophical sources, as well as
evidence from material culture; and
 demonstrate their ability to discover the salient secondary sources via consultation of
modern scholarship on Greek monuments and the most important databases by which to
conduct further research.
3) Contribution of Classics to general knowledge. Upon completion of the course, students will be
able to:
 discuss the classical origins of modern institutions and buildings, and how national
identity is constructed by iconographic and literary programs.
d) Course Content Outline
Wk 1. Introduction. On days where “Website” is indicated, the homework is to consult the
companion website to view images, read articles, or original source information linked from
other websites.
The House of Atreus. Read Pindar Olympian 1 (Coursepack). (Goal 1)
Wk. 2. The Greek ideal of aretē. Olympia and the temple of Olympian Zeus. Website. (Goals
1,2,3)
Read Aeschylus, Agamemnon. (Goals 1,2)
Wk. 3. Read Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (Goals 1,2)
The Greek conception of theatre as a drama of democracy. Website. (Goals 1,2,3)
Wk. 4. Read Aeschylus, Eumenides (Goals 1,2,3)
The Athenian supreme court, the Areopagus. Website. (Goals 1,2,3)
Wk. 5. The oracle of Delphi and Apollo as god of prophecy. Website. (Goals 1,2,3)
The fall of the good king: questions of religion and man’s limited knowledge. Read
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos. (Goals 1,2,3)
Wk. 6. Midterm
Read the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Coursepack). (Goals 1,2)
Wk. 7. The origins of mystery religions and ideas of the underworld. The cult of Demeter and
Persephone at Eleusis (and the origin of modern rites of initiation). Website. (Goals 1,2,3)
Faculty Senate Resolution #09-44, November 2009; editorially revised April 2011
The first history, blending myth, fact, religion and drama. Read Herodotus Bk. 1. (Goals
1,2,3)
Wk. 8. The rise of the rational empire. Athenian reaction to the Persian war (480-78 BC). Read
Herodotus Bks. 7-9. (Goals 1,2,3)
The cultural construction of ethos and pathos in Greek Sculpture. Website. (Goals 1,2,3)
Wk. 9. Rationalism and the age of Pericles. Read Thucydides’ “Funeral Oration of Pericles”
(Coursepack). (Goals 1,2,3)
Triumph over the forces of barbarism, without and within: The cultural ideals of the
Parthenon. Website. (Goals 1,2,3)
Wk. 10. The definition of empire through iconic architecture. The Athenian Acropolis: Propylaia,
Temple of Athena Nike and Erechtheion. Website. (Goals 1,2,3)
Midterm Exam.
Wk. 11. The long life of the “doctrine of forms”. Read Plato’s Symposium; its afterlife inspiring
the second sophistic in Rome, the later Italian Renaissance and modern theories of education.
(Goals 1,2,3)
The Greeks at play: pottery and symposia (dinner/drinking parties). Website. (Goals 1,2)
Wk. 12. From Homeric and Draconian systems of justice to a philosophical conception. Read
Plato’s Euthyphro, (Goals 1,2,3)
The center of Athenian justice and commerce, the agora. Read Plato’s Apology. (Goals 1,2,3)
Wk. 13. The founding father and a patron god of the crafts. Theseus and the temple to Hephaistos
(Hephaisteion) overlooking the Athenian agora. Theseus and the minotaur on the Athenian
Treasury at Delphi. Website. (Goals 1,2)
Philosphy’s triumph over the Minotaur of death. Read Plato’s Phaedo. (Goals 1,2,3)
Wk. 14. Epilogue. The re-construction of democratic ideals after the fall of Athens to tyranny,
Read Plato’s Republic. (Goals 1,2,3)
Final Exam.
e) Course Assignments and Grading Plan
Two Midterms and Final Exam 1/3 each
Grading:
B+ 87-89
A 93-100 B 83-86
A- 90-92 B- 80-82
C+ 77-79
C 73-76
C- 70-72
D+ 67-69
D 63-66
D- 60-62
Faculty Senate Resolution #09-44, November 2009; editorially revised April 2011
F 0-59